When a child begins to eat and chew. How to teach a child to chew? Tips for young parents
Not far from the mountain is the time when it comes to post the child to kindergarten. Does your baby never learned to faithfully firm food? You are in confusion, not knowing what else to try the way to wean the child from the stuffed meal? Let's talk about your "distillations" and we will try to teach the child to an ordinary diet.
Mom, here is a spoon, teach me to chew!
Hello, girls! It took quite a bit of time, and I spend again to you for discussing another burning topic: " How to teach a child to chew food?».
Looking through the information on the expanses of "Neta", you can see how many moms are concerned about this problem. And the "gazebo", in fact, takes place. Recently communicated with the educator (my average for 3.5 years) kindergarten. It was about the nutrition of children. She told that now in the middle group all the kids, more or less, eat well. However, a year ago, when the group was only formed, it was not easy, because for some babies, the nurse had to sort out the portions of lunch so that they were left hungry! After all, parents could not "instill" by their chewing skills. And this situation is no exception, in each new group, unfortunately, there are such kids.
Let's talk about the kids are completely healthy, who have no problems with a swallowing reflex, but who do not know how to fasten the hard food.
The effect of feeding on the process of teaching to ordinary food
As you know, from the last "gazebo", I have three sons. With my boys, I passed the phased path of artificial, mixed and breastfeeding. Therefore, I am sure when they say that mommy has no milk, which in reality is not a problem, but the lack of information and experience, but about it in another "gazebo."
In my opinion, the question of vaccinating the child of chewing skills directly depends on the type of feeding. Let's try to decompose everything around the shelves.
Artificial feeding
My eldest son was completely on artificial feeding. When he was 1 month old, the milk began to decrease, and I began to feed it with the mixtures, and in 1.5 months it was gone at all.
I don't remember any difficulties with him in terms of food, and the question is what to do if the child does not boot, I did not stand on the agenda. All Pediatrician Instructions by I performed clearly. However, I have a small reservation. I am not a supporter of "junny food", which fully has a puree consistency. Mommies, judges there are no, so let's be honest in front of them! It just makes life easier and saves time, but do not need to talk about the utility of this food. It's hard to believe what is meant (after all, no matter how cool is preservation!) It is much more useful than cooked with your own hands, because it has a balanced vitamin composition.
I do not say that "jars" must be excluded completely. Sometimes, when on the road, or you are going to visit - it's just a "peeling stick". In any case, choose you.
And as a result, the children on artificial feeding (with proper development) begin to eat early from the general table. They have a well-worked chewing and swallowing skill, they do not make me food, and no problems with food in the kindergarten does not occur.
Young parents are unpleasant surprised if the chair of their newborn baby was painted in. There may be several reasons for such a phenomenon. Let's try to deal with the problem together.
From what the future mother eats is directly dependent on the DNA of her baby. What do specialists think about this?
Mixed feeding
My middle son is 3.5 years old. We began to visit the kindergarten from 1 year 10 months. Fully prepared. Let us discuss all the small moments in more detail.
Perhaps, it should be said that my "Bogatyrynsh" was born with a weight of 4 kg. 200, so the need for food was tangible. It is an infinitely hungry child :))))))). And since to eat very "cock" (where to take so much?), I had to feed "Lyalyushik".
In order to instill the skill of accurate food in the mouth, that's what we did:
Well, and then, - all the most interesting. "Child" begins to sit. It can be attached near the table. He begins to understand that there is something interesting in your plate, and you absorb something so tasty, smoking that it literally flows saliva. Well, I really want to try.
Preparing the first vegetable puree, I used all the vegetables that were in the house)))))))))))). A carrot, loaf, garlic, kale, potatoes, zucchini and pinching salt added to boiling water. Here, how much is! When vegetables boiled, I pulled them with a fork. Not whipped! Small pieces of food came across in my puree. Do not worry, he had no frustration. Everything was amazingly learned. And although the baby still does not know how to chew, with the first lesson he coped to perfectly. So, in fact, we gained chewing skills.
Below is the video "The process of adopting the first vegetable puree".
Being with her family at the dinner table, the baby also wants to eat from the spoon. Of course, it is very fun: when the kid, a king soup, or rather trying to eat it, brings a spoon to the mouth, and at that moment the whole soup runs away by, falling right in the collar of the plastic whirl and on the face, at the same time, simply mild from surprise Speaking: "How does it work so? And in the mouth, nothing and did not fall! " Naturally, my "Kindyrush" became nervous. And I, as a modern mommy, allowed him to pry. I took a spoon on the reception of the second dish, and I put a plate with vegetables nearby. See what happened from it (at the presented photos of the baby 9 months.).
Believe me, very much settled in the mouth. It was well oooooooochen delicious!
Food skills We were worked out day day, you get used to not only eat from a common table, but also trying to do it yourself , And by 1 year 3 months reached certain results. You can get acquainted with our achievements according to the video below.
In this example, oatmeal is presented, but the menu of the child is diverse. At this age, we have eaten everything. It happened that he did not want to chew meat in the soup, then I, separating meat on the soup, cut off a big piece and separately gave the baby. He was having fun with pleasure.
At the age of 1 10 months. We went to the garden. In a group of this age, kids are gaining children, which can independently eat using table objects and walk on the pot.
Latest photos and video preparations for kindergartens aged and 9 months are presented below.
We can only deal with diapers that we have done for a month, completely excluding them from our life, - and my citizen is ready for the kindergarten!
Breast-feeding
So the queue went to my "Masika", the most younger. Today we have a year and 4 months. And yes, I still can't stop feeding it. At this age, this delivers certain inconvenience, takes a lot of time and it's time, it's time, but - no way.
Regarding nutrition: We eat everything from a common table, without wiping anything. He himself does not eat yet, only trying. The photo located below is presented a period of dismissing food on the face, ears and necks, and it is simply wonderful that he has already passed. True, this time we spent in the hospital, and they are very hospital, but I don't think it is essential. In the photo, my boy is 11 months old.
It is clearly seen that the child eats an ordinary soup, not whipped by a blender.
With the blank of the kitlet, beloved, the baby coped wonderful. See how satisfied?
Of course, in the case of breastfeeding, everything is a little more difficult. "Refine" often gives and frequent cases when he just stands up food, because there is a larger pieces than he would like.
But I have an assistant - This is a caustious wand, and in a simple - whirlpool with a visor. Maybe this is not aesthetically, but it is effective. The kid will first turn out, then he will feel the taste of food. Understands that it did it in vain, but natural stubbornness says not to go straight, so continues in the same spirit. It flies, but now only into the whirlwind. In general, makes the "honeycomb". There it stores its pieces, and then the handle adds them to her mouth.
Approximately so happened before. Now everything is much easier, and not far from the corner, when we will eat on our own, spoon. While we have a spoon in one hand (even something in it falls), and the other hand "hostages" on a plate. That's how and eat. I myself try not to feed (if I am at home), just present nearby, talking and tapping. After all the main thing is that the process of eating the child delivered pleasure and joy, then everything will be necessary!
Conclusion
Of course, there are children with individual peculiarities that have difficulty trying to teach their child to fastening hard food. In this case, it is better to take into account the recommendations of doctors, for example, Dr. Komarovsky or to go to consult a children's doctor.
However, in my opinion, you should be patient and teach a child to solid food consistently, starting from an early age. Just need to remember the need to always be near such moments. Encourage it, praise, eat with him the whole family. And your baby will definitely have interest, and he wants to chew with you.
Write an article "How to teach a child to chew?" Me, a higher category with a lot of experience, prompted observations of recent years for 3-4-year-old children, which - as it does not sound strange - do not know how to chew. A few years ago it was possible to laugh: "The child does not know how to chew in 3-4 years? Yes, this can not be! ". But I repeatedly had to face this problem. The children came to kindergarten in three years and could not have anything there. Parents brought mashed potatoes in jars or teacher Mesil first dish. Moreover, the counseling of the neurologist did not give anything - the answer was: "look like other children eaten, and he will learn." I didn't learn to imitate, they were not given to feed the adult, they were spoiled and gathered. Below will be covered by the causes of this problem and practical recommendations for overcoming it.
Negative results of ineperation are solid food:
Food is not sufficiently impregnated with saliva and is not mixed with it, it means that gastric juice and digestive enzymes are weakly produced;
Language muscles do not develop, which impedes the formation of the correct pronunciation of speech sounds;
The teeth do not have the desired load (may fall ahead of time, an incorrect bite may be formed).
On the Internet forums of numerous sites for moms, die: "How to teach a child to chew?" Someone is deducted at 1.5 years, and someone constantly uses a blender for cooking to your three year old baby. This problem is becoming more and more common. "Thank you" by our pediatricians. They are too insistently implementing the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 21, 2007 No. 172 and the approved Federal Target Program "Children of Russia", which aims mothers for breastfeeding. Indeed, the trend of recent years in pediatrics is a priority breastfeeding. At the same time, modern pediatricians advise young mammies not to rush to the introduction of lures, explaining that this is fraught with the appearance of allergies to new products for the child. At the same time, even in the last edition of the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), it is noted that the appearance of the first chewing movements reflexively in children occurs in 4-5 months (at the same time, the child there is a movement of a vomit reflex from the middle to the rear third of the tongue). But parents, according to the advice of the doctor, do not hurry with conforming. Thus, the unsufficient practice reflex fades.
In 7-12 months, according to WHO recommendations, the child formed the skills of biting and chewing, the lateral movements of the language and moving the food to the teeth are developing. At this age, the child is already able to eat cereals and chopped fruits and raw vegetables. To one or two years, the child already eats food from the family table. So, if a few years ago, the baby in 4-5 months (before the appearance of the teeth) received a drying, a suucharik or even a bone of fresh boiled chicken and "learned to chew" with the gums. Today, today Moms, entering "on science", introduce lord after 6 months (and even later) when the child has 2-4 front tooth. These teeth serve us for biting, it is impossible to chew them, but what is important, they interfere with the baby to chew gums. In this case, it remains to wait for the appearance of a complete set of indigenous teeth, and learn to chew them. Approximately from one year old age, the baby can gradually begin to eat hard food and learn to chew small pieces.
But what if the moment is missing, if the child has become accustomed to the rubbed food and is given from any piece that has fallen into the mouth, after two years? The teaching techniques do not exist. But in this process, two aspects can be distinguished: physiological and psychological. Next, I will give practical recommendations (from experience) on the development of the children of the chewing process.
1. Activation of the work of muscles of the language and overcoming the vomit reflex. Effectively use gentle massage of the language through a gauze napkin, as well as with a wooden spatula (with gradual progress to the root of the tongue); Equalcing the gauze napkin tongue placed deeply behind the cheek. In parallel with the massage it is useful to conduct articulating gymnastics.
2. Overcoming the fear of falling in the mouth of solid food. Our grandmothers gave babies a piece of apple wrapped in gauze. The kid of the mouth of this piece, and the mother was not afraid that the child, heating, fed. And the child felt the taste of the apple, developed chewing movements, trained salivation. Nubi (USA) offers parents an improved form "Marley with a piece". The product is called "Nibler" (for feeding). With the help of a special pitch with a handle, a child can safely eat fruits, vegetables and learn chewing. A piece of fruit or vegetable is inserted into a special mesh. Through minor cells, the baby will not be able to bite off a piece, only the smallest particles of the product will be in its mouth, safe for swallowing.
3. A gradual transition from the fret of food to "pieces". Consistently we offer a blender with a blender, but food with small "pieces." Then the food, crushed fork. You can use the psychological admission: suddenly "Blender lost somewhere" (broke). And then suggest the baby ("you're already big") to grind the food itself in its plate for a fork. Since, in the end, the child is easier to take a piece of potatoes in the mouth, than to put it with a fork, chewing will win.
4. The calling of desire is hard food to imitate. You need the whole family to show the baby that to eat - interesting and exciting! You all get along with the table, the child does not call the table (specifically ignore) and begin with a huge appetite there is, picking up and admiring how everything is incredibly tasty! The kid, thus, is invoked interested in the food intake process. If the baby comes to the table - you do not need to rush to plant it at the table - on the contrary, send it to: go play, we eat, we have a very important and interesting thing, no one is going to go. Invite guests and go to visit yourself. Your behavior should be so that the child understands - something he missed something in life, there is, it turns out very interesting!
Please note that after two years to initiate the baby's nutritional interest is quite difficult, the concept has already been formed - therefore it is not worth waiting for the rapid results. The kid will not immediately run to the table. You need to wait for it from the manifestation of sustainable interest - and only then let's try. If you see that interest is weakening - all, go to play. As soon as you start to insist - child interest will immediately disappear.
Do not leave the baby with food unattended. But it is not necessary to persist "lead observation". Otherwise, the child will begin to look for some danger in the process of hard food intake and again will begin to press.
Fadeeva Julia Aleksandrovna, teacher-speech therapist, GBOU D / s №174, Moskva
Very often, moms ask me such a question: "The child does not eat solid food, he does not know how to chew or gives." The problem is very common and it appeared, by the way, only recently, when the deadline for the introduction of the supplies is revised. Previously, the child received the first drying before the appearance of the first teeth, and learned to chew the gums. Now in 6 -6.5 months most children have 2-4 front tools, which are simply impossible to chew, but what is important, they interfere and chew the gums. If you are against giving a child from 6-7 months to gnaw a ram or pieces of fruit (apple, pear), then the output is one - wait for the appearance of a complete set of indigenous teeth, and learn to chew them. Already from about one-year-old age, the child may gradually begin to use solid food and chew small pieces. So how to teach one and a half or worse than 2-year-old baby chewing. Methods are quite simple, but they require other relatives of unanimity in execution, excerpts and some acting abilities from parents. And the essence is simple: to put a child in such conditions where he is not able to chew. Put yourself in the place of the child, why chew, if you hurt, and always give what you do not need to chew. The first is to work out chewing skills, the movements themselves. There will be a marshmallow or chewing marmalade. In 1-2 years, the child is already thinking about it, so when you see it in your mouth, you will surely ask too. And you: \\ "Ladies, but it must be chewed, that's how \\" ... Naturally, the product must be high-quality. The second - \\ "break \\" or lose a rubber (mixer, blender, sietchko or a barbell), show the baby the result and with him sincerely regaining, forgetting to promise at the case (\\ "when they appear in the store \\") to buy another. Promise to try not to hold back. You can offer a child \\ "Since it is already big \\" grind itself to myself in a plate, for an former for example. It turns out a peculiar competition of two flashes: \\ "Laziness to chew \\" and \\ "lazy to crush \\". As a rule, the latter wins sooner or later. The third is to stop preparing rubbed dishes if possible. If it refuses there is another - do not feed. Just leave in the available places for snack products. Do not be afraid that the lack of regular three-time and multi-flow food will spoil the child of the stomach. Determined measures will help to teach chewing pretty quickly, and \\ "cut off the tail in parts \\" - on the contrary. Therefore, the result depends solely on your perseverance and imbiberance. And the year or two on such nutrition it is quite possible to stretch without any damage to health, checked! Fourth - Very often, children begin to chew a new, previously unfamiliar dish. Think how you can expand the diet. Naturally, the new product is offered only in not a rubbing and not crushed form. Fifth - more often exit \\ "in people \\". Nutrition outside the house As a rule, does not imply special cooking under the kaprises of the child. Snack on the go in the park, picnics in nature, hiking in the affordable upochite institutions (the same McDonalds), especially surrounded by other children as a rule acts positively. Only the principle should be the same: you eat what is, there is no other meal. And the most, in my opinion, the main rule - with all this - there are no conversations, conversations, anxiety, night reflection and complaints about the unwillingness of the child. Let him think he was fine. 1-2 years - age is very dangerous in terms of the beginning of manipulation by parental feelings. Not the best option if the kid will use his chewing / unwilling to blackmail you.
February 18, 2013
Once I turned to my mom two wonderful children (at her request, I will give up) with anxious report that her youngest daughter in 3 years refuses to eat solid food with pieces (Afraid to swallow).
Since this problem is quite interesting, because more refers to the psychology of perception by a child of a particular situation (provided that bodily health leaves no doubt), I agreed to our meeting.
Skype consultation was held, during which all questions worked, including the history of the girl, its psychological and physical development, as well as the system of relationships in its family.
Hello, blog readers "Your Children's Psychologist"!
I would like to express tremendous appreciation to Tatiana for her invaluable help in my situation.
I am the usual mom of two children - Son (6 years old) and daughters (3 years). I will say right away that I was prepared for hysterics, but to the fact that my child will not eat - was not ready and fell into a stupor. My daughter refused to eat coarse food - just saw (and only fruit kefir, drinking yogurts, tea and juices). The reason, from the words of the strikers " Bumb trough and I'm afraid to swallow».
Pediatrician, looking at my daughter 2 times, said that the child is completely healthy, just wait. But, like any mother, thinking that my child does not feed, read all sorts of horror stories on the Internet, could not leave this situation. "Why didn't you feed her mashed potatoes?!" You ask. Yes, because the daughter on the puree does not open the mouth from 10 months, as learned to chew adult food, because if she poured her puree, she spoiled him. God forbid, what a lump or a tiny (even jogurt's clot) - the daughter immediately started to scrape everything from mouth, to spit, even before the vomit reflex.
How old is my baby, my child does not donate, my child is eats, shouted my brains! Therefore, I cooked a Hercules porridge, broccoli, carrot, rubbed through a sieve (God, I did not rub in my baby so much), I bought a ready-made potatat puree (because sweet) and green beans (at least some kind of variety) and mixed it in Kefir fruit, orange juice (it turns out orange juice interrupts many tastes J), once a week mixed with chocolate milk. If only a daughter received at least some nutrients. And God's God, if a grain falls - the daughter spoiled if the puree would go over - the daughter immediately felt that the taste was changing ...
Since the child is healthy with the body (according to a pediatrician), it means that you have to show the soul, but, rather, the brains specialist, not only my daughters, but mine.
I turned to Tatiana after more than two-week starvation of the child. And so, by sending a detailed letter about the situation, the photos of the child, her drawings, work, my consultation with Tatiana Yegorova took place.
Having lowered all the details of the conversation, I will say one thing that Tatiana master puts all the points over "and" sent me to the right direction, pointed to my mistakes and pointed my further tactics. The most difficult thing from the scorching tactics was to turn off my brains, my maternal brains. God, and I did it!
Pedagogian psychologist, neuropsychologist, Family Consultant and Coach for Children's and Parental Relations. It has publications in the magazines "9 months" and "Nanny" as a medical psychologist, led the category "Question of the Psychologist" in the magazine "9 months". Published in the "Russian Gazeta". The author of the seminars, courses and trainings for parents for children's practical psychology.
The question of how to teach a child to chew, gets up to young parents when the crumb refuses hard food and prefers soft wipers and mixes. Parents worries that the baby will not be able to grow normally and develop, as it suffers: it just spits the food and remains hungry. To sort out this problem, it is necessary to find out why the child refuses to chew food and how to teach it to do it.
The chewing skills in the child are beginning to be formed from the moment: it begins to actively drag in his mouth all that falls into hand. It is necessary to take advantage of this moment and make a fascinating process of chewing and addictive to a new hard food for it.
It takes to know how to teach a child to hard food, if nothing, except for the wipe and puree, did not receive anything. Many parents believe that a child will eventually learn how to do it. But if the baby is fed only with a rubber and soft dishes during the period of teething the first teeth, this may continue to turn into problems in its development and formation.
With children to one year old age, it is necessary to engage and teach them to chew solid food. This will further help form the right bite, a good digestive system and develop the facial muscles responsible for the speech function, in a small person.
Why doesn't a child chew
The reasons for which the kids of 1.5-2 years have a chewing reflex was poorly developed, several:
- Many mothers enter begin late, without exciting the child from the chest as long as possible. As a result, the one-year-old kid actively opposes chewing hard food, knowing more affordable and easy way to saturation.
- Sometimes the parents are afraid that the baby can suppress pieces of food, since it is too small. Such excessive caution leads to the refusal of the child independently eating hard food: he accumulates it in his mouth, and then spits.
- A small child does not chew pieces of food, since it was not formed by the skill of using special dental teethers. These rubber rings not only allow massage of gums with growing teeth, but also form a habit of chewing.
- Laziness or excessive employment of parents who do not pay enough attention to feeding the process. Not wanting to spend a lot of time to eat food and feed the child only with rubbed soups, porridge and children's mixtures, dads and moms teach him to the same type of light food, which he then does not want to change to a more difficult, requiring chewing.
- Excessive activity of a small little man who is difficult to focus on the process of chewing and swallowing. Such children are trying to quickly complete the feeding process, choosing food, which does not require prolonged chewing.
Learning to chew
Parents must have an idea of \u200b\u200bhow to teach a child to chew food. Learn to chewing and chewing movements, the child must gradually. From about 6 months of age, it is possible to give a crumb to eat solid food, which he will try to assist in the mouth: pieces of vegetables or fruits, bread crumpled. It is necessary to give it in small portions and ensure that the baby is not suppressed.
In the puree and soups you also need to gradually add pieces of hard food without grinding everything in a blender. With the introduction of additional products in lures, you should not grind them, but to knead the fork into small parts or process on a large grater.
We also teach learning gradually. To do this, it is possible to make a daily stimulation of swallowing movements with a simple massage of the language with a plastic or wooden spatula, gradually moving towards the base. Such a massage will make rid of the child from the vomit reflex when in the mouth of solid food and its swallowing.
It is required to consider how to teach a child to chew and swallow, making this process interesting and enjoyable for him. Education difficulties will help to avoid such a device as a nibler - a special nipple with holes in which pieces of solid food are laid. A child is chewed by food, not risking to foul. Thus, chewing skills are gradually being formulated.
The baby can be attracted to the process of cooking food for him in the form of the game: to explain that there is nothing to change the food, since the blender broke, and give it a forge for kneading hard food. It will interest him, and he will gladly turn on the game on cooking. After that, it will be easier to persuade the child to eat food prepared with their own hands.
Move the baby with a positive example: putting at the table with everyone, offer him an "adult" food. Explain to him that there is her exciting, although it requires more time. Squeeze the child at the table only after he was hungry, then it would force him with great interest treat the proposed food.
If the kid suffers in the lack of appetite, the development of chewing skills should begin with awakening interest in food. It is worth doing more with the child, stimulating the motor activity and the emergence of a feeling of hunger. You should refuse snacks between meals and drink milk or sweet drinks and juices. Purchased juices better replace home compotes from dried fruits and rose hips.
Make a food process for a child fascinating: for example, you can put the colored pieces of different fruits (apples,) in each spoon (apples,), and vegetables in the soup are able to become the subject of "hunting" with a special plastic fork with stupid teeth.
Good in the development of chewing skills helps drying and children's cookies, which can be given to children from 5-6 months. A child in the process of labor over a solid drying or cookie not only enjoys, swinging them in the mouth, but also massages the gums with cutting teeth and learns to chew.
Thus, by 10-12 months, if the baby is properly prepared for the adoption of hard food and help him form a chewing reflex, then it does not arise from the transition to a more "adult" food.
How to understand what baby is ready
By 1, the baby appears 6-8 teeth, which it can already bite and chew food using the gums. A child can cope with small pieces of boiled vegetables and soft fruits, cookies, crushed meat products.
The baby is able to keep thin pieces of food with his fingers, which allows him to offer him a food that he can take his hand and put in his mouth. This ability stimulates the development of shallow motility, teaches the child to the skills of independent nutrition. During this period, it should be carefully watching the baby so that he does not put in his mouth or other food more than he can burn.
After 1 year, chewing teeth are gradually teething, to the appearance of which chewing skirt is already fully produced. A full-fledged chewing becomes 1.5-2 years old when 16 teeth and the diet consists of hard food in the mouth.