Saying no to Food

This post is not related to people who want to do dieting to reduce their weight. This related to babies who never look interested in eating any foods and always say no to Food.

There can be a number of reasons why babies do this. But actually this is very troublesome moment for parents when the baby don't eat properly and take their required calories.

Here a number of reasons and their solutions are discussed.

Compelling baby for eating
For most of the time especially in case of first baby that parent compel baby to eat something after small internal even if baby is not hungry. This is a big mistake parent make. Compelling them for eating when they don't want it, will make the food something very boring. So, try to offer food when baby is hungry. Also if you have offered food to baby and she/he is not willing to eat, remove the food from front of the baby after 20min. Don't keep asking the baby to eat that food for hours.

Set a Time
Make sure that you offer food on a set time every day. Like if you are offering baby breakfast at 7am , then make a routine and you offer the food at 7am daily. Also keep proper intervals between two foods offered to baby.

Try Different foods
Never give your baby same food again and again. Try to change the food every time. Make it interesting to the bay. Present the Food in neat and clean bowl which should be attractive to the baby. If you are give cereals to baby in breakfast. You should alternatively change the two or more cereals daily.

Your baby is not well
It may also happen that your baby is not feeling well and therefore does not want to eat due to his/her sickness. You should also check this and immediately consult your doctor, if you feel any symptoms that your baby is not well so not eating properly.

Ready Made Foods
Try to avoid ready made Foods for your baby. Homemade foods are always best for babies.

Foods as per age of the baby
Be sure that food you are offering to baby suits his/her age. Like you should avoid offering nuts to babies. As these may have a choking risk.

Water intake
Make sure that you are also offering water to baby with the food. The water is essential content of food. So give clean water to your baby.

If you have done all above and still your baby does not want to eat. Please immediately consult your baby's nutritionist/health visitor. They will come and see and advice you in a better way according to your baby's individual needs.