During the food discovery period , the child explores and does not necessarily eat a lot of food. And that's ok!
Baby will focus on the discovery by the five senses of food and will ultimately put little food in the mouth. But do not bother, between 6 and 8 months the milk covers more than 80% of its energy needs. So, even if baby eats little, even almost nothing, his energy needs will be covered.
In addition, appetite varies enormously in baby, between dental thrusts, fatigue, growth peaks, ... baby is not spared!
Then, as in adults, there are days or baby will be hungry and others less hungry. Just like, there are people who eat large quantities and others from smaller: we are all different!
The most important thing is to follow baby's overall growth curve : is its general condition good? Is it its growth curve is ok? Does baby evolve? If you answered yes, it is because there is no reason to worry!
We, parents , have (often) tend to put a lot of pressure from us : obligation to finish his plate, an erroneous vision of the “adequate” portions to eat, social standards, fear that baby does not eat enough, or eat too much, ... each baby will evolve in his own way . It should not be forgotten that BLW is a step oriented on food discovery independently. We do not weigh food, we simply take care to offer everything and for the rest we leave baby moving towards what he needs and in the quantities necessary for his body.
The desire to want
To motivate your meals you can:
- Notify several minutes before the meal, what baby will eat
- Eat at the table at the same time as baby
- Eat the same foods as baby
- Vary the forms and the presentation of the meal
- Make your comforter eat, your doll at the same time as baby
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