The baby is two years old and still can't talk

I recently received a message from a mom who said her baby is 2 years old and is usually fed very well. However, the baby is not very good at talking, resistance is very poor, and always loves to be sick.

The doctor said that the baby was severely malnourished and had delayed language development. The mother was devastated. She described her feelings as "unbelievable and unwilling to believe!"

After all, the mother is devoted to bringing up the baby, every time she cooks and makes supplementary food, she polishes the baby very fine. According to the mother, the baby eats very badly cooked food every time and drinks rice porridge at every meal. The rice flour or noodles cooked for the baby are all chopsticks that can be picked off and rotten to a certain degree. Even eating fruits and vegetables and pureed meat, the mother will also be cut into small dice or fed in small portions, but most of the time the baby is not happy to eat.

This is a very good way to get the most out of your life. I'm afraid that if it were anyone else, I wouldn't be able to accept it for a while. So the mother asked the doctor if the test results were wrong. She simply did not believe that the baby could be malnourished.

Only, the reality is right in front of her, the baby is more than 2 years old, almost 3 years old, but still can not talk. The mother repeatedly taught the baby hundreds of times before the baby learned to say "daddy, mommy". The mother is anxious, but there is nothing she can do.

The doctor pointed out that the baby's chewing ability is poor, the baby will not chew the food more resistant, does not like to eat meat and vegetables, but is more dependent on eating some fine soft food. These foods are too watery and take up a lot of the tummy. After the baby eats it, he may not be able to eat the food he should eat. Week after week, babies are prone to malnutrition.

In addition, the baby's poor chewing ability may also lead to the baby's facial muscles, oral muscles, jaw, lips, tongue, and other organs, are not up to a certain degree of flexibility and coordination.

It is these multiple organs and muscles that are needed for the improvement of the baby's language skills, and deep cooperation. Therefore, if the baby does not speak, inflexible mouth and teeth, and speaks too late, it may also be due to the poor chewing ability of the baby.

The mother listened to the doctor's explanation, blamed herself, and finally understood that it was her fault. It turns out that the way the mother feeds her baby is too fine, which hinders the normal development of the baby's chewing ability. It seems that feeding the baby so fine and soft is no good.

The baby speaks late, malnutrition may be related to poor chewing power

Through this incident, mothers and fathers should be alert to the exercise of the baby's chewing ability, this is very important. If the baby is not chewing enough, the oral sensory and motor development, and language development, there is no way to get sufficient exercise, which will increase the baby's digestive burden, and even harm the baby's malnutrition.

Some moms may be curious, about the baby's chewing ability to exercise why? This is because the baby is born "self-taught" and learns to eat by sucking ability. But after the addition of complementary foods at about half a year old, the baby eats something from milk-like liquid, into a block, granular, mud, which needs to be chewed and swallowed by the baby.

If the baby swallows it whole, it will lead to indigestion and abdominal distension. Aversion to eating hard things, neglect to chew. In this way, the baby's chewing ability will be very bad, and then a vicious circle, malnutrition, language development delayed, and other problems.

So, how to say goodbye to fine feeding and exercise your baby's chewing ability?

If you want to say goodbye to fine feeding, you need to ask mothers not to be overly concerned about their babies. The golden period of the baby's chewing ability exercise is the critical period to train the baby to learn to chew.

Babies can chew only after supplemental foods are added at about half a year old. At this time, babies who participate in the complementary food stage belong to the swallowing period, the tongue will only do back and forth movements. The mother should assist the baby, learn the initial chewing action, and let the baby practice closing the mouth to complete swallowing by herself.

For babies under 1-year-old, the exercise of chewing ability will go through the swallowing stage, chewing stage, fine chewing stage, and finally, develop to the chewing stage. The baby's tongue also gradually becomes active from only back and forth movement to up and down movement, left and right movement, and eating while playing.

To train your baby's chewing ability, focus on two key periods

The first critical period: 7-8 months

In the baby is 7-8 months, add complementary foods to the baby properly, should not add complementary foods too late. The hardness and texture of complementary foods should be reasonable, and try to put the food on the baby's tongue so that the baby can chew through the opening of the jaws and break the food by itself, and then swallow it with the tongue.

The second critical period: 9-18 months

At this stage, babies have a certain chewing ability, which is a critical period for exercise to improve. Don't worry about your baby not being able to chew, don't be afraid of your baby choking, and try not to give your baby fine food. If you fully grasp this stage and add the right soft and hard food and form to your baby, you will be able to improve your baby's chewing power.

In short, the addition of complementary foods for small babies is the key period to exercising chewing ability, mothers should not be afraid that the baby will not chew, or have excessive fine feeding. Otherwise, that will only harm the poor chewing ability of the baby, and in serious cases will also hinder the baby's language development.