Don’t worry, it’s normal. From the year on, your baby will start to eat less due to its slower growth. We explain why.
QUESTION
My one-year-old daughter, who is still breastfeeding, closes her mouth when she sees a spoon and spits out the food. I can’t get him to eat and it makes me very nervous. For what is this? I am doing something wrong?
ANSWER
In a year they start to eat less
From the year on, children usually “stop eating”. That’s because they don’t need as much food as before. During the first year, the little ones eat much more than the adults.
Many babies, by the age of seven or eight months, get to consume half of what their mothers ingest. They eat so much because in their first year of life they triple their weight and grow more than 20 centimeters. Then it will take ten years to triple the weight again.
From the year on, children grow much slower. They only gain a few kilos a year, even less, and therefore they need to reduce the food they eat. And if on top of it, as is your case, the baby breastfeeds, with breast milk it hardly needs more. So if your daughter closes her mouth and spits out the food, don’t force her, she doesn’t have to eat more. Don’t force it.