Watch over health of small children first of all on their weight. A certain body weight is peculiar to each age. And lag in weight can be caused by various causal - from specific features of an organism to bad comprehensibility of food.
Instruction
1. Having noticed that the weight of your child falls short of norm, you do not hurry to panic. For a start consult on the matter the pediatrician. He will carry out full survey, will look at results of analyses and, perhaps, will establish the reason. After its elimination the weight of your child will return to normal.
2. Add to the child's diet more than nutritious high-calorie food: chicken meat, fish, potatoes, grain, vegetables and dairy products. From fruit bananas perfectly will approach. But you do not feed the child with fat products, they can do only harm. It is the best of all to boil them or to bake in an oven.
3. If the kid is still too small for such products and uses only milk and baby food, give him porridges. They are saturated with carbohydrates and a large amount of nutrients. Begin to feed him from buckwheat and rice porridge, and then pass to oat. After a while it is possible to add some vegetables to them, for example, of pumpkin or stewed carrot.
4. The small appetite of the kid can be one of the reasons of small weight also. In this case increase its activity. Let him move as much as possible, runs and plays in the fresh air. Try to make also of ready-made products on a plate a cheerful figure, a smiling face or the picture. Perhaps, in this case the child will become interested in food more.
5. If there are no obvious reasons, the shortage of kilograms can be caused by specific features of an organism of the child. All children, as well as adults, differ among themselves. Therefore you should not so try to adjust carefully the kid to certain norms, especially if in the weight he is active, healthy and perfectly feels. Do not stretch to the child a stomach, overeating can lead to negative consequences too.