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How To Increase Baby S Weight?
My baby girl is 16 months old and weighs 8.3 kgs and is 78 cms tall.She is very active and also eats quite well and she is also walking.But she is not gaining much weight according to her age.Her daily diet is as follows- 8.30 am--Breakfast-Broken wheat with milk and sugar/Idli(2)/Ragi with milk 11 am- Fruits 1 banana and dates/apple and honey/mango/chiku 1.30pm lunch--Rice, dal,vegetable,fish/meat/egg 3.30pm-one bowl curd with jaggery/juice 6pm- Potato fingers (homemade) with cheese/Sooji Kheer/omlette with cheese 8.30pm-dinner -rice,dal, vegetables I am also breastfeeding her. It would be really helpful if you could provide me some suggestions.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi...Thank you for consulting in Health Care magic.
I take this opportunity to tell you certain scientific facts and relieve your distress -
1. An active is a well kid even if she/ he is not eating well.
2. Development of a kid is as important as or I would say even more important than growth alone.
3. As the kids grow their interest in food decreases and interest in play activities increases so that they eat small quantity and run away to play. As parents we need to be more patient and feed than less quantity but more aliquots per day.
4. This age rather than the quantity of the food I suggest you concentrate more on the number of times you feed her and also make whatever you feed her calorie dense by adding good amount of ghee to it.
5. I suggest you not to use appetite stimulants on long run as they may cause drowsiness.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
I take this opportunity to tell you certain scientific facts and relieve your distress -
1. An active is a well kid even if she/ he is not eating well.
2. Development of a kid is as important as or I would say even more important than growth alone.
3. As the kids grow their interest in food decreases and interest in play activities increases so that they eat small quantity and run away to play. As parents we need to be more patient and feed than less quantity but more aliquots per day.
4. This age rather than the quantity of the food I suggest you concentrate more on the number of times you feed her and also make whatever you feed her calorie dense by adding good amount of ghee to it.
5. I suggest you not to use appetite stimulants on long run as they may cause drowsiness.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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