In fact, the fact that a baby has a slightly excess weight is also a problem parents need to pay attention to. Parents should consult a doctor, as well as learn more books to arrange for their children to have a reasonable diet, rest, and exercise, to help them stay healthy and develop comprehensively. . However, do you agree that seeing a chubby , “familiar” baby like this is also lovely, right?
Ms. Le Linh from Thanh Hoa, Long An, the mother of baby Khoi Nguyen (whose name is Ken at home), shared that the baby weighed 3.2kg when he was born. Up to now, when Ken is 11 months old, the boy has weighed 18kg, has a stout body, thin limbs, a big round belly, chubby cheeks that look both funny and cute.
Linh said, for the first 2 months, she exclusively breastfed her baby. Babies gain an average of 2 kg per month. From the third month onwards, Linh has little milk, so she gives her baby formula milk. After that, she switched to giving her baby formula exclusively from the time the baby was 4 months old.
In parallel with milk meals, when the child was 6 months old, Linh gave him solid food, adding 2 meals of home-cooked porridge every day. The main porridge dishes are: fish porridge, eel, shrimp, meat and home-grown green vegetables. In addition, she also added yogurt between her two meals.
Realizing that her child was gaining weight quickly, Linh took baby Ken for an endocrinology test at City Children’s Hospital 3 months ago, the test results were normal, but Ken had about 5kg more than his peers
Right after that, Ms. Linh reduced her child’s food intake so that she would not be too overweight. Linh’s method is to prolong the time of each meal while reducing the amount of milk. If before, Ken drank 120ml of milk each meal, now, Linh only makes 90ml for her child each meal.
During the day, he can eat and drink according to the hour, so Ken is very obedient, gentle, less fussy. Ms. Linh is busy with work, she asks her family to take care of Ken, sometimes the baby doesn’t cry all day. Only at night when he was sleeping, Ken was so hungry that he cried and asked for milk.
Also because of his chubby body, Ken’s development stages are a bit chaotic. At 8 months, Ken was able to turn over, but at 4 months, he was able to sit firmly, Linh humorously said that the reason was because of the large belly, so it was easier for the baby to sit. Ken has also started teething at 4 months and now has 7 teeth. And even though his body is a bit “oversized”, he still looks very dashing.
” Ken is quite active, but compared to his peers, he is a little slower. Now when he tells Ken to stand on weight, he is faster than before. Recently, he also refuses to sit still, crawl, and drag naughtily. Compared to Ken’s older sister, she was slower than her sister, “- Ken’s mother confided.
Linh shared, it is true that having a fat child is very tiring to take care of and hold the child, but after a long time, the neighbors see her holding the child from afar, they find it funny because the mother is small but the child is not. “giant”.
Ken’s cute appearance makes him the center of attention whenever he appears anywhere. Ms. Linh said: ” Once she went to the hospital, I let her lie down on a chair to write information on the papers. There were some nurses passing by, so they ran over to hold her but couldn’t carry her. Then the doctor asked for help . allowed the family to take pictures of the child as a souvenir. Or another time Ken was hospitalized with bronchitis, every day a few people came in and asked to take pictures. .
Sometimes when I’m on the street, people also run up to ask how many months the baby is and then tell me to hold a little bit. People love to hold them, sometimes I’m afraid of diseases and illnesses that don’t dare to give them to them, but they always grab the baby to hold. Some people even joked about giving them a baby .”
Currently, in addition to reducing her child’s diet, Linh also plans to try changing milk to a lower-fat milk next month to see if it can improve the situation.
