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What Change In Diet And Lifestyle Is Required For An Infant To Gain Weight?
Question: Hi
My son is one year three months Old. He is currently 7.6 Kgs, i think he is some what under weight (I think he should be around 9-10 Kgs). His birth weight is 3 Kgs. He is very active and healthy. Daily we feed him for 5 times (Break fast, Morning Snacks, Lunch, Evening Snacks). He does not like milk, we tried feed milk adding different flavors like sweetness, Chocolate,Badam mix still he does not like. He will sleep 14-16 hours through out a day (Including day and night). Still he is taking breast milk (mostly night times).
We did not see Weight gain in him. Can you suggest me what need to follow or need change any diet for him to improve weight in this age?
We are not expecting drastic improvement, atleast slowly he should have minimum improvement.
My son is one year three months Old. He is currently 7.6 Kgs, i think he is some what under weight (I think he should be around 9-10 Kgs). His birth weight is 3 Kgs. He is very active and healthy. Daily we feed him for 5 times (Break fast, Morning Snacks, Lunch, Evening Snacks). He does not like milk, we tried feed milk adding different flavors like sweetness, Chocolate,Badam mix still he does not like. He will sleep 14-16 hours through out a day (Including day and night). Still he is taking breast milk (mostly night times).
We did not see Weight gain in him. Can you suggest me what need to follow or need change any diet for him to improve weight in this age?
We are not expecting drastic improvement, atleast slowly he should have minimum improvement.
Brief Answer:
Its good that he is taking breast feed
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
It is good that he is taking breast milk. It will protect him and give him nutrition.
Yes you are correct. According to his birth weight, he must be around 9-10 kg at present.
The usual reasons for not gaining enough weight is lack of calories in food, picky eater baby, recurrent health problems, pollution in water, food, air etc.
Among the above factors, we need to work on calorie intake and pollution.
To increase calories, add the following foods as much as possible:
- Buy a carton of Amul cream and add 1-2 tbsp of it in his dinner food and/or milk. Alternative of cream is butter/ghee.
- He will definitely like XXXXXXX etc milk-shakes. We can add some cream to it as well.
- Adding extra cheese to his burgers, pizzas, pastas, noodles.
- He can suck on a spoon of mayonaise, cream cheese, nutella butter, peanut butter during snack time.
- Foods that are high calories are cookies, pastries, cakes, XXXXXXX sweets (rasgullas, XXXXXXX jamuns, barfi etc).
- XXXXXXX milk has more calories than cows milk. If he likes to have raw milk, then you can buy some Ensure and he can eat by himself.
Of course, if he is a picky eater, he will eat only what he likes. Give him food when he is hungry. If he is not hungry he will reject it. Rice doesn't have much calories, we can replace it with other foods for sometime.
Hope it helps. Let me know if I can assist you better.
Dr Vaishalee
Its good that he is taking breast feed
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
It is good that he is taking breast milk. It will protect him and give him nutrition.
Yes you are correct. According to his birth weight, he must be around 9-10 kg at present.
The usual reasons for not gaining enough weight is lack of calories in food, picky eater baby, recurrent health problems, pollution in water, food, air etc.
Among the above factors, we need to work on calorie intake and pollution.
To increase calories, add the following foods as much as possible:
- Buy a carton of Amul cream and add 1-2 tbsp of it in his dinner food and/or milk. Alternative of cream is butter/ghee.
- He will definitely like XXXXXXX etc milk-shakes. We can add some cream to it as well.
- Adding extra cheese to his burgers, pizzas, pastas, noodles.
- He can suck on a spoon of mayonaise, cream cheese, nutella butter, peanut butter during snack time.
- Foods that are high calories are cookies, pastries, cakes, XXXXXXX sweets (rasgullas, XXXXXXX jamuns, barfi etc).
- XXXXXXX milk has more calories than cows milk. If he likes to have raw milk, then you can buy some Ensure and he can eat by himself.
Of course, if he is a picky eater, he will eat only what he likes. Give him food when he is hungry. If he is not hungry he will reject it. Rice doesn't have much calories, we can replace it with other foods for sometime.
Hope it helps. Let me know if I can assist you better.
Dr Vaishalee
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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