Question

A 13-month-old girl wakes up at 7 AM and goes to sleep at 9:30 PM. How should one arrange her daily meals? Currently, the baby eats at 7 PM and drinks 210 milliliters of milk before bed at 9 PM. She wakes up every 1 to 2 hours at night and has a lot of urine, and she also urinates frequently after drinking water during the day. Could there be any health issues?

Answer

Based on the baby’s condition, it is recommended to supplement calcium and cod liver oil appropriately. The baby’s diet should:

  1. Gradually accustom the infant to different flavors of food, such as diluted adult soup and juice, which can be fed before breastfeeding.
  2. Gradually increase the quantity and variety of complementary foods, starting with a small amount of new food each time, observing whether the child’s digestion is normal.
  3. Transition from thin to thick, from soft to hard; as the baby grows older, gradually provide congee, vegetable soup, juice, etc., then move on to rice porridge, broken noodles, cookies, and so on.
  4. Start from fine to coarse, from pieces to chunks; the food should be processed as fine as possible, starting with vegetable soup and gradually increasing to mashed vegetables and chopped vegetables.