These are the Dangers of Giving Food to Babies who are Under Six Months of Age

Mother should give her baby breast milk feeding until 6 months

Children Health – Experts say that infants under six months of age should be given exclusive breastfeeding. It has the goal of keeping the baby has a good body immunity. In addition, infant nutrition will be assured. This will make the baby's development will run optimally.

However, sometimes the mother already felt tired to breastfeed her baby. Therefore, mothers usually want as soon as possible to provide complementary foods ation even though the baby is aged under six months. In fact, giving solid food to infants as a companion of breast milk should really pay attention to the age of the baby. The right time to give the baby other foods besides breast milk is very important because improper timing can cause a variety of problems in the process of growth and development of infants.

In ancient times the baby is given extra food at the age of four months and even younger than that. Bananas are usually used as a supplementary food of breast milk. The aim to use this solid foods is the baby will not easy to feels hungry. Crying and fussing babies are often considered hungry and already in need of food other than breast milk. Actually this is not true.

There are some dangers of giving the baby under the age of six months a solid food, such as the following:

1. Digestive problems

Giving solid foods before the baby's digestive tract is ready to digest can cause various problems, such as bloating, constipation bowel, and other digestive disorders. If this continues it will harm your baby's health condition.

2. Trigger a diabetes

Breast milk contains a wide range of balanced nutrition. Therefore, giving solid food to babies at inappropriate time, it would upset the balance of nutrients the body. One of the substances that may be impaired balance is sugars. Excess sugars in the body would trigger the disease.

3. Obesity in infants

Obesity can occur in these infants. Because the enzyme that are digesting the protein, produced perfectly when the baby is six months old. So giving the solid food to the babies under six months of age will result obesity.

4. Prone appear allergic

Digestive tract in baby aged under six months has not fully developed to digest solid foods. Therefore, giving the solid foods to these baby will trigger an allergic problem to certain foods.

That's four risks if you give solid foods to infants under six months of age. If infants under six months of age appears to be still hungry after drinking breast milk, you should not rush  to give them some extra food. Please consult with a pediatrician, because it may not be caused by hunger but rather on behavior or medical problems.