Yavor is 6 months old at the time of this video. He is exclusively breastfed and now it's time to try other than mother's milk.
This is how he copes with choking on his second day of baby-led weaning.
Here it is a quick summary why what you see on the video is really normal - some information from a good sourse:
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Many parents worry about babies choking. However, there is good reason to believe that babies are at less risk of choking if they are in control of what goes into their mouth than if they are spoon fed. This is because babies are not capable of intentionally moving food to the back of their throats until after they have developed the ability to chew. And they do not
develop the ability to chew until after they have developed the ability to reach out and grab things. The ability to pick up very small things develops later still.
Thus, a very young baby cannot easily put himself at risk because he cannot get small pieces of food i nto his mouth.
Spoon feeding, by contrast, encourages the baby to suck the food straight to the back of his mouth, potentially making choking more likely.
It appears that a baby’s general development keeps pace with the development of his ability to manage food in his mouth, and to digest it. A baby who is struggling to get food into his mouth is probably not quite ready to eat it. It is important to resist the temptation to ‘help’ the baby in these circumstances since his own developmental abilities are what ensure that the
transition to solid foods takes place at the right pace for him, while keeping the risk of choking to a minimum.
Tipping a baby backwards or lying him down to feed him solid foods is dangerous.
A baby who is handling food should always be supported in an upright position. This ensures that food that he is not yet able to swallow, or does not wish to swallow, will fall forward out of his mouth.
Adopting a baby-led approach doesn’t mean abandoning all the common sense rules of safety. While it is very unlikely that a young baby would succeed in pic king up a peanut, for example, accidents can and will happen on rare occasions - however the baby is fed. The normal rules of safety while eating and playing should there be adhered to when the transition
to solid foods is baby-led.
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29 окт 2024
