Your baby doesn’t have to eat something from every food group at every meal. He may eat well at one meal, not so well at the next, and refuse the third meal. One hearty meal a day plus 4 foods from the food groups listed above are about average for this age. Forcing babies to eat can work in reverse and make them refuse any food. Or they may continue to eat just to get your approval. Offering food to babies when they are upset may quiet them for a few moments, but it will also teach them the habit of using food as a solution to problems. Instead, try to find the cause of the problem and solve it, without using food as the pacifier.
Parents are responsible for what babies eat and when food is offered. Babies are responsible for how much they eat.
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