How to feed a baby after one year old? Is it good for the baby to drink milk?

Is it necessary for babies over one year old to drink formula milk? Is it necessary to drink formula milk in stages? Can babies drink adult milk powder? Is it good for babies to drink cow's milk? Let's take a look~

Can I stop formula feeding after my baby turns 1?

The child's pediatrician emphasized that the staged formula milk system is actually a marketing tactic of businessmen. The World Health Organization has actually promoted the correct concept that there is no need to divide formula milk into stages, especially after one year old. When drinking formula milk, it is enough to choose adult milk powder, which is cheap and delicious.

The reason I agree with him is that after one year old, milk is not the staple food, and fresh milk can also be drunk, so there seems to be no need to deliberately buy formula milk in stages. The question is: Is it necessary to divide formula milk into stages? Does its molecule, nutritional value, or the osmotic pressure mentioned by some people have an impact? What about children under one year old? Should the first stage milk powder still be the main one? Does the World Health Organization really advocate this?

Weight has nothing to do with drinking milk

As long as the child is happy eating, weight has nothing to do with whether he drinks milk or not. It is a diet issue.

Based on your description, your child may have problems with being underweight and having allergies. These two things may or may not be related, but simply changing the milk will definitely not solve these two problems, so please discuss it in detail with the doctor. Doing so will be better for his health.

If your child's weight has been maintained at a certain percentage and his growth has been stable at a certain percentage, then it is normal and there is no need to worry. However, if his growth curve deviates from the normal range, then he still needs to be evaluated by a nutritionist. This is definitely not something that can be solved by giving more formula milk.

Can feeding milk to babies cause anemia?

According to Dr. Danma's advice, babies should be weaned after seven months, that is, they should no longer drink milk. She advocates that drinking milk can easily cause anemia and otitis media. This is the result of her own experiments on dogs in her early years. Letting dogs drink more milk after eating a full meal with meat and vegetables will cause a decrease in hemoglobin in the body. If they continue to use milk as their staple food after weaning and do not eat other nutritious foods, the dog's lifespan will not be able to live more than two months. Therefore, when I saw such an argument, I was actually quite shocked, because we have almost lived in an era that respects milk since childhood. We always think that drinking more milk can take in calcium and nutrients, and forgetting that drinking milk is good for health may actually be a kind of loss.

I remember that when I was pregnant, books would recommend mothers to drink milk to supplement calcium. However, when I carefully looked at the nutritional labels on commercially available milk, I found that some milk had no calcium at all. The so-called 100% pure orange juice did not contain vitamin C. Moreover, a while ago, the Consumers' Foundation also reminded consumers that milk powder or instant oatmeal labeled with high iron and high calcium on the market are actually very problematic, because calcium and iron themselves repel each other, and the human body cannot absorb high doses of iron and calcium at the same time. Therefore, smart parents must not be fooled by beautiful lies. It is important to absorb more relevant medical knowledge so that we can have more accurate judgment to decide what is best for ourselves and our families.

Further reading about baby drinking milk

In order to further explore the relationship between drinking milk and anemia, I searched for relevant information on the Internet and found the following three reports that are worth further reading for concerned parents.

1. Don’t let your baby join the group of people suffering from milk anemia

In 1985, Japanese doctor Ryugo Matsumoto proposed the concept of "milk anemia", which refers to iron deficiency anemia in infants and young children caused by excessive milk consumption and neglect of complementary food. Some babies love to drink milk so much that they insist on using milk as their staple food when they should be adding complementary food or eating solid food, which leads to symptoms. The following article further discusses why drinking milk can cause anemia.

2. Do you want to drink milk? Wait!

This is a report published in a well-known domestic health magazine. It talks about the research findings in recent years that drinking milk may have many disadvantages. For example, drinking more milk can cause cancer, drinking more milk cannot solve osteoporosis, and milk may cause stomach ulcers in some people to worsen. People who care about their own and their family's health must read this!

3. Iron deficiency anemia

Milk is the biggest killer of iron deficiency anemia. He also said that if you want to prevent infants and young children from suffering from iron deficiency anemia, one of the ways is to not drink milk at all and to have a diversified diet.