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“The first six months, babies should be exclusively breastfed. After that should receive complementary feeding. If this transition is interrupted, for example, children are given only breast milk, so at the age of one year or more will continue to consume milk,” said dr. Rini as Talkshow “How to Establish a Child Healthy, Smart, and Quality” in Jakarta, Saturday, October 10, 2009.

By continuing to consume milk, said dr. Rini, children will quickly fill and consequently difficult to eat. “Especially with what the poster claims milk meal replacement, will make the stomach full speed,” he said.

Adequacy of nutrition in children is more than a year old can not be identified with the weight gain.

According to the doctor Rini, children over the age of one year did not gain weight during the three months will not be a problem. Unlike the baby each month to gain weight.

Difficult to eat at the child also suspected due to early child does not have a timetable conditioned dining.

“If it had since the baby accustomed had the discipline to eat the old year and the rest will be easy to eat. Especially when it’s over a year of age, children would rather play than eat,” the doctor said Rini.

Children who have problems with psychological well as potentially difficult to eat. “It’s weight tends to fall could be due to chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, but the psychological child psychological burden because of physical limitations that also trigger the child to stress and difficult to eat,” says child psychiatrist Dr. dr. Tjhin Wiguna, SpJK.

Psychological healing is also needed for children who suffer from physical limitations that trigger stress.