When the baby is six months old, every mother wants to know if it’s time to add something tasty and healthy to the diet of her offspring.
Start of feeding
There are many questions related to the new menu, for example, how to avoid allergies, problems with the tummy and other things.
Pediatricians of all countries recommend starting lure not earlier than six months. Only by this time the child’s digestive system is able to digest other foods.
Again, everything is individual here, because each crumb develops differently. If the baby is regularly sick, weak, or prematurely born, then the beginning of complementary feeding just needs to be postponed.
But if the child is healthy, he has gained more than twice the weight since birth, then there is no reason to pull with the addition of new dishes in his diet.
Observing district pediatrician in detailtells you how to start feeding the child. Today, experts in the field of baby food are advised to start with vegetables and cereals. And only then add the juice. Acids and sugars contained in fruits, like the baby with its bright taste. And porridges will give energy and vivacity. Then go to fruit juices and mashed potatoes.
Starting with apple juice, offer the kid 2-3 drops on the first day, a half teaspoon for the second, gradually bring up to 25 ml.
General rules for starting foods:
- Every day, watch the baby. Allergy, malaise, fever - any of these symptoms - a reason to interrupt the process of introducing a new food and consult with your doctor.
- Also, the beginning of complementary foods should not coincide with the period of prophylactic vaccinations (from three to five days before and after inoculation).
- 37-38 degrees - the optimal food temperature.
- New dishes should be given before the main feeding.
- And most importantly: complementary foods are a gradual introduction of new dishes, we don’t feed them the baby. The baby only tastes, and the main food is breast milk or milk formula.
By following these simple rules, you will save your child's delicate digestive system.
The first lure. Where to begin and how to proceed?
So, the baby is growing, gradually there is a need for a different food, milk no longer provides all the necessary nutrients. The child develops, he needs strength for growth and games.
A start, now it is important not to overload the menu with a large number of various dishes.
Pumpkin, apple, banana, carrot, zucchini, zucchini - the very first vegetables, berries and fruits in the baby’s diet. Buckwheat, millet and rice porridge - from six months. Later we begin to give cottage cheese, egg yolk.
It is important to remember that exotic vegetables and fruits should not be used as an initial food. You can have a child that grows in the area in which you live.
Start feeding. A few more practical tips:
- Vegetable puree start giving a quarter teaspoons, daily increasing the volume of about 1.5-2 times, for a week bringing to the age norm. At the same time observe the skin of the child, his chair.
- Having brought up to 50-100 ml the volume of one type of vegetable, we proceed to the next. New product to be introduced once every two weeks, not more often.
- Introducing vegetables, it should be remembered that it is impossible to mix two new types! Only monopure.
- I do not salt the child, do not sweeten it, do not use spices either.
- A couple of months after the start of feeding, you can add vegetable oils, especially flaxseed, to vegetable puree.
To avoid problems like constipation, diarrhea,allergies, diathesis and others, should be very careful to introduce new dishes in the diet of the baby. Remember this! And let your child grow healthy and energetic!
