As the baby grows, the mother's breast milk can no longer meet the nutrition they need, so complementary foods need to be added. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, complementary foods can be introduced to babies when they are 6 months old. For babies who develop slightly faster, they can be introduced earlier, but not earlier than 4 months, and not later than 8 months.

I believe many mothers are very cautious when it comes to adding complementary foods. One mother said: I pay great attention to the complementary foods for my baby. I don’t dare to let my baby touch anything that is high in salt and sugar. But why do our babies still develop differently than other people’s babies?

In fact, mothers feed their babies complementary foods that appear to be very nutritious but are actually very low in nutritional density. Here, Xiaoguo’s mother will talk about these types: 1. Home-ground rice noodles

Mothers think that the food they make is safer and more hygienic than the food sold outside. But in fact, the main component of home-ground rice noodles is starch, and its nutritional density is very low.

It is undeniable that the mother takes great pains to make rice noodles for the baby, and every bite is full of maternal love, but the nutrition is not enough!

Baby’s stomach capacity is very small and they cannot take in much food every day. However, they are in a critical period of body and brain development and need to eat complementary foods with high nutritional density to supplement their own needs.

Therefore, good complementary foods must meet the requirements of "high nutritional density", especially iron. If the complementary food your baby eats lacks iron, your baby is prone to iron deficiency anemia.

Xiaoguo’s mother recommends:

Choose commercially available iron-fortified rice noodles. This kind of rice noodles has been scientifically formulated to contain sufficient iron and rich protein. , dietary fiber, DHA, vitamins, minerals and other trace elements.

If you insist on feeding your baby home-made rice noodles, you should pay attention to adding other iron-rich foods in time, such as poultry, fish, egg yolks, etc., to maintain nutritional balance. 2. Rice soup or clear porridge

In the eyes of mothers-in-law, clear porridge is the best complementary food. Babies who suffer from internal heat, indigestion, and anorexia must not miss rice soup or clear porridge.

But in the eyes of pediatricians, plain porridge is the number one bad complementary food! The bad thing about it is that its nutritional density is very low. It is just a little starch and a little water, which is difficult to meet the needs of the baby's growth and development.

In addition, because the baby’s stomach capacity is very small, and the large amount of water in rice soup and clear porridge can easily make the baby feel full, thus affecting the amount of milk intake, long-term feeding of rice soup or porridge If plain porridge is used as complementary food, it may cause malnutrition in the baby.

Xiaoguo’s mother suggests:

Stop giving your baby rice soup! At the same time, the porridge should be cooked into thick porridge, and different ingredients should be added, such as minced poultry, fish, eggs, various seasonal vegetables, etc., to cook into complementary food porridge, thereby increasing its nutritional density.

Such as carrot and beef porridge, fish paste porridge, meat and egg porridge, mushroom minced meat porridge, minced vegetable chicken liver porridge, etc... Just by looking at the name, you will know that it is much better than water porridge! And it’s not difficult to make, just change the ingredients a little, and it’ll be a new taste

Xiaoguo’s mother’s headline: Daily complementary foods There are many recipes for complementary foods ~ 3. Vegetables and water< /p>

Many mothers go to great lengths to get their babies to eat vegetables. They are worried that the pureed vegetables are not easy to digest or that their babies don’t like eating them, so they process the vegetables into vegetable water for their babies to drink.

In fact, during the process of boiling vegetables, residual pesticides, oxalic acid, etc. on the vegetables will be dissolved in the water. Such vegetable water is not only devoid of nutrients, but may also be harmful to the health of the baby.

Like rice soup, vegetable water can easily occupy the baby's stomach and affect the baby's intake of other complementary foods.

Besides, if your baby gets used to drinking flavored water, it will be difficult for him to accept tasteless plain water!

Xiaoguo’s mother suggests:

Cook the vegetables and process them into puree or shredded vegetables, then add them to thick porridge or rice cereal, or let the baby eat them directly. 4. Broth

Like porridge, many mothers firmly believe that watery soup can nourish the baby's body. In order to make the baby's body better, they often make various broths for the baby

< p>In fact, the broth contains very few nutrients, and most of them are still retained in the meat. The mother thinks that drinking soup can help the baby get the nutrients in the meat, but in fact, most of what the baby drinks is water.

In addition. If we cook the soup for too long, the purine content in the soup will be too high, which is not conducive to the growth and development of the baby.

Xiaoguo’s mother suggested:

If you want to supplement your baby’s nutrition, it is not scientific to drink broth. You may wish to process the meat into minced meat, minced meat, or according to the baby’s teething situation, Chewing ability and digestion ability, cut the meat into thin slices or small pieces, and then steam it for the baby to eat. 5. Juice

Many mothers squeeze their own juices, which are all natural and contain no additives. Their babies love drinking them, so they think they are a good complementary food.

However, we eat fruits in order to obtain nutrients such as dietary fiber, minerals, and vitamins. However, in the process of squeezing juice, the pulp should not be separated.

This is equivalent to discarding all the insoluble dietary fiber in the pulp. At the same time, a lot of soluble dietary fiber, vitamin C, etc. will also be lost, so the nutrition of the fruit will be greatly reduced.

In the end, what the baby drinks is probably just a cup of thick sugar water.