1. When can I add complementary food? 4-6 months, healthy appetite, good mood, you can start to add complementary food when you meet one of the following conditions:
1) The baby's weight gain has doubled at birth.
2) The baby is hungry after eating about 250ml of milk for less than 4 hours.
3) The baby can sit up.
4) The baby can eat milk above 1000ml within 24 hours.
5) The baby is 6 months old.
Second, the principle of complementary food addition
3. What can I add in different months? 4-6 months
This is the initial stage of complementary food addition. At this time, the baby is prone to physiological anemia, because the iron brought by mom and dad is almost used up, and the baby's own absorption is not enough. Therefore, it is recommended to add rice flour in the first paragraph, and it is iron-fortified rice flour. In addition, vegetable juice, mud, fruit juice, mud, egg yolk mud, etc. can also be added gradually.
7-9 months
At this time, the teeth are gradually growing, and the demand for calcium is increasing. Some foods rich in calcium can be supplemented, and some foods with hardness are gone. Vegetables and fruits can be diced, granular and chewy. In addition to the previous vegetables and fruits, you can also add meat dishes, fish sauce, meat sauce and liver sauce, but you still have to mash them.
10- 12 months
At this time, the baby's teeth have grown a lot, and he will eat vegetables at the age of one. So he can basically eat them at this time, but they should be soft and rotten, and the varieties can be diversified.
Above, I hope I can help you!
Baby can add complementary food from six months, and add rice flour recommended to add fortified iron for the first time. Add one complementary food first, and then add another one after 3 ~ 7 days of adaptation, and then gradually expand the variety. Pay attention to observe whether there is any allergic phenomenon after each food is added to the baby. Stop feeding immediately if you have any allergies.
Complementary food should be from thin to thick, from light to thick. The amount of complementary food is also from less to more, from fine to coarse. No seasoning can be added to the baby's food within one year old. It is recommended to give the baby original food. In addition, the baby is not suitable for eating monosodium glutamate. The ingredients of monosodium glutamate can lead to zinc deficiency in babies. Please refer to the following table for specific supplementary food addition:
The baby can gradually add complementary food after 4-6 months, which can promote the baby's physical development and prepare for the baby's weaning. Many mothers like to give their babies DIY complementary food at home. However, due to the lack of understanding of nutrition and feeding during the supplementary food addition period, DIY supplementary food may be difficult to meet the baby's nutritional needs. So what key points should be grasped when adding complementary food? How to deal with the baby's refusal to eat complementary food skillfully? The following is a detailed answer for your mothers!
Infant complementary food addition order
After four months, the baby can gradually start to add complementary food. However, due to the developmental characteristics of the baby's digestive system, the principle of adding complementary food should follow from less to more and from dilute to thick. It is best to add fruit juice and vegetable juice first, and then add rice soup and egg yolk after the baby gets used to it.
1, starting with food with low allergy and light taste.
2. feed only one new food at a time, starting from a small amount, and the concentration of food should also be from thin to thick.
3. Every meal starts with a new food. If you don't want to eat, add the food you have already eaten, and add a new food in about 5-7 days.
Add rice flour or rice soup in 4.6 months, add grains and roots in 7-8 months, and start to try various leafy vegetables and fruit purees. You can start adding meat in eight months.
The principle of adding supplementary food for infants
The principle of adding baby complementary food is that when adding complementary food, it should be carried out step by step according to the actual needs of the baby and the maturity of the digestive system. Parents must be patient and can't force their baby to accept complementary food completely at once, which will be counterproductive and make the baby dislike complementary food even more.
1, from simple to mixed.
One complementary food has to go through an adaptation period of 5-7 days, and then another food is added. After the adaptation period, one food is mixed with a variety of foods. The first complementary food added is rice flour, because rice protein is rarely allergic. Every new food may be tried many times before it is accepted by the baby. If indigestion occurs, complementary food should be suspended, and after returning to normal, feeding should start from the initial amount or less.
2. From thin to thick.
From liquid to semi-liquid to solid. If rice flour is added at the beginning, it can be diluted and swallowed more easily.
3, the amount is from less to more, and the texture is from fine to coarse.
The initial food intake may be only 1 spoon, and it will gradually increase in the future, so that the baby can have an adaptation process. The texture of food can be made into juice or mud at first, which is convenient for swallowing; When deciduous teeth erupt, the food you choose can be thicker and harder, such as trying to eat cut vegetables to train your baby's chewing ability.
4, can not be forced to eat.
When the baby doesn't want to eat a certain food, he can change it in another way. For example, babies can be given new drinks when they are thirsty and new food when they are hungry.
5. When the weather is hot and the baby is sick, the addition of new varieties should be suspended.
6, varies from person to person, produced separately.
Baby complementary food should be made separately, and it is best not to add salt. The added food should pay attention to food safety and hygiene. It is best to give the baby food and cook it now, and don't feed the rest of the food.
Infant complementary food addition time
Baby complementary food should be gradually added in 4-6 months. However, due to the individual differences of infants, there is no strict time limit for starting to add complementary food. When the baby reaches the following conditions, you can consider starting to add complementary food: the weight has reached twice that at birth; I was hungry less than 4 hours after eating about 250mL of milk; Babies can sit up; The baby can eat more than 1000mL of milk within 24 hours; The baby is 4 months old.
4-6 kinds of starch such as complementary food varieties, meal number, eating method, main meal, complementary food, batter, wheat batter, rotten porridge, etc. added at the age of months; High-protein foods, such as egg yolk, stickleless fish paste, animal blood, liver paste, soybean protein powder, tofu, tender tofu, etc. Vegetable juice, fruit juice, leafy vegetable puree, fruit puree; Milking cod liver oil for 6 times and feeding it with spoon 1-2 times; Training swallowing function 7-9 thick porridge, rotten rice, biscuits, noodles, bread, steamed bread, etc. ; Do not eat stickleback, liver mud, animal blood, minced meat, baby milk powder and bean products; Vegetable puree and fruit puree; Cod liver oil milk 1-2 meals four times; Fruit science 1 cup and bowl; Training chewing function10-12 thick porridge, rotten rice, biscuits, noodles, bread, steamed bread, etc. Do not eat stickleback, liver, animal blood, minced meat, baby milk powder, bean products and chopped vegetables; Cod liver oil 2-3 meals 2-3 times milk; 1 fruit grab; Start eating with adults with your own spoon.
How to add complementary food to your baby
Babies have two growth peaks in their lives. The first growth peak is from the baby's birth to the baby's 6 months, and the baby grows very rapidly. The smaller the month, the faster it grows, which can be fully reflected from the baby's weight and height growth curve. At this time, the baby needs enough breast milk to grow better.
1, the added complementary food must adapt to the baby's age.
Babies in different months have different physical development and need different complementary foods. For example, if the complementary food is added too early, the baby will have vomiting and diarrhea due to immature digestive function, and the digestive function will be disordered; Adding to the party will cause malnutrition in the baby and even refuse to eat non-dairy liquid food.
2. Gradually add one or more foods according to the baby's nutritional needs and digestive ability.
At first, you can only give your baby a complementary food suitable for several months. Try it for 3-4 days or a week. If the baby has good digestion and normal defecation, try again. Never add several kinds in a short time. If the baby is allergic to a certain food, it can be observed within a few days of trial.
3. From thin to thick
When the baby started to add complementary food, he didn't have teeth yet. He can only feed the baby liquid food, gradually add semi-liquid food and finally develop into solid food. For example: rice paste porridge soft rice.
4, from small to large
The baby's food particles should be fine and smooth, which can exercise the baby's swallowing function and lay the foundation for the transition to solid food in the future. When the baby is about to grow teeth or is growing teeth, the mother can gradually thicken the particles of food, which is conducive to promoting the growth of the baby's teeth and exercising his chewing ability.
How to make your baby fall in love with complementary food
Babies who are used to eating dairy products may not be used to the taste of complementary food when they start adding complementary food, resist eating complementary food or eat very little. Mothers can make their babies fall in love with complementary food in some ways, such as matching different ingredients and changing cooking methods, and should also give appropriate encouragement to babies who eat complementary food smoothly.
1, the best time to feed complementary food is before feeding the baby. When he is hungry, he is more interested in accepting new food; At the same time, it is necessary to fix the feeding time and let him form a rule. Then he will know that it is time to eat complementary food with a spoon and a small bowl.
Don't feed too much at first.
If the baby doesn't like a certain kind of food, you can feed him other kinds of food first, and then try again after a while.
If the baby doesn't like to eat some complementary food, the mother can also attract his interest by changing the cooking method and using different tastes.
When the baby is willing to try new food, parents should remember to give him encouragement.
The baby began to eat complementary food at 6 months. (Foreign countries began to add food in 4 months, and many imported complementary foods are marked with 4+, but the domestic standard has always been 6 months, so we take 6 months as the standard. )
In the field of parenting in China, the latest and most authoritative view is that iron-containing rice flour should be added to the first complementary food.
The first complementary food is the old concept of egg yolk. But in fact, although the egg yolk contains iron, the baby does not absorb much. In this regard, many well-known pediatricians and nutrition experts in China have proposed it, such as Cui Yutao.
In addition, a few babies are allergic to eggs.
Here are some pictures, which are the order and common sense of adding baby complementary food. I hope I can help you.
As the baby grows up, the mother's milk secretion will gradually decrease and the baby's food intake will begin to increase. Eating breast milk or infant formula can no longer meet the baby's nutritional needs. Baby can gradually increase complementary food after six months.
The milk yield of a 6-month-old baby may be between 600- 1000ml, with some individual differences, but at least it should not be lower than 500-600ml. It doesn't matter if you don't drink milk at night, but it will help children develop their sleep habits.
Let's start with iron-fortified rice noodles. At first, add 1 or 2 times a day, a few spoonfuls each time, and gradually increase. It can be added to 2 or 3 meals a year, with about half a bowl for each meal. After 3~5 days, the baby has no symptoms such as diarrhea and allergies, and then add vegetable paste/soup. The key to adding complementary food to a six-month-old baby is to supplement iron, so we need "iron-fortified" rice flour and vegetable paste (in which VC can promote iron absorption).
6-month-old children's staple food is still milk (breast milk+milk powder, 5-6 times/day, each time about 150ml, and the daily milk quantity is 800- 1000ml), and rice flour and vegetable paste can only be used as an auxiliary, but cannot affect the milk quantity.
Children in June have poor digestion and absorption function, and occasionally some food residues are not fully digested and absorbed in the stool. It's okay. Don't be nervous. Children's stool frequency changes (such as 2-3 times a day), or mucus purulent blood appears in stool, which indicates abnormality.
After July and August, try to add meat, egg yolks, fruits and grains.
Baby complementary food should be light and processed separately. You can boil it first and then slowly transition to hard. To gradually exercise the baby's digestive function, there will be some digestive problems at first, which can be from less to more, from thin to thick. In addition, don't be greedy, add one at a time, and change another when you get used to it. Then you can try to add the two together. This is the basic principle.
Rotten noodles, meat sauce, fish sauce, liver sauce, vegetables and fruits after September. You can eat. If the baby has teethed, it can be processed a little thicker and harder, so chewing more is beneficial to the baby's oral development.
You can go to the hospital to test the trace elements for your baby to see if it is lacking. Add a complementary food, eggs and vegetables to the diet, and pay attention to supplementing vitamins. Some babies lack vitamins or trace elements, and malabsorption also occurs. Children's diet should be balanced, and vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and fish should be reasonably matched, otherwise it will easily lead to nutritional deficiency and malnutrition symptoms.
/kloc-For children over 0/year old, the food should be diversified, 4-5 times a day (including meals). Ensure that you consume more than 350ml of milk, meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruits and beans every day. Food simplification can easily lead to nutritional deficiency in children. In addition to milk, children of this age should add other foods about three times a day, including meat, eggs, fish and poultry, vegetables and fruits. Add some fruits and vegetables every day. Eat fish and shrimp 2-3 times a week, meat at least once every other day, and one and a half eggs a day.
/kloc-For children over 0/year old, the formation of eating habits is very important. Try to let children eat by themselves, and consciously let children form the habit of eating independently, which will be conducive to the formation of children's various habits.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that complementary food should be added to the baby at the latest from 6 months to 8 months, but it will return to practice in daily life. October fungus suggests that parents can observe whether the baby has the following signals to add complementary food. If these signals appear, they can actually supplement the baby with food:
1, the tongue-sticking reaction disappears, that is, when feeding the baby, he will not push the food out because of his tongue;
2. Increased saliva secretion;
3. Seeing adults show great interest when eating, such as reaching for a spoon;
4. The weight is twice that at birth;
5. Feed regularly, 4 hours apart, 5-6 times a day;
With the help of my parents, I can sit up by myself.
The order of adding complementary food to the baby:
You can refer to the following order:
Baby 6 months, rice flour, vegetable paste and fruit paste 7 months, porridge, rotten noodles, vegetable powder, egg yolk, fish paste and tofu 8-9 months, minced meat, animal liver, baked steamed bread slices, biscuits and eggs 10- 12 months.
In addition, parents should also pay attention to the principle of adding complementary food to their babies, namely:
From one to many: at first, you can only give your baby one complementary food suitable for the month. After trying for 3 4 days or a week, if the baby has good digestion and normal defecation, let the baby try another one. Never add several kinds at a time in a short time.
From thin to thick: before the baby teething, he can only feed liquid food, gradually add semi-liquid food, and finally develop into solid food. In this way, the baby can absorb it well without indigestion.
From fine to coarse: the particles of baby food should be fine, and "mud" foods such as pig liver mud are the most suitable. This not only exercises the baby's swallowing function, but also lays the foundation for the gradual transition to solid food in the future. Also let the baby be familiar with the natural taste of various foods, and develop a good habit of not being partial to food and not picky about food.
From small to large: every time you add new food to your baby, you can only feed it once a day, and the amount should not be large. For example, when adding egg yolk, feed the baby 1/4 first. After three or four days, the baby will have no adverse reactions and then add them one by one.
Eat liquid or muddy food: usually, when the baby starts to add complementary food, the teeth have not yet grown out, so liquid or muddy food is very suitable for the baby to digest and absorb. But you can't give your baby such food for a long time, because it will make your baby miss the critical period of developing chewing ability, which may lead to obstacles in chewing food.
Complementary food should not replace milk: before the baby is one year old, the main food should still be breast milk or formula milk powder, and complementary food can only be used as complementary food.
Hello, as the baby grows up day by day, the digestive function of the stomach is constantly improving, and the food that the baby can eat and the nutrition he needs are also increasing. So do new mothers know the specific order of adding baby complementary food? Now I'll tell you in detail:
Note: It is best to add complementary food regularly and quantitatively, eat fresh food and pay attention to food hygiene.
Specific time and method of baby food supplement: 1. Full-term babies can take vitamin AD supplements from half a month after birth. You can use vitamin AD drops (commonly known as cod liver oil). The dose is calculated according to the amount of vitamin D, 400u per day, which is about 1 2 drops. Premature infants with birth weight less than 250Og should be supplemented with vitamin AD from 1 week after birth and maintain it until the whole period of infants.
2, vitamin K can prevent bleeding, especially intracranial hemorrhage, and infants within 3 months after birth should be supplemented. There are two ways to supplement vitamin K: one is that lactating mothers take vitamin K 1 once a week, and each time lOmg, vitamin K 1 can be supplemented to their babies through milk; You can also give the baby vitamin K 1 once a week, 2 mg, until 3 months, so you can feed 10 times. After 3 months, the baby's intestine can produce vitamin K by itself due to the action of intestinal bacteria, so there is no need to supplement it.
In addition to vitamin AD and vitamin K, the addition of other complementary foods is also important. Adding complementary food should be decided according to the baby's age and digestive ability and the supply of local complementary food. The minimum standard is "add eggs for 4 months, vegetables for 6 months, and meat for 8 months", and foods with similar properties are also acceptable.
3. After four months, the baby's staple food is breast milk plus milk and cereal, which can supply basic nutritional needs. In addition, supplementary food (referred to as supplementary food) is used to supplement the deficiency of nutrients in staple food, which is called supplementary food addition.
Use the yolk first when adding eggs. After the eggs are cooked, take out the yolk. At first, feed 1/4 eggs a day, and then gradually increase it to 1 egg yolk a day, and then add protein, because egg yolk contains many nutrients, which are easy to digest and richer in nutrition than protein. The iron content in egg yolk is high, but the iron absorption rate in egg yolk is low. Eggs are a good complementary food for babies, which are easy to get in both urban and rural areas and convenient to eat. Can be made into custard or egg soup, feed an egg every day until the baby grows up and forms a good habit of eating eggs.
4. Babies of five or six months can feed vegetables. Green leafy vegetables are rich in vitamin C and iron. At first, it can be made into mashed vegetables and rice paste, and then fed with rice porridge. Others, such as carrots and tofu, are good complementary foods for babies of five or six months.
Babies of seven or eight months can feed poultry. Pig liver, chicken, fish (without spines) and lean pork are all nutritious foods. Chop it into minced meat first, then cut it into small pieces and cook it. You can cook it with porridge, rotten rice and noodles.
Do you remember the order in which everyone in the world adds baby food supplements?
Regarding the production of various complementary foods, you can pay attention to me and check my historical articles, such as full-price complementary foods for 4~6 months, 6~8 months, 8~ 12 months and 1 ~2 years old. In fact, it is not good for China people to give their babies yolk first, and eggs are prone to allergies.
Because the iron stored in the baby's body is almost consumed after 6 months, it needs to be supplemented with iron. The rice flour is easy to digest, contains trace elements, has reasonable nutrition and convenient brewing, and is suitable for infants.
Baby should add complementary food like this:
1. From fine to coarse, from fine to coarse. The first complementary food to be added should be made into mud. If you mash the mud and vegetables, you can use a cooking machine to grind them into powder and add them to rice flour, or you can eat them directly. Not too thick at first, because the baby's swallowing function is not perfect, so as not to choke.
7-9 months can eat the final food, which is slightly thicker than muddy food, and you can also eat soft rice and soft noodles. You can also use soft finger food, such as soft biscuits and steamed bread.
10- 12 months can eat small pieces, but also boil them soft.
/kloc-you can basically eat it normally after 0/year old, but don't give it too hard or whole nuts.
2. The complementary food should be added in this way, only one at a time, and observed for two or three days. If there are no adverse reactions such as diarrhea and allergies, add another one.
3. From less to more, you can only eat one spoonful at first, then increase it to two spoonfuls, and gradually increase the amount.
Be careful not to give the baby salt and sugar before the age of one, and do not add salt, sugar and seasoning to the complementary food.
I read Cui Yutao's complementary food books and sorted out some notes about complementary food. In fact, the main purpose of adding complementary food is to train gastrointestinal function, chew function, and match reasonable nutritional elements or dietary fiber.
The World Health Organization suggests that iron-rich rice flour, vegetables and fruit puree can be added to breast-fed babies after 6 months. Then, according to the principle of gradual and slow adaptation:
1, the first complementary food should be nutritious rice noodles. (Not rice soup, fruit juice, vegetable juice, egg yolk)
2. After getting used to 1 2 weeks, add vegetables (broccoli, spinach, carrots, potatoes, etc. , once, and monitoring for 3 days, no allergies before mixing) or fruit (apple puree, banana puree, peach puree, etc. Don't consider tropical or too sweet fruits for the time being).
3, about seven months, you can add fish, liver, meat paste, and wait until about eight months to add egg yolk (without adding egg white first to avoid allergies).
The order of a single variety from white meat to red meat is the same. About ten months, the amount of complementary food can be increased appropriately.
Pay attention to eating complementary food:
When adding complementary food for the first time, you should (eat rice first, the original flavor) adapt before eating brown rice, whole grains and so on.
Addition principle: from simplification to diversification!
From fine to coarse, from fine to coarse, from less to more, from original flavor to vegetables, vegetables to fruits, fruits to meat. Every time you add a complementary food, you should closely observe whether your baby is intolerant or not. The general reaction is Baba, and so on. Don't be too hasty
Popular science knowledge:
The recommendation of the World Health Organization is to add complementary food after 6 months! But treasure moms can observe that if the baby has the following reactions, you can add complementary food. Don't be so rigid, you have to wait six months to give your baby complementary food.
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