Most babies aged 4-6 months still have no teeth and are in the early stage of eruption of deciduous teeth. They just know something about food and like to swallow it, because this mushy food is more suitable for babies. When the baby likes to stare at the food, especially when he sees adults eating, he will take the initiative to ask for it and grab it, so it is time to add complementary food to the baby to meet the requirements of this little taster.
The baby's diet for 4-6 months is still mainly breast milk or formula milk, and supplementary food is added. Don't worry, mother, but try to give the baby a try to familiarize the baby with the various flavors of food. Mainly provide baby with liquid and muddy food. The amount added should also be slow, starting with 1-2 spoons and gradually increasing later.
For the baby's first complementary food, it is recommended to add iron-containing rice flour first. The nutrition of rice flour is relatively simple, which can prevent the baby from being allergic.
1. Why do you recommend nutritious rice flour for infants as the preferred complementary food?
Because the nutritional ratio of infant nutritional rice flour is relatively balanced, it is very easy to be prepared into a uniform paste, and the amount of preparation can be selected at any time, and the taste is light, close to breast milk or formula powder. After the baby accepts the rice noodles successfully, he will gradually mix the vegetable paste, egg yolk paste and meat sauce into the rice noodles for mixed food feeding to avoid picky eaters.
2. Why do you want to mix vegetable paste and rice flour before feeding your baby?
Because the taste of rice flour and rice porridge is very different from that of mashed vegetables. If you feed your baby separately, it's like giving your child multiple-choice questions to stimulate your child to make a choice. Some babies will choose vegetable paste instead of rice noodles, or vice versa. This is easy to cause picky eaters. Add meat sauce, egg yolk and so on later. Mix it with rice noodles and feed it to the baby.
The complementary food tools I used → 1. Food supplement machine: SVER Shawell food supplement machine.
A highly recommended cooking machine is much more convenient and practical than the one I bought before. Small and exquisite, suitable for a small number of baby food supplements, multi-functional. In addition to complementary food, you can also make juice, milkshake, ground meat and flour, so that your baby will not need it and will not be idle.
→2. Tableware: Vitel baby sucker bowl, ceramic bowl.
The advantage of the sucker bowl is that it can be sucked on the table, and the baby's ability to eat by himself will not knock the bowl over. However, in the early stage of complementary food, I still used more ceramic bowls, which may be a personal hobby!
→3. Grinding bowl: American NUK grinding bowl
Need to prepare a grinding bowl, the price is not expensive, suitable for grinding some soft and tiny food, but vegetables, meat and the like still need a cooking machine.
→4. Pot: loray ceramic non-stick pot
I prefer this kind of pot. Originally a soup pot, it can also be used as a steamer with a steaming rack inside. White ceramics do not fall off as easily as coatings.
The main point of complementary food for 6-month-old babies is to ask for milk first, and the daily milk quantity is 600-800 ml, not exceeding 1000 ml. Supplementary food is added 1-2 times a day. Make food into delicate paste, too dry food, such as steamed potatoes and yam. After adding some warm water, use a cooking machine or grinding bowl to make a thin liquid paste, not too sticky, so that the baby can gradually get familiar with the taste and feeling of various foods, and exercise the baby's swallowing ability and the ability to push food back and forth with his tongue. After adding a single food for a period of time, two or more foods can be mixed and added after the baby has no symptoms such as allergies, diarrhea and indigestion.
Detailed reference recipes for the primary stage of complementary food
The first week of June:
High-iron rice noodles are the main ones.
Feeding point of rice noodles:
1, and the formula rice flour with high nutritional components and iron content was selected; No sucrose and salt are added.
2. Add 3 ~ 4 tablespoons of warm formula milk or water to 1 tablespoon of rice flour, and let it stand for a period of time to make the rice flour fully wetted by water. Feed the baby with a spoon, not a bottle.
3. Slowly increase the consistency of rice noodles. The initially prepared rice flour should be thin, and then gradually increase the consistency after the baby adapts.
4. Slowly increase the amount of rice noodles. Start feeding 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls each time, and gradually increase to 3 ~ 4 spoonfuls after the baby adapts, and feed 1 ~ 2 times a day.
The second week of June:
Eat mashed potato rice noodles, pumpkin rice noodles and carrot rice noodles for two days, and replace them with another one without adverse reactions.
→→→→→1.Mashed potato rice noodles
Practice: Peel, wash and cut potatoes into small pieces, then steam them in a pot for about 15 minutes. After steaming, put the potatoes and washed rice noodles into the cup and hit it with the cross knife seat of Shangweier cooking machine for about 20 seconds.
Tip: Potatoes are sticky. In order to facilitate the baby to swallow, the prepared rice paste must be thinner, so that the potato rice paste is liquid to avoid the baby vomiting. In addition, potatoes must be peeled before eating. Germinated and green potatoes contain alkaloids, which are usually concentrated in potato skins. They are toxic substances and should not be eaten by babies.
→2. Pumpkin paste rice noodles
Practice: cut the pumpkin into pieces and steam it, then cup the steamed pumpkin and beat it into fine pumpkin paste, and mix it with washed rice flour evenly.
Tip: In addition to containing more carotene, pumpkin also contains nutrients such as pumpkin polysaccharide and pectin. Pumpkin polysaccharide is an immune enhancer, which can improve immune function. Pectin has good adsorption, which can combine and eliminate harmful substances such as bacteria and toxins in the body. Moreover, pumpkins are warm and very suitable for adding to babies. But the fiber of pumpkin is long, so it must be broken when feeding the baby, otherwise it will be difficult for the baby to swallow. In addition, pumpkin can promote damp-heat and jaundice.
→3. Carrot paste rice noodles
Practice: peel and cut carrots, steam them, put them in a cup with washed rice paste, add some warm water, and beat them into a fine paste with a cooking machine.
Tip: Many parenting books suggest that carrots are fat-soluble foods and need to be fried in oil before adding them. Because the baby just started to add complementary food in the second week, I think it is safer to steam it. After adding complementary food for a period of time, the baby's stomach adapted to foods other than milk and rice noodles. You can fry carrots with a small amount of walnut oil or olive oil before adding them.
The third week of June:
Avocado rice paste, apple rice paste, sweet potato rice paste, banana rice paste, yam rice paste,
→4. Avocado rice paste
Practice: Peel and core avocado, take the middle pulp, mix it with washed rice flour, put it in a Shangweier cooking machine, and beat it into a thin paste with a cross knife seat. Avocados have a light taste and little water. Be sure to thin the rice noodles before beating, so that the rice paste is liquid.
Tip: Many people regard avocado as the fruit of wisdom. It is said that babies can enhance their memory by eating it. As a high-energy and low-sugar fruit, it is rich in satiety and fatty acids, and it is also the first choice for baby's initial complementary food. Moreover, avocados have a light taste, and babies with insensitive taste buds don't have to worry about being rejected.
→5. Apple paste and rice paste
Practice: Peel the apple and steam it for 10 minutes. Not too long. Put the steamed apples into the short cup of Shangweier cooking machine and beat them into fine mud with a cross knife seat. Then mix the beaten apple paste with the washed rice paste and stir evenly. Of course, washed rice paste and steamed apple pieces can also be made into mud.
Tip: Apples are the four largest fruits in the world (apples, grapes, oranges and bananas), and their nutrients are easily absorbed by the human body. Apple contains zinc, which is a component of many important enzymes in human body, and can produce antibodies and improve immunity. Ripe apples have the effect of treating diarrhea. For Xiaobaobao in the early stage of adding complementary food, ripe apples are more easily absorbed and digested by the stomach. Raw apples, on the contrary to cooked apples, can promote the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion and eliminate constipation.
→6. Sweet potato rice paste
Practice: Peel and cut the sweet potato into pieces, steam it in a steamer, paste it with a cooking machine, and then mix and stir the mashed sweet potato with the washed rice flour.
Tip: Sweet potato can be used as staple food after steaming, and its nutritional value is higher than that of ordinary staple food. In particular, the lack of lysine in cereals is high, which can make up for the lack of nutrition in rice and white flour. Lysine can promote human development, enhance immune function and improve the function of central nervous system.
→7. Banana rice paste
Practice: Peel the banana and cut it into sections, mix it with washed rice flour, put it in the short cup of Shangweier cooking machine, and beat it into paste with a cross knife seat.
Tip: Bananas, like apples, are prone to oxidation and blackening, especially after mashing with a cooking machine. In fact, for babies who have been supplemented with complementary food for three weeks, you can also peel and scrape bananas and give them to your baby with a spoon. Bananas are soft and sticky and easy to swallow, and can be easily absorbed even if they are not ground into fine mud. In addition, bananas are afraid of cold and tend to turn black in the refrigerator, so don't put them in the refrigerator for too long.
→8. Yam rice paste
Practice: Peel the yam, wash it, cut it into small pieces, and steam it in a pot until the yam is completely soft. If you want to cook faster, you can cut the yam thinner. Put the steamed yam and a proper amount of warm water into the short cup of Shangweier cooking machine and beat it into yam paste with a cross knife seat. Then the mashed yam and the washed rice paste are mixed and stirred evenly.
Tip: Yam has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening lung. It is effective for spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea and lung deficiency, asthma and cough, so it also has certain treatment and warming effect on baby diarrhea and cough.
The fourth week of June
Banana peach rice paste, purple cabbage rice paste, banana avocado rice paste, green vegetable rice paste, taro pumpkin rice paste, tomato yolk rice paste.
If the complementary food is successfully added in the first three weeks, the baby has no adverse reactions such as allergies, anorexia, diarrhea and indigestion, and the complementary food can be relatively rich in the fourth week! You can try to mix the two foods together, paste them and add them to your baby. In the fourth week, high-speed rice noodles still need to be added.
→9. Banana peach rice paste method
Peel bananas and peaches, put them together in a cooking cup, beat them into paste with a cross knife, and mix them with washed rice noodles.
→ 10. Purple cabbage rice paste method
Purple cabbage is rich in vitamins, cellulose, iron, anthocyanins and other nutrients. When making purple cabbage rice paste, remove the hard stems in the middle, leaving only the leaves, soak them in clear water for about 10 minutes, then rinse them off, steam the washed purple cabbage on a pot for 15-20 minutes, and then beat the steamed purple cabbage into a fine paste with a cooking machine and mix it with the washed rice flour evenly.
→ 1 1. Banana and avocado rice paste method
Wash avocado, peel and core, and cut into small pieces; Peel the banana and cut it into small pieces. Put it into the Shangweier food supplement machine, and also choose the cross knife seat to play for about 30-40 seconds. You can also add less warm water before beating, or beat the prepared milk powder later. Mix the beaten avocado banana puree with the washed rice flour, and then add it to the baby. Bananas and avocados are definitely golden partners. Add some prepared milk powder to make banana avocado milkshake before beating. It tastes very good!
→ 12. Vegetable rice paste method
Leave the leaves of Chinese cabbage, soak them in clear water for more than 10 minutes, and then rinse them with clear water several times to remove pesticide residues. After washing, put the leaves in boiling water for 65,438+0-2 minutes, which should not be too long to avoid nutrient loss. Mash the steamed vegetables in a cooking machine. Then, mix the finely chopped vegetables with the washed rice flour and stir well.
→ 13. Preparation method of taro pumpkin rice paste
Dice taro and pumpkin separately, as small as possible, and steam. Rinse taro diced with clear water for several times, and try to wash off excess starch. Then put the washed taro and pumpkin into a pot and steam for about 15-20 minutes, then mix them after steaming, put them into a short cup of a cooking machine, add a little warm water, beat them into fine mud with a cross knife seat, and then mix them with the washed pumpkin.
→ 14. Tomato yolk rice paste method
The first time I added egg yolk to my baby was on the last day of the first month when I added complementary food. Egg yolk has a slight salty taste, and the taste made of tomatoes is more delicious than the previous complementary food. In order not to destroy the baby's taste buds too early, it is better to add salty and sour food to the baby later. Tomatoes had better be peeled before they are used as complementary food. You can make a cross knife at the bottom of the tomato, then scald it with boiling water, and then peel it off easily. Then cut into small pieces and put them in a pot with cooked egg yolk and stir-fry them with a few drops of walnut oil (tomatoes and carrots are also fat-soluble foods). The fried tomato yolk paste is already very soft. Just grind it in a grinding bowl.
The above is my summary of the first month's baby food supplement record. The following are some precautions for adding complementary foods that I have compiled for your reference.
Precautions for adding complementary food 1. Tips for adding complementary food:
When the baby is 4-6 months old, milk and dairy products are still the main foods for the baby. Drink about 600-800 ml of milk every day, and do not exceed 1000 ml. Mothers can give their babies regular breast-feeding training in advance, usually breast-feeding 5 times a day, with an interval of 4 hours.
The complementary food for the baby should be smooth and mushy, which is convenient for the baby to swallow. No flavoring agents (such as salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, etc.) are added. ) in complementary food, it will stimulate the baby's stomach.
Mother chooses a small spoon of suitable size and soft texture to feed the baby with complementary food. When a baby knows his spoon, his understanding of food and diet will be clearer. Take the rice noodles added at the beginning as an example. At the beginning, just scoop a little rice flour in front of the spoon, gently stretch the spoon, put it on the baby's tongue, and then take it back. To prevent the spoon from entering the mouth too deep or pressing the baby's tongue with a spoon, it will cause the baby's disgust. Start with 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls two days ago. Mother will observe the smell of the baby. If the baby digests and absorbs well, it will increase slowly.
Every time you add a new food, you should eat the previous food for 3 ~ 5 days, and then do it after the baby is normal. 4 ~ 6 months, you can add complementary food once a day, usually after the baby gets up from a nap.
Every baby has a different temper. When starting to add complementary food, babies who don't like mud can eat mud before feeding. For babies who especially like to eat mud, they can feed mud after breastfeeding.
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Second, the practice of supplementary food of vegetable paste:
1. Before cooking the puree, put the whole leaf in boiling water for a few seconds, and then take it out to make the puree after the green leaf turns dark green and softens slightly. If vegetables are chopped into puree and then boiled in boiling water, many nutrients in vegetables, especially vitamins, will be lost in water, reducing the nutritional value of vegetables. Prepare the puree when cooking porridge, and then add it when the porridge is cooked.
2. Why do you want to mix vegetable paste and rice flour before feeding your baby? Because the taste of rice flour and rice porridge is very different from that of mashed vegetables. If babies are fed separately, it is like giving children multiple-choice questions to stimulate them to make choices. Some babies will choose vegetable paste instead of rice noodles, and vice versa. This is easy to cause picky eaters. Add meat sauce, egg yolk and so on later. Mix it with rice noodles and feed it to the baby.
3. How to make vegetable puree at home? If you choose root vegetables, you can steam potatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes and carrots, peel them and make them into paste. Paste vegetable paste with rice flour and rice porridge to feed the baby. Note: before steaming carrots, cut them into large pieces and cook them with a little oil before steaming. Carotene in carrot sauce is beneficial for infants to absorb.
4. How to make vegetable puree at home? If it's a green vegetable, you can blanch the leaves in boiling water for a few seconds, take them out after they become soft and dark green, chop them into mud and add them to rice flour, rice porridge, etc. Breast-feed the baby. Put the vegetable leaves directly into boiling water, which can filter out the residues such as fertilizers and pesticides attached to the vegetable leaves; The dish can also be heated to promote the digestion and absorption of infants. Note that the whole leaf must be put into boiling water.
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Third, the feeding points of rice noodles:
1, and the formula rice flour with high nutritional components and iron content was selected; No sucrose and salt are added.
2. Add 3 ~ 4 tablespoons of warm formula milk or water to 1 tablespoon of rice flour, and let it stand for a period of time to make the rice flour fully wetted by water. Feed the baby with a spoon, not a bottle.
3. Slowly increase the consistency of rice noodles. The initially prepared rice flour should be thin, and then gradually increase the consistency after the baby adapts.
4. Slowly increase the amount of rice noodles. Start feeding 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls each time, and gradually increase to 3 ~ 4 spoonfuls after the baby adapts, and feed 1 ~ 2 times a day.