Egg yolk is one of the earliest complementary foods added by infants, which is rich in nutritional value. This article will introduce you how to add egg yolk complementary food correctly and the matters needing attention in the process of adding complementary food.

Boiling, shelling and grinding

First, we need to cook and shell the eggs, then take out the yolk and grind it into fine yolk powder.

first feeding

When feeding for the first time, you only need to feed your baby 1/8 egg yolks every day, and then gradually increase it to 1/4 and 1/2 until it is full of egg yolks. In order to facilitate feeding, you can mix egg yolk powder with boiled water and give it to your baby between feedings. Or directly add it to rice noodles.

Try egg yolk porridge and steamed eggs.

Baby about 6 months, you can start trying to feed him to eat egg yolk porridge; At 7 or 8 months, the baby can taste steamed eggs (including the egg white part).

The correct order of adding complementary food

Following the correct sequence of complementary foods, we suggest adding vegetarian complementary foods when the baby is 4 months old to help the baby adapt to new foods and gradually increase the nutritional intake. When you are 6 months old, you can start to try to give your baby non-meat complementary food, such as minced meat, to provide a richer source of nutrition. When the baby is 9 months old, you can start to try to add seafood complementary food, but please make sure that the baby has no allergic reaction to seafood.