If the complementary food is added incorrectly, the child's spleen and stomach may have problems, and there may be frequent illness.
How to add complementary food to them to be healthier?
Before feeding the baby complementary food, parents should first understand why the baby needs to eat complementary food.
Nutritional needs
When the baby is 6 months old, breast milk and formula milk are still their main foods, but the nutrition in them can't fully meet the baby's development, especially the demand for iron.
Exercise of chewing ability
6~ 12 months is the key period for the baby's oral development and exercise. If they are only fed with water or the thickness of complementary food is not changed, the baby's tooth development is likely to be abnormal.
Exercise of digestive ability
The baby's stomach and intestines are also in the development stage. Adding complementary food can exercise their digestive ability. If you only drink milk for a long time and dilute the gastric juice, your digestive ability will be weakened.
For babies aged 6~ 12 months, the most important thing is the change process of complementary food.
A six-month-old baby
At this time, the baby is in the swallowing period and can't chew and grind food slowly with his gums. Therefore, the complementary food prepared by parents for their children needs to be mushy.
And you need to eat paste food rich in iron.
In this period, babies can eat almost all foods except protein, but parents should not make too many kinds of complementary foods to avoid allergies.
7~8 months old baby
At this time, the baby is in the period of crawling, so it can be chewed with the tongue, and the complementary food can be changed from a thinner paste to a thicker one.
9~ 10 month old baby
Babies in this period can chew fine food, such as soft and rotten noodles, porridge and soft and rotten root food.
1 1~ 12 months old baby
The baby's multiple deciduous teeth are slowly sprouting, and you can eat soft rice foods, and officially enter the state of chewing, such as small chaos and egg soup.
When feeding your baby complementary food, you should also pay attention to some misunderstandings.
Add seasoning
For babies aged 6~ 12 months, any seasoning is not suitable for them, just let them feel the original flavor of the food. Many foods have their own sweet taste, and the baby's taste buds are more easily stimulated, so they can feel it.
Eat only rice noodles
Although the nutrition of rice noodles may be more abundant, most of them are made of grains, which may not give children comprehensive nutrition, and all kinds of homemade minced meat are still necessary.
Moreover, no matter how thick the rice flour is, it is also mushy, which can not promote the development of the baby's mouth. Therefore, parents should also keep up with the complementary food.
Weaning immediately
Even if the baby is 6 months old, breast milk and formula milk are the main sources of their nutrition, and complementary food is only a supplement after drinking milk.
Although the baby can only eat porridge after 9~ 12 months, the food in the porridge is made into a paste, which is still suitable for babies aged 6~9 months.
Pumpkin corn
The porridge made of these two foods can be used as cereals in complementary food, and it is rich in nutrients, including lecithin, pectin, carotene and other nutrients, which can promote the development of baby's vision and the improvement of immunity.
Spinach pork liver
It is appropriate to use pig liver to supplement iron for your baby, but be careful not to eat more. Spinach is also rich in calcium and various vitamins, which is very good for supplementing nutrition for your baby.
But parents who are not sure whether their baby is allergic to spinach should be cautious.
Carrot beef
This nutrition porridge can supplement rich nutrients such as vitamin A, protein and iron for babies, help them improve their immunity and promote their vision development.