Babies who are almost seven months old can eat steamed buns, but they need to be torn into small pieces as complementary food.

At the age of seven months, most of the baby's nutrition still comes from milk, so breastfeeding should still be continued. If the baby is formula-fed, the milk volume should be 600 to 800 ml per day. .

After 6 months, the baby starts to add complementary foods. As time goes by, the types of foods that can be eaten increase. However, the baby’s digestive ability is not yet perfect, so the principle of gradual progress should be adopted. Steamed buns can be torn into small pieces as a kind of complementary food, because small pieces of steamed buns are hard when you first enter the mouth, and will soon become soft after being moistened with saliva, making it less likely to cause choking or aspiration.

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Principles of adding complementary foods

1. Diversity and comprehensiveness of food

Each baby’s daily amount of complementary foods It is different and needs to be adjusted according to the specific situation of your baby, but the general principle is to ensure that complementary food does not affect the daily milk volume of 600 to 800 ml, so as to help avoid insufficient calcium intake.

When the baby is about 8 or 9 months old and has basically adapted to semi-solid foods such as mud, paste, etc., you can start to add soft solid foods to exercise his chewing ability, such as rotten noodles, porridge, chopped vegetables, etc. Minced meat, mashed beans, mashed bean curd, etc.

2. When adding meat, you can start with fish.

When adding meat to your baby, it is usually recommended to start with fish, because its meat is delicate and easy to digest, followed by poultry, and then It's animal meat. Their nutritional content is basically similar, except that fish and poultry meat is white meat with a higher content of unsaturated fat, while livestock meat is red meat with a higher saturated fat content than white meat and a higher iron and zinc content than white meat.

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