First of all, the five-month-old baby's stomach is too delicate to eat any complementary food for the time being. This time should be exclusive breastfeeding. Mothers can start by adjusting their diet and improve the quality of milk to promote their babies' better development.
When the baby is six months old, it is advisable to start adding complementary food. The baby should still take breast milk or milk as the main source of nutrition. The nutrition in breast milk or milk powder can basically meet the baby's nutritional needs, and it is enough to add less complementary food. If you add too much complementary food, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal problems for your baby. Six-month-old babies should not add more than100g of complementary food every day.
Secondly, complementary food should be mainly liquid food. The six-month-old baby's digestion ability of solid food is still relatively poor, so when adding complementary food to the baby, it should be mainly liquid food, such as millet porridge and bean paste, which is more suitable for the baby at this stage.
There is also the complementary food temperature must be appropriate. The temperature of baby food supplement is also difficult to control. If the temperature is too high, it is easy to burn the oral mucosa and induce infection. If the temperature is too low, it is difficult to digest and it is easy to cause indigestion. Therefore, the temperature of complementary food must be appropriate. You can prepare two sets of tableware when feeding your baby complementary food. If necessary, adults can feel the temperature of complementary food first, and then give it to the baby.