When the baby grows up, Bao Ma's milk can no longer meet the needs of the baby's growth and development. At the age of six months, the baby needs to add complementary food. How much does the baby eat in a complementary food? Never reduce the intake of milk because of the addition of complementary food, which is usually added after the baby finishes eating milk.

How much does the baby eat in a complementary food meal?

At the beginning of adding complementary food, try to arrange it in the morning, and choose a time that is most convenient for yourself and your baby, but not when your baby looks tired or in a bad mood.

At first, the baby may not eat much, so it is enough to feed the baby once a day. Give the baby some time to get used to this feeling, because some babies need practice to learn to send food from the front end of their mouths to the back end and swallow it. At this time, the amount of complementary food is often only one or two spoonfuls of thin paste-like complementary food. Mothers should never think that the baby can eat a lot, prepare a lot of food, and look at the rest of the food and think that the baby is picky eaters and anorexia.

As the baby adapts to a variety of foods, the amount of complementary foods added to the baby is increasing. In addition to gradually thickening the rice paste, from one or two spoonfuls to 1/4 bowls to half bowls, other foods can be mixed to enrich the nutritional types. At this time, most of them have been increased to feed complementary foods twice a day.

Adding order of various complementary foods

In terms of species, it should be added in the order of starch (grain)-vegetables-fruits-animals. Firstly, cereal should be added and iron-containing nutrients (such as iron-containing nutrition rice noodles for infants) can be appropriately added, then vegetable juice/mud should be added, then fruit juice/mud should be added, and finally, animal foods (such as egg custard, fish, poultry, meat paste or meat floss) should be added.

In terms of quantity: it should be in the order from less to more. At first, it is only for the baby to try and taste, or try to eat a little after breastfeeding, and gradually increase after the baby adapts.

In terms of texture, it is added in the following order-first liquid (such as rice paste, vegetable water, fruit juice, etc.), then mud paste (such as thick rice paste, vegetable paste, meat paste, fish paste, egg yolk, etc.), and then solid (such as soft rice, rotten noodles, small steamed bread slices, etc.).

In terms of time: it is suggested to add liquid food (such as milk powder, rice paste, vegetable paste, etc.) from the age of 6 months. After the baby adapts for a period of time, he starts to add semi-solid food (such as mud, egg yolk mud, fish mud, etc.). At the age of 7~9 months, you can gradually transition from semi-solid food to chewy soft solid food (noodle porridge, shredded vegetable porridge, etc.). At the age of 1-~ 12 months, most babies can gradually change to eat solid food as a complementary food.

How much does the baby eat in a complementary food? When the baby eats complementary food, it shows that the baby has grown up. When he first started eating complementary food, the baby still needs to eat milk. When making complementary food, Bao Ma must consider the baby's gastrointestinal and nutritional needs, and weigh the amount and category added according to his age.