Infants and young children aged 6-24 months can receive nutritional packages. Infants over the age of 6 months are included in the distribution targets, and children over the age of 24 months are stopped.
Read step by step on how to consume nutritional packets
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1. Direct preparation method: add an appropriate amount of nutritional packets Pour it into a clean bowl, add a few spoons of warm water, stir evenly into a paste and feed it to your child. Depending on the child's acceptance, you can feed one bag at a time or feed it several times in one bag, but make sure that the child eats one bag a day. The survey found that after adding nutrition packets to infants and young children, some parents reported that their children did not like to eat. First of all, children have no special interest in food. It takes a while to accept a new food (more than 10 times), and they will accept it after they get used to it. Parents should not think that the child does not like to eat when they see the child not eating when feeding for the first time, and therefore give up adding nutritional supplements. The method of adding it should be changed, such as putting it in the food that the child likes to eat, or spreading a packet of nutrition packets among the three meals of the child. Secondly, as a parent, you must insist on feeding your children nutritional packets, because eating nutritional packets can not only avoid the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia, but also have a good effect on the development of children's height and IQ.
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2. Pairing with complementary food: Pour the nutrition packet into the complementary food prepared for the child, stir evenly, and wait until it is not hot. Feed to the child. When using this method, the nutritional packet should be added according to the child's meal intake. Do not pour one packet into one meal, because if the child cannot finish the meal of complementary food, he will not be able to finish the nutritional packet.
Precautions for consuming nutrition packs
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One guarantee: Ensure that children’s complementary foods and tableware are clean and hygienic;
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Three things as usual: breastfeeding as usual; adding complementary foods as usual; feeding as usual;
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Four "ones": one for one child; one pack a day; one pack whole; nothing left;
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In fact, it doesn’t have to be one pack a day, as long as it meets more than 4 packs a week. Children may experience diarrhea when starting to eat it. In fact, this is a natural reaction because children have poor ability to accept new things, which can lead to indigestion. It will be fine after a period of adaptation. If diarrhea is severe or other conditions occur, you should stop feeding complementary food and seek medical attention promptly.
Guidelines for adding complementary foods at each month of age
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6 months old - let the baby gradually become familiar with various foods A variety of flavors and sensations to accommodate the transition from liquid to semi-liquid food. Rice noodles and egg yolks: Feeding egg whites should wait until the baby is at least 1 year old. For babies with a family history of allergies, feeding egg yolks can be postponed until after 6 months. Fruits: Do not give your baby fruits with strong sourness such as oranges, lemons, and kiwis. Vegetables: such as carrots, potatoes, green beans, pumpkins, etc.
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7 to 9 months - In addition to continuing to become familiar with the new tastes and feelings of various foods, you should also gradually change the taste of foods The texture and particle size gradually transition from pureed food to solid food for young children to match the baby's eating skills and the development of gastrointestinal function, so that complementary food can replace a meal of milk and become an independent meal; at the same time, it can exercise the baby's chewing ability. Eggs, fish, meat, liver, cereals, fruits, vegetables, etc. Eggs gradually change from yolk puree to custard. By more than 8 months, they can be boiled eggs or scrambled eggs, gradually transitioning from minced to small pieces; fish, lean meat, liver, vegetables , Fruit foods should also undergo the same change process.
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10 to 12 months - not only to meet the baby's nutritional needs, but also to continue to exercise the baby's chewing ability to promote The development of masticatory muscles, the eruption of teeth and the normal development and shaping of jaws, as well as the improvement of gastrointestinal function and digestive enzyme activity. At this time, although eating pureed food can meet the nutritional balance requirements, other tasks are difficult to achieve. Can increase the hardness of food appropriately. At this time, the baby's food should be changed from thick porridge to soft rice; from rotten noodles to steamed buns, dumplings, and steamed bread slices; from minced vegetables and minced meat to minced vegetables and minced meat.
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12 to 15 months - the baby's teeth have been basically fully developed, and the "digestive program" in the mouth has been quite complete. Although there are no big rules when it comes to the selection of complementary food ingredients during this period, you still have to pay attention to the taste when it comes to cooking, which is slightly lighter than that of adults. Foods that are heavy with oil or very sweet or salty are still unpalatable to babies at this period. Too early.
Misunderstandings about adding complementary foods
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Myth 1: The baby is six months old and should be given complementary foods. Whether complementary food should be added does not depend on the calendar, but whether the baby is ready to receive complementary food. Adding complementary foods too early will do all kinds of harm to your baby's health without any benefit.
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Myth 2: Failure to add complementary foods early will cause malnutrition in the baby. If we talk about the supplementary food for the baby when starting to add complementary foods, the focus is not on nutrition, but on the fact that the baby has a big appetite. He can no longer eat enough just relying on breast milk and needs additional food. Within one year of age, your baby's main source of nutrition is breast milk, not complementary food.
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Myth 3: After adding complementary foods, the baby should be weaned. Some brochures refer to complementary foods as "weaning foods" and advise mothers to replace breast milk with complementary foods. This is incorrect information. The reason why complementary food is called "complementary" food is that it is a food that supplements breast milk and does not replace it.
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Myth 4: If you add complementary foods to your baby too late, you will miss the best time to train your baby’s chewing ability. This statement has no scientific basis. Babies don’t just rely on complementary foods to learn to chew. They eat their fingers, chew teethers, chew toys, and put anything they can grab into their mouths to “train” their chewing ability.
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Myth 5: When the baby doesn’t like to eat, I have to find ways to stuff food in. The most important principle in adding complementary foods is: respect the child and let the child make the decision. When the child shuts up and turns his head to express rejection, accept the child's wishes and never force the child to eat.
Principles of adding complementary foods
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1. The complementary foods added must be adapted to the baby’s age. The physical development of infants and young children of different months is different. , need corresponding different complementary foods. For example, if complementary food is introduced too early, the baby will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea due to immature digestive function, and the digestive function will be disordered; if complementary food is introduced too late, the baby will be malnourished and may even refuse to eat non-dairy liquid foods. WHO recommends that infants begin to receive complementary foods on the basis of breastfeeding from the age of 6 months.
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2. One to multiple types of food. Gradually increase the types of food according to the baby's nutritional needs and digestive ability. Initially, the baby can only be given one kind of complementary food that is appropriate for the baby's age. After trying for 3 to 4 days or a week, if the baby's digestion is good and defecation is normal, try another one. Never add several at once in a short period of time. If your baby is allergic to a certain food, it can be observed within a few days of trying it.
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3. From thin to thick, when the baby starts to add complementary food, his teeth have not yet grown, so he can only feed the baby liquid food, and gradually add semi-liquid food. Eventually progressing to solid foods. For example: rice cereal → porridge → soft rice.
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4. From small to large The baby's food particles should be small and the texture should be tender and smooth. This will train the baby's swallowing function and lay the foundation for the transition to solid food in the future. When the baby is about to grow teeth or is teething, the mother can gradually make the food particles larger and larger, which will help promote the growth of the baby's teeth and exercise their chewing ability.