Let's first understand the stages of breastfeeding and mixed feeding:
The 1 th stage, the neonatal period, generally refers to the 1 th month of the child's birth.
The second stage, exclusive breastfeeding, generally refers to the second month to the fifth month of the child's life.
The third stage, mixed feeding, generally from the sixth month to the 12 month, belongs to the mixed feeding period, that is, breast milk plus complementary food.
The fourth step, weaning period, generally refers to the 13 month to the 18 month.
In the fifth stage, the dinner period is completely adopted, which is generally from 19 to 36 months.
When is it appropriate to add complementary food?
First of all, you have to make sure that your child is in the mixed feeding period, that is, the sixth month, which is the best time to add complementary food. During this period, the nutrition in breast milk can't fully provide the nutrition for children's growth. For example, the iron contained in breast milk has decreased compared with the previous months, so at this age, complementary food can be added.
Secondly, if it is still in the fifth month of the fourth month, it is not recommended to add complementary food completely, but in the fifth month, you can start some attempts to lay the foundation for the formal addition of complementary food in the later period (the sixth month). Our child began to accept new food, that is, to add complementary food. He didn't start eating suddenly, but there was a process, so in the fifth month, we could start trying, and then it was not until the sixth month that we officially transitioned to the mixed feeding stage.
Is there any specific opportunity or sign to add complementary food?
In fact, during the fetal period, a part of the iron stored in the liver can provide the child with the growth needs for four months. After the fifth month, the iron stored has been exhausted, and the iron provided in breast milk can no longer fully meet the growth needs of the child, so it is necessary to gradually consider adding complementary food.
Generally, when we see the baby team, breast milk is not as eager as it used to be, and the interest in breastfeeding has declined, and there have been cases of inattention. For example, he will stop breastfeeding, then look around and put a small spoon on his mouth. The baby will hold the spoon with his upper lip, and the baby will start to bite his mother's nipple. In these cases, he can start to try to add complementary food.
So how should the baby be suckled after he starts to eat rice paste?
In fact, within 6 months (the first 5 months), children are barely considered as exclusive breastfeeding stage, so it is not necessary to emphasize the addition of complementary food unless there is not enough breast milk. But you can do some attempts to add complementary food, not too demanding. We should still give priority to breastfeeding.
Supplementary food can be officially added from the sixth month, but we should pay attention to one principle. During this period, children are still mainly breast-fed. What is complementary food? Of course, it is supplementary feeding, which only plays an auxiliary role, so we should make clear the relationship between primary and secondary. Before feeding the child, we should first feed him with milk, and then feed the child with supplementary food after both breast milk are exhausted.
Some parents and friends don't know the relationship between primary and secondary, so they feed their children complementary food first, and then breast-feed. If this is done, children will form a habit, and gradually complementary food will replace the staple food (breast milk), resulting in children's reluctance to breast-feed. Unless there are special circumstances, breast-feeding must be interrupted. We generally advocate that children should breast-feed for at least 8~ 10 months, and they can eat it if conditions permit.
Therefore, for children in the mixed feeding period, our principle is to feed breast milk first, and then feed complementary food. In addition, we should pay attention to the fact that from the sixth month to 12 months, the proportion of breast milk or milk powder to complementary food gradually decreases and complementary food gradually increases with the increase of months.
So, is there any specific quantitative standard for adding complementary food and feeding? In principle, it should be on-demand feeding, and the standard is definitely there, but you should not mechanically copy it, but it should be determined according to the specific performance of the baby:
At the sixth month, the ratio of milk (breast milk or milk powder) to complementary food is 8:2, and it is enough to add complementary food once a day. Add it twice a day at 7:3 in the seventh month, 6:4 in the eighth month, 5:5 in the ninth month, 4:6 in the 10 month and 3:7 in the10 month.
Supplementary explanation: recently, after reading some readers' comments, maybe everyone's starting point is different, or what they see is different. In view of this, I need to add that I emphasize dairy products before complementary food, which means between meals, and for each meal, complementary food is needed before breast milk, but complementary food should be quantified, so don't add too much. Why should I emphasize breast milk between meals? Because some parents and friends can't grasp complementary food. For example, this meal is given to children to eat complementary food. If children eat too much, they will not eat breast milk or milk powder after they are full. Over time, it is easy for children to get used to complementary food, which replaces milk powder. As for the timing of weaning, it should be at least eight months. Generally, most people can be one year old, and they can be fed to two years old if conditions permit, but it should be remembered that dairy products or breast milk should play an auxiliary role at this time, with complementary food as the mainstay. There is no need for dairy products to feed children too much. As long as we pay attention to reasonable nutrition, complementary food can already provide children with the needs of growth and development. Of course, it is harmless to eat milk for a long time.
The baby starts to eat rice paste. Generally, the baby starts to add complementary food in 6 months. Adding complementary food follows the order from thin to thick, from less to more, from single to multiple. Then the baby began to eat rice paste, I think the baby belongs to the stage of just adding complementary food. When the baby just adds complementary food, we will give the baby an adaptation stage, that is, give the baby a bite or two of rice paste between meals to see how well the baby accepts it and whether there are any adverse reactions. Moreover, at the beginning, complementary food was added only once a day, and one meal gradually increased from the first spoonful. With the growth of baby's age, breast-feeding or milk powder feeding is gradually reduced, while complementary food feeding is gradually increased. That is to say, a process from complementary food to staple food.
How should I feed him? Complementary food, as its name implies, is auxiliary. Although the baby eats rice paste, it is still mainly milk. It can also be said that the 6-month-old baby just started to add complementary food. At this stage, the baby's staple food is still drinking milk. Whether breastfeeding or milk powder feeding, the baby's staple food is milk and the complementary food is rice paste. At this time, adding complementary food is only between meals. Generally, we choose to add rice paste to our baby at lunch time, so that the time is easy to grasp. The amount of rice paste added is increased day by day from the first bite, provided that the baby has no discomfort. Breast-feeding or normal breast-feeding, such as whether to drink milk or drink milk in the morning, the original time for breast-feeding is still the same, but the time for breast-feeding before and after adding complementary food is lengthened. Such as feeding at 10 am, feeding rice paste at 12 noon and feeding at 3 pm. This time varies with the intake of complementary food.
With the increase of the baby's age, we should start to appropriately reduce breastfeeding and increase the amount of complementary food. For example, when the baby is 6 months old, only one meal of complementary food is fed a day, and the amount of one-third bowl (small bowl) is used for one meal. By the time the baby is seven months old, the amount of complementary food will increase to one and a half bowls, and at eight months, it will increase to two meals and a half bowls a day, and so on. With the increase of complementary food, the amount of milk will decrease. We all know that after six months, the nutritional components of milk can't provide enough nutrition for the baby's growth and development before we start to increase complementary food, so we just want to change milk with food. After the baby is one year old, the intake of food types will also increase, and it will gradually become milk as a complementary food. The baby has three meals a day as a complementary food like us adults.
Although the baby is as normal as we are, three meals a day is the staple food, but we still have to drink milk. After one year of age, many babies began to wean their babies. After weaning their babies, they still need to replenish milk. Besides three meals a day, they still need to replenish milk in the morning and evening, because milk contains a lot of protein and calcium, which is of great help to the baby's growth and development.
Hello, I'm Rui Rui Ma, a baby nurse, and I'm glad to answer your question.
It is a new milestone and a new stage for the baby from birth to the addition of complementary food. The transition from the initial breastfeeding, milk powder feeding or mixed feeding to a stage where the baby can ingest complementary food is a witness to the baby's new growth.
Parents should know their baby's specific situation. Because each baby's growth and development are different, the time, amount and other aspects of complementary food should be decided according to the baby's specific growth and development, and the baby's gastrointestinal development should be decided to avoid discomfort.
What is the best time to add baby complementary food? It is recommended that pure breast milk babies be added after 6 months. Mixed feeding babies can be added according to their growth and development, and the addition time can be between 4 and 6 months. Pure milk powder babies can be added according to the specific baby's situation, but not earlier than 4 months. Premature babies should calculate the specific addition time according to the corrected month age.
After the baby starts eating rice paste, what is the baby's milk quantity? 1. At the initial stage of adding complementary food, the baby needs to continue feeding until the baby is full after eating complementary food.
2. As the baby's age increases, the amount of complementary food increases, and gradually reducing the amount of milk to complementary food can replace the daily milk amount of the baby (the baby will do this after 8 months, and the baby will be fed with a complementary food and milk in the early stage).
3, 8- 12 months old baby, add 2 complementary meals a day, complementary food and milk are separated, and gradually let the baby know and understand the different feelings and differences between hunger and fullness.
4,/kloc-babies over 0/2 months old can be supplemented with food three times a day, like adults, and complementary food and milk should be fed at intervals.
Standard for normal milk intake of baby:
What is the feeding amount and time of adding complementary food? The feeding amount of the baby after adding complementary food is determined according to the baby's food intake, because each baby's appetite and food intake are not needed. I will list the eating table after adding rice noodles to Rui Rui for your reference (for reference only):
The amount of complementary food added by Rui Rui at the beginning:
By analogy, because Ruirui is a baby who can eat better, the amount of Ruirui complementary food is relatively fast, so parents can add it according to their baby's food intake.
Time for baby to add complementary food: It is recommended to add food in the morning.
If the baby feels uncomfortable or allergic when adding new things, he can still have time for observation and nursing in the afternoon, so it is most appropriate to add complementary food at around 10 in the morning at the beginning, and then add it at around 5 o'clock in the afternoon after changing into two complementary foods.
Some parents will find that after their baby adds complementary food, they feel that the baby's milk intake is obviously reduced, and some babies even stop drinking milk with complementary food; Some parents also found that after adding complementary food to their baby, the baby does not like to eat complementary food, but still likes to drink milk. These problems are abnormal. Parents should intervene and correct them in time to avoid the baby's unbalanced nutrition and affect its growth and development.
What is the reason why the baby doesn't like to eat milk after eating complementary food? 1, adding complementary food is unreasonable, such as adding it too early (4 months ago).
2, the baby's daily complementary food and milk are not properly matched, and parents can give as much as they want to eat. The complementary food is given more, and the baby has no hunger, which inhibits the appetite for breastfeeding.
3. In order to make the baby love to eat complementary food, some parents adjust their tastes more heavily, which changes the baby's taste and makes them no longer interested in bland milk.
4. The complementary food is added too late (it has not been added for more than 8 months), resulting in the lack of certain nutrients, such as vitamin B 1, iron, zinc, etc., which reduces the baby's stomach acid, dull taste, loss of appetite, lack of interest in food, and reduced breastfeeding.
Rui Rui Ma reminds: If parents don't correct their baby in time, it will make the baby prone to malnutrition diseases, such as anemia and rickets.
Disease, lack of trace elements, and even stunting, malnutrition, and decreased resistance have seriously affected the baby's growth and development.
5, the baby's own reasons will cause not to like to eat milk, such as lactose intolerance and milk allergy. After the baby is weaned from breast milk, not feeding formula milk, but replacing it with cereals and vegetables will gradually reduce lactase. After a period of time, giving milk to the baby will cause abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea, which will lead to the baby's refusal to eat milk.
Rui Rui Ma reminds: If the baby has diarrhea, the intestinal mucosa will be damaged and even shrunk, so that lactase secretion is insufficient, and a similar situation will occur after eating milk.
What should the baby do if he doesn't like to eat milk after eating complementary food? 1, give the baby less complementary food.
With the growth of the baby's age, the intestines and stomach gradually develop, and some food can be digested slowly, so parents can add complementary food to the baby reasonably, but parents should be careful not to give too much complementary food, which will lead to the baby's indigestion, and the baby will not like to eat milk. Parents need to increase the amount of complementary food bit by bit according to the baby's specific situation, so as to avoid the problem that the baby does not drink milk after eating complementary food.
2. Make sure your baby is hungry.
When parents give their baby complementary food, they need to make the baby feel hungry. When the baby is hungry, they can give some milk, so we should grasp the time reasonably. Because when the baby eats, even if he is hungry at first, he will lose his hunger after a long time, so parents need to give the baby some milk when he is hungry.
3. Give the baby milk first and then complementary food.
Parents can give their baby milk first, and then give it complementary food, so that the baby won't dislike drinking milk because the complementary food is unreasonable. For the baby, everything tastes delicious when he is hungry. Drinking milk first can ensure that the baby likes drinking milk. Under normal circumstances, because of things that he doesn't eat for a long time, he usually doesn't like eating too much later.
4. Pay attention to the timely treatment of physical diseases.
If the baby is unwilling to drink milk after eating the complementary food because of physical diseases and other problems, and it lasts for a long time, parents are advised to take the baby to see a doctor in time and treat the baby's illness first, so the baby will naturally like to drink milk after eating the complementary food. Because the baby's intestinal tract and other organs are not well developed, it is easy to have various problems, so parents should pay attention to it every day and not to enlarge the problem.
5, reduce the number of complementary foods to feed your baby.
Parents feed their babies with complementary foods on time. If their babies don't like to drink milk, parents can reduce the number of times they eat one day without feeding their babies with complementary foods. In this way, their babies can only drink milk at this time, even if they are hungry. Parents only need to nurse their babies patiently. After a period of persistence, the problem that their babies don't like to drink milk after eating complementary foods can be solved.
What is the reason why the baby doesn't like to eat complementary food but only likes to drink milk? 1, used to drinking milk, suddenly changed to be unsuitable.
Breast milk or formula milk is the only source of food and nutrition for the baby from birth to eating complementary food. The baby is used to it, and suddenly eating complementary food will be somewhat uncomfortable and eat less. Parents usually think that the baby should not be hungry and continue to breastfeed normally. In fact, this will make the baby even more reluctant to eat complementary food.
If the baby eats little complementary food, parents are advised not to add extra breast milk to the baby immediately, and it is best to breastfeed at intervals of 30-60 minutes. Giving breast milk directly will give the baby a wrong hint that you can eat breast milk or formula powder if you don't eat complementary food.
2, it is difficult to swallow complementary food, not as easy as drinking milk.
Since the baby was born, it has always been mainly liquid milk. The first time to eat complementary food is usually rice flour. Parents add complementary food to the baby too quickly and there are too many kinds. It is difficult for the baby to accept the complicated taste for a while, and more and more people refuse to eat complementary food. If rice noodles, rice paste and the like are too thick, it is difficult for the baby to swallow; The granules of vegetables, fruits and meat paste are too large, which makes it difficult for babies to chew. When they try complementary food again, babies will be more resistant, and finally they will not like complementary food.
3, complementary food tastes like it.
There are many kinds of complementary foods, and their tastes are different. Some babies like them and some don't like them. When the baby doesn't want to eat complementary foods, parents can try to change them, or change their production methods, add some bright colors to the baby's complementary foods or make them into other shapes to attract the baby's attention.
What should the baby do if he doesn't like complementary food but only drinks milk? 1, appropriately reduce the amount of milk
With the increase in the number and types of complementary foods added by the baby, the amount of milk required by the baby needs to be reduced accordingly (for reference only):
2. Eat with your baby
When feeding complementary food to the baby, parents are advised to eat together, or set an example for the baby. By chewing the baby's mouth, the baby's appetite can be stimulated, so that the baby can eat complementary food better. If the baby is particularly dependent on milk, it is recommended to eat complementary food for the baby. It is recommended that the mother leave the baby temporarily and be fed by others at home, which is more conducive to the baby's eating complementary food.
After the baby adds complementary food, parents should always observe the baby's eating, gastrointestinal absorption, defecation, allergies, etc., find the baby's problems in time, correct and solve them in time, make the baby fall in love with complementary food, and grow healthier. Finally, I wish every baby a healthy and happy growth every day.
The above is the answer to this question. I hope my answer can help you.
The baby is about 6 months old and has been nursing regularly, about five times a day. There is no need to eat "night" milk after sleeping at night.
At the beginning of trying to eat rice paste and other solid foods, the baby only eats thinner paste, with less weight and few kinds, and still takes milk as the main food to absorb nutrition, so the frequency and weight of feeding should not be reduced.
When you start feeding solid food, you only eat it once or twice a day, and it can be increased to three times after the baby adapts. It's time to feed, let him try to eat solid food first. Don't let the baby try solid food when he is hungry, because he will be anxious to eat milk and have no interest in spoons. After eating, feed him milk and let him eat as much as he wants.
As the baby chews and can swallow thicker food, the amount of solid food he eats will increase, while the amount of milk supplement will decrease. Therefore, the food given to him by parents must be rich in iron and moderate in consistency, which can supply the calories needed by the baby.
When the baby's solid food is added with new food or the texture becomes rough, if he fails to accept it, he will eat less solid food and eat more milk. Therefore, parents should carefully observe and feed according to his needs. If he is full and doesn't want to suck any more, turn around and push you or the bottle away, parents will stop feeding.
By the age of eight or nine months, most babies don't have to replenish milk after meals. They eat solid food twice a day and breastfeed three times. The amount of milk eaten every day is about 500-600 ml.
The development process of eating solid food varies from person to person, so parents should feed solid food and milk according to their baby's adaptation.
Baby began to eat rice paste, your baby should be more than six months old, and the six-month-old baby should have a certain diet. It is generally recommended to eat once every four hours. If you eat too much rice paste, it will be a meal. If you eat less, you should supplement milk powder.
Generally, you must drink milk powder in the morning and evening, and feed rice paste or rice flour in the middle time, and you can also add some other complementary foods to it.
If the baby is breast-fed, it can be eaten once every three hours, and it is no longer necessary to breastfeed. Regular and quantitative feeding is good for the baby's growth and development.
At 6- 12 months, the average milk quantity of children is 600 ml per day.
It is necessary to know that the milk quantity of a child does not suddenly drop after reaching the age of one, and this milk quantity may gradually decrease until the family food is given priority to after one year, and the milk quantity drops below 500 ml.
Before the baby is nine months old, the number of times to eat complementary food is 2-3 times a day;
Starting from the tenth month, the number of times you eat complementary food can be increased to 3-4 times a day.
12 months later, the baby can have three or four meals a day, and if necessary, he can have 1-2 healthy snacks again.
Note that each baby's food intake is different every day or every meal, and the weight and collocation in the table are just a reference.
Each child's food intake is different, and the weight of the same child's daily and each meal is also very different. The food intake mainly depends on how much the child can eat. As far as collocation is concerned, there should be some foods in each category as much as possible, and there should be as many kinds as possible.
Your baby starts to eat rice paste, which shows that complementary food has been added. The function of complementary food is to help increase nutrition food on the premise of milk, and it must not be a distraction.
For the baby in the early stage of adding complementary food, eating complementary food is not to make him full, but to let the baby learn and accept food other than milk, learn to chew and swallow solid food, be familiar with meals, dining tables, etc., and gradually understand the concept of eating.
When will the baby eat milk after eating rice paste? For the baby, even in the thin rice paste, it is the representative of dinner. Therefore, since the supplementary food is added, there should be a conscious and regular eating time. You can choose once in the morning and once in the afternoon in the initial adaptation stage. After the regular addition, you can gradually approach the time for family members to eat, and eating with your family will also help to increase your baby's appetite.
Usually, complementary food should be arranged as far as possible before feeding, and the baby should be fed after eating complementary food at one time. But every baby has his own eating habits, and Bao Ma should take care of the baby's needs and flexibly adjust the feeding order.
If the baby obviously likes to eat complementary food, or even hates milk because of eating complementary food, it should be fed first; If the baby obviously likes to eat milk, you can feed complementary food first.
When the baby's amount of complementary food per meal increases, because he has eaten complementary food and is full, he does not need to be full of complementary food and forces the baby to eat milk immediately. As long as the baby doesn't want to eat, Bao Ma doesn't need to feed it. If the baby is hungry, he will send a message, and he won't be hungry.
How much complementary food does the baby eat every time? In the first few days when complementary food is added, in order to make the baby's stomach have enough time to adapt to foods other than milk, Bao Ma should control the amount of rice paste, one or two spoonfuls at a time.
After regularly adding complementary food, Bao Ma doesn't have to specify how much the baby eats. Bao Ma should look at the baby's acceptance and interest in complementary food. If the baby can finish the complementary food prepared every time, and there is no abnormal allergic reaction, you can make more next time. If the baby refuses to eat again after taking a few bites, there is no need to force it.
When to add complementary food? The World Health Organization and the Nutrition Society of China have clearly stated that babies should start to add complementary food after six months.
The reason why it takes six months to start adding is because the baby's digestive organs such as stomach and intestines can be relatively developed at this time and have the ability to digest food other than breast milk or formula milk. Therefore, if the baby does not appear, it is necessary to add the signal of complementary food in advance, and Bao Ma needs to start adding complementary food to the baby when it is six months old.
Confused and thin to thick, from less to more, just add 2 meals a day. Before 1 year-old, the baby will mainly use milk powder or breast milk, and ensure the milk quantity of 600- 1000 per day. Especially, the baby who doesn't drink milk powder should avoid adding complementary food three times a day, which will harm the baby's spleen and stomach. If Bao Ma doesn't know how to arrange milk and confused time, she can use milk to make rice milk.
At first, I ate the rice paste and then made up the stewed milk until I was full. I just added complementary food to let him get used to it!