Mother can put the baby rice powder before or after the baby any time to eat milk, this time to add, that is to say, from the beginning to add complementary food should pay attention to complementary food and milk at the same time to add, and to avoid in the middle of the two milk to add. When you first add rice flour, let him eat a little less, because there are some children who are allergic to rice flour, then very little. Eat less, will avoid these problems, start to add about 5 grams, that is, a small spoon, a spoon about 2.5 grams, a spoon two spoons, mixed into a paste for the child to eat can be, before eating milk, give a small bit of puree, let him taste. The process of eating, in the early stages of complementary food, we add complementary food main purpose is not to supplement the nutrition, but to let him learn to eat, let him learn to use his tongue, mouth constantly squeeze, with the movement of the tongue and mouth to chew and swallow the food, which is not only beneficial to the baby's digestion and absorption of food, but also let the baby in the future to adapt to the different foods more easily.

Can't be fed only with baby rice powder

When breast milk is insufficient or milk is not enough, rice powder can be added as a supplement to feed babies. However, some parents feed their babies only with rice flour, which is not a good idea. Rice flour, as the name suggests, is a food made from rice as the main ingredient. The ingredients are: 79% carbohydrates, 5.6% proteins, 5.1% fats and B vitamins. Infants in the growth stage, the most important need is protein, rice flour contains protein is not only bad quality, and the content is small, can not meet the needs of infant growth and development.

If only rice flour food instead of milk feeding, there will be protein deficiency. Specific manifestations are: growth retardation, affecting the infant's nervous system, blood system and muscle growth, and low resistance, immunoglobulin deficiency, easy to get sick. Infants fed with rice flour for a long time have slow growth in height, but their weight does not necessarily decrease, instead they are white and fat, and their skin is enriched with fat converted into fat by excessive intake of sugar, which is medically known as mud paste-like. However, these children are strong and dry, often suffering from anemia, rickets, and prone to bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases.

Some parents, in the newborn period will be added with rice flour food is more inappropriate. Pancreatic amylase in infants about 4 months to reach the adult level, so within 3 months of infants should not be added to the rice flour food. 3 months after the appropriate feeding of some rice flour food, but can not be fed only with rice flour, even if mixed with milk feeding should be based on milk, rice flour as a supplement.