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First, when can I add complementary foods?4-6 months, healthy appetite emotionally good, to achieve one of the following circumstances can begin to add complementary foods:
1) The baby's weight gain has reached two times the birth.
2) The baby is hungry less than 4 hours after eating about 250 ml of milk.
3) The infant can sit up.
4) The infant can finish 1000ml or more of milk in 24 hours.
5) The infant is 6 months old.
Principles of complementary feeding
What can be added at different ages?
4-6 months
This is the early stage of complementary foods, this time the baby is also prone to physiological anemia, because at this time the mother mother's body to bring the iron is almost consumed, and the baby's own absorption of insufficient, so it is recommended that the first to add is the rice flour, and is fortified with iron rice flour. In addition to this, you can gradually add vegetable juice, puree, fruit juice, puree, egg yolk puree and so on.
7-9 months
At this time, the teeth gradually grow, the demand for calcium increases, so you can add calcium-rich food, some hard food, vegetables and fruits can be cut into cubes, to have a particle, a little chewy. In addition to the previous vegetables and fruits, you can add meat food, fish puree, meat puree, liver puree can be, but still need to be mashed into the mud.
10-12 months
At this time, the baby's teeth grow more, to the age of one year to eat food, so this time basically can be eaten, just to be appropriate soft some, varieties can be diversified.
Above, I hope to be able to help you!
The baby to add complementary foods can start from six months, the first time to add the recommended to add iron fortification of rice flour. After adding one complementary food first, add another one after 3 to 7 days of adaptation, and then gradually expand the variety. After the baby adds each kind of food, pay attention to observe whether the allergy occurs, once the allergy occurs, should stop feeding immediately.
Complementary food should be from thin to thick, from light to thick. The amount of complementary food is also from less to more, from fine to coarse. The baby's food within one year of age should not be seasoned, and it is recommended that the baby be fed plain food. In addition, babies are not suitable for MSG, which is composed of monosodium glutamate and can cause zinc deficiency in babies.
The baby in 4-6 months can gradually add supplemental food, so do can promote the baby's physical development, but also for the baby later weaning preparation. Many mothers like to DIY supplemental food at home to the baby to eat, but due to the supplemental period of nutrition and feeding knowledge is insufficient, may lead to DIY supplemental food is difficult to meet the baby's nutritional needs, then add supplemental food should grasp what points? When the baby refuses to eat complementary foods should be how to skillfully respond? The following is a detailed answer for all mothers!
Baby supplemental food order
Baby full four months can gradually start to add supplemental food, but due to the characteristics of the baby's digestive system development, supplemental food need to follow the principle of from less to more, from dilute to thick, the beginning of the best first to add fruit juice, vegetable juice, the baby to adapt to the baby began to add the rice soup, yolk, etc.
This is the first time that the baby has been in a state of shock.
1. Start with hypoallergenic, light flavored foods.
2. Feed only one new food at a time, and start with a small amount, and the consistency of the food should be from thin to thick.
3. Start with a new food at each meal and add the food you have already eaten when you don't want to eat it, adding a new food in about 5-7 days.
4. Add rice flour or rice soup at 6 months, grains and roots at 7-8 months, and start to try a variety of leafy vegetables and pureed fruits, and start adding meat after 8 months.
Principles of adding baby food
The principle of adding baby food is that it should be based on the actual needs of the baby and the maturity of the digestive system, and follow the principle of gradual progress. The parents must have patience, can not force the baby to completely accept the supplemental food at once, this will be counterproductive, so that the baby even more dislike of the supplemental food.
1, from simple to mixed.
A complementary food should be after 5-7 days of adaptation period, and then add another food, adaptation and then from a food to a variety of food mix. The first complementary food to be added is the rice flour type, as rice protein is rarely allergenic. Each new food may be tried several times before it is accepted by the infant. If indigestion occurs, the complementary food should be suspended, and when it returns to normal, it should be fed from the beginning or in smaller quantities.
2, from thin to thick.
That is, from fluid to semi-fluid to solid. For example, when you first add rice flour, you can make it thinner so that it is easier to swallow.
3, the amount from less to more, the texture from fine to coarse.
The amount of food at the beginning may be only 1 spoon, and gradually increase, so that infants have a process of adaptation. The texture of the food can be made into juice or mud at the beginning, in order to facilitate the swallowing; when the teeth erupt, the choice of food can be appropriately thicker and harder, such as trying to eat chopped vegetables to train the baby's chewing ability.
4, can not be forced to eat.
When the baby does not want to eat a certain food, you can change the way. For example, you can give a new drink when the infant is thirsty, give a new food when he is hungry, and so on.
5. When the weather is hot and the infant is sick, the addition of new varieties should be held off.
6. Make them individually for each person.
The baby's complementary food should be made separately, and it is better not to add salt. The added food should pay attention to food safety and hygiene. It is better to feed the baby food now, do not feed the leftover food.
Time to add complementary foods
The time to add complementary foods to an infant's diet is usually between 4 and 6 months of age. However, due to individual differences in babies, there is no strict time frame for starting to add complementary foods. When your baby reaches one of the following conditions, you can consider starting to add complementary foods: your baby's weight has doubled since birth; your baby is hungry less than 4 hours after eating about 250mL of milk; your baby can sit up; your baby can finish 1,000mL or more of milk within 24 hours; and your baby's age is up to 4 months.
Months of age to add the types of complementary foods Meals eating skills Main meal complementary meals 4-6 starch such as flour paste, semolina paste, rotten porridge; egg yolks, non-sparing fish puree, animal blood, liver puree, soy protein powder, tofu flower tender tofu and other high-protein foods; vegetable juices, fruit juices, leafy vegetable puree, pureed fruits; cod liver oil 6 times the milk 1-2 times with small spoons to feed; Training of swallowing function 7-9 thick porridge, rotten rice, cookies, noodles, bread, steamed buns, etc.; spineless fish, liver puree, animal blood, minced meat, milk powder for larger infants, soybean products; pureed vegetables, pureed fruits; cod liver oil 4 times milk 1-2 meals; 1 time fruits Learning to use cups and bowls; Training of chewing function 10- 12 thick porridge, rice, cookies, noodles, bread, buns, etc.; spineless fish, liver, animal blood, minced meat, larger infant formula, soy products, minced vegetables; cod liver oil 2-3 meals 2-3 times milk; 1 time fruit grab and go; use your own spoon to start eating with adults***
How to give your baby Add Complementary food
There are two growth spurts in a baby's life. The first growth spurts start from the birth of the baby to the baby's 6 months of age, the baby's growth and development is extremely rapid, the younger the age of the baby, the faster the growth, which can be fully reflected from the baby's weight and height growth curve. This is a time when babies need plenty of breast milk to grow better.
1, add the complementary food must be compatible with the baby's age.
The physical development of babies and children of different ages is not the same, and they need different complementary foods. For example, if you add supplemental food too early, the baby will have vomiting and diarrhea due to immature digestive function, and the digestive function will be disturbed; if you add it too late, the baby will be malnourished, and even refuse to eat non-milk liquid food.
2, one to many according to the baby's nutritional needs and digestive ability to gradually increase the variety of food.
At the beginning, you can only give your baby one kind of complementary food that is suitable for his/her age. After 3-4 days or a week, if your baby's digestion is good and his/her bowel movements are normal, you can try another kind of complementary food, and you can't increase several kinds of food at once in a short period of time. If your baby is allergic to a particular food, it can be observed within a few days of trying it.
3, from thin to thick
The baby in the beginning to add complementary foods, are not yet teeth, can only give the baby to feed liquid food, and gradually add semi-liquid food, and finally developed to solid food. For example: rice paste, porridge, soft rice.
4, from fine to coarse
The baby's food particles should be fine, the texture should be tender, exercise the baby's swallowing function, for the future transition to solid food to lay the foundation. When the baby is about to teethe or is teething, the mother can gradually make the food particles coarse, which is conducive to promoting the growth of the baby's teeth, and exercise his chewing ability.
How to make babies love complementary foods
Babies who are used to eating dairy products may not be accustomed to the taste of complementary foods, and may be resistant to eating complementary foods or eat very little. There are a number of ways that mothers can make their babies love complementary foods, such as combining different ingredients, changing the way they are cooked, etc. They should also give appropriate encouragement to the babies who eat complementary foods successfully.
1, the best time to feed supplemental food is before giving the baby milk, when he is hungry, more interested in accepting new food; but also need to fix the feeding time, so that he develops a regular, the time is up, you know that it is time to use a spoon, a small bowl to eat supplemental food.
2. Don't feed him too much at the beginning.
3. If your baby doesn't like a certain kind of food, you can feed him other kinds of food first and then try again after a while.
4. If your baby doesn't like a certain kind of complementary food, you can also attract his interest by changing the way you cook it and using different flavors.
5, when the baby is willing to try new foods, parents remember to give him encouragement.
Babies start eating complementary foods at 6 months. (Abroad there are 4 months to start adding, a lot of imported complementary food labeling is 4 +, but the domestic standard has been 6 months, so we in accordance with 6 months to say)
In the domestic field of parenting, the latest and most authoritative point of view is that the first mouth of complementary food should be added to the rice flour containing iron.
The old idea was that the first supplemental food was egg yolk. But in fact, although the egg yolk contains iron, but the baby does not absorb much. In this regard, many domestic well-known pediatricians and nutrition experts have proposed, such as Cui Yutao.
In addition, a few babies have egg allergies.
Here are a few charts that show the order of the baby's complementary foods, common sense and whatnot, so I hope this helps
As the baby grows, the mother's milk secretion will gradually decrease, and the baby's appetite has begun to increase, and the breast milk alone, or baby formula, can't meet the baby's nutritional needs. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual product you're looking at, and you'll be able to see what you're getting.
The amount of milk for a 6-month-old baby may be between 600-1000 ml per day, with some variation, but at least not less than 500-600 ml. It's okay not to drink milk in the evening, but it will help to develop the child's sleep habits.
First from the iron fortification of the rice flour start to add it, at first add 1, 2 times a day, a few spoons each time, and gradually increase, a year old can add to 2, 3 meals, a small bowl of about half a bowl each meal. 3 ~ 5 days after the child No diarrhea allergies and other symptoms and then add the puree of vegetables / soup, six months of the baby to add complementary food is the key to iron, that is why you need to "iron fortification" of rice, and the "iron fortification", and the "iron fortification" of rice, as well as the "iron fortification" of the child. "The first thing you need to do is to make sure that your baby has a good diet, and that it is not a bad diet.
6 months of age, the child's main food is still milk (breast milk + milk powder, 5-6 times / day, each time about 150 ml, the daily amount of milk 800 ~ 1000 ml), rice flour and vegetable puree and what can only be auxiliary, can not affect the amount of milk intake.
The child's digestive function is poor in 6 months, and the child's stool may contain some food residue that has not been fully digested and absorbed, which is not a problem, so don't be nervous. A change in the number of stools (e.g., 2-3 times the daily rate) or the presence of mucus, pus, and blood in the stools is a sign of abnormality.
After 7 or 8 months, try to add meat, egg yolks, fruits, grains, roots and tubers
The baby's complementary food should be light, processed separately, and can be boiled a little bit rotten at first, and then slowly transitioned to a little bit harder. To gradually exercise the baby's digestive function, the beginning of the time is a little bit of digestive problems, can be from a little to a lot, from thin to thick, in addition, do not be greedy, once a first add a kind of, and so on to adapt to another, and then you can try to add the two, this is the basic principle.
9 months after the rotten noodles, meat, fish, liver, vegetables, fruits, etc. can be eaten, if the baby has been teething, can be processed a little thick, hard, let the baby more chewing is conducive to the development of the baby's oral cavity.
You can go to the hospital to give the baby a test of trace elements to see if the baby lacks, diet plus a meal of complementary foods, eggs, vegetables with food, pay attention to vitamin supplements, some babies lack of vitamins or lack of micronutrients will have malabsorption occurs. The child's diet should be balanced, vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and fish with a reasonable combination, otherwise it is easy to cause nutritional deficiencies, and thus the symptoms of malnutrition.
Children over the age of 1 should be able to diversify their food, 4-5 meals a day (including extra meals). Ensure that more than 350ml of milk, meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruits and beans should eat some every day. Food homogenization is likely to lead to nutritional deficiencies in children. Children of this age, in addition to milk, should be added about 3 times a day other foods, including meat, eggs, fish and poultry, vegetables and fruits, vegetables and fruits should be added some every day, fish and shrimp 2-3 times a week, meat at least every other day to eat once a day, eggs a day half ~ one.
More than 1 year old children eating habits are very important to form, try to let the child eat on their own, to consciously let the child develop the habit of independent dining, which will be conducive to the formation of a variety of habits of the child's good nature.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that babies add complementary foods should start at 6 months, not later than 8 months, but in daily life to return to the practical, October fungus is recommended that parents can observe the baby has not appeared in the following signals of the addition of complementary foods, if these signals appear?In fact, it can be given to the baby to eat complementary foods:
1, quite the disappearance of the tongue response that
2, increased salivary secretion;
3, to see the adults to eat when showing great interest, such as reaching out to grab a spoon;
4, weight is twice as much as at birth;
5, the formation of a regular breastfeeding intervals of four hours, 5-6 times a day;
6. Be able to sit up on their own with parental help.
The order of adding complementary foods to the baby:
The following order you can use as a reference:
Baby 6 months, rice flour, vegetable puree, fruit puree - baby 7 months, thin rice, rotten noodles, minced vegetables, egg yolks, fish puree, tofu- -Baby 8-9 months, minced meat, animal liver, slices of toasted buns, cookies, eggs -Baby 10-12 months, thick porridge, soft rice, minced meat, wontons, chopped vegetables.
In addition, parents should also pay attention to the principle of adding complementary foods to the baby, that is:
From one to many: At the beginning, only one kind of complementary food appropriate to the age of the month to the baby, to be tried for 3 4 days or a week, if the baby's digestive condition is good, normal defecation, and then let the baby to try another, never in a short period of time to increase several kinds at once.
From thin to thick: before the teeth can only be fed to the baby fluid food, and then gradually add semi-liquid food, and finally developed to solid food. In this way, the baby can be absorbed well and will not suffer from indigestion.
From fine to coarse: the baby's food particles should be small, pig liver puree and other "puree" food is the most appropriate. This not only exercises the baby's swallowing function, laying the foundation for a gradual transition to solid food, but also allows the baby to familiarize himself with the natural flavor of various foods, and develops a good habit of not being partial to food or picky about what he eats.
From a small amount to a large amount: each time you add a new food to your baby, you can only feed it once a day, and the amount should not be large. For example, when adding egg yolks, first feed your baby 1/4 of one, and only after three or four days when your baby has no adverse reaction can you add more by volume.
Eating liquid or pureed food: Usually when babies start to add complementary foods, they have not yet grown teeth, so liquid or pureed food is very suitable for babies to digest and absorb. But you can't give your baby such food for a long time, because it will make your baby miss the critical period of developing chewing ability, which may lead to the baby's obstacle in chewing food.
Complementary foods should not replace dairy: breast milk or formula should still be the main food before the baby is one year old, and complementary foods can only be used as a supplementary food.
Hello, as the baby grows day by day, the digestive function of the stomach and intestines is also improving, the baby can eat more and more food and nutrients needed. The first thing you need to know is that you are not going to be able to get your hands on any of the products that you are looking for. Now we will give you a detailed description:
Baby supplemental food order Note: Add supplemental food is best timed quantitatively, eat something fresh, pay attention to food hygiene. 1 , full-term baby since half a month after birth to start supplementing vitamin AD, you can use vitamin AD drops (commonly known as cod liver oil), the dose of vitamin D amount of vitamin D calculation, 400u per day, about 1 2 drops, birth weight less than 250Og preterm babies should be supplemented with vitamin AD 1 week after birth, and maintained throughout infancy and preschool (i.e., before entering elementary school), without interruption. 2, vitamin K can prevent hemorrhage, especially intracranial hemorrhage, 3 months after the birth of infants should be supplemented. Supplemental vitamin K method has 2 kinds: one is the nursing mother to take vitamin K1, once a week, each time lOmg, vitamin K1 can be supplemented through the milk to the baby; can also be fed directly to the baby vitamin K1, once a week to feed the 2mg, until 3 months, so that **** feed 10 times that is OK. 3 months after the baby's intestinal tract due to the role of intestinal bacteria can produce their own vitamin K, you do not need to supplement. There is no need to supplement. In addition to supplementing vitamin AD and vitamin K, it is also important to add other complementary foods. The minimum standard is to add eggs at 4 months, vegetables at 6 months, and meat at 8 months, and foods of a similar nature can also be used. 3, four months after the baby staple food is breast milk and cow's milk and cereals, these can provide the basic nutritional needs, and then through the auxiliary food (referred to as complementary food) to supplement the main food in the nutrient deficiencies, so that the complementary food added. Add eggs to start with the yolk, the yolk of the boiled egg removed, the beginning of the daily feed 1/4, and then gradually increased to 1 yolk per day, and then add egg white, because the yolk contains a variety of nutrients and is easy to digest, nutritious than the protein to be richer. Egg yolks are high in iron, but the absorption rate of iron in egg yolks is low. Eggs are a better complementary food for infants, both urban and rural are easy to get, and easy to eat, can be boiled into an egg custard or egg soup, every day to feed an egg until the baby grows up, to develop a good habit of eating eggs. 4, five, six months of the baby can feed the vegetables , green leafy vegetables are rich in vitamin C and iron, the beginning can be made into a vegetable puree and rice paste **** cooking, later can be fed crushed Lai boiled porridge, and others, such as carrots, tofu, are 5 6 months of the baby's better complementary foods. 5, seven, eight months of the baby can feed the poultry food , pork liver, chicken, fish (spiny) and lean pork are nutritious food, the beginning of chopped into a puree, later cut into thin pieces of boiled, can be porridge, rotten rice, noodles **** boiled to feed. Above teach you baby supplemental food add order, you remember it. As for the various types of complementary food production, you can follow me, see my history article "4 ~ 6 months baby complementary food book", "6 ~ 8 months baby complementary food book", "8 ~ 12 months baby complementary food book" and "1 year old ~ 2 years old baby complementary food book" Chinese people are used to the baby to eat the first yolk, in fact, is not good, the egg is easy to allergies, experts recommend that the baby's first complementary food should be rice flour, preferably iron fortified rice flour. The best is iron fortified rice powder. Because the baby in 6 months after the body of the iron stored in the consumption of almost, need to make up for the iron, rice flour easy to digest, and added trace elements, nutrition is reasonable, and easy to brew, suitable for babies to eat. Baby to add complementary food should be so added: 1. From fine to coarse, from thin to thick. The beginning of the addition of complementary food to be made into mud, if the mud vegetable puree meat puree, with a cooking machine into the end added to the rice flour, can also be eaten directly, the beginning of not too thick, because the baby swallowing function is not perfect, to avoid choking. 7-9 months can eat the end of the food, that is, slightly coarser than the mud, you can also eat soft rice, soft noodles and so on. Soft finger foods like soft cookies, steamed buns are also fine. 10-12 months can eat small chunks, but also cooked softer. After 1 year old, you can basically eat normally, but don't give too hard and don't give whole nuts. 2. Supplementary foods should be added one by one, one at a time, and observed for two or three days, and then added another one if there is no diarrhea, allergies, and other adverse reactions. 3. Start with a spoonful at first, then increase to two spoons, and gradually increase the amount. Note that before the age of one year, do not give your baby salt and sugar, complementary foods do not add salt sugar and seasoning. Read Cui Yutao's book on complementary feeding and organized some notes on complementary feeding. In fact, the main purpose of adding complementary foods is to train gastrointestinal function, chewing function and with a reasonable nutritional elements or dietary fiber. The World Health Organization recommends that breast-feeding babies can add iron-rich rice flour or vegetable and fruit purees as soon as they reach 6 months of age. Then, in accordance with the principle of gradual, slow and appropriate: 1, the first complementary food should be nutritious rice flour. (Not rice soup, fruit juice, vegetable juice, egg yolk) 2, adapt to 1 to 2 weeks, add vegetables (broccoli, spinach, carrots, potatoes, etc., once the same, the same monitoring for 3 days, not allergic to add a mixture of) or fruits (puree of apples, mashed bananas, mashed peaches, etc., do not consider the tropics or overly sweet fruits) 3, about seven months, can be added to the fish, liver, meat puree, and then the egg yolk. The first step is to add egg yolks (egg whites should not be added first to avoid allergies). The order of white meat to red meat, a single species to try no different, about ten months, you can add the appropriate amount of complementary food. Eating complementary foods: When you first start adding complementary foods, you should (first eat rice, plain) get used to it and then eat brown rice, cereals, etc. When you add complementary foods, you should eat rice, plain) get used to it. The principle of adding: from single to diversified! From fine to coarse, from thin to thick, from less to more, from original flavor to vegetables, vegetables to fruits, from fruits to meat. Every time you add a type of complementary food, you have to closely observe whether the baby has intolerance and non-absorption, which is generally reflected in the poop, and so on, slowly add, do not be too hasty. Science: The World Health Organization's recommendation is to add complementary foods after 6 months! But the mother can observe if the baby appeared the following kinds of reaction can be added to the complementary food, do not be so rigid must be six months and then give the baby to eat complementary food. We are serious about taking care of the baby!