However, with the increase of the baby's age, after six months, whether it is pure breast feeding, mixed feeding or pure formula feeding, it can't meet the nutrition needed by the baby's growing and growing, so WHO also suggests? Should the baby start to add complementary food after 180 days (6 months later)? .
Six-month-old baby has just started to add complementary food. Is it better to feed complementary food between meals or at the time when it is time to breastfeed?
It is best to add complementary food between meals at first.
You can choose to feed a small amount once or twice a day between 9- 10 in the morning and 3-4 in the afternoon. Specific suggestions are as follows:
1. Add from a small amount.
At first, I fed my baby complementary food, just let the baby gradually practice swallowing function, get familiar with the taste and feeling of various foods, and adapt to the transition from liquid to semi-solid food; Not to make the baby full, eat more and drink less milk.
Therefore, it is necessary to start from a small amount: add 1-2 spoonfuls of complementary food for the first time, dilute it when washing, and then gradually increase the amount according to the baby's adaptation.
2. Pay attention to whether the baby appears? Discomfort? Reaction.
After adding a complementary food to the baby, should we pay attention to observe whether the baby appears? Discomfort reaction? Such as indigestion, rash, etc. If the baby adapts well, you can continue to add a new kind of complementary food after three or five days, and continue to observe; But what if you find that your baby is interested in this complementary food? Have allergic reaction or poor digestion and absorption? Then you should stop adding immediately, let the baby's stomach rest, and then try to add it after a week.
3. Milk is the main food supplement.
At the beginning of adding complementary food to the baby, it is still necessary to ensure breastfeeding or formula feeding, and complementary food is only in? Insufficient assistance? At this point. So, don't think? If the baby adds complementary food, he can be full by complementary food, and it's okay to drink less milk? This idea is wrong.
Under what circumstances does the baby remind the mother that it is necessary to add complementary food?
1. After eating breast milk or milk powder, the baby still has a feeling of wanting more. He always feels that he is not eating enough, either not putting the bottle or not leaving his breast. Parents will cry if they don't give it.
2. The baby begins to be interested in adults' eating. When adults put food in their mouths to chew, the baby will stare and even move their mouths.
3. When the baby's head has a certain control ability, when the mother holds it, you can use your own strength to vertically and twist your body, or you can sit firmly on your mother's legs.
4. I like to send the toys in my hand to my mouth. If my mother sends the food in my hand to my baby's mouth, my baby will open his mouth. Even after some soft and rotten food enters my mouth, my baby will not spit it out, but swallow it smoothly.
How to add complementary food to your baby?
To add complementary food to your baby, you should first choose high-iron rice flour, and then slowly transition to fruit paste, vegetable paste, meat paste and so on.
Some mothers worry that the baby's lack of nutrition will affect the growth, so they add complementary food early, or even mix and feed many varieties, which leads to the baby's indigestion, even breast milk and milk powder are very resistant, which affects the normal growth.
Therefore, you must add complementary food slowly, don't rush to let your baby eat how much, and don't worry about your baby's nutrition, just press? The correct way to add complementary food? Add complementary food to your baby.