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The importance of complementary food, how to tell when the baby should start to add complementary food. Many mothers will be puzzled, doesn't the baby need to add complementary food after six months? In fact, this is not the case, and from 4-6 months onwards, breast milk or formula can no longer meet all the nutritional needs of the baby.
In particular, the iron needs of babies from their mother's wombs can only be maintained until about 4-6 months, and breast milk is an iron-poor food, which cannot meet the baby's iron needs. A 4-6 month old baby's iron needs are almost close to that of an adult male, and even a diet of iron-fortified formula alone will not be able to meet the demand, let alone a breastfed baby. Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to add iron-rich foods in time to provide enough iron for the baby in the form of complementary food.
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Be hypoallergenic. Babies are likely to be allergic to many foods, including diarrhea, bloating, rashes, etc., which seriously affect the baby's absorption of nutrients. If the baby has already developed allergies, then stop the intake of allergenic foods in time, wait until the baby is older and then add them, during which time other foods can be substituted to meet the baby's nutrient needs.
Common allergenic foods include milk, egg whites, seafood, soy products, nuts, etc.
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From thin to thick. For example, when you first add rice noodles, you can make it thinner, and it will be easier for the baby to swallow. When your baby gets used to it, it slowly thickens.
The amount is from less to more, and the texture is from fine to coarse. Start with as little as 1 scoop of complementary foods and gradually increase them. The texture of complementary food should be made into puree or juice at the beginning, and when the baby's baby teeth erupt, it can be appropriately coarser and harder to train the baby's chewing ability.
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Adapt gradually. One complementary food should go through an acclimatization period of 5-7 days, and then another food should be added, and then the added complementary food variety should be gradually expanded. The first complementary food added is rice flour, and the ratio of rice flour to water is about 1:
10, cooky's first bite of complementary food is Bellamy's 4+ rice noodles, she loves to eat it. Each new food may be tried several times before the baby slowly accepts it. For example, the first time I ate apple puree, Cooky didn't like the sweet and sour taste of apples, so he frowned and ate a few bites, and then slowly accepted it.
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Pay attention to the taste of complementary foods. In addition to ensuring the nutritional hygiene of complementary food, mothers should also pay attention to its taste, because if the food is not delicious, then it will affect the baby's taste development, and cause the baby to be picky eaters, and in serious cases, it may also make the baby resist eating complementary food, affecting daily nutritional intake.
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Do not add too early. Not long after birth, the baby's digestive organs are still very delicate, the digestive ability is not developed, and many digestive enzymes cannot be secreted, so they basically have no ability to digest regular food at this time. If mothers add complementary food to their babies early, it will increase their digestive burden, and will also cause problems such as bloating, constipation, anorexia, etc., which will eventually deteriorate into a large amount of poop, increased frequency, diarrhea, etc.
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Salt cannot be added. Salt cannot be added to the baby's complementary food, only the natural taste of the ingredients. Because table salt contains a lot of sodium, excessive intake will affect cardiovascular health; In addition, the taste of food is too strong, which may also affect the baby's taste development.
And although the natural taste of the ingredients is very light, it is already very delicious for the baby, and what mothers need to do is to try to retain the original flavor of the ingredients when making complementary foods.
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Feed happily. When feeding baby complementary food, mothers must create a pleasant eating environment, and it is best to feed when the baby is awake and in a good mood. Note that if your baby is reluctant to eat at this time, do not force it to avoid their aversion to eating.
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Change the form of complementary food. If you only give your baby liquid or pureed complementary food, it will inhibit the development of your baby's chewing ability, and he will have some obstacles in chewing food in the future. Therefore, when the baby is 8 months old, some semi-solid food can be added appropriately.
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Babies grow and develop fast, no matter which feeding method is used, complementary foods must be added in a timely manner to supplement nutrition, and at the same time, the quality of food can be gradually changed due to the addition of complementary food, so that the baby's stomach and intestines can gradually adapt to other foods and prepare for weaning. When adding complementary food to your baby, you should master the following principles:
1. From liquid food to solid food: Generally, liquid food such as rice soup should be added first, and then semi-liquid food such as porridge should be added, and solid food should be gradually added, such as biscuits, baked steamed bread slices, etc.
2. From less to more: the added food can be fed less at first, and then gradually increased, and it cannot be impatient.
3. From one to many: when adding food, only one can be added at a time, after 4 or 5 days, if the baby has no indigestion or allergic reaction, the mental appetite is normal, and then add the second kind, do not rush it, so as not to cause indigestion.
4. Choose the right time: It is best to add complementary food before feeding, because it is easy to accept complementary food when hungry, and it can be postponed in the child when it is sick or in the hot summer, so as not to cause digestive disorders in the gastrointestinal tract.
5. Pay attention to hygiene: It is best to add supplementary food regularly and quantitatively, eat fresh, and pay attention to food hygiene.
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Babies generally start to add complementary food at the age of 4 to 6 months, and the principle of adding should be paid attention to from simple to complex, from less to more, from fine to coarse, from thin to thick, from single to compound.
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Baby to add complementary food should pay attention to step by step, at the beginning you can add half an egg yolk to some rice porridge, crush the egg yolk and rice porridge together, just a bite of adults, feed the baby, if the baby likes to eat, slowly increase the pattern, and the amount of food.
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The complementary food added by the baby must be clean and hygienic, and it should be eaten and cooked, and the overnight supplementary food should not be given to the baby again, because the baby's gastrointestinal function has not yet fully developed, and it is easy to cause diarrhea symptoms to the baby.
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For young babies, due to their poor chewing ability, they should start with paste, such as rice cereal, vegetable paste, fruit puree, and then change to different complementary foods when the baby is older.
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Every day morning, lunch, dinner, and dinner are fed with a meal of 4 meals, mainly to feed grainy rice noodles, as well as soft noodles, all of which are Yingshi Yige and their family, 2-stage mixed fruit and vegetable rice noodles and broken noodles. For example, rice noodles. After your baby is used to it, slowly add other types of food, such as vegetables and carrot puree.
The addition of complementary foods should be done from less to more, from single to diversified. Slowly filter from the initial paste to foam to fine granules.
Eat soft foods at first, and then slowly eat some hard foods. Babies can slowly add complementary foods after 4 months, such as egg yolks, rice cereal, remember not to feed egg whites at this time, so as not to cause baby allergies. The form of food can be from soup or paste when the baby adds complementary food, it follows the principle of light, which means to keep it light, when the baby eats breast milk, it is very light, so it is best to choose sugar-free iron iron rice noodles when adding rice noodles.
It is better for allergic babies to choose hydrolyzed rice flour with hypoallergenic formula.
Now the emphasis is on step-by-step feeding, because the baby will have different needs at each stage of development, I am according to the segmented complementary food brand Yingshi Yige to prepare complementary food for the baby, the baby's complementary food is added very smoothly, and the appetite has always been OK. As for the statement that it should not be later than 6 months, it still varies from person to person, I know that there is a baby who starts to add complementary food at 4 months, and there is a baby who starts to add complementary food at 8 months, and as a result, the late addition is stronger than the earlier addition. Again, the same sentence:
Vary. Vegetable juice, and then feed some semi-liquid food, such as egg custard, vegetable and fruit puree, etc.! Wait until the baby is about ten months old, you can feed some soft and rotten pasta, but at the beginning the amount should be small, but also gradually increase the amount, don't feed too full, but also add an appropriate amount of warm boiled water These things are not impossible, but today's children's bodies are not so solid, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach; Breastfed babies will be more susceptible to injury, and powdered milk will be better. Selectively speaking, it is necessary to start with rice flour, a small amount, for 3-5 days, and there is no reaction to add the amount and variety.
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First of all, when adding complementary food, we should pay attention to balanced nutrition, and also add more food that is easy for the baby to digest, and also pay attention to a healthy diet, use fresh vegetables, fruits and meat to make paving food, and do not add more salt, or other seasonings, try to keep the original taste.
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Be sure to pay attention to balanced nutrition, try not to put too much seasoning, and at the same time have a light taste, no greasy and salty, and at the same time put less sugar. Add a variety of fresh vegetables and avoid picky eaters. Usually you must pay attention to the way of feeding, as long as it can allow the child to develop normally, don't rush it.
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Don't add too much complementary food, be sure to add it according to the actual situation of the baby, give him more fruits and vegetables, and supplement him with enough vitamins and protein.
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What should I pay attention to when starting to add complementary food to my baby? The details of the recommendations in the infant nutrition guidelines vary in some countries, but all countries agree that the preventive measures for the addition of complementary foods to exclusive breastfeeding in healthy full-term infants include the following six aspects: attention should be paid to the quality and quantity of added foods.
When making baby food for lamas, it should have enough viscosity to go from sticky to dry and ensure proper energy density. When the food is kept for six months, if BMW Acha buys more additives, she can give the baby rice cereal first, ie. When cooking porridge, the top layer of rice broth and ALS can also make some vegetables for your baby.
It is important to note that some complementary foods have just been added for the baby.
Every time you add a new complementary food to your baby, you should be careful to eat less and eat more. You have to confirm that it is safe and that you can continue to add it based on your child's performance. For example, by adding egg yolks, you can feed it with a small spoon first, as soon as within the first four months.
When making complementary food at night, you can add a little condiment to promote the development of your baby's sense of taste, be careful not to put too many condiments, and do not prepare too many dietary tastes for your baby. When feeding complementary foods, try to supplement them (e.g., increase the consistency of rice flour after the baby gets used to it).
When it comes to the amount of food supplemented, pay attention to go from less to more. You can start with a spoonful of rice noodles. When there is no problem with digestion and absorption after the baby's stomach adapts, try another one (such as wheat flour) after three adjustments, and gradually expand the variety.
During the "experimental feeding" phase of the baby, it is important to note allergies (e.g. rash, diarrhea, vomiting, etc.) that there are few types of complementary foods. When parents give their children food supplements, they should not think that the meat should be liver or other organs. Lean meat is better, tofu and soy products are better, pay attention to boiling and grinding before cooking, but vitamin C has a lot to do with the production process, and vegetables should not be cooked for a long time.
In order to balance nutrition, it is necessary to prepare a variety of foods for the baby to eat, which can make breastfeeding babies more painful. In general, it takes about 6 months to add extra food and about 4 months to feed infant formula. Secondly, we should follow the principle of going from less to more, from thin to thick, from one to many, from thin to thick, and the burden on the baby's gastrointestinal tract.
Note that complementary foods include the following six aspects: We must pay attention to the quality and quantity of complementary foods. When making baby mud cream, we must have enough viscosity, from total viscosity to dry viscosity, and ensure sufficient energy density.
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What should I pay attention to when I start to add complementary food to my baby? The baby used to sleep until dawn, but now he often cries in the middle of the night, or sleeps for shorter and shorter periods; The frequency of breastfeeding has increased to 8-10 times a day or 1000 mg of powdered milk, but the baby is still hungry, crying and eating. When the baby enters the accelerated growth phase after about six months, this is the best time to start adding complementary foods.
When the baby can control the head and upper body, you can hold it down or sit down, the chest can be raised, the head can be raised, the baby can rotate the head, lean forward, lean back, etc., to indicate if he wants to eat so that force feeding does not occur.
When adding complementary foods for the first time, it is best to choose baby cereal. Its nutritional value best meets the needs of children. It tastes second only to breast milk and formula.
Babies are more receptive and less prone to allergies. Nutrients include protein, vitamins, DHA, fiber, and trace elements, including calcium, vitamin D, and iron. When the baby ingests rice flour, gradually add some fruit and diluted juice, rice broth, and mayonnaise.
What will you give your baby when you start adding extra food? In general, after eating noodles and rice, start preparing according to the ingredients that are available in the MS, rarely thinking about whether it is suitable for babies? This method of addition is suitable for the child's gastrointestinal tract.
Baby's gastrointestinal function is gradually improving. They can't eat indigestion foods. This can lead to allergies, diarrhea, constipation, and other reactions.
If the baby is less than three months old, adding meat as a complementary food is not recommended.
If the parents have more breast milk and the baby does not like it, the BMW VAI will allow the baby to get breast milk through weaning. This approach is not advisable. After all, breast milk is the best baby food during this time, therefore, there is no need to worry about replacing breast milk with complementary foods.
Be patient with babies who don't like complementary foods. Gradually, children began to enjoy complementary foods. The constant addition of new CADA foods can create an adaptation process in the gastrointestinal tract, which can also reduce the likelihood of allergies in children.
Adding a new food can only avoid adding several new foods at the same time. In this way, if there is a problem with TEM babies adding new foods, it can get a clearer picture of the food.
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