At 7-8 months, the baby's diet is supplemented with meat purees and broths, baby cottage cheese and fermented milk products.
In 9 months it is recommended to fill up the crumbs menu with fish , 1-2 times a week replacing it with meat. Fish for baby food is boiled, carefully selected from bones and crushed. You can cook fish meatballs. It is best to stop on low-fat varieties of fish - cod, heke, pike perch, flounder, salmon. As with other products, you need to start with ½ teaspoon, gradually bringing the volume of the new dish to 50-60 grams per day. Do not abuse: fish should be given to the child not more often 2-3 times a week.
Perhaps the emergence of fish is the main difference between a set of products for a child in 9 months from the previous menu. The main changes in this period relate not so much to diversity as to the volume of dishes. "Serious food" increasingly replaces breast milk and mixtures.
The options for the approximate menu for a child at 9 months are as follows:
Option 1.
6 hours - breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture
10 hours - 150 ml of porridge, ½ eggs, breast milk or 50 ml of the mixture
14 hours - 20-30 ml of vegetable broth, 150 ml of vegetable puree, 35-40 g of meat puree, breast milk or 50 ml of the mixture
18 hours - 20-30 grams of cottage cheese, 170-180 ml of kefir or sour milk mixture
22 hours - breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture.
Option 2.
6 hours - breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture
10 o'clock - 150 ml of porridge, ½ eggs, 30-40 ml of fruit puree, 20-30 ml of juice
14 hours - 20-30 ml of vegetable broth, 150 g of vegetable puree, 35-40 g of meat puree, 60-70 ml of juice
18 hours - 150 ml of kefir or a sour-milk mixture, 20-30 g of cottage cheese, 50-60 ml of fruit puree
22 hours - breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture.
Option 3.
6 hours - 45 g of fruit puree, breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture
10 hours - 150 ml porridge, 20-30 g cottage cheese, 45 ml of fruit juice
14 hours - 30 ml of vegetable soup on a meat broth with 10 grams of white bread, 150 ml of vegetable puree with meatballs (60 g), 45 ml of fruit juice
18 hours - 150 ml of yogurt with a biscuit or cracker (10-15 g of white bread), 50 g of vegetable puree, 45 g of fruit puree
22 hours - breast milk or 200 ml of the mixture.
Now directly about what exactly is included in the set of products for the baby in 9 months.
Kashi is the easiest way to use industrial production that does not require cooking. In them, the necessary vitamin complex of vitamins and minerals is introduced. You always serve this porridge exclusively fresh, because you only divorce one portion immediately before feeding. Producers and ready-made liquid cereals, having a portioned packaging. If you are preparing porridge yourself, it is better to use special children's flour from different cereals: buckwheat, oatmeal, corn, rice, mango, etc. You can cook cereal flour yourself. To do this, go and rinse the groats, dry and bold on a coffee grinder.
Porridge is prepared on water, vegetable broth, whole or diluted milk, using two basic methods.
Method one:
In the boiling liquid stirring, gradually pour the cereal flour, salt, sweeten (if the porridge is cooked sweet) and, while stirring, cook until ready.
Method two:
The groats are cooked to full preparedness, wiped through a sieve or ground in a mixer, then add hot milk or vegetable broth, salt, sweeten and boil for another 2-3 minutes.
In a portion of porridge add a little butter (5-6 g).
It is useful to cook cereals from a mixture of different cereals, thus increasing their nutritional value. Good for the child and cereals, consisting of cereals in combination with vegetables (carrots, pumpkins, etc.) or fruits (apple, pear, apricots, etc.).
By 9 months, the baby has already met almost all vegetables . Now its menu includes zucchini, pumpkin, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, corn and green peas, beets. If the child normally tolerates one-component purees, you can diversify his diet by offering dishes from a mixture of vegetables. It should be remembered that the amount of potatoes should not be more than 1/3 of the total volume of food.
A variety of fruits and berries is also diverse. Apples and pears, plums and apricots, bananas, oranges and tangerines, cherries and cherries, currants, strawberries - if the child does not have allergies, he will be happy with such abundance. And, of course, fruits and berries are preferable to other sweets. You can also prepare as a one-component puree, and puree from a mixture of berries and fruits. These purees can be given in combination with yoghurt and curd.
Cottage cheese and dairy products were previously recommended to be introduced into a set of products for the child already at the age of 5-6 months. But. In recent years, pediatricians advise it not to hurry up and introduce crumbs to these products later, at 7-8 months. By 9 months, a portion of cottage cheese is 20-30 g per feeding, kefir - 170-180 ml. Exceed these norms should not be. Do not give the baby cottage cheese, yogurts and kefir, bought in a store or on the market. You should use a special baby food or prepare cottage cheese and yogurt yourself.
Dietetic cottage cheese can be prepared in many ways.
Method one:
Curd cheese is calcined , which is prepared by using a solution of calcium chloride purchased in the pharmacy. 300 ml of milk boiled in enameled dishes, cool and add to it 3 ml of the drug. The resulting mixture is stirred, brought to a boil, and then cooled to room temperature. The formed cottage cheese is thrown on a sieve covered with clean gauze, squeezed and spread into sterile dishes. The dish is ready!
Method two:
Sour curd is prepared on the basis of baby yogurt or kefir with 1% fat content. Of 100 ml of kefir is obtained about 50 g. cottage cheese. Kefir is poured into a jar, which is put on the bottom of a pot of water (having previously put a gauze napkin on the bottom so that the pot does not burst). Then, on low heat, the water is brought to a boil. After 5 minutes of boiling, the resulting clot in the jar is spread over clean gauze, drain and cool. Cottage cheese is ready!
Meat to a child in 9 months should be given in an amount of 60-70 gr. per day. It can be low-fat beef and pork, veal and rabbit, turkey and chicken (white meat without skin), lean lamb.
You can use ready-made baby cans, you can give boiled meat, twice passed through a meat grinder, souffle, meatballs. The fish is also given either boiled (fillet), or in the form of souffle and meatballs. It is best to combine meat and fish dishes with vegetable purees. Meatballs can be served in broth, in soup.
All these recommendations are suitable for children who have no allergic reactions to food. In case your baby is allergic, the menu for him will help to choose a doctor.