So, how to start feeding your child correctly? How to find out that your baby is already ready to eat other foods, except for maternal milk (or an adapted mixture)?
The most important and indestructible rule for the introduction of all lures is "it's better to be late for a week than to hurry for a week". Of course, there is a great temptation to treat the crumb with something delicious, but it's better not to rush. Be prepared for the fact that your parents and many other relatives and acquaintances will literally throw you advice about the lure. Your task is very polite, but firmly declare that until six months to introduce into the ration of the karapuza anything other than breast milk is not necessary.
Indeed, before the child was already giving apple juice in 2 months. And few of the mothers nursed the baby for more than nine months. And at work, many mothers went out already in 3 months, leaving their crumbs for grandmothers or giving them to a nursery. It is also natural that at that time there were no such good adapted mixtures as now, so we had to start introducing lure sooner. In order to get the carp all the vitamins he needs.
However, in our time all these problems do not exist. That's why, according to WHO recommendations, lure should be introduced no earlier than 6 months. (Provided that the child is breastfed, if the baby is an artificial person, then the lure can be started from 4-5 months).
By what signs do you know that your baby is already quite ready for the introduction of the first complementary foods?
1. The child shows an increased interest in adult food. Actively climbs into your plate, tries to grab some food and put it in your mouth.
2. The kid doubled his weight from birth.
3. The crumb already sits well and holds the backrest, is able to control the movement of the body and turn the head away from the spoon with food if it does not want to eat.
4. The karapuz no longer pushes everything that comes into his mouth, that is, the ejecting reflex has already left him.
There are also several principles on which the first complementary foods are introduced:
1. The child is absolutely healthy and he just did not tolerate the vaccination (you can not start feeding, when the baby has even the slightest signs of the disease or his immunity is weakened by the vaccine).
2. At the time of the introduction of new food, the habitual way of life of the baby (ie no crossings, etc.) should not change.
3. At the same time you can enter no more than one dish.
4. Dishes for eating crumbs must be consistently semi-liquid, not too thick and homogeneous, without lumps.
5. The introduction of complementary foods begins with a single component, and then gradually add other components of the dish.
6. You can not immediately give the karapuza the whole portion. Start feeding should be from one teaspoon and gradually, in geometric progression, increase the amount of food.
7. Feed the baby only with a spoon, and not with a bottle.
8. If the crumb does not gain weight - start luring with cereals.
Which products are best to start with? There is no single answer to this question. First of all, be guided by the reaction of your child. After all, there is also such a thing as "individual intolerance of the product".
There are several options with which to start introducing complementary foods.
1. Vegetable puree. First give zucchini, steamed or in a small amount of water, gradually add to it cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, onions, sweet peppers, potatoes, greens, celery root, white cabbage. You can add a pumpkin. To salt such soup-mash firstly is not necessary, let the kid get used to natural taste of products. And here is 1 tsp. vegetable oil will not hurt. Naturally, all vegetables should be grinded or crushed with a blender.
2. Fruit puree. Most often it begins with a baked apple. Then you can add a pumpkin to the apple.
3. Porridge - milk or dairy-free. It all depends on your own views. Someone buys milk porridge, someone - dairy-free and dilutes them with their breast milk or a mixture. Some prefer not "packaged" cereal, but porridge of their own, home-made.
4. Sour-milk products. Such lure begins with low-fat kefir, in which gradually add the children's cottage cheese.