Everyone knows that 70% of people are water, and it needs to be constantly replenished. But the growing body, in this case, the infant, water is needed especially. For a small child, the daily norm of 120-180 mg per kilogram of weight (for adults - only 20-45 mg). Simply put, a newborn needs more than half a liter of fluid per day.
Breast milk - and drink and food
Breast milk is the most important and first fluid in everyone's life. Since drinking boiled water reduces the sucking instinct of children, the WHO Declaration has a strict requirement not to give children up to four months of no other drinks, only breast milk. Our nutritionists also do not recommend giving other drinks to children if the mother has enough milk, since there are 2/3 of water in it, in which all the essential natural ingredients are collected. Remember, the child can get the necessary amount of water from mother's milk. But if the temperature has increased in children, or the weather is very hot, dry, then they can give other drinks, tea, water, compote. But first you need to breed all this with boiled or table water. Breast milk can be planted with mushrooms. Just do not use goat or cow milk, because they have a lot of allergens, and the stomach of four-month-old children will be difficult to grasp.
Delicious juice
When it's time to try drinks from juices - start with diluted water. The proportion is 2/3. It is best to start with apple juice, then you can plum, apricot, cherry, carrot. Begin to give these drinks to children from 4-5 months to half a teaspoon, gradually increasing the "dose" to thirty ml. Drinks with mixed juices can be started only from 8 months. For children under one year, the daily limit is 50-60 mg. You need to give only freshly squeezed juice, or special children's juice. After reading the label, you will understand if this juice is suitable for your child. Juices, in which there is pulp, will not fit children for up to one year, since they contain vegetable fibers. The same applies to citrus fruits, tomatoes, strawberries. To children with excess weight it will be useful to drink sour juices, as they have few carbohydrates and these drinks activate the process of digesting food. But you can not give grape juice to children, up to 3 years.
Harmful and useful impurities
Mineral water for children can be curative, canteens and canteens. The first two are prescribed only for diseases, they can not be used for complementary feeding. This is suitable for dining water. Only it is not necessary and can not be boiled, because when boiling some elements can become harmful to children, so cooking soups and tea is not worth it. Do not confuse the usual purified water with the dining room. You can boil it and cook it for the child, if necessary. Remember that such water can not be made at home, deep water treatment requires sophisticated equipment, conventional filters at home will not work.
And what about tea?
A properly prepared tea for young children is not only a delicious drink, but also a good medicine. One tea can improve metabolism, another will help you fall asleep, the third will calm your stomach. Each tea contains harmless vitamin and herbal supplements. Plus, the fact that they cook very quickly: pour the right amount of tea with water, cool and give the child. But still tea can not replace all drinks, so children should give and tea, and milk, and juices, and water.
More tips
Preheat the drinks. So they are better absorbed.
Fluids other than breast milk should be given from a teaspoon, not from the nipple.