There are a number of medical indications, according to which the lure is prescribed.
Additional nutrition and drinking for the baby is introduced if the child has lowered blood sugar if there is not enough breast milk from the mother and if the child needs to gain weight faster, for example, after the illness.
At the age of up to three months, it is best to breastfeed the baby. If there is a shortage of mother's milk, or when it is impossible to breast-feed for any reason, breast milk is replaced with milk formulas. An additional drink for the baby during this period is warm boiled water. To give water or a mixture it is already possible to use a spoon, it is better than silver. Do not forget that the opening in the nipple on the bottle should be as small as possible. Then the efforts of the baby in order to suck the liquid from the bottle will be comparable to those that he applies to get milk from the chest.
When breastfeeding can not provide enough fluids for a child, it is recommended to use phytotherapy recipes. A newborn baby can be given a decoction of rose hips. For 200 ml of water take 0.5 teaspoon of sugar or honey (check for allergies) and only 2-3 berries of dog rose. In this decoction there are a lot of vitamins. The child is given a filtered and chilled broth. If honey does not cause allergies, you can dilute 0.5-1 teaspoon of honey in boiled water. The broth or boiled water you give to a young child should be fresh, cooked shortly before consumption.
A three-month-old baby can start giving juice. The first time the juice is diluted with boiled water in a 1: 1 ratio. Take a freshly squeezed green apple juice. If you do not have a juicer, you can cook it from a mashed potato apple sauce. The apple is taken without peel. Gradually, the amount of water mixed with the juice decreases. When a child gets used to apple juice and he does not have any signs of an allergy, you can start adding carrot juice. 80 ml of apple juice is taken 20 ml of carrot. If there is no allergy, you can mix the juices in the proportion of 50 x 50. Sometimes the water that has been diluted with water should be given to the baby for a fairly long time, but if there are no negative reactions, you can immediately start with pure juice. When allergy signs appear, you need to temporarily stop giving this product and try to find a replacement for it. Usually in 3,5-4 months the child can already give juices from baby food. Generally, it is customary to introduce additional nutrition into the diet of the child from the age of 4 months of age.
In addition to juices at the age of 4 months, you can start giving the baby a fruit puree. It is better to take the prepared mashed potatoes from the manufacturers of baby food. The jars indicate the age from which you can start to give this or that kind of mashed potatoes. You can prepare mashed potatoes at home. Remember that the fruits are taken clean, thoroughly washed, absolutely fresh, not broken. Give the baby puree immediately, as it is cooked and do not store the finished home-made puree. For cooking use banana, apple, carrots. You can try to give a puree of boiled vegetables - potatoes, carrots, cabbage. But such mashed children usually eat poorly.
At 6 months, the child begins to be cut teeth. You can start slowly to teach him to chew. Since the kid is still trying to gnaw something, try to give him a crust of bread instead of a special toy. At the same age, the child can be given a meat broth. Cooking broth is better from lean meat. On the basis of meat broth, you can cook soup.
You can give the child porridge. For the youngest children (from 4 months), buckwheat porridge is recommended, but rice porridge is given as late as possible. It is better if you give the child special baby porridge, which also has an inscription, from what age you can start to give them.
At the age of 7-8 months, milk mixtures can be completely replaced with milk porridges, kefir, yoghurt. Now you can cook porridge at home.
Do not forget that portions for children are small. If the child refuses to eat, most likely, he is not hungry. Pay attention to the temperature of the food you are serving. Food for the child should not be too hot. The child will not be able to eat it. Cold food is much worse absorbed and can cause a child's digestive problems.
Do not be afraid to introduce additional food into your diet. A very young child often lacks mother's milk. You will notice that it's time to move on to extra nutrition and drinking for the baby, when the child becomes whiny, capricious.