Each child is different, grows and develops differently, and therefore take solid food, each child is ready in due time, and no time when the calendar marked 4 or 6 months. This is the main mistake of some young mothers. Sometimes friends or neighbors drink songs that their children have already eaten "walnuts" almost half a year, and a naive mother lets us feed her baby with solid food. It is very important not to trust the experience of other mothers, even a clever book will not help you. There are two criteria that can help you understand the truth. First, you must look at the body, features and strength of your baby, and secondly, you must always consult your pediatrician. And why this rush at all? If the baby for a month will eat more milk from the bottle, nothing terrible will happen, but it will be worse if you spoil his digestive tract since infancy. At the end of the end, all children eventually start eating normal food, which means that your baby will not walk.
When is it definitely time to start eating solid food?
To begin with, that until 4 months of solid food is not exactly needed, the child gets everything you need from either artificial nutrition, or breast milk. In this period, it is simply impossible to give a product that is not peculiar, so do not even think about it. In addition, many children before the period of 4-6months, and even later, diligently obey their reflexes, and the defense reflex says to push the tongue out of the mouth anything that does not seem to be on the chest or pacifier. It is absolutely natural not to choke.
Further in the period from 4 to 6 months, again depending on your child and his condition, you can begin to feed a little bit of solid food. Let it not be successful, but the main thing is that it begins to mow with the mouth and tongue something else that you need not only to suck, but also to chew.
It is highly recommended to introduce a little food in the form of puree, aedu, in which there are soft pieces or lumps, it is best to leave for 6 months and later. Do not be too literally understood the word solid food, not only rotikolzhzhen to get used, but also the stomach and intestines to food of another kind. Another plesperiod in 6 months - at this time the teeth are very actively cut, and children-instinctively want to press the gums, and then it's time to put them in the rotipiscus more seriously.
Especially active children will show their willingness to behave, as a rule, these children watch with attention how mother eats, looks at this food, tries to put a spoon in her mouth and other notable moments, there are already no words, you can start eating.
There is a sure test that will help you understand if your child is ready to eat, just answer for yourself on several questions:
- is the child with support?
- Is he holding the head firmly, does he twist it around, does he turn his head away from the nipple?
- can he move the tongue of food from the gums to the sky for ingestion?
If the answers are positive, then your baby is ready to eat adult, and when the baby is really ready to take food, then no mamaetogo will miss.
How to start feeding?
Probably, if you turned to literature, and to doctors, you also realized that there are so many opinions and so you are invited to make a choice from acceptable food. You can try to start with a small-cut apple, or you can try porridge, try both, look at the child's appetite. Although it is not necessary to rely on the taste of a baby, they almost all lean toward a fruit variant, but it is worth remembering that some children may develop an allergy. Therefore, it is probably necessary to alternate with porridges, but about this below.
Fruit food
Apple mashed potatoes you can start giving about half a year, buying mashed potatoes or rubbing yourself - is not fundamentally important. After a couple of weeks, you can change the fruit ration and start giving a peach, pear or apricot puree, if you do puree yourself, then try to buy apple varieties that are sweet enough and do not add sugar.
Feeding with kashki
Eat porridge the child begins at the same time as the purease fruit. You can and should start with a variety, get the kashki different sotsovotov, rice, buckwheat, manga, while you do not need to rush to the conclusion about whether you liked it or not. As for cereals, children spend a lot of time on them, so try it several times. First, give one teaspoonful of tea, and then raise to 3 tablespoons. It happens that the children simply refuse to have them, so do not force the child not to treat the cede with dislike.
Meals with vegetables
If a child willingly began to eat fruit purees, his organism takes them superbly and digests, and the child himself feels well, then you can give the baby vegetables three weeks after the fruit start. Here everything depends on the vegetables, one can be cooked in the form of mashed potatoes, others can be welded , it turns out soup-mashed potatoes. Vegetable dishes need a little salt. The self-optimal start is carrots, potatoes and zucchini, very soon, you will drink food preferences of the child, one he will eat with pleasure, one from the others completely refuse. Also do not force, it is better to try to give this vegetable later, maybe the taste will change.
Meat Meal
In spite of the fact that meat food is very useful for amino acids and necessary, but earlier than from 8 months it can not be given. But to achieve this age you can start with beef, cook it well and then several times pass through the meat grinder, the more the child's age, the less time you need to scroll the meat. It is also worth giving the liver, the method of preparation is the same.
Than to take a teeth?
Zubki begin to erupt to seven months, for sure at this time the baby can already normally hold the handle light food. As soon as zubikkoyavilsya, you can safely give the baby a cookie or cracker, sometimes even a crust of bread. This will be a real exercise for him, he will soak up the food for a long time, gnawing his gums, sucking it. The most important thing is that in parts this solid food will fall into the mouth and already there, after finally getting wet, will begin to pass further into the baby's stomach.
Two months later
Time goes by quickly, here the kid already two months little by little eats hard food, something eats, from something refuses, the several teeth have already cut through. Now go to a new kind of solid food, instead of a grater, use a fork, squeezing food. If it comes to fruits, then cut thin slices, which is important, so that from now on in a period of up to a year the baby learns to eat food in the form of pieces. Although, of course, expect from him the ideal chewing is not, for the most part will be the ingestion of pieces. But the most important thing is that his stomach will learn how to take and digest them, so the minimum is accomplished.
Refusal of solid food
If a child at this age refuses solid food, then there are several reasons. It is possible that at one time Mom was in a hurry to feed, which caused the child's dislike of solid food. It can also be that the pieces are just too big for the baby.
In this case, do not rush, enter the bait on time so that the child does not lose interest in food. It is worth paying attention to the size of food or to the density of mashed potatoes and cereals. As a rule, problems are in a hurry or in the wrong approach to the child in terms of feeding. Nevertheless, the problem can be on the medical side of the issue, if after some time and attempts the child does not eat, then it is worthwhile to turn to the doctors of the neurologist or the gastroenterologist for the examination.
But such cases are an exception to the rules, illness, because the child does not want to take solid food, a rarity, basically you need a little patience and approach to the child. Perhaps you are somewhere overzealous with a proposal, but one way or another soon the baby will start eating.