A baby about the age of six months to grow normally and develop, vitamins, minerals and trace elements that come with milk, is not enough. The child's body needs vitamins A, B, C and D, folic acid, zinc, selenium, iron, calcium, iodine, potassium, phosphorus, copper and others. And this indicates that it is time to introduce complementary foods. It is very important to introduce the baby to new products and it is not worthwhile to delay this acquaintance. After all, taste is one of the most important sensations that gives positive emotions.
If you teach your child from early childhood to a varied, tasty, and most importantly healthy diet, you can form in him useful habits that will be with him all his life. Thick food helps to develop the digestive system - it "trains" it, it also stimulates intestinal motility, and the chewing apparatus is formed correctly.
Many doctors put the introduction of vegetable complementary foods in the first place. Sometimes it happens that the baby refuses vegetable mashed potatoes. In this case, you need to postpone acquaintance with the new food for a week, and then try again. Sooner or later the baby will start eating it.
Rules for the introduction of vegetable complementary foods
There are general rules when introducing new food to a child, including when introducing vegetable complementary foods.
You should always start with a small dose, about half a teaspoon, and then eventually increase the volume to the required: in seven to eight months, the required volume is 80 grams, by the year brought to 120 grams.
In one day, only one new product should be introduced. At the beginning of complementary feeding, puree is made from only one vegetable, and then they are switched to a combination of several.
It is necessary to refrain from introducing complementary foods at times of change in the usual way of life, for example, when moving.
If the child is sick, during vaccination or another medical procedure, it is also not necessary to start luring.
To introduce a lure is desirable in the second feeding - before the baby will eat milk or a mixture.
Follow the reaction of the child to the introduction of a new product: look at the general condition of the body, the nature of the chair, the condition of the skin in about a week or slightly more.
If there are any alarming signs, then it is necessary to refuse from complementary foods and go to the pediatrician.
It will also be good if my mother will keep a diary of vegetable complementary foods. Then she can easily determine, for example, which product the baby has an allergy.
Cook the lure necessary for a homogeneous consistency, at the very beginning it should be in semi-liquid form. Give his baby should be warm with a spoon.
Vegetable lure begins with vegetables, fruits, and you can also give cereals that grow in the region of residence or nearby.
A new product should be entered after a successful previous one only after seven to ten days have passed.
Timing for complementary feeding
Feeding a child, if she is fully breastfed, is injected after he is six months old. If the child is fed a mixture, then it can be done a little earlier.
If the baby gets mother's milk, but does not grow well, then it is necessary to introduce the lure a little earlier. Perhaps, in this case, the best thing for the child is to give the porridge first of all. The same situation with preterm infants. Specific advice and recommendations should be given by the pediatrician.
How do they start luring?
Most experts recommend starting lure with vegetables. A small child does not have subtle taste habits, which means that it is not the most delicious dish, but a useful vegetable puree, will be perceived simply as a new unfamiliar dish. It is likely that it is very like the baby. Sometimes after sweet fruit and cereals children do not want to eat fresh vegetables.
Vegetable basket for complementary foods
Introduction of complementary foods to start is recommended with hypoallergenic vegetables, which include a light variety of pumpkin, cauliflower, zucchini, broccoli.
Then you can add carrots and potatoes. Potatoes are first better combined with zucchini or carrots, as this is quite heavy food for a young child.
Next, enter celery, onions, turnip, white cabbage, string beans, beets, peas. Green grass is better to enter from 12 months.