The most important first year

What can be called the most important for a newborn person? My mother's love, my father's strong hands-and, of course, proper nutrition. At first the child receives all the essentials for a full-fledged development from mother's milk or a mixture for artificial feeding. Then - the first lure, the gradual introduction of new products into the diet. Until the time when only a person born will begin to eat completely alone, at least a year will pass. At the same time, on how well you can organize the baby's nutrition in the first year of his life, the health of a person in the future depends to a large extent. Suffice it to say that people who received natural feeding in the first months of life later suffered much less often from endocrine diseases, allergies, obesity, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, chronic diseases of the digestive system. Therefore, let's talk about how to give our kids all the most delicious, necessary and useful.

Why does the child cry?

Usually a healthy kid at the age of up to about three weeks does not cause parents almost no problems. Sleep and wakefulness, food - now the child seems to rest after the hard work that he did to appear. If you were able to correctly organize the regime of the baby's day, observe the intervals of 2-25 hours between feedings, most of the time the child will sleep, only occasionally waking up to talk with parents or complain discontentedly that it's time to change the diaper.
However, this idyll does not last long. As soon as the whole family got used to the appearance of a new person a little, the family built their schedule taking into account this, as the baby starts to cry more and more often. And, as luck would have it, these "sessions" usually begin in the evening - and only by morning can you calm down the crying child a little. The result: the newly built schedule flies into the tartaras, the older brother can not get into school, the sleepy dad is late for work, the grandmother lies with a hypertonic crisis, the mother who has forgotten what a dream is, looks like a zombie.
What happened to such a few days ago, a complaisant and calm angel? Most likely, the reason for a sharp change in behavior is that the next stage in the development of the organism has come-the active formation of the gastrointestinal tract. This difficult time will last quite a long time: about 4 months the child will arrange such "concerts" at any time of the day and, what is especially unpleasant, nights. But it is unlikely that you will be able to change anything: it is just now that a "restructuring" of the body is going on, which, during 9 months of intrauterine development, received everything necessary, without applying the slightest effort. Now the intestines of the baby cease to be an absolutely sterile environment, because for proper digestion, various microorganisms are necessary: ​​bifido- and lactobacilli, enterococci, etc. In other words, active development of the intestinal microflora of the body is now taking place, in 60% of children accompanied by intestinal colic.

How to help the baby?

Earlier it was thought that it was not necessary to treat colic, because, speaking in medical language, this is not the cause of the ailment, but a symptom. The reason, as we have already explained, is the active formation of the gastrointestinal tract, the development of the neuromuscular system. However, today pediatricians believe that it is possible and necessary to help a child suffering from colic. For this, there is a special system of step-by-step therapy, the main stages of which are:

• regular laying of the child on the tummy, facilitating more easy removal of the gazik and stool;
• a neat baby's stomach massage, which takes place shortly before feeding and some time after eating with circular motions from the outside to the inside. Movements should not be stroking, but as it were driving out gases from the intestine;
• The application of a warm diaper to the tummy: heat relieves spasms and reduces the likelihood of colic attacks.

It will greatly facilitate the condition of the baby following the general recommendations for proper feeding. It is necessary to properly put the baby to the chest, so that it does not capture excess air, make sure that excess food is removed from the digestive tract when regurgitation. For this it is useful to hold the baby for a while after feeding in an upright position.
For the prevention of colic, the use of herbal remedies for vomiting is indicated. Thus, natural remedies based on the fruit extract and fennel oil, such as Platex, which have a soft carminative and spasmolytic effect, create a favorable background in the intestines, enhance peristalsis, promote the escape of gases and stools. If you dissolve a few drops of the drug in breast milk or in infant formula allows you to reduce the frequency and intensity of colic in a child.
If the colic continues to torment the baby badly, he can not fall asleep, is capricious, refuses to eat, it is possible to resort to drugs based on simethicone, enema or gas pipe.
By the way, nursing mother should pay attention to her own diet, because the occurrence of colic in a child is often due to errors in the mother's diet (for example, excessive amounts of milk, rough vegetables, etc.). In this case, reduce the number of such products or completely eliminate them from the diet. However, it's not worth to give up milk or dairy products, as this can reduce the calcium and B vitamins in milk.

We start eating ourselves!

And here "the most terrible", according to many young parents, is behind. About four months the baby calms down, graciously allowing family members to sleep at night, waking up only for feeding. However, the next important stage is just around the corner - the first lure.
The baby grows, and along with it the need for its organism in various substances (proteins, fats, carbohydrates), vitamins grows. The optimal time for introducing complementary foods is 6 months. First, little by little, literally homeopathic doses, introduces juices, vegetable and fruit purees. Then comes the turn of kashka, meat, bread, cottage cheese. At this time, the digestive organs of the child begin to work almost in extreme conditions, changes occur with each new product in the diet!
In this case, you must closely monitor the quality of the products that you enter into the child's diet. In no case can you save on the baby's nutrition. Remember: Freshly squeezed juice, diluted with water in the required proportion, will bring immeasurably more benefits than what was bought in the store. Exactly the same can be said about vegetable, fruit, and meat purees. Correctly cooked fresh food is always more useful than the one that is in numerous jars on store shelves. The main requirement for a child's food is its freshness, safety and cooking in ideal sanitary conditions, as well as a smooth, monotonous consistency. It is because of the inability to achieve such a texture of children's food at home that many opt for a ready-made meal. However, if you have a universal food processor MixSy, grinding products to the consistency of soft mashed potatoes, you can give your child all the best and useful. In addition, for the preparation of children's food it makes sense to use only high-quality utensils such as a tenter made of high-quality materials that do not emit toxic substances during cooking and that do not use excess water and salt during cooking.
Correct and timely introduction of complementary foods allows you to diversify the nutrition of the child, allows the baby's body to develop correctly and harmoniously. However, in children prone to allergies, certain foods can cause digestive disturbances: irregular stools, increased flatulence, and the like. Be sure to consult a doctor, make allergens: for some diseases, for example, gluten, normal bread and many cereals are not absorbed by the body. In addition, "foreign" products can disrupt the composition of the intestinal microflora, causing an imbalance of beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms. In this case it is necessary to pass the analysis of a feces on a dysbacteriosis. This unpleasant condition is easily corrected at the initial stages by preparations of a group of probiotics, such as lineks, which contain a complex of normal intestinal microflora. Pay attention to the reaction of the child's body to any new product. If you think that some kind of complementary food does not suit your baby, refuse for a while from this product, start introducing it into the diet a little later.
One way or another, but all recommendations for the child's nutrition, timing and volume of new products should be made by a pediatrician. Accurately following his advice, you will very soon be happy, looking at the smeared porridge of the baby, with pleasure, "spoon for mum, spoon for dad", and not experiencing the slightest discomfort!