The moment of introduction of complementary feedingIt is exciting for parents of the first child. There are so many questions in their head: what to feed? What kind of dishes? What if the child does not want to eat anything other than milk? And the main of such questions: how correctly to introduce complementary foods? In 4 months from the birth of the baby it is already possible to begin to search for answers to these questions.
The first six months of his life the baby is quite capableuse only breast milk or its substitute in the form of a water-soluble mixture. It is worth to clarify that dopaivanie water, compotes or even more juices for up to 6 months is also not required. All the necessary liquid the baby will receive during breastfeeding. The best way to check if the baby has enough milk is to look at how many times a day he pisses. Must be at least six times.
But approximately six months later, pediatricians and the World Health Organization are encouraged to introduce adult food into the diet. Of course, not immediately, but gradually, according to the verified scheme.
Why six months?Because in most cases, until the baby reaches this age, his intestines are not ready to digest anything other than mother's milk, and only the mixture for artificial feeding is as close to him as possible in composition.
How correctly to introduce the feeding of a child? It should be introduced when the baby is completely healthy and is not subject to the following risk factors:
If such factors are present, then it is recommended to wait at least one week before the elimination.
Sometimes it is correct to introduce lure in 5 months, as soon as there are indicators that the body of the child is ready to digest other food. The following are the signs:
It happens that children develop faster orslower, and within 1-2 months this is usually the norm. Therefore, after the examination, the pediatrician can give good to the lure before 6 months or, on the contrary, advise "to hold back the horses".
How to correctly:to introduce the feeding of a child in 5 months or 6? It's up to Mom. But it is definitely better to start feeding in 5 months (if the pediatrician advises) than to delay up to seven, since later the beginning of complementary feeding is fraught with the fact that the child will not receive the micronutrients necessary to him. And this shortage can lead to such serious diseases as rickets or anemia.
In order to learn how to enter correctlyfeeding a child 4 months old, it is necessary to consult with a pediatrician and have a good reason for this. Because the introduction of a lure up to 4 months can be even dangerous for the child, since his intestine is certainly not adapted to digest anything other than mother's milk or its analogues.
How to correctly introduce complementary foods in 6 months:with mashed potatoes or lump food? It is necessary to begin to supplement the baby with food, ground to a puree state, otherwise the child can simply choke. To get food of this consistency you can buy food in ready-made form, the good that the choice is now very rich. But you can get confused and prepare food for your child yourself. This is done for the most part, to be sure for sure in the natural composition of what exactly will be introduced to the baby for complementary feeding.
How to cook at homeadditional food, remember simply. To do this, fruits, vegetables or meat must first be boiled or cooked by steaming, and only then grind them with a blender. For the first time you can even wipe the mashed potatoes through a sieve to obtain the most uniform consistency. For convenience, blenders are sold, combined with a steamer. That is, everything is done at once in one more often.
But the porridge is cooked differently. Even at the stage of cereals, you need to grind it in a coffee grinder or blender. And already from the resulting flour cook porridge for the baby. The cooking time is reduced to a few minutes.
But closer to 8 months to grind, leavingmore and more large pieces, so that by the year the child can already eat almost in the same way as an adult. This is necessary to ensure that the jaw develops correctly, and the muscles of the speech apparatus are more developed.
The best option would be hypoallergenicvegetables with a low content of starch. And such are cauliflower, broccoli and zucchini. But with the fact that the child began to eat them, there are often problems, because the taste is not very pleasant. It will save you if the child does not know what other food can be delicious and sweet. Therefore, those who started luring with fruit, cookies or sweet cereals, often have problems in order to persuade a child to eat vegetable puree.
For small kids, as an option, liquid porridge is suitable. But the first porridge should be dairy-free and hypoallergenic. Such are buckwheat, rice and corn kashki.
It is not necessary to start lure with meat and especially fish, it is too aggressive food for acquaintance.
Up to one year, the main task of introducing complementary foods isnot to feed, but to instill proper eating behavior, to teach to chew food and, if possible, to use a spoon. It is worth remembering this if the child eats almost nothing. The main thing is that he should drink enough and breast-feed with breast milk or a mixture.
They are rightfully considered one of the most dietary dishes. But despite this, there are two important rules for correctly introducing porridge into lure.
The first rule is that not any kind of porridgethe kid will approach. You need to start with the most hypoallergenic and monosocial, no multi-cereal. Here you need rice, corn, buckwheat, a little later you can enter corn. Such porridges as pearl barley, semolina, can be introduced about a year, and already immediately in the form in which it is eaten by adults. But that's it without manna porridge you can do absolutely, in spite of the fact that many ate it in childhood. This porridge is almost useless in terms of the content of vitamins and trace elements. For comparison, buckwheat is just a storehouse of useful substances, and there is no starch in it.
The second rule is that there are no additions in the formsugar and fruits, as well as milk. If the baby refuses porridge, it means that it is worth trying again or replacing the porridge. Often it happens that the baby refuses buckwheat, but crochets for both cheeks rice or vice versa. It is never too late to introduce milk porridge. Therefore, you can start with dairy-free, because when you use them, the risk of an addiction to allergies is much lower.
If the child does not gain weight at all, it is with cereals that it will be correct to introduce lure as at 4 months, and at 5, and at 6.
Introduce dairy products should not be earlier than 8 months, and better let it be a children's cottage cheese.
Up to 3 years of eating dairy products foradults is not recommended. In the children's department on sale you can find adapted milk, kefir and other dairy products. And this is not just a marketing move, they are more adaptable.
Strangely enough, but an allergy to milk is one ofthe most common among toddlers. And among all milk products, whole milk is hardest to absorb. Sour-milk products are enriched with bifidobacteria, which promote digestion, and are therefore digested several times better. Now it is clear why it is necessary to begin acquaintance with dairy products from them.
There is an opinion that salt and sugar are neededbody, and it's true. But the other truth is that they are already present in sufficient quantities in products in a natural way. And the fact that the food seems fresh, this is a consequence of the fact that the taste buds are already dulled from prolonged dosing and sweetening. If you stop adding salt and sugar to your food, then after a while the receptors will come back to normal, and the real taste of the foods will begin to be felt. Then it turns out that they are not at all tasteless.
With this information, it is easy to understand thatif you do not add sugar and salt to your child from birth, he will gladly eat such a meal, feeling her real taste and not suspecting that it can somehow "improve". But it is worth giving the child at least once a sweet, and he will always demand it. That is why it is better to first enter all the vegetables, and only then start to enter the sweet fruit. For those who have never tried artificial sugar, fruits seem very sweet. Therefore, it is better to arrange this with grandmothers, aunts, nannies and all who will sit with the child, that he eats unsalted food, and from the sweet he has only fruit.
Yes, with time he will probably have toget acquainted with artificial sugar and salt, but the later this happens, the better. This is useful not only for children, but even for adults. There are families where, in principle, they do not eat salt and sugar and feel great at the same time.
Another factor that can hinderintroduction of complementary foods, is an allergy. To know for sure that there is no allergy to a certain product, you need to introduce new types of food gradually. Start with one or two spoons, adding each day for another spoon, and bring it to the norm, recommended by age. Do not enter a new product more than once a week. You should start with colorless porridges and vegetables, as they are the most hypoallergenic. Such bright vegetables as pumpkin and carrots, most often cause allergies.
In order to enter the lure correctly, you needobserve the age limit by the number of products used. Overdose with micronutrients is also dangerous, as is its lack. For example, increased or decreased intake of food rich in calcium and vitamin D will lead to problems with the formation of bones. The table below shows the introduction of complementary foods, as recommended by WHO.
| Product name | age of administration | up to what daily volume to bring |
| cauliflower, zucchini, broccoli and other colored and green vegetables | 4-6 months | 100 - 200 g |
| Hypoallergenic dairy-free porridge | 5-7 months | 100 - 200 g |
| fruit (apples, pears) and bright vegetables (beets, pumpkin, carrots) | 7-8 months | 100 - 200 g |
| quail eggs | 8 months | starting from ¼ and not more than one |
| puree from low-fat meat (turkey, rabbit, chicken) | 8-9 months | 100 - 200 g |
| milk porridge | 9 months | 100 - 200 g |
| cottage cheese | 9 months | Not more than 50 grams to a year and not more than 100 g after |
| kefir for children | 9 months | not more than 200 ml |
| fruit juices | 10 months | not more than 100 ml |
| baby cookies | 10-12 months | 3-5 pcs. |
| a fish | 10-12 months | 150-200 grams |
| bright fruits and berries | after a year | not more than 150 g |
There are two kinds of complementary feeding: pediatric and pedagogical. Prior to this, the type of introduction recognized by pediatricians, i.e. pediatric, was described.
But there is also a pedagogical, and it happensIt is necessary when there is a problem with food interest, and the child refuses to try new food, and it is time for him to do it. How correctly to introduce complementary feeding to a baby of this type? The whole essence of pedagogical complementary food is to eat very close to the child, thereby giving him an example. An innate desire to imitate parents will force the crumb to reach the plate of the mother or father, and then it is worth sharing with. Naturally, during the introduction of pedagogical complementary feeding, the ration of parents should correspond to the age of the child, rather than the desires of adults. During this period, the plate excludes fried, salty, spicy food and semi-finished products. It is best to eat diet soups, mashed potatoes, cereals and heavily boiled food without spices and onions.
It would seem that only the difficulties withthe establishment of lactation, as in front of my mother a new question arises: how correctly to introduce complementary feeding during breastfeeding? Despite the fact that in six months the child begins to eat adult food, the main food of it at first remains mother's milk or infant formula.
A rather controversial issue is whenwean the child from the breast. To date, it has been proven that feeding mother's milk up to 2 years has a positive effect on the formation of immunity and intestinal flora in a child. But especially acute children need breastfeeding only up to a year.
But these are just dry facts, and this questionshould be addressed individually. When exactly to finish to nurse, should solve only mother and the child. The main thing is that feeding is comfortable for them. And if it gives them both pleasure, then you can feed for longer than two years. After all, it is not only food, but also a way to communicate and calm the child.
It happens that the children themselves give up their breastsrather early, or the woman is losing milk. If despite this there is a desire to continue breastfeeding, then you need to contact a specialist on this issue, and it will help restore lactation. But it happens that the mother breastfeeding brings a lot of discomfort and inconvenience. Do not sacrifice yourself, because it is so short and design your discontent for the child. Breastfeeding is not the only way to strengthen immunity and prove your love to the child.
There are cases when feeding mothermilk is impossible, then in the first months of life the child needs to be fed with adapted infant formula. Cow or goat's milk is quite different in composition from the parent and how its substitutes do not work. The same applies to liquid semolina porridge. Baby formula is not a way to cash in on mothers who can not breastfeed, and the only adapted food for a baby is less than 6 months old and the best replacement for mother's milk when it is slightly older.
How to enter the lure artificially?The principles of introduction are the same, but with the proviso that you can start the introduction of complementary foods a little earlier, in 4-5 months, depending on its readiness and speed of weight gain. Usually, if the mixture is not enough for a full weight gain, it is recommended to enter children's cereals from 4 months, but not earlier.
Another difference in the introduction of complementary foodsiskusstvennik that after a year the mixture is already desirable to completely replace the adult food, since it does not contribute to the development of immunity, and when feeding from a bottle can form the wrong bite. When breastfeeding, you can not fear for a long time for the incorrect formation of the jaw, because the nipple grip is different from the nipple grip. Here nature has thought everything over, and with the capture of the mother's nipple, the child makes the “right” movements.
