How to introduce the first complementary foods to a child? Today in Ukraine there is a free choice of products for the first complementary foods: vegetables, cereals, dairy products. For example, Dr. Komarovsky believes that the first complementary foods should taste like milk, so you need to start feeding a child with kefir.
But the main victory of the human mind is the refusal to introduce porridge at 4 months and juice drop by drop from almost a month. Of course, the rudiments in the form of doctors in district clinics and illiterate articles on the Internet remained, but the Ministry of Health of Ukraine listened to the recommendations of WHO and now mothers are teaching that up to 6 months the crumbs should receive exclusively breast milk. Complementary foods are introduced to an artificial baby at 5–5.5 months, for medical reasons - from 4 months. Check your child's readiness.
Up to 5 months, the child's body is simply not able to digest adult food.. In addition, eating lying down is uncomfortable and even dangerous: you can choke. So you need to be able to sit. Breastfeeding consultants insist: the first tooth is an important signal. The baby is ready to chew. But for now, of course, only grated food. And he is also interested in food, pulls a piece of bread, an apple or a pear into his mouth (it is important that parents have healthy dishes on the table during this period). Decide where to start.
If the child is gaining weight very poorly, it is recommended that the mother start complementary foods with porridge.. Do this only on the recommendation of a pediatrician.. Mom's milk, although a liquid food, is quite nutritious, and if your baby is growing, gaining weight well, then he does not need additional calories. But the grown-up peanut may not have enough minerals, trace elements and vitamins. Vegetables are the main source of these riches.. Sour-milk complementary foods are advised to crumbs with disruption of the digestive tract. Decide whether you will cook yourself or buy complementary foods in a jar.
Baby food in jars not only saves mom time and effort: it is created from high-quality raw materials in compliance with strict standards of both cultivation and preparation.. If you are cooking yourself, make sure that vegetables, fruits and meat do not contain additives that are harmful to the crumbs.. It is important to track the moment when the baby is ready to switch to more solid food, and not homogenized.. The signal - the baby already has 6 teeth - cannot serve as a model in this regard.. Choose hypoallergenic vegetables with the maximum amount of vitamins. You can take zucchini, zucchini, squash, light-colored pumpkin for the first feeding (if the child is not a potential allergic person).
Broccoli is very useful: there are a lot of vitamins, and minerals, and essential trace elements, and as a bonus, there are also valuable bioactive substances.. Spend less time cooking, more time for your baby. Be sure to get a steamer and a blender. So you can cook a dish for the whole family and for the baby at the same time.. No need to worry and try so that the baby will certainly eat a whole portion. The purpose of the first weeks of complementary foods is to give a try, introduce the child to new food, to a variety of tastes.. Do not force: later the baby will be happy to eat his portion.
Cook delicious, serve beautifully!
If you look with disgust at a brown mess and diligently shove it into your baby's mouth, it will be difficult for him to fall in love with vegetable food or baby porridge.. Cook Delicious: Don't Overcook Vegetables (10-15 minutes is enough). Add cream, salt, garlic and pepper to yourself and enjoy vegetable cream soup made from the same ingredients as the baby - set an example! And one more thing: beautiful children's dishes are your faithful assistant.
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