Complementary food is a complete and balanced nutrition, and it is very important for growing children, especially in the 0-year-old phase of nutrition, it is also laid the foundation for the baby's life. In the infant stage, breastmilk is certainly the best food for the baby, but as the baby grows up every day, it takes about four months to start. Light breast milk or infant formula can no longer meet the baby's nutritional needs. So during this time, in addition to the original breast milk or infant formula, in addition to the baby should be given some solid objects, which is what we call complementary food. Food supplements include rice flour, muddy lake foods, and other homemade foods.
Supplementary food order
Four months after the baby can gradually begin to add complementary food, but due to the development of the baby's digestive system, complementary food supplements need to follow from the principle of less to more, from thin to thick, the best first to add juice, juice, baby adapt Then start adding rice soup and egg yolk.
1. Start with hypoallergenic, light taste foods.
2. Feed only one new food at a time, and start from a small amount. The concentration of food should also be from thin to thick.
3. Every meal starts with new foods. If you do not want to eat before you add already-eaten foods, add a new food for about 5-7 days.
At the age of 4 or 6 months, rice flour or rice soup is added, and the roots and grains are added in about 7 to 8 months. Various leafy vegetables and fruit purees are started and meat can be added after 8 months.
Baby food supplement principle
The principle of supplementing baby food supplements is to add complementary foods according to the actual needs of the baby and the maturity of the digestive system, following the principle of gradual and orderly progress. Parents must have patience, can not force the baby to fully accept the complementary food, it will backfire, so that the baby does not like complementary food.
1, from simple to mixed.
A supplementary food should undergo a period of adaptation of 5-7 days, and then add another food. After adapting, it can be mixed from one food to multiple foods. The first supplementary food supplement is rice, because rice protein is rarely allergic. Each new food may be tried several times before being accepted by the infant. If there is indigestion, the supplementary food should be suspended. After the food is normal, it can be fed from the starting amount or smaller.
2, from thin to thick.
That is, from the start of liquid to semi-liquid to solid. If you just start to add rice flour, you can make it a little easier to make it easier to swallow.
3, the amount from less to more, from fine to coarse texture.
The initial amount of food may be only 1 scoop, gradually increasing, so that the baby has a process of adaptation. The texture of the food may first be made into juice or mud to facilitate swallowing; when the teeth are erupted, the selected food may be appropriately thicker and harder, such as smashing the dish to train the baby's chewing ability.
4, can not force eating.
When the baby is unwilling to eat a certain food, it can change the way. For example, you can give a new drink when the baby is thirsty, give new food when it is hungry, and so on.
5. When the weather is hot and the baby is ill, new varieties should be put on hold.
6, vary from person to person, made separately.
The complementary food for infants should be made separately. It is best not to add salt. Food added should pay attention to food safety and hygiene. The food that is fed to the baby is best eaten now and do not feed the rest of the food.
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