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Feeding by months with breastfeeding
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Today there is no consensus on which month and in what order to introduce the newborn to the feeding. But we will still rely on the recommendations made by the World Health Organization. Lure by months for breastfeeding is presented by scientists, pediatricians and nutritionists in a table convenient for use by young parents.
The complementary meal by month
The complementary feeding table, developed by research institutes, offered to young parents, gives answers to almost all questions that may arise when transferring a baby to a wider range of food products. We offer a detailed description of the introduction of new foods into the baby's diet, covering ninety days.
Day |
Introductory Product |
Grams |
Qty. Tea spoons |
Product introduced earlier |
Grams |
Qty. Tea spoons |
A new product is introduced at the first morning feeding (zucchini or squash). After this, the baby is fed with the usual food for him: mother's milk or a mixture. |
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1 |
Wiped vegetables (patisson) |
3 |
1/2 |
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2 |
Wiped vegetables (patisson) |
8 |
1 |
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3 |
Wiped vegetables (patisson) |
20 |
3 |
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4 |
Wiped vegetables (patisson) |
40 |
7th |
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5 |
Wiped vegetables (patisson) |
70 |
12 |
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6th |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil (the oil can be introduced only if the lure is at least 100 g) |
120 |
20 |
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7th |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil. |
170 |
28 |
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Morning feeding is completely replaced by lure. The first to give a new puree, then already familiar from the vegetable marrow. The next feeding is the mother's milk, which is familiar to the baby (go for a mixture if it is breastfed). |
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8 |
Wiped vegetables (Brussels sprouts) |
3 |
1/2 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
167 |
27.5 |
9 |
Wiped vegetables (Brussels sprouts) |
8 |
1 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
162 |
26.7 |
10 |
Wiped vegetables (Brussels sprouts) |
20 |
3 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
150 |
24.7 |
Eleven |
Wiped vegetables (Brussels sprouts) |
40 |
7th |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
130 |
21.3 |
12 |
Wiped vegetables (Brussels sprouts) |
70 |
12 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
100 |
16.3 |
13 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
120 |
20 |
Patisson rubbed |
50 |
8 |
14 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
170 |
28 |
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We add another cabbage product. For example, broccoli, cauliflower, savoy. For the morning lure, the baby receives the primary puree from broccoli, and then one of the previous mashed potatoes. The next feeding is the mother's milk, which is familiar to the baby (go for a mixture if it is breastfed). |
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15 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) |
3 |
1/2 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
167 |
27.5 |
16 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) |
8 |
1 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
162 |
26.7 |
17th |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) |
20 |
3 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
150 |
24.7 |
18 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) |
40 |
7th |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
130 |
21.3 |
19 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) |
70 |
12 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
100 |
16.3 |
20 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
120 |
20 |
Patisson rubbed |
50 |
8 |
21 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
170 |
28 |
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The next lure is buckwheat porridge. We prepare it for breakfast, completing the meal with breast milk (or a mixture with artificial feeding). Already introduced vegetables give the baby for dinner. The amount should give the child a feeling of saturation. The recommended amount is 170 g. It should also be remembered that from oils first vegetable is introduced into lure and then butter. |
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22 |
Buckwheat |
3 |
1/2 |
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23 |
Buckwheat |
8 |
1 |
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24 |
Buckwheat |
20 |
3 |
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25 |
Buckwheat |
40 |
7th |
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26th |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
70 |
12 |
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27th |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
120 |
20 |
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28 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
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In the diet of the child we add another type of porridge - Fig. In the first morning feeding, we offer the baby a new gruel, and then, already familiar to him, buckwheat porridge. Already introduced vegetables give the baby for dinner. The amount should give the child a feeling of saturation. The recommended amount is 170 g. |
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29 |
Rice gruel |
3 |
1/2 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
167 |
27.5 |
Thirty |
Rice gruel |
8 |
1 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
162 |
26.7 |
31 |
Rice gruel |
20 |
3 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
150 |
24.7 |
32 |
Rice gruel |
40 |
7th |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
130 |
21.3 |
33 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
70 |
12 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
100 |
16.3 |
34 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
120 |
20 |
Buckwheat |
50 |
8 |
35 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
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In the diet of the baby we introduce another kind of porridge - corn. In the first morning feeding, we offer the baby a new cereal, and then, already familiar to him, buckwheat or rice porridge. Already introduced vegetables give the baby for dinner. The amount should give the child a feeling of saturation. The recommended amount is 170 g. |
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36 |
Corn Cob |
3 |
1/2 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
167 |
27.5 |
37 |
Corn Cob |
8 |
1 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
162 |
26.7 |
38 |
Corn Cob |
20 |
3 |
Buckwheat porridge + tsp. Butter |
150 |
24.7 |
39 |
Corn Cob |
40 |
7th |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
130 |
21.3 |
40 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
70 |
12 |
Buckwheat porridge + tsp. Butter |
100 |
16.3 |
41 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
120 |
20 |
Rice porrige |
50 |
8 |
42 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
170 |
28 |
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For breakfast, we continue to give the child porridge in the amount of 170 g. For lunch we introduce a new lure in the form of a pumpkin. |
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43 |
Pumpkin pureed mashed potatoes |
3 |
1/2 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
167 |
27.5 |
44 |
Pumpkin pureed mashed potatoes |
8 |
1 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
162 |
26.7 |
45 |
Pumpkin pureed mashed potatoes |
20 |
3 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
150 |
24.7 |
46 |
Pumpkin pureed mashed potatoes |
40 |
7th |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
130 |
21.3 |
47 |
Pumpkin pureed mashed potatoes |
70 |
12 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
100 |
16.3 |
48 |
Pumpkin pureed puree + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
120 |
20 |
Brussels sprouted cabbage mashed potatoes |
50 |
8 |
49 |
Pumpkin pureed puree + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
170 |
28 |
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On the first morning lure we add to the nutrition of the baby fruit. For example, an apple. For lunch, the child continues to receive the already familiar gruel. |
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50 |
Shabby apple |
3 |
1/2 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
51 |
Shabby apple |
8 |
1 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
52 |
Shabby apple |
16 |
3 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
170 |
28 |
53 |
Shabby apple |
25 |
4 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
54 |
Shabby apple |
35 |
6th |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
55 |
Shabby apple |
48 |
8 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
170 |
28 |
56 |
Shabby apple |
60 |
10 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
We change the breakfast dish for cereal, prepared from millet. For lunch, the child continues to receive the already familiar gruel. |
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57 |
Porridge made from millet |
3 |
1/2 |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
167 |
27.5 |
58 |
Porridge made from millet |
8 |
1 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
162 |
26.7 |
59 |
Porridge made from millet |
20 |
3 |
Corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
150 |
24.7 |
60 |
Porridge made from millet |
40 |
7th |
Buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
130 |
21.3 |
61 |
Porridge made from millet |
70 |
12 |
Rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
100 |
16.3 |
62 |
Porridge, cooked from millet + 1 tsp. Butter |
120 |
20 |
Corn porridge |
50 |
8 |
63 |
Porridge, cooked from millet + 1 tsp. Butter |
170 |
28 |
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For breakfast there are kashki (the standard portion - 170 g), which should be alternated. Meat is added to them. For example, rabbit. But the lunch is left with vegetables in a similar portion of 170 grams and 60 grams of mashed apples. |
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64 |
Wiped rabbit meat + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
3 + 170 |
½ + 28 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
167 |
27.5 |
65 |
Wiped rabbit meat + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
8 + 170 |
1 + 28 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
162 |
26.7 |
66 |
Wiped rabbit meat + corn porridge + 1ch.l. Butter |
16 + 170 |
3 + 28 |
Brussels sprouted mashed cabbage + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
150 |
24.7 |
67 |
Wiped rabbit meat + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
22 + 170 |
4 + 28 |
Wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
130 |
21.3 |
68 |
Wiped rabbit meat + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
30 + 170 |
5 + 28 |
Patisson rubbed + 1 tsp sunflower oil |
100 |
16.3 |
69 |
Wiped rabbit meat + corn porridge + 1ch.l. Butter |
40 + 170 |
7 + 8 |
Brussels sprouted cabbage mashed potatoes |
50 |
8 |
70 |
Wiped rabbit meat + porridge, cooked from wheat + 1 tsp. Butter |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
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For the morning reception there is an alternation of cereals, but to them is added a mashed prune. For lunch, the growing baby is served grated vegetables in the amount of 170 grams with the addition of 50 g of mashed meat. |
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71 |
Wiped prunes + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
3 + 170 |
½ + 28 |
Wiped rabbit meat + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
72 |
Rinsed prunes + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
8 + 170 |
1 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
73 |
Rubbed prunes + corn porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
16 + 170 |
3 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
74 |
Wiped prunes + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
25 + 170 |
4 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit meat + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
75 |
Rinsed prunes + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
35 + 170 |
6 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
76 |
Wiped prunes + corn porridge + 1ch.l. Butter |
48 + 170 |
8 + 8 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
77 |
Rubbed prunes + cereal, cooked from millet + 1 tsp. Butter |
60 + 170 |
10 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + squash + mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
For the morning reception there is an alternation of cereals (the standard portion is 170 g), but we introduce new meat. It can be a chicken or a turkey. But the lunch remains vegetables in a similar portion in 170 g and 50 g of mashed rabbit. |
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78 |
Wiped chicken + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
3 + 170 |
½ + 28 |
Wiped rabbit meat + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
79 |
Rubbed chicken + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
8 + 170 |
1 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
80 |
Wiped chicken + corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
16 + 170 |
3 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
81 |
Wiped chicken + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
22 + 170 |
4 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit meat + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
82 |
Rubbed chicken + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
30 + 170 |
5 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
83 |
Wiped chicken + corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
40 + 170 |
7 + 8 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
84 |
Chopped chicken + cereal, cooked from millet + 1 tsp. Butter |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + squash + mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
At the first morning lure we add to the food of the baby the next fruits. For example, a pear. It will be an addition to the already received kashkam. For lunch, the child continues to receive the already familiar vegetables (170 g) and mashed meat (50 g). |
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85 |
Wiped pear + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
3 + 170 |
½ + 28 |
Wiped rabbit meat + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
86 |
Wiped pear + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
8 + 170 |
1 + 28 |
Wiped chicken + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
87 |
Wiped pear + corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
16 + 170 |
3 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
88 |
Wiped pear + buckwheat porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
25 + 170 |
4 + 28 |
Wiped chicken + wiped vegetables (Savoy) + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
89 |
Wiped pear + rice porridge + 1 tsp. Butter |
35 + 170 |
6 + 28 |
Wiped rabbit + patisson rubbed + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
90 |
Wiped pear + corn porridge + 1 ч.л. Butter |
48 + 170 |
8 + 8 |
Wiped rabbit + Brussels sprouted mashed potatoes + 1 tsp. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
91 |
Wiped pear + porridge, cooked from millet + 1 tsp. Butter |
60 + 170 |
10 + 28 |
Wiped chicken + squash puree + 1 teaspoon. Sunflower oil |
50 + 170 |
8 + 28 |
In the future, having before the eyes of this table can be gradually, one product, similarly introduce other lures. The main thing after adding a new food product to the baby's diet is to closely monitor his reaction. If there are allergy symptoms or other unpleasant symptoms, this product should be removed from the child's menu, be sure to consult a pediatrician. Over the next few days, you should not introduce new products. Let the baby's body calm down.
After a while you should try to add another, new, lure to the food . And to the controversial food, with the permission of the doctor, you can try to come back a little later.
Feeding a newborn by months with breastfeeding
As practice shows and many years of research in this area, the lure of a newborn by months with breastfeeding should begin with about six months of age of the child. But this indicator is purely individual. To assess how much the baby is ready to expand his diet, it is worth analyzing a number of factors:
- The kid is able to sit on his own.
- Nice stuff in the pens.
- His weight has doubled compared to the one with which he was born.
- The child becomes interested in what the adults eat. He makes attempts to take something from the dish of the parent.
- The kid is able to refuse, turning away, from a food product, which he does not like.
- It stops pushing the tongue out of the mouth.
- The feeding time is longer. This is due to the fact that the mother's breast is already empty, but the baby is not full yet.
- He needs more breasts.
- The baby is healthy.
Earlier, half a year pediatricians are not recommended without the obvious need to introduce complementary foods. After all, in this case, the amount of milk produced by the mother's breast decreases, and the newborn in this regard ceases to receive a sufficient number of special substances that provide his body with nutrients and contribute to protection from external pathological infestations.
Before the start of the expansion of the food assortment of the newborn, experienced mothers and pediatricians recommend that young parents start a "Diary of introduction of complementary foods", which will record: the time of product introduction, its name, quantity, type of heat treatment and the reaction of the baby to the product. In case of an allergic reaction, the diary will help to track the product - the culprit. It is because of this that the new product is introduced into the morning feeding. In this case, there remains a bright time of day for the observation of the child.
In six months, if the baby is ready to change his diet, doctors recommend starting with vegetable purees. After a few days, one teaspoon of vegetable oil can be added to the vegetables. There can be any, but in our country - it is mainly sunflower. It should also be remembered that the first vegetable oil is introduced into the lure from vegetable oils and only then butter.
Gradually from 6,5 - 7 months porridges cooked primarily on water can be introduced. Gradually, various cereals are added to the baby's diet. Primarily you can start with buckwheat, then add rice and so on.
From 7 to 8 months old, the baby can already be offered fruit purees. Primarily choose fruits with a faint color (red fruits are introduced in the last turn). The first - monopure, with a gradual transition to fruit purees - assorted.
At 8 months, the baby's body is ready to take meat food. The first product of this category should be dietary meat. It can be a rabbit, a chicken, a turkey. At the same time, you can give an egg. But first start with protein.
In the period from 8 to 9 months the baby can be offered already familiar to him porridge, but cooked on the basis of milk, with the addition of a teaspoon of butter.
When the baby reaches 9 - 10 months old, his body is ready to take bakery products. This can be a biscuit biscuit, for example, such as a zoological, "Maria". Up to one-year-old age, no more than 5 pieces per day are allowed.
If the baby has reached the age of nine months, sour-milk products may appear in his diet, including kefir and cottage cheese. At first, these are products of reduced fat content, without any additives: yoghurt, kefir, biochefe. From ten months they are allowed to add fruit fillings or other products.
In the same period it is allowed to offer the baby meat by-products (liver, tongue, heart). Primarily, the menu introduces a homogeneous puree, one - two meals a week, and starting from a year to a year and two months, you can enter dishes slices.
At the age of ten months, the menu can already be expanded with fish, but not more than two meals a week.
Even before recently, it was believed that the first lure should be taken fruit juice, but to date, medicine has a different opinion. Fruit juices, necessarily dilution with water in a ratio of 1: 2 or 1: 3 should start giving the baby only from 10 to 12 months of age. Primarily introduced diluted juices, prepared from light and greenish fruits, only gradually the intensity of color can be added, turning to red fruits.
When the baby reaches the year, his diet can be varied with gluten groats (milk porridge): semolina, yak, millet, pearl barley. Primarily offered is a highly digested monocomponent porridge. Gradually turning to more friable options.
And only at the age of one year a child can get a puree of berries on his table.
When switching to the next lure, young parents should adhere to a number of rules:
- First, the crab should be cooked on the water, you can add a mild expressed breast milk in them.
- One and a half month after the introduction of monocash, you can go to the groats - assorted. That is, mixtures of cereals and cereals.
- Initially, the use of seasonings, including sugar and salt, is not allowed.
- Do not inject a new product during a baby's illness or active teething.
- Do not immediately give your child large amounts of new food. The kid in general can refuse to feed, and this process will have to start from scratch.
- If the child refuses to eat a new product. You can cheat by adding a drop of expressed breast milk to the dish or sweetening, for example, fruit puree. The solution depends on the product being introduced at this stage.
- If it is planned to vaccinate, then two days before it and four - five after, the baby's menu can not enter a new product.
- Do not change the diet, when the street is exhausting heat. After all, the thermoregulation system of a small person is not yet perfect, from the heat it suffers very much and the body does not experience experiments with food.
- You should not hurry with the introduction of a new complementary meal, if a long trip is planned, moving to a new place of residence. This is especially true when changing climatic zones. Only after two to three weeks of adaptation you can resume the feeding schedule.
- Between the feedings it is worth gently offering the baby some water.
If the parents will withstand all the recommendations and schedule of introduction of complementary foods, they will be able to avoid many health problems of the little man, growing him healthy, strong and developed.
The birth of a child is a period of increased joy and excitement for young parents. Particularly difficult and responsible is the first year of the baby. It was during this period that he needed to learn and learn many things, including eating a variety of foods. To ensure that the products are not harmful to the still fragile body, parents should know the schedule and correctly introduce complementary feeding by months during breastfeeding. If all the recommendations of the pediatrician are met, adaptation to the new food will pass quietly, without any difficulties. And let your baby grow up healthy and happy!