Baby add the correct order of complementary food, parents should pay attention to, do not blindly add!

My friend’s daughter is about to be six months old and is about to enter the stage of adding solid food. Recently, she has been asking me how to add solid food. On the one hand, she is very excited, her daughter grew to half a year old, marking the beginning of the exploration of food other than breast milk, on the other hand, it is very headache, as a new mother, do not know how to add complementary food to the baby, what things to pay attention to in this process.

Not only my friends, I believe that many new mothers will encounter similar problems, here to discuss the topic of parenting, hoping to give some help to the baby mothers.

First to understand, why to add supplementary food to the baby?

Complementary food, is the baby in addition to rely on breast milk, intake of another kind of auxiliary food. With the development of the baby’s body, the body’s demand for a variety of nutrients gradually becomes larger, simply relying on breast milk has been unable to meet its demand.

Iron is in even greater demand, and babies only take iron out of their mothers for about five months. When the baby is 4 to 6 months old, the body’s demand for iron has been close to that of an adult man, and breast milk is iron-poor food, so the baby needs to take iron from other foods outside the world to ensure its own development needs. On the other hand, gradually add complementary food to the baby, can exercise the baby’s chewing and swallowing ability and gastrointestinal digestion function, to adapt to the future chewing and digestion of various foods.

When is the best time to add solid food and how to add the first bite?

The best time to add complementary food is recognized by the medical community after 6 months. It is also mentioned in the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese residents that babies need to be exclusively breastfed before 6 months and can gradually add complementary food after 6 months. The baby’s first bite of complementary food should be mushy food rich in iron elements, which can be high iron rice flour or red meat mud.

In order to improve the operation of mothers, they usually choose high iron rice noodles.

It needs to be emphasized that the rice flour mentioned here is not ground into rice at home, the main ingredient in rice is starch, the baby eats this rice flour, almost no nutrition, should choose specially suitable for babies to eat rice flour.

When trying to add rice flour to your baby for the first time, you can mix rice flour with breast milk or formula, so that your baby’s stomach and stomach can adapt to the rice flour more smoothly.

When flushing should be in accordance with the order from thin to thick, from less to more, add a little rice flour in breast milk. The baby’s stomach is particularly delicate, and the rice powder should be smooth to ensure that the baby can swallow and digest smoothly.

After trying to feed the baby, observe whether the baby has rejection phenomenon, whether there are symptoms of diarrhea allergy, if the above phenomenon is not, 2 to 3 days later, you can gradually increase the amount of rice flour.

Mothers do not worry when increasing the amount of muscle rice flour, this process is not to ease the baby’s hunger, the purpose is to train the baby’s body to gradually adapt to other foods other than breast milk, to avoid the increase of too much.

The order in which complementary foods are added

After the baby adapt to rice noodles, you can gradually add a little vegetable puree in rice noodles. Vegetable puree should be selected in accordance with the order of roots and leaves gradually added, at the beginning can choose carrots, potatoes, pumpkins and other peas, etc.

Peas have the highest iron content and are the first recommended vegetable.

Leafy vegetables can be green leafy vegetables such as spinach and rape.

To make it, you can first cook the vegetables to be added, cut them into small pieces and put them in a blender until they are mashed.

During the addition of complementary food, try to add only one kind each time, observe whether the baby has allergies or diarrhea phenomenon, gradually apply 3~5 days later, you can add other kinds of vegetables.

The production of complementary food is mainly natural, do not give her salt or soy sauce and other condiments before the baby is one year old, although the online sale of all kinds of soy sauce for babies, but the iodine content is still not suitable for babies to eat, easy to increase the burden of muscle baby liver function. A little natural walnut oil is recommended as a supplement.

After adding mushy foods to your baby for a while, try making semi-solid foods such as mushy noodles, porridge, red meat mince, and soft crushed vegetables. After the baby’s chewing function and digestive system develop more mature, you can try some solid foods, such as: fruit grains, vegetable grains, potato cubes.

To sum up, the shape of food is a process from paste to semi-solid to solid.

Do you want to feed the baby after adding supplementary food?

Old people in the family often say that after the child is half a year old, breast milk is not too much nutrition, this is a pure misunderstanding. Compared with the nutrition content of milk at birth, although later reduced, but at any time, the nutritional content of breast milk is irreplaceable for any other food.

It is recommended that in the case of sufficient milk, adhere to breast-feeding the baby, the baby before 6 months, mainly through breast milk intake, after 6 months as far as possible to maintain the intake of 600ml~800ml of breast milk every day.

After the age of 1, the daily demand for breast milk can be reduced to 360ml~500ml, and complementary food has gradually become the leading role on the baby’s table.