When it comes to baby feeding, many new parents will have a general concept: the baby can breastfeed and eat breast milk, if you can't breastfeed, you can add milk powder, and at 6 months, you have to add complementary foods.
And slowly, is the time for the baby to add complementary foods really to 6 months?
A bao mom asked me backstage that she had read a lot of feeding parenting books in order to raise her baby scientifically. But the idea of books fighting each other makes her wonder, especially when it comes to "adding complementary foods."
Some books say that the baby can try complementary foods at 4 months; some books say that it is best for the baby to add complementary foods later, at least until after 6 months, if some babies are weak and have poor tolerance to complementary foods, they may be later.
So, is there an exact time to add complementary foods to your baby? Is it the standard 6 months, or can it be earlier, or later or it doesn't matter?
In fact, to add complementary foods to the baby, the criterion for judging is not simply to look at the age of the month, but to see the signal given by the body. Because babies have different individual developments, the time when these signals appear in the body is not the same, so it is inaccurate to say "6 months" in a one-size-fits-all manner.
According to the Recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), babies turn 6 months old before they can start trying to add complementary foods. However, because each baby's development status is different, the WHO has made a supplementary note: the time to add complementary foods to the baby cannot be earlier than 4 months, nor can it be later than 8 months.
During this time period, as to when it can start, it depends on the signals sent by the baby's body.
When your baby's body sends the following signals, it means that complementary foods can be added:
Signal one: The baby can look up for a long time, and can sit with the help of adults, and he can sit independently for a while
"Look up for a long time" and "sit alone" is a sign that the baby can eat independently, and the baby can only eat complementary foods in a sitting state to ensure that it is swallowed in place and does not choke.
Therefore, if you want to add complementary foods to your baby, you can first see if the baby's physical condition is ready.
Parents can hold the baby upright or let the baby lie on his stomach to see if the baby's head can be lifted for a long time. In addition, you can also see if the baby can sit independently for a while without the help of external forces, the time is not long, 30 seconds can be.
Signal two: The "tongue-in-cheek" reaction disappears
What is the tongue reaction? When parents take care of their young babies, they will find that if they use a spoon and water to give to the baby, the baby will often use his tongue to push the spoon out.
This is the tongue-in-cheek reaction. Because the oral muscles are not fully developed, babies cannot accept foods with coarser particles other than milk powder and breast milk.
However, if the muddy food is sent into the baby's mouth, the baby accepts it smoothly and no longer uses his tongue to top it, indicating that his tongue-raising reaction has disappeared, and the mouth and throat have developed to accept complementary foods. At this time, feeding complementary food is not easy to have choking cough caused by inability to swallow.
Signal three: The baby is interested in food
After being physically prepared, it also depends on whether the baby is mentally prepared.
Parents can set their babies aside during meals to see how they react to adult meals. If the baby sees that the adult is eating very well, he also smacks his mouth, and looks impatient and wants to participate, it means that the baby is interested in food. At this time, it is natural to add complementary foods.
But if the baby reaches the age of 6 months and has not yet shown interest in food, parents can exaggerate their expressions during meals, take a deep breath, or "ah-huh" and act happily after eating the food in their mouths. This can stimulate your baby's interest in food and speed up the process of adding complementary foods.
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