Introduction: Add complementary foods to your baby, don't be too casual! Pay more attention to these aspects to avoid making mistakes and hurting babies
Every baby grows up, to experience from the milk to eat the process, and this process needs to add complementary food to the baby, on the one hand, in order to let the baby slowly adapt to food other than milk, the future can better accept the meal, on the one hand, in order to supplement the lack of nutrition, to meet the baby's physical development.
When it comes to adding complementary foods to the baby, many people are confused, do not know how to start to do, some people will only soak rice paste back and forth, and some people are not cooking rice porridge or cooking soft noodles, often do this, no matter whether the baby is tired of eating or not, anyway, parents must be bored, are you doing this?
The wrong addition of complementary foods will delay the growth of the baby, and will also affect the baby's physical health. Add complementary foods to your baby, don't be too casual! Pay more attention to these aspects to avoid hurting the baby by mistake, please take a look at it.
First, remember the time to add complementary foods
Most babies grow up to about six months old, he will be interested in food other than milk, you can also start to add complementary foods, it is best not to add too early, because too early, the baby is not much interested in food, want to feed can not go in, forced to feed, the baby will have a sense of disgust with food, and if the baby is too small, his digestive ability is not good enough, eating is easy to appear constipation, indigestion and other situations, affecting physical health, so do not add too early, the earliest can not be earlier than 4 months old.
Of course, it can not be added too late, when the baby is interested in food, if the parents do not notice, or blindly feed, this will make the baby less interested in food, not added at the right time, it is not easy to add it in the future. There are also babies who only drink milk, and their nutrition cannot keep up, delaying physical development, so do not add them too late, no later than 7 months of age.
Second, remember the rules of adding complementary foods
Add complementary foods to the baby, not too casually, complementary foods can not be too single, can not always do mud food, can not give a large piece of nibble at the beginning, can not always do too soft food, can not start too hard food, look at the following rules.
Baby just began to contact with complementary food, to add reinforced iron rice noodles, it is not recommended to make homemade rice noodles or boiled rice porridge, fortified iron rice noodles are more suitable for babies who have just eaten complementary foods, watching the baby adapt very well, you can add different rice noodles, and then slowly add ingredients to the rice noodles, such as fruit puree, lean meat puree, etc., so that the baby gradually accepts a variety of ingredients.
Observe that the baby adapts well, and can make some foods that can slightly grind teeth, such as original teeth grinding biscuits.
From the shape should also pay attention to the change, at first it is rice paste, then mud, then to a softer solid, and then to strips, blocks, hard food, and gradually change to let the baby adapt.
The purpose of this is to slowly exercise the baby's chewing ability, swallowing ability, digestion ability, grasping ability, and the baby's ability to eat, which is very helpful for the baby's growth.
Third, remember to add complementary foods to avoid allergies
Everyone's adaptation to food is different, such as most people can eat eggs, but some people can not eat eggs, eat will be allergic, so to add complementary food to the baby to be cautious, the first time to eat food that has not been eaten, do not mix other ingredients, this is easy to observe, once the occurrence of allergies, it is easy to know what to eat caused allergies, such as after eating three days there is no abnormality, indicating that you can continue to add.
If you find that you have eaten an ingredient that is allergic, don't add it again, and try again after a few months.
Fourth, remember not to give your baby an adult meal prematurely
Some parents are afraid of making complementary foods, so they will give the baby rice to make soup, and some parents see that the baby reaches out to eat adult meals, so they give the baby some to eat, which is not right, especially before the age of one year, the baby must not touch the adult meal.
Because the adult meal is relatively hard, the taste is heavy, it is not suitable for the baby to eat, after eating it will hurt the body, there will be indigestion, etc., it will also make the baby picky eating problem, and so the baby no longer accepts the lighter meal, so often eat meals that are too heavy, the baby's body can't stand it.
Are you doing all of this right? If not, please correct it in time.