Hello, everyone. I'm Tingma.
After my friend Peach gave birth to the baby, it was almost 5 months in a flash. Recently, she began to study baby food supplements, and occasionally asked me in WeChat what food to choose and how to choose?
Regarding baby food supplements, many novice mothers do not understand at first, either ask the elders, or ask friends, or read parenting books, I think, most of them are these three ways.
At that time, most of them were asking my mother, after all, my mother raised me and my sister, I think she should be experienced.
Experienced mothers know that they can start adding complementary foods to their babies around 6 months old. Also, the baby's first supplementary food is baby high-iron rice noodles. Because rice noodles are easy to swallow, easy to digest, and low in allergenicity.
Why add complementary foods to your baby?
Some babies are exclusively breastfed, some may drink formula, some babies may be mixed feeding, either way, by the time the baby is about 6 months old, it is time to add complementary foods.
Because the baby is about 6 months old, their digestive system is gradually developing perfect, growth and development is relatively rapid, the need for a large number of nutritional elements, in order to provide adequate nutrition for their growth and development, to make up for the lack of simple dairy products, it is necessary to add complementary foods to promote the healthy growth of children.
Moreover, the addition of complementary foods can train children's gastrointestinal function, chewing function and other physiological functions.
What are the principles for adding complementary foods to your baby?
For babies under one year of age, although they have begun to add complementary foods, milk is still their main source of nutrition, so the most basic principle of adding complementary foods to babies is to gradually, from less to more, so that the baby has a process of adaptation.
Because the baby has always been mainly milk, suddenly added complementary food, the stomach may be unacceptable at once, there may be diarrhea or indigestion.
So when we add complementary foods to the baby, we must try a small amount first, first see the baby's reaction, if there is no diarrhea, allergies and other phenomena, and then slowly add more.
Moreover, the baby's gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, the initial complementary food, should be soft grain easy to digest, to be relatively thin, such as when we add rice flour to the baby, to adjust relatively thin, so as to reduce the baby's gastrointestinal digestive burden.
When the baby grows up slowly, the gastrointestinal function is more and more perfect, and the characteristics of food can also be appropriately adjusted.
At 6 months, the baby can eat pureed food; at 7-8 people's months, it can be thick and mushy food; at 9-11 months, the baby can eat mud-like food with particles; when 1-1 and a half years old, you can give the baby crushed buty food; 1 and a half-year-old babies, the baby can eat slightly chopped home cooking.
In addition to food traits, when we add complementary foods to the baby, we should pay attention to adding only one at a time, and then add another one after the baby adapts. After each addition of a food, first observe whether the baby has symptoms of allergies, and if there is an allergy, stop immediately.
It is important to note that your baby should not add salt to food before the age of one. Before I heard a mother say that adding a little salt to the baby's food can make the baby more appetiteful, and the baby's strength will be greater, I don't know where she heard it.
We all know that sodium chloride, the main component of table salt, is widely present in our daily food, and sodium in breast milk and formula is enough to meet the needs of the baby. Therefore, the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" proposes that babies under 1 year old do not need to eat additional salt.
Moreover, in the stage of the formation of the baby's taste, the addition of salt in the process of making complementary foods is not conducive to the baby's taste of the natural taste of the food, and also affects the formation of the baby's light taste.
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I am @ Ting Ma Alan, a 10-year-old female bao mom, a national certified nursery teacher, family education lecturer, committed to sharing parenting experience in small stories, welcome to pay attention to me, and accompany the growth of children together.