Introduction: Before the baby is one year old, how to add complementary foods? Parents should refer to the correct practices and do not mess around to hurt the baby
After becoming a parent, I deeply realized that it is not easy to raise children! At the beginning of breastfeeding is not adaptable, the pain must also be endured, tired also have to endure, and so it is not easy to adapt, but also to start adding complementary food, the process of taking care of children everywhere there are new challenges, in order to make the child grow well, do every step as far as possible not to make mistakes.
When it comes to adding complementary foods, the general baby can grow to about six months old, but some babies develop well, may grow to more than four months can be added, and some babies develop relatively late, may be delayed to about seven months, regardless of the time or evening, the practice during the addition of complementary foods is the same, you need to follow certain rules.
Before the baby is one year old, how to add complementary foods? I believe that many parents do not understand, or even do wrong. Parents should refer to the correct practices, don't mess around and hurt the baby!
Let's take a look at the 3 mistakes that parents are prone to make
1, the baby to eat complementary food stage, but parents are too lazy to do complementary food, still feed every day, think that eating breast milk is better than eating;
2, add complementary food to the baby, parents make rice paste, feel that not only is the production simple, the baby also eats well, do not know how to change;
3, found that the baby wants to eat adult meals, just do not say two words to feed to eat, never think about whether the baby can eat.
These three practices are wrong, if you are doing this, as long as there is time to correct, then change it as soon as possible, do not continue to be wrong, otherwise it will hurt the baby's body and delay the development of the body.
Within the age of one year, the way the baby handles food at different stages is different, parents take a quick look.
When the baby first starts to eat complementary foods, less than 7 months old, the baby will only swallow slowly, will not chew food, on the one hand has no teeth or just grow one or two, on the other hand will not chew.
When your baby is seven months old and less than 8 months old, in addition to swallowing food well, you can slowly crush food through your gums.
When the baby grows to nine months old, less than 10 months old, the baby's chewing ability has improved significantly.
When the baby grows to 11 months old, the baby's teeth have also grown a lot, he can chew food through his teeth, then the chewing ability becomes better, and then slowly develop, the baby and adults eat the same.
The way to deal with food at these stages is very different, so when adding complementary foods, you can't only feed rice paste, nor can you directly feed adult meals, but follow the baby's growth law.
Finally, let's take a look at how to add complementary foods?
According to the baby's growth law, it can be seen that at the beginning of the addition of complementary foods, can only do paste, because the baby will only swallow, if the particles are too large, the baby can not eat, and the paste-like food, it is recommended to use fortified iron baby rice noodles, do not make homemade rice paste, otherwise it is easy to let the baby have iron deficiency, at first can do a little thinner, and then slowly thicken, so that the baby gradually adapts.
After the baby adapts to the rice paste, that is, it is almost seven months, to change the shape of the complementary food, from paste to mud, such as carrot mud, pumpkin mud, etc., this can gradually exercise the baby's chewing ability, let him crush food with his gums, after all, the gums are not teeth, so they can only do mud, do not hurt the baby.
After the baby grows to 9 months, it is necessary to change the shape of the food supplement again, it can no longer be mud, it should be slightly larger, so that the baby can continue to exercise the ability to chew, but the food can not be too hard, because the baby is still chewed through the gums.
Finally, after the baby grows to 11 months, the food does not need to be so fine, nor does it need to be too soft, slightly harder, exercise the baby's teeth, cut the food through the teeth, and gradually move closer to the adult food.
But parents should remember that to give the baby to eat adult meals, try to delay until after the age of three, separate cooking as well, after all, the adult meal taste is too heavy, too much seasoning, not suitable for the baby. Do you understand the above? Don't mess around, otherwise it will affect the baby's ability to swallow, chew, eat independently, digestion, etc., quickly refer to it and correct it.