My aunt is a new mom who adds complementary foods to her child when she is five months old. Because I didn't pay much attention, I saw that the child always wanted to eat, so I fed a little more complementary food to the baby. As a result, at night, the baby's stomach is uncomfortable, he has been crying, and there is no way to rush to the hospital. The doctor checked the child's symptoms, said it was indigestion, gave the child a stomach massage, and the child slowly calmed down. It can be seen how important it is to master the knowledge of scientific complementary foods.
Adding complementary foods is a very important step before your baby is weaned. Many novice parents are inexperienced and easy to step on some unnecessary blind spots in the process of adding complementary foods to their babies. To help the baby grow up nutritionally and healthily, the following shares the 5 knowledge points that must be known to add complementary foods for the baby science.
Knowledge point 1: There is a reasonable period of time for adding complementary foods
Some babies in 2-3 months will stare at the adults when they eat, and the elders look at the baby who wants to eat and can't eat, thinking that the baby doesn't want to eat food, should he add some complementary food to the baby?
It is unscientific to add complementary foods to the baby during the period of 2-3 months. 2-3 months of the baby's digestive system is in the stage of development and perfection, more importantly, the lack of amylase, if this stage is added too early to supplementary food, the baby is not only difficult to digest, but also very easy to affect the baby's gastrointestinal health.
Some parents, hoping that the baby's gastrointestinal development is a little more perfect, consciously push back the time of adding complementary foods, thinking that the later the addition, the better. If the baby adds complementary foods too late, iron, vitamin D, vitamin C and other nutrients can not be supplemented for the baby in time, resulting in unbalanced or insufficient nutrition of the baby, which will have a certain impact on the normal growth and development of the baby.
Teacher Cui Yutao suggested that the best time to add complementary foods to the baby is from April to August, and the specific time of addition should be determined according to the baby's time.
When the baby sees adults eating, the baby shows great interest, and from time to time drools, with a small spoon or chopsticks into the baby's mouth, to test the baby's reaction, if the baby does not refuse, that is the baby to send a signal that needs to add complementary food.
Knowledge point two: the better the nutrition of the complementary food for the baby, the better
Many parents are always caught in a misunderstanding, and it is always not wrong to add complementary food nutrition to the baby as much as possible. Such as adding natural honey, freshly squeezed juice to the baby and so on. Honey is a food with high nutritional value, but honey is relatively sweet, if you give it to the baby, it will stimulate the baby's taste development prematurely, and for a long time, it will affect the baby's interest in other complementary foods with weaker taste, which is easy to cause the baby to be picky.
In addition, you can not use freshly squeezed juice to hydrate the baby, the sugar content of juice is relatively high, long-term to the baby to drink juice, if the baby drinks habits, there will be no interest in boiled water. In addition, juices with high sugar content are also prone to tooth decay.
Scientific advice: Bao Dad and Mom should pay attention to adding complementary foods to the baby, not that the more nutritious the food, the better. Ensuring that the nutrition needed for the baby's growth and development is the key to adding complementary foods.
Many novice bao dads and babies are more delicate, especially when adding complementary foods, always afraid of food choking on young babies, or not fine food should not be digested to affect gastrointestinal health, so all kinds of complementary foods for babies must be beaten into a batter to rest assured, which is also undesirable.
We all know that if the food is beaten into a batter, most of the nutrition of the food itself will be lost, which is not conducive to the baby's absorption of food nutrients. If you give the baby a long-term meal of batter-like food, if you do not exercise the baby's chewing function in time, it will affect the baby's tooth arrangement and development, as well as the intake of rough food in the future, so as not to get some special nutritional supplements.
Teacher Cui Yutao suggested: To add complementary foods to the baby, you must know how to do it step by step, and the baby's food should gradually change from thin and thin to coarse and thick. It is necessary to change the fineness of the food as the baby's teeth develop, and gradually let the baby adapt to various foods.
Knowledge point four: fruit is not the more you eat the better
Fruit sweet and sour, high nutritional value, some babies eat fruit to eat a mouth non-stop, many parents look at the baby want to eat to give, think of eating more fruit Baili without harm, this is a big mistake. Although the baby likes to eat fruits, especially bananas and apples, but the baby's stomach capacity is limited, too much intake of fruit, intake of other foods less, easy to lead to unbalanced absorption of nutrients by the baby, affecting the healthy development of the baby.
Scientific advice: to scientific and reasonable intake of fruit, the baby's intake of fruit before the age of 1 should be moderate, when 1 year old, the intake of fruit can be moderately increased according to the situation.
Knowledge point five: It is not advisable to add salt early
As the saying goes, eating more salt is strong, but in fact, this is a wrong concept. Some elders always hold the traditional concept that eating salt is strong, and always want to add salt to the baby's complementary food to enhance the baby's strength and help the baby stand firm. Scientifically, this is not true.
The kidneys of infants and young children are still in the perfect stage, and adding salt and other substances to the baby early will invisibly increase the burden on the kidneys, and when the baby grows up, it will also cause a series of kidney diseases. At the same time, over time, it will also make the baby develop the habit of "heavy taste".
Scientific advice: the baby should not add salt before 8 months, infant food supplements should be based on original food without additives, salt and various spices do not need to be added, after the age of 1, the baby can taste sweet and light food.
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The addition of complementary foods is a crucial and important part of the baby's growth and development process, and it cannot be ignored by the parents. The addition of complementary foods can supplement the baby's development needs of high-quality protein, vitamin C, vitamin D, iron and other rich nutritional elements, to make good use of the golden time of adding complementary foods, to ensure the nutritional elements of food, to grasp the fineness of food and food intake. Reasonable addition of complementary foods allows the baby to absorb balanced and adequate nutrition, and helps the baby to develop well in all aspects.
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