Many parents think that their children should start to add complementary foods at 6 months, because there is no way to meet the children's calorie needs by drinking liquid milk alone, so they must give their children some food, so that the children can be full for a longer time, the children's calories can be sufficient, and the children can sleep well at night...
If it is only too easy for the child to eat enough, casually give the child to use the rice paste that is ground at home or boil the porridge to a little rotten, you can give the child a full meal, but why experts recommend that the child just start to eat complementary food to supplement the rice noodles of the high-speed rail or the meat mud of the high-speed rail, rather than recommending that the child drink the juice first to drink vegetable juice, the most important thing is that the iron brought by the child from the mother's body is almost exhausted at about 6 months, and at this time we must give the child the food of the high-speed rail in time to meet the needs of the child's iron.
Before the child was 6 months old, because there were iron reserves brought from the fetal period, only 0.3 mg of iron was needed every day, but after the child was 7 months old, 10 mg of iron was ingested every day to meet the needs of the child's growth and development, and the demand for iron increased by more than 30 times.
Because once the child is deficient in iron, it has a particularly large negative impact on his growth and development, especially for the child's brain development. Iron as the main component of hemoglobin and myoglobin, mainly in the body can help transport oxygen, once the body is insufficient iron, oxygen transport will be affected, and insufficient oxygen Children's brain's ability to respond to decline, children's brain memory will also decline.
After the child reaches 12 months, the demand for iron rises from 10 grams to 12 grams per day. Because children need more iron for growth and development!
After 12 months, children are advised to drink less milk and eat more. Because the iron content in the milk is very low, 1000 ml of breast milk contains only 0.5 to 1 mg of iron, and the child before the age of one can drink 1000 ml of breast milk every day to meet the needs of 1/10 iron. 1000 ml of breast milk after one year of age can meet the needs of 1/12 iron.
Although infant formula milk powder strengthens iron, but the iron absorption rate in milk powder is very low, if you choose milk with high iron content for children, the child is easy to pull out the green stool after drinking it is actually the child can not absorb, iron is excreted with the stool.
Therefore, whether it is breast milk or milk, it is an anemic food iron deficiency food.
For the sake of the child's brain development and the child's health, the child must start to reduce the amount of milk and increase the amount of food for the child after the age of one.
The famous child nutritionist Liu Changwei mentioned in his food supplement book that children eat 6 meals a day after the age of one, of which 2 to 3 meals are breast milk or milk powder, and the other three meals are to eat dishes, that is, to eat complementary foods.
After the child is one year old, drink less milk, eat more benefits, parents do not be lazy
Children can drink less milk after the age of one to eat more, so the "Chinese Nutrition Association" recommends that the amount of milk per day after the age of one reaches 400 to 600 ml, which can meet the needs of growth and development, and other nutrients that are not absorbed should be supplemented by meals.
Eating more is better subsidized
Give the child more meals, that is not only to eat but also to eat vegetables, but also to eat meat, eat vegetables, eat meat can give the child easy to absorb hemoglobin iron, iron can help children transport oxygen, help the development of the brain.
Eating more helps to exercise your teeth
Most children have grown teeth after one year of age, some even have 6 teeth, and the teeth grow out mainly chewed, eating to be able to exercise the child's chewing ability, if you still drink 4 times a day 5 times of milk, then the child's tooth exercise opportunities will be relatively small, teeth do not exercise easy to exhaust the waste, and drinking more milk is also easy to lead to caries.
Eat more with attention to clear words
In fact, when we speak, we not only use the vocal cords, but also use our tongue, such as flat tongue, tongue curl will also use our lips, use our mouth, facial muscles, and the parts used to speak, in fact, eating can also get exercise, doctors recommend that eating more can exercise muscles and organs related to speech, children eat and chew ability exercise well, children speak and spit words more clearly.
Therefore, after the child is one year old, he should start to slowly reduce the amount of milk and increase the amount of food. Increasing the amount of food is not only to let children eat white rice, but also to make complementary foods for children with full color and flavor.