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From birth to a child, every day is changing, from babbling to a child who is bouncing around.
Every day of childhood is important, especially the first two years of a child's birth, which are the most critical two years for the child and the two years for the parents.
At this time, our feeding plays a decisive factor, when we feed well, the child grows healthy, and if we do not feed well, the child is not healthy.
And after the child is just born, either drink breast milk or drink milk powder, and then add complementary foods, how to add complementary foods to the child, what to eat is very critical.
When we don't master it well, it is a fatal injury to the child.
In particular, giving the child's first bite of complementary food, giving the wrong one has a great impact on the child's physical health.
When can my child eat complementary foods?
It was shocking to have such a relative in my hometown.
Shortly after my family's Rui'er was born, their daughter was also born, and the difference between them was more than 3 months.
After Rui'er was born, because I had no milk, I kept eating milk powder, and after staying at home for a long time, I took the child back to my mother's house.
After going to my mother's house, my mother told me a shocking thing, my mother said that when relatives confined their children, they began to drink noodle soup.
That is to say, the food that the child eats is breast milk and noodle soup, and later when the child is more than 2 months old, he begins to eat for the child.
The meal she ate was the meal she chewed her own rice and fed it to the child.
Many people in her hometown told her that this is not only unhygienic, but also too early, and it is unhealthy for the child's body, but she does not feel it, but says, I am not sick, how can it be unhygienic.
From more than 2 months, the child has been eating, and then the child to more than 6 months, the stomach is very painful, and finally went to the hospital to check and found that the child's intestines have problems, especially the small intestine, there is a partial necrosis.
The fundamental reason is that the child is fed too early, the child's intestines are too young to accept, and finally there is a problem.
Children eat complementary food is very exquisite, once the feeding is wrong, the child's body will inevitably have problems, but when should the child be fed complementary food?
In fact, children can generally be fed complementary foods slowly from 4-6 months old.
Because at this time, the child is growing, the body's nutritional needs, breast milk or milk powder can not be satisfied, so at this time, we can slowly add complementary food to the child.
The first bite of complementary food is given wrong, and it is very harmful to the child
The first bite of complementary food has a great impact on the child's body, if the first bite of complementary food is wrong, the damage to the child's body will become very large.
When the child reaches 4-6 months, the need for nutrition is higher, and at this time, milk powder or breast milk can no longer meet the needs of the child.
In the bite of complementary food, the most important thing is the nutritional density, we must give the child a high nutritional density of food, especially the demand for protein, at this stage the child's demand for protein is very high.
In general, when children reach 7-12 months, they need to consume 20g of protein per day.
If you give the child the wrong first bite of complementary food, the harm to the child is huge.
I have seen such a poor child, when the child is more than 5 months old, the grandmother began to add complementary food to the child, in the concept of the grandmother, the life that his son ate when he was a child gave the child what he ate when he was a child, so he gave the child a meal made at home, which put vegetables and meat.
After eating it, the child did not digest, and finally was hospitalized, and it took several days in the hospital to recover.
The first bite of complementary food is wrong, not only toss the child, but also has no benefit to the child's body.
What does your child eat in his first bite?
And what to eat for the first bite of complementary food for children?
First of all, make sure that you must not eat adult meals, can not eat vegetables, can not eat meat, these children are unable to digest, and the best complementary food is containing high protein, iron and other trace elements of rice noodles.
When the child eats the right first bite, the body can develop normally, not only can the child absorb the nutrients needed, but also give the stomach and intestines a buffer time to slowly develop.
Many mothers give their children the first bite of complementary food, will choose high-speed rail rice noodles, such complementary food is very helpful to the child's body, can let the child absorb the nutrients needed, but also to ensure the normal development of the child's stomach and intestines.
There are many parents who give their children the first bite of either noodle soup or meals, which are indigestible to these children, and we must not give our children to eat.
How to eat complementary foods to be healthy?
Eating complementary food, not for the child to eat, but to pay attention to the way and method, eating complementary food also has a specific method, once given wrong, the child's young body is also unacceptable.
Therefore, when giving children complementary foods, you need to pay attention to the following points:
(1) The time to eat complementary foods should not be too early or too backward.
Why should children eat complementary foods? In fact, the child's body needs more nutrients, and at this time, breast milk and milk powder can no longer be satisfied, at this time we need to add complementary foods to the child.
Some mothers are afraid that complementary foods are not good for the child's health, so they dare not add to the child, resulting in the child for more than 8 months, and has not yet eaten the supplementary food, which is not good for the child.
Some mothers want their children to grow up early, so they will add complementary foods to their children early.
In fact, too early or too late is not good, for the child's body, is not a good thing.
Complementary foods should be added according to a reasonable time, generally 4-6 months is the best time.
(2) How much to eat in the first bite of complementary food?
When children add complementary foods, many new mothers do not know how much to add.
In fact, adding complementary foods to children is a gradual process, that is, at the beginning, give children a little bit of food, and then slowly increase.
For example, when you give your child two spoonfuls for the first time, you can give your child two spoons, a normal-sized spoon, and you can give your child a meal on the first day.
Give your child to eat once, almost for about 3 days, you can give your child to eat twice a day.
This lasts for almost half a month to a month, and then you can slowly let your child eat three times a day.
Generally after giving the child three times, you can also give the child back food.
(3) Time to eat complementary foods
When eating complementary foods, you must not give the child to eat early in the morning, the child's body is not acceptable, you can choose to be more than 2 pm to 4 o'clock in the afternoon time.
During this time, the child is acceptable, the child drinks milk several times in the morning, and the child's stomach still feels empty at this time, so at this time we give the child a complementary food just right.
When you start giving your child two complementary foods, you can choose more than 10 o'clock in the morning and more than 5 o'clock in the evening.
If you give your child three times, you can choose more than 9 o'clock in the morning, 12-13 o'clock in the afternoon, and 5-6 o'clock in the evening, and you must split the time to give your child complementary food.
(4) How to do complementary foods?
Wood flour and milk powder, are the same, are need to be flushed, at the beginning the child will not like to drink rice noodles, at this time we can first use the brewed milk powder to flush rice noodles, so that when the child drinks rice noodles, there is a milk flavor, the child is willing to eat rice noodles.
Generally, when using boiling water to flush rice noodles, as long as you follow the instructions, there is no problem.
The first bite of complementary food is very important, once you eat wrong, it is fatal to the child, so no matter when, you must not give the child a complementary food.
Before giving children to eat, we must learn more, see more, when we know how to give children the first bite of complementary food, there will be no mistakes, and it will not cause harm to the child's body.
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About the Author:
Rui Mama, a child psychology researcher, writes with one hand and carries a baby in the other, sharing with you the secrets of parenting.