Feeding children - how not to make mistakes

Lure of children is an introduction to the baby's menu of new products, in addition to breast milk and mixtures.

According to the rules of modern medicine lure Is being introduced now from six months. It is needed to form a chewing reflex in the child, which in the future will contribute to correct speech. It will also expand the set of nutritional nutrients and fiber, which are absent in breast milk and mixtures. Lure of children is also needed in order to accustom the baby to a solid and thick food and a gradual transition to an adult type of nutrition.

If the child is not gaining weight badly in the absence of any diseases, he quickly experiences a feeling of hunger or the mother decreases the amount of breast milk - this is an indication for the introduction of complementary foods.

The following rules apply:

1. Lure Is introduced from six months only to a healthy child. Also, do not enter the lure in the heat.
2. If the child has a shortage of weight, first enter the milk-cereals, if, on the contrary, the excess - vegetable purees.
3. In six months, you can enter 2 complementary foods, at seven - 3, from the ninth to the twelfth - 4.
4. Feeding is given before breastfeeding or mixtures from a spoon, each new product is administered from small doses.
5. Until ten months they breastfeed or mix, after ten - do not overfeed.
6. Each new product should be monocomponent, for better assimilation it can be diluted with milk, the next new product can not be administered earlier than 2 weeks after the introduction of the previous one.
7. Children can be fed only freshly prepared foods, without adding any spices. Do not force a child to eat by force.
8. After the introduction of a certain product, you need to carefully monitor the condition of the child, his skin and stool.

Milk cereals are introduced from six months with a lack of mass in the child. Feeding infants begin with 50-100 ml, gradually increasing the volume, at ten months it should be about 200 ml. For cooking porridge, buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, cooked in baby milk or mixed.

With vegetable purees and soups begin if the child has an excess of mass. From vegetables, potatoes, cabbage and patisson are ideal, after eight months you can give pumpkin and beets. After seven months, soups are boiled on a meat broth in the same volume as porridges.

Meat products can be given from six and a half to seven months. Suitable veal, turkey, chicken and rabbit meat, which need to be cooked in the form of minced meat, from seven months - in the form of meatballs, from nine months - steam cutlets. First, meat is given 2-3 times a week, with time it can be up to 5-6 times. Begin with 5-20 grams, gradually increasing the mass to 60 grams in twelve months. Up to three years the child should not be given sausages, sausage and liver.

Cottage cheese is introduced, like meat, from six and a half to seven months. Cottage cheese should be prepared independently, using a leaven or baby milk.

The yolk (hard-boiled) is given to the child from seven months, beginning with 1/8.

Fruit purees can be used as a lure of children up to a year, starting from six months. At first they should be one-component, to start better with apple.

Juices enter from six and a half months, first a few drops a day, start with apple, then give carrots. Juices should be entered carefully, you can not start with orange or grape juice, add sugar to them and quench their thirst.

Both butter and sunflower can be given from six months, beginning with half a teaspoon. The amount of oil in the future should not exceed one teaspoon.

Wheat bread is given from eight to nine months of 5-10 grams, gradually increasing the rate.

Fish are introduced into the feeding of children from nine to ten months - no more than once a week. Fish can only be given by the river, because the sea is very allergenic.