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How to start luring a child and where?

Up to a certain point, your baby feeds exclusively on breast milk or infant formula, and his intestine is not ready for consumption of more "adult" food. However, by the age of 4 months, many mothers are thinking about introducing complementary foods. It would seem: the baby has matured enough already, and nothing prevents to start to accustom it to products of more adult food. But everything is not so simple, and there are many controversial questions about how to start feeding a child.

Firstly, pediatricians are not completely sure of when and how to introduce complementary foods in the form of purees and juices. Some doctors prescribe the training from 4 months, but most pediatricians are inclined to introduce lactation two months later - in six months. If the baby is premature or on his skin, you constantly observe allergic reactions - it's an occasion to postpone the lure at a later time and visit a pediatric immunologist-allergist, who will tell you how to start feeding the baby and select for him an individual scheme for introducing new food.

If the baby is healthy, and the doctor does not see any obstacles to the introduction of complementary foods, then before the young parents a wide selection of various tasty and useful purees, juices and cereals, which are in abundance on the shelves of children's stores and pharmacies.

Where to begin

Quite a few questions also arise about which mashed potatoes to choose first: vegetable, meat or fruit? On the one hand, the child would have liked the sweet taste of fruit puree, and the body begins to assimilate it before the vegetable - at 4 months. However, if the vegetable lure is introduced after fruit, at 6 months, a problem may arise: the child will be extremely reluctant to perceive the unpleasant taste of vegetables, having got used to receive sweet food. That is why it is much more convenient to start lure at 6 months, and with vegetable puree.

How to start luring a baby with sour milk products (kefir and cottage cheese), it is better to consult a pediatrician, but usually they are introduced closer to 9 months, when the baby finally ripens enzymes necessary for normal digestion of food. Approximately at the same time the baby is shown and the introduction of meat and puree from fish.

How to introduce porridge into lure

Pediatricians recommend using very liquid rice porridge as the first complementary food product. It is hypoallergenic, and it can be prepared in infant formula or breast milk. It will be wrong to feed the baby with liquid porridge from the bottle, because the transition to more solid food is a new stage in the development of your baby: he is accustomed to eating from a spoon, and later will do it himself.

Number of complementary foods

Now let us turn to the question of the amount of complementary foods introduced. Of course, on the first day of taking the new food, the dose will be minimal - half a teaspoon. For 1-2 weeks you need to try to teach the baby to a new taste. But it must be remembered that, starting with complementary feeding, one must offer the child only one product. It is a mistake to enter several kinds of mashed potatoes at the same time. And it's not just that the child needs to be taught to the new taste gradually. The main problem is that if suddenly the baby has an allergic reaction, it will be difficult to determine what exactly it manifested.

If you have already decided on how to start feeding a child, then you need to consider that the position of the baby should be sedentary - place it on your knees or in the high chair. Prepare to be reserved with remarkable patience. The kid will not always eat a new kind of food willingly. Perhaps there will be days when he refuses. For such cases it is better to react as calmly as possible and not to feed the baby through closed lips. Try to offer mashed potatoes after a while, and the feeding will definitely improve.

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