The World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the UK Government Department of Health all recommend that exclusive breastfeeding should be carried out for at least 6 months, and only after 6 months should complementary foods be introduced to babies. However, if your baby has a special constitution and has an early need for complementary foods, you can try adding complementary foods at 4 months of age. The baby’s first complementary food is preferred to iron-fortified rice flour, because rice flour is not a burden on the baby’s stomach, easy to digest, and not easy to allergic, more suitable for the baby’s delicate gut. 4 months old baby complementary food add principle Add rice paste, juice and vegetable soup appropriately, after the child has adapted to rice paste, juice and vegetable soup, begin to add protein-based food, at the beginning only add 1/4 of the egg yolk puree, never feed protein. Rice paste: rice soup is less likely to cause allergies in babies. Protein-based foods: egg yolk can be made into a paste, and some chicken liver can be added to increase iron. Juice: vegetable juice, orange juice, apple juice, tomato juice. Four-month-old baby supplement recipes Recommended Recipe One: Fresh millet paste Ingredients: 15 grams of rice. Directions: 1. Wash the rice and soak it in warm water for 2 hours. 2, the soaked rice into the blender, add a little water, mix into a delicate rice paste. 3, the paste of rice pulp into a container. 4.Pour the rice pulp into the milk pot, add about 8 times of water and heat slowly over low heat, stirring the rice pulp constantly with a spoon to avoid paste. 5, when the rice pulp boils, continue to cook for 2 minutes and then serve. Efficacy: rice paste has a spleen, and stomach, lung effect, but also beneficial, nourishing, dry function, beneficial to human development and health, and can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, and fat absorption has a promotional effect, but also to promote the formation of casein in milk powder loose and soft small clots, so that it is easy to digest and absorb. Recommended Recipe 2: Brown Rice Paste Ingredients: 80 grams of brown rice, 500 ml of water Method: 1, soak brown rice in water for 2 hours. 2.Cook the soaked brown rice into thin rice. 3.Put the rice into the blender and beat it. 4, the beaten rice will be filtered into brown rice paste, can be fed to the baby. 5.At last, serve a bowl of it. Efficacy: Brown rice contains a lot of fiber, has improved gastrointestinal function, blood purification, prevention of constipation, intestinal cancer and obesity, help metabolism and detoxification and other effects. Brown rice contains potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, manganese and other trace elements, which are beneficial to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and anemia. Recommended Recipe 3: Rice soup with minced vegetables Ingredients: the right amount of greens, a little rice flour, the right amount of stock. Method: 1, wash and chop the vegetables, rice flour with cold water until no lumps. 2, the pot with stock boil, because the stock itself has oil, so no need to add oil. Mix the rice flour while stirring and pour it into the pot, the soup becomes somewhat sticky on it, do not add too much rice flour, add more will become paste, not soup. 3, add the rice flour soup boil again, add the chopped green vegetables and stir open. 4, the soup in the pot again boil, and cook for about 1 minute. 5.When the minced vegetables are cooked, you can take it out of the pot. Efficacy: For children who do not like vegetables, rice soup with minced vegetables is a good choice. Oilseed rape is very nutritious and rich in vitamins, which is good for improving the immune system. And also can lower blood lipids, blood circulation and blood stasis, help liver detoxification, but also broad intestinal laxative, treatment of constipation. Recommended Recipe 4: Groundnut Leaf Juice Ingredients: 50 grams of groundnut leaves (edible part, about half a bowl of rice), 1 cup of water Method: 1, wash the groundnut leaves clean. 2.Put the groundnut leaves into a pot. 3.Add 1 cup of water and steam. 4. After cooking, press the juice with a spoon and feed. Efficacy: Regular consumption of groundnut leaves has the effect of preventing constipation and protecting eyesight, as well as keeping the skin delicate and slowing down aging. Groundnut leaves have health functions such as improving immunity, stopping bleeding, lowering sugar, detoxifying, and preventing night blindness. Recommended Recipe 5: Fresh Orange Juice Ingredients: 1 fresh orange, warm boiling water. Practice: 1, wash the orange, cut in half, squeeze out the juice with a juicer or other juice squeezing apparatus; 2, add the same amount or a little more warm boiled water can be. Efficacy: The vitamin C content of oranges is higher than that of pears, apples and bananas, and each 100 grams of edible oranges contains 0.6 grams of oil protein, 9 grams of carbohydrates, 26 mg of calcium and 49 mg of vitamin C.