As babies grow up day by day, breast milk can provide nutrients is no longer comprehensive, but also in order to let the baby from slowly adapt to the gradual transition to human solid food, in preparation for weaning, complementary foods are added with the same great significance as breastfeeding.
A. Start time for complementary foods: from 2-3 months.
Second, the type of food added at each time.
2-3 months: juicy food, small amount of juice, cooked vegetable juice.
April to June: pureed food, rice flour paste, wheat flour paste, starchy porridge, egg yolk, soy protein powder, tofu, whole milk and other high-protein foods, leafy vegetable puree, fruit puree.
7-9 months: broken foods: starchy foods such as thin porridge, rotten rice, cookies, bread, buns, etc., spineless fish, whole eggs, liver puree, animal blood, minced meat, soy products, milk powder or whole milk for older infants, raked vegetables, scraped fruits.
10-12 months: crumbly foods: thick porridge, soft rice, cookies, noodles, bread, buns, spineless fish, whole eggs, liver, animal blood, minced meat, soy products, larger infant formula and whole milk, vegetables, fruits.
There is a four-word mnemonic: fragmentation (juice, puree, broken, broken)
Third, the types of complementary foods at each month of age to follow the needs of the doll have their own focus
March: focus on brain food additions: animal brain, liver, blood, egg yolk, walnuts, sesame, peanuts, yellow cabbage, spinach, carrots, oranges, bananas, apples, brown sugar, millet, corn.
April: focus on supplementation with foods high in iron to prevent anemia: egg yolk (1/3), rice paste, various red-colored vegetables and fruits.
May-June: Continue to supplement iron-rich foods, expand the variety of starchy foods and increase protein: rice paste, egg yolk (1/2-1), spineless fish, tofu brain, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, carrots, tomatoes.
From July to September, focus on micronutrients: coarse mother such as soy products, corn, millet, buckwheat noodles, whole eggs, minced meat, liver puree, various fruits and vegetables, fungus.
After October: focus on comprehensive, a combination of plant and animal foods, coarse and fine, milk, eggs, meat should have, 3 times a day to form a rule.
Fourth, the addition of complementary foods on the method.
Add complementary foods are from a spoonful to start, a complementary food for a few days in a row, adapt to a kind of then add the next, the amount from less to more, quality from thin to thick, class from simple to complex, with a single to rich. Don’t let your doll eat only the food you like, and don’t force your baby to eat the food he still won’t eat after many attempts to feed him, to master the feeding plan, to provide a safe, warm and quiet eating environment.
Five, some things, destined not to eat.
Food not suitable for under 1 year old: coffee, chocolate, cola, strong tea, glutinous rice products, rice bubbles, peanut rice, melon seeds, fried beans, fatty meat, too salty, too sweet, too spicy, too cold, brined food. suspend the addition of new complementary foods during the disease.
Six, eating milk, one day is to stop.
Weaning is a meaningful event in a baby’s life, and it marks the beginning of a baby’s ability to “stand on its own”. If one day Chen Bolin is weaned, I will definitely say to him in a serious way: “Son, after several months of training, my father has taught you the skill of “eating”, so you will never be afraid of going hungry again!
Weaning must be planned, usually starting in October, choose a time when the baby is not sick and has a good appetite, and gradually replace breast milk with whole milk powder as the main food with the regular addition of a variety of complementary foods every day. You should take the approach of reducing breastfeeding one by one until you stop breastfeeding completely. If the foundation of complementary foods is not laid properly before, there will be troubles when weaning.