Super complete knowledge of baby food supplementation, including time, order and preparation, summarized from Cui Yutao’s lectures. Cui God sentence essence, summarized into a masterpiece! To the baby to add the theoretical basis of complementary food collection this one is enough! First, the role of complementary food supplementation Complementary food supplementation has a two-fold role, one is to add nutrients to make up for the lack of simple dairy products, to promote the child’s healthy growth; the second is to train the child’s gastrointestinal function, chewing and other physiological functions. The first of these is very important. Therefore, the earliest addition of complementary foods should be related to the child’s growth to 4-6 months nutrient needs. For example: complementary foods rich in iron should be added. Therefore, after 4 months of age, the child should be added to iron-rich rice flour and pureed vegetables. These foods are not only easy to digest, but also have a better flavor and shape. Rice flour is just the base, to which you can add pureed vegetables, pureed meat, broth, etc., but be careful not to add too much seasoning. As for exercising your child’s chewing ability, that must wait until your child’s molars come in. Otherwise, chewing is difficult to complete. The role of complementary food is very important, the time to add complementary food complementary food should start to add time should be full 4-6 months, should be the earliest from the full 4 months (that is, the fifth month) to start. Even if breast milk is very sufficient, it is still necessary to start adding complementary foods at 6 months of age. Adding complementary foods too early may cause allergies, abnormal bowel movements and other problems. Parents should be confident that their breastmilk is nutritious enough for their child for at least 4-6 months. Note: 4-6 months is the period of adaptation to complementary feeding. The implication is that you should not force your child to eat too much. Encourage your child to take an interest in eating, but never force your child to do so, as this may cause a psychological burden on your child. The World Health Organization recommends that infants add complementary foods after 6 months of age because the gastrointestinal tract of small infants is still immature, and adding complementary foods too early can easily cause gastrointestinal allergic reactions. Of course, the development of each child is different, the child is fully equipped to add the conditions of complementary foods can be added, but the earliest can not be earlier than 4 months, the latest can not be later than 8 months. So, how do you know whether your baby meets the conditions for adding complementary foods, and seize the opportunity to add complementary foods to him? Interested in adult meals; breastfeeding to form a regular, about 4 hours between feedings; breastfeeding 8-10 times a day, artificial feeding more than 1000 ml a day will still cry and say hungry; frequent biting of the nipple or pacifier phenomenon; drooling more; weight is twice the birth, low birth weight babies reach 6 kg, to give enough milk weight is still not long. Little help can sit up. Third, the order of adding complementary foods The principle of adding complementary foods should be gradual. The amount of complementary foods added should be increased gradually. The indicator of the increase is the child’s acceptance, not the parents’ subjective intention. After 4 months of age, the best complementary food to start with should be infant nutritional rice powder (by implication, plain rice powder). Infant nutritional rice powder is the best first supplement, which has been fortified with calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients, other supplements contain nutrients are not comprehensive. This way the child can get a more balanced nutrients, and the gastrointestinal burden will not be too heavy. Add micro letter xxbmm123 and then reply 9 can view the previously written “the world’s top 4 rice flour inventory”. Rice flour is best added during the day before breastfeeding, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, each time two spoons of dry powder (a small spoon inside the milk powder can), with warm water and into a paste, before breastfeeding with a small spoon to the baby. Immediately after each rice flour feeding, breastfeed or bottle-feed the child with formula milk. Parents must remember to keep the child full with each feeding so that the child’s eating pattern does not develop a habit of small, frequent meals. After the child eats a complementary food, offer the child milk again until the child stops drinking. Of course, if the child stops drinking milk after the complementary food, it means that the child has eaten enough. After the child tolerates this amount, you can gradually increase the rice flour. 2. After the child is 6 months old, some pureed vegetables can be added to the rice flour. (About 2-3 weeks after the child can tolerate rice flour, a little vegetable puree can be added.) 3.After 7-8 months of age, egg yolks and pureed meat can be added. Fish soup should be added later to prevent allergies. 4.Around 10 months of age, you can have two complete complementary feeding. Frequently Asked Questions about Complementary Foods for Infants IV. Simple Preparation of Vegetables Simple preparation of vegetables: Wash vegetables and put them into boiling water for about 1-2 minutes, then chop them into vegetable puree, add them into rice flour, mix them together and feed them to your child. It is best to choose the leaves of green vegetables. Alternatively, you can steam potatoes and pumpkin into a puree and mix it into the rice flour and feed it to your child. Pay attention to the practice of carrots: cut clean carrots into large pieces, sautéed in a little hot oil, and then steamed into puree in a steamer. So that in the process of steaming, the oil will be combined with carotene, in order to ensure that the child to take, the body to absorb enough carotene. V. Infant nutrition (including complementary food) FAQ 1, the first baby food is no longer egg yolk? Iron-rich egg yolks become the best choice, in fact, is the past. Now it is easier for children to absorb, and rich in iron supplements should be infant nutrition rice powder. Since, in addition to iron, egg yolk also contains some large protein molecules, which can lead to absorption and digestion problems, such as constipation. Moreover, the flavor of egg yolk is flat and the shape is dry, which is easy to cause children’s aversion. It is totally understandable that children do not like to eat egg yolks. Compared to egg yolks, the flavor and shape of fruit or vegetable purees are easily accepted by children. Egg yolk is no longer the first complementary food for infants, the current infant nutritional rice powder is. This is because it contains stronger nutrients than egg yolks, while the chances of possible adverse reactions such as allergies and constipation are much smaller than with egg yolks. Even so, we also recommend that children need to add complementary foods only after 4-6 months. 2, whether to add rice soup and porridge? The nutrition of rice soup and porridge is very limited, it is better to add infant nutritional rice powder. Rice soup will affect the baby’s milk intake. 3.How to add fruit water/juice/mud, vegetable water/juice/mud? Fruit juice contains good nutrition, but children who are used to drinking fruit juice can hardly accept white water, which is not conducive to the cleaning of the mouth. It is recommended to add fruit puree after your child reaches 4 months of age. Switch from juice to puree and encourage your child to drink plain water. There is no “thirst cure” for inducing your child to drink water. Just give your child plain water at every opportunity. (Freshly squeezed apple water is a bit strong, so you should add some water to it. Freshly squeezed carrot water is not very nutritious. This is because the carotenoids need to pass through the oil as a medium to be absorbed. Suggestion: Cut carrots into large pieces, sauté them properly in hot oil, and then steam them in a steamer to make a puree. Feed it to your child as part of a complementary diet). Purees are added between meals. Fruit purees are best not mixed with complementary foods and fed between meals. Fruit purees should be added between meals. The fruit chosen should not be too strongly flavored to avoid creating a taste dependency and anorexia and rice flour. 4 months old can have pureed fruit. Vegetable water has little nutritional value and is mainly the coloring of the vegetables. I don’t see the need to add it. Again add vegetable puree can be considered after adding complementary foods. 4.When can the child add salt? Theoretically, it should be after 1 year of age. Even then, it is only in very small amounts. For babies who are not interested in complementary foods, it may not be the child’s problem, but should be mainly due to the mistakes of adults. For example: starting to add fruit juices at an early age; giving the child a taste of some adult food while the adult is eating; giving the child frequent health supplements or unnecessary medications (calcium, protein powder, colostrum, etc.). This can induce premature development of the child’s sense of taste, resulting in the child appearing to be uninterested in formula or regular complementary foods (rice flour, etc.). Parents are advised to start with normal feeding and living and not to add salt and other flavorings to their children too early. Early and excessive salt intake can induce high blood pressure and other diseases in the child’s future adulthood. 5. Will the addition of complementary foods aggravate colic? Whether or not a child has colic has nothing to do with the addition of complementary foods. The addition of complementary foods will not aggravate colic. 6. Complementary foods for children with eczema (allergies) Children under 1 year of age, especially those with eczema, should not add milk and related foods; egg proteins; shelled seafood; soybeans/peanuts and other allergy-inducing foods. Children with eczema should start trying egg yolks later (at least 8 months). If the yolk is intolerant, stop it firmly. Soy milk should not be given to children under 1 year of age, as this may aggravate the allergy – eczema. Do not add variety to your child’s complementary foods too quickly, as this will help control eczema. 7.Diarrhea when adding supplemental food? It is especially easy to have diarrhea when adding vegetables at the beginning. Parents can stop for 1-2 weeks before adding. It is best to add the puree made of vegetable leaves to the child first, and then slowly add it up after the child has adapted to it. Now, you can give the child to take mamma love + simethicone to stop diarrhea. 8, the child does not pay attention to breastfeeding? What is the mother doing when eating milk? Whether the mother’s initiatives, such as talking and other interference in the child to concentrate on eating milk. In short, when the child is eating milk, the mother should not talk too much and should also be eating or chewing something. Teach your child through behavior that he should be eating now. 9.How can a baby quit nighttime milk? The main task of parents is to develop a more regular feeding for their children. The eating process is not only the provision of nutrients, but also the training process of behavior (eating behavior). A baby who is already 4 months old should be able to develop the habit of feeding every 3-4 hours. The longest nighttime sleep without feeding can be up to 5 hours.