In general, five-month-old infants are not recommended to eat complementary foods, especially exclusively breastfed babies, or breast milk is better, it is not yet time to add complementary foods.
Breast milk or formula contains nutrients that can meet the daily nutritional needs of five-month-old babies, plus this month’s infant gastrointestinal and digestive development is not perfect, so it is not suitable to add complementary foods, it is generally recommended that babies full six months before adding complementary foods, so that the baby is good.
Complementary food to pay attention to the timing, not randomly added, if the five-month-old infant formula or breast milk can not meet the infant’s nutritional needs, you can go to consult a pediatrician or dietitian, for eligible five-month-old infants, can be appropriate to add complementary food time.