I. Daily nutritional intake and daily diet schedule
Continue breastfeeding or formula feeding, and start adding complementary foods gradually. The amount of milk should be about 750-850ml per day, and supplemental foods should be added once a day. At 4 months, iron-fortified rice flour can be added, and all supplemental foods should be fed by small spoons, so that babies can learn and get used to using spoons and fully exercise chewing and swallowing functions.
Second, complementary foods added
1, the principle of complementary foods added, the order, frequency
(1) Principles.
① start with iron-fortified rice flour, varieties from a single to multiple varieties; each time a new variety is introduced 3-5 days later, then add another;
(2) Amount from less to more;
③Texture from thin to thick, gradually increase the thickness of the texture of complementary foods to exercise the ability to chew and swallow;
④Adhere to the small spoon feeding, each feeding time does not exceed 30 minutes;
⑤ feed when hungry and in a happy mood.
(2) Order: iron-fortified rice flour first, followed by vegetable puree, fruit puree, then fish puree, liver puree, soy products, and finally pork, beef, lamb, chicken, and duck meat.
(3) Frequency: 1 time per day;
2, the family commonly used mud paste food production
Nutritional rice flour: rice flour and warm water to 1:4 to make a paste.
Egg yolk puree: boil the egg, take out the yolk, press it into a puree with a spoon, add a small amount of boiling water or milk modulation.
Apple puree, banana puree: scrape the puree with a spoon.
Fish puree: Steam the fish, remove the bones and crush the fish into puree with a spoon.
3.Common problems in the process of adding complementary foods and countermeasures
(1) Do not eat or picky eaters: It is recommended to feed complementary foods when the child is healthy, happy and hungry, and insist on feeding with a small spoon. A new complementary food added, need to insist on feeding, let the child repeatedly try, so that the child has a familiar process, but do not force-feeding.
(2) Nausea, vomiting food: the increase in food texture should be a gradual process. At the same time, insist on feeding every day, so that the child has more opportunities for oral movement, to gradually learn to swallow, chew, stir function; complementary foods are spoon fed, at the beginning, as far as possible with a spoon to put the food into the back of the baby’s tongue, can avoid the baby a tongue reflex to spit out the food.
Common causes of reduced milk intake and countermeasures
1.Common causes.
(1) Too little movement;
(2) Frequent feeding of plain water;
(3) Decrease in growth rate and natural milk intake;
(4) too many times to add complementary foods.
2.Countermeasures.
(1) increase the amount of exercise, including less hugging, daily touch exercises 1 time, passive exercise 2 times;
(2) suspend the feeding of plain water, in fact, exclusive breastfeeding or formula-fed infants, do not need to frequently feed plain water;
(3) insist on feeding on time, 20-30 minutes per feeding, no force feeding, no forcing the infant to drink all the milk in the bottle.
(4) Control the number of complementary foods added, while the number of complementary foods fed once a day during 4-6 months of age;