Eating a year-old child: how, when and what to feed

The year is a turning point not only of the psychic, but also of the physiological development of the baby. And in order to pass this period without any problems, it is necessary to properly organize the nutrition of a one-year-old child, not forgetting both the diet and the diet. In this case, simple rules will help, which will be described below.

Feeding regime for a one-year-old child

Every mother who has breastfed her baby knows perfectly well the basic rule recommended by both doctors and breastfeeding consultants - "food on demand". Having overcome the first birthday, it should be considerably amended. So, you need to leave five basic meals.

The importance of breakfast is written a lot. This is also true for children, including those who turned one year old. This meal should be received no later than one hour after waking up.

Dinner. If the child sleeps during the day twice, then offer to have dinner the child follows between the periods of daytime rest. If the youngster has already switched to one dream, then, as a rule, the second main meal is carried out half an hour before it.

It is recommended to have a bedtime always after sleep. But dinner can be combined with the usual time for the family. Before a night rest, you can also offer the baby a dairy product.

The last remark on how to organize a diet for a year-old child is one significant rule. It should be installed in such a way that it coincides with the biological rhythm of the baby on a clearly fixed feeding clock. In this case, experts note that deviations are possible, but not more than half an hour.

Diet of a year-old baby

What to feed the baby, parents decide together with the pediatrician. However, the nutrition of a one-year-old child must include 5 food groups: dairy, meat, cereals and cereals, vegetables and fruits, sweet dishes.

The child is growing, and for its full development, it is necessary to have dairy products, including dairy products. And because the diet of a one-year-old child still includes milk. It can be both breastfeeding and its substitutes - an adapted milk mixture or milk of animals (goat or cow). In addition, you should enter cottage cheese, yogurt, yogurt, sour cream not more than 15% fat, cheese and butter.

The group "meat products" is only provisionally named so. In it, in addition to meat of animals and birds, fish and eggs are included. There is an opinion that a child must receive one of these products on a daily basis. But they should be alternated, and if during the day at least two meat products are combined, then the portion of each of them is reduced by half. So, a day a child can eat no more than forty grams of fish and no more than seventy meat. The egg should be "pampered" the baby no more than once a week.

Group "cereals and cereals" is familiar to kids and their parents first complementary foods. She also stays in the menu after a year. It is best for the child to offer porridge during breakfast or dinner, but the daily dose should not exceed a quarter of a kilogram. It should be noted that acquaintance with millet and barley is better to postpone until the age of three.

The group "vegetables and fruits" can be included in almost any meal. Every day the child is required to consume about 150 grams of vegetables and up to 120 grams of fruit. Especially useful for the baby's body are these foods in their raw form. And it is not just a beneficial effect on the work of the intestine and the preservation of vitamins. Solid, they teach the child to chew and, according to dentists, have a good influence on the formation of the appearance of the teeth. And the last advice on this group: in the menu of the child should include fruits and vegetables only for the season.

The "sweets" group is a topic discussed not only by doctors, but also by parents. But if it was decided to include them in the baby's diet, then remember that the first dessert can be a fruit salad. Since the age of one and a half years, pies from yeast dough and curd desserts have been "connected" to it. You can also offer sweets, based on fruit mashed potatoes (marmalade, marshmallow or pastille).

It should be remembered that the nutrition of a one-year-old child should be varied. At the same time, with the introduction of a new dish, parents are required to monitor, as before, the reaction to the proposed product. In case of manifestation of a negative for a while, it is necessary to withdraw it from the baby's menu and after a while again to return to it.

The above rules apply only to children whose physiological and mental development does not cause fear. If the baby has problems, the solution of which requires medical intervention, the nutrition of the one-year-old child should be coordinated with the supervising physician.