How to correctly introduce complementary foods? How to start feeding?

Starting with four months of the baby's life, many parents introduce lures. How to correctly introduce complementary foods? How to start feeding? These questions are asked by almost all mothers and dads.

Many pediatricians (who live and work according to Soviet textbooks) will argue that it is necessary to start lure with apples (baked, grated or juices), but an apple for a baby, which is harmful for four to six months. Since the baby's body received only mother's milk or an artificial adapted mixture, apples can cause an allergic reaction.

So still, when to start feeding the baby?

Lure the baby can begin already with four months (if the child is on artificial feeding) - six (if your child is a baby). You can of course neglect these recommendations if your baby:

- very often eats (it means that your milk or mixture does not give saturation to the child and it remains hungry for you),

- already has teeth (even if one tooth is cut through, the baby will require food that can be chewed),

- sitting (when the child sits alone - you can enter the lure),

- begins tongue to push out the spoon from a mouth (since three months of the child it is possible to drink from a tea spoon).

Now the answer to the second question of interest is: "How correctly to introduce the feeding of a child?"

Every mother understands her baby without words. She clearly knows what he needs and at what time.

How to correctly introduce complementary foods? It can be started with vegetables, fruits or dairy products. If you decided to start with vegetables, you first need to give the child to try a vegetable or fruit, and then every day gradually increase the amount of the product. Begin with a half teaspoon, then increase the amount twice, until at a time the child will not eat one hundred and fifty grams. In a week, when the baby will eat the first product with pleasure, then you can start to introduce the second vegetable or try to give fruit. The principle of entering the second and subsequent products is the same as the first.

Vegetable purees can be bought ready-made or prepared by yourself. After the child adapts to vegetables and fruits, juices from these products can be introduced slowly. It is advisable not to give the baby concentrated (pure) juice, but diluted. Dilute the first time you need this way: one part of the juice to five water (water should be boiled and room temperature). This drink is given to the child for about two weeks, then it can be made more concentrated: some juice and four parts of water. Up to ten months, the baby is better to give a diluted juice (one part and one part), and from this age you can give pure juice.

If you decide to start lure with dairy products, then it is desirable that it was skim cottage cheese. It can be soft, tender or with not very large grains. Then you can enter kefir. The principle of complementary feeding is the same as with vegetable lure.

Many parents experience difficulties in introducing a child to the diet of the baby. How correctly to introduce complementary feeding of porridges? When the baby gets used to dairy and vegetable-fruit products, then you can try to cook porridge for him on milk or without it. Lure of porridge, usually, begins two months after the introduction of new products in the diet of the child. The first cereals that can be used for cooking cereals are manna, oatmeal, millet. In a week or two after the introduction of these cereals, you can cook already buckwheat and rice.

Closer to seven - eight months you can try to give the baby meat. Gradually give separately, then mix with vegetables or porridges. Soups (not fatty) can be given already from nine months.

When you begin to feed a baby, remember that inattention and hurry to the child can only do harm. Nature has already endowed your child with everything necessary, you only need to keep everything neat and develop. If everything is done correctly and follow the reaction of the baby's organism to the new in the diet, then questions about how to correctly introduce complementary foods - will not arise. If a child has red spots on his body, a rash, a stool with mucus, then it is too early for him to give this product. Stop injecting complementary foods until the stool is restored and the rash recedes. Lureen should not be introduced a week before and a week after vaccination. The body is weakened and it is not known how it will react to new foods.