4 months after the baby, breast milk can not fully meet the nutritional needs. At this time, we must add supplementary foods to children. What issues need to pay attention to when adding supplementary foods? What are the types and practices of complementary foods that are most suitable for baby absorption? Take a look at this article to know.
Add food supplements, step by step
As the baby grows, four months later, breast milk can no longer meet his needs for nutrition. At this time, parents can consider adding supplementary foods to their children, but adding complementary foods will be a problem for all mothers. Infants eating a new type of food are often unfit, and his digestive and absorptive functions are immature and prone to gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore, adding supplementary foods must abide by certain principles:
1, the amount of addition should be from less to more;
2, food should be thin to thick, from fine to coarse, from liquid to semi-liquid to solid food;
3, add food types, should also be accustomed to the same plus another kind: one can not add a successful child can not think that the child does not like or not adapt, can try to eat later; feeding should have patience, can not be forced. After each new food is added, close attention should be paid to its digestion. If stomach stagnation, vomiting, abnormal bowel movements or other conditions are found, such supplementary foods should be suspended. When the gastrointestinal function returns to normal, feed it again from the starting amount or smaller. In case of illness in children, do not add new food supplements;
4. Gain a flexible grasp of the variety and quantity of supplementary foods: In the specific feeding, appropriate adjustment should be made according to the characteristics of your child. The objective indicators for judging whether feeding is appropriate are: babies do not cry after eating, sleep well, digest the stool, and gain weight.
5. The supplement food can be added after the breastmilk or milk powder is fed, or it can be added during the feeding of breast milk or milk powder.
6, feeding with a spoon, so that children are accustomed to eating with a spoon, and exercise swallowing ability.
There are four bogey to add food supplement
Malnutrition is a common disease in infants and young children, and the incidence of infants under the age of one year is particularly high. In addition to congenital factors (such as premature birth, twin births, weight, congenital malformations, etc.). The vast majority of malnutrition is caused by problems with acquired feeding, especially due to the unreasonable addition of supplementary foods. Common are the following situations.
1, too early
For infants who have just left their mothers, the digestive organs are delicate, the digestive glands are undeveloped, and the secretion function is poor. Many digestive enzymes have not been formed yet. If food supplements are added prematurely, the burden on the baby's digestive function will increase, and foods that cannot be digested will not be retained in the abdomen, but will cause bloating, constipation, and anorexia. This will increase bowel movements, increase the number of ambassadors and the number of ambassadors, and eventually lead to diarrhea. Therefore, babies born within four months must avoid prematurely adding supplementary foods.
2, too late
Some parents are afraid that their children will not be digested and are too cautious about adding complementary foods. The child has already passed four months. Still only breast milk or milk, milk powder. As everyone knows that the child has grown up, the need for nutrition and energy has increased. Light to eat breast milk or milk, milk powder can no longer meet the needs of its growth and development, it should be reasonable to add complementary food. At the same time, the child's digestive function has gradually improved, and the taste organs are also developed, and the conditions for adding supplementary foods are already available. In addition, at this time, the immunity obtained by the child from the mother's body has been almost exhausted, and her own resistance is needed to be produced through the increase of nutrition. At this time, if the supplementary food is not added in time, the child will not only be affected by the growth and development, but also Lack of resistance leads to disease. Therefore, children who have been born four months later should start adding complementary foods.
3, excessive
Although children can add complementary food, but the digestive organs, after all, are still very soft and can not be rushed too fast, should be gradually added depending on the digestive function. If you add it arbitrarily, it will also cause your child to have indigestion or obesity. Let the children do whatever they want, what they want to eat, and how much they want. It will also cause nutritional imbalances, and develop bad dietary habits such as partial eclipses and picky eaters. It can be seen that adding complementary foods is also inappropriate.
4, too fine
Some parents are too cautious to give their children homemade food supplements or commercially available baby nutrition foods are very delicate, so that children's chewing function is not due training, is not conducive to the eruption of teeth and eruption of teeth after the arrangement of the food has not been Chewing also does not produce a taste that neither can afford the child's appetite. It is also not conducive to the development of taste, and cheek development is also affected. In this way, children can only eat porridge and noodles, do not eat vegetables, make a little negligence, they will nausea and vomiting, so they simply do not eat or vomit. In the long run, the child's growth will not be ideal, but it will also affect the development of brain intelligence.
What should pay attention to when adding food supplement
Dairy foods are the main food for infants, but they should be added in time as the infant’s body grows. Infant gastrointestinal tenderness, if not according to the size of the child's age and the actual needs, add an excessive amount of supplementary food, or in the infant when the illness is still eating as usual, can cause infant indigestion and vomiting and diarrhea and other phenomena. Therefore, you must be very careful when adding supplementary foods.
According to the baby's digestive power and nutritional needs, add complementary foods should gradually increase the variety. Try one beforehand and wait for the baby to adapt after 3-4 days or one week before adding another. From less to more, from light to strong. In case of too hot weather, the baby is susceptible to indigestion and can postpone the addition of new foods. It will be gradually added after the weather is cooler. After each new food is added, close attention should be paid to its digestion. If stomach stagnation, vomiting, abnormal bowel movements or other conditions are found, such supplementary foods should be suspended. When the gastrointestinal function returns to normal, feed it again from the starting amount or smaller. In the event of a child suffering from illness, all kinds of supplemental foods (except for fruit juices) should be stopped and recovered after recovery.
The above is a general problem that should be noted when adding complementary foods. However, infants have large individual differences and need to be flexible in the variety and quantity of supplemental supplementary foods.
Supplementary food preparation method
Orange juice: 1 orange, wash the skin, cut in half; each half will be placed on the juicer plate to rotate several times, and the juice can flow into the tank and be filtered and serve. Each orange is about 40 ml juice. Drink 1x when drinking.
Tomato juice: 50 grams of mature tomatoes, a little sugar, warm water amount. Wash the tomatoes, soften and peel them with boiling water, then chop them, wrap them in clean double gauze, and squeeze the tomato juice into the small pots. Put the sugar in the juice, drink it with warm boiled water, and drink it. Pay attention to fresh, ripe tomatoes.
Carrot soup: carrot 50 grams, a little sugar, 50 grams of water. Wash the carrots, chop them, place them in a steel pan, add water, and boil for about 2 minutes. Use gauze filter to remove residue, add sugar, and mix well.
Apple sauce: Apple 1/8, a little sugar. Wash the apples, peel and remove the seeds, then cut into thin slices, then put them into the pan and add a little sugar to cook. Add a little water after boiling for a few minutes, and cook until the paste is over medium heat. Use the back of the spoon after the ceasefire. Grind it.
Mashed potato: 1/7 potato, 1 tsp milk, 1/4 tsp butter. Wash the potatoes, peel them, cook them in the pot, or steam them. After cooking, ground the potatoes with a spoon and grind them (also available in the market as mashed potatoes). Add milk and butter, stir and cook until they are sticky.
Sweet potato mud: sweet potato 50, a little sugar. Wash the sweet potatoes, peeled, chopped and smashed, add a little warm water, put it in a pot and cook for about 15 minutes until it is overripe, add a little sugar, and cook it a little.
Egg yolk mashed potatoes: Filter 1 tablespoon of mashed potatoes and 1 tablespoon of chopped apples. Take 1/2 of the cooked egg yolk to filter; boil the potatoes and soft filter, add the egg yolk and milk to mix, then set a little heat on fire.
Four-month baby multi-day meal plan
6-7 am: breast milk
9 am: Add 1/4-1/2 egg yolk
11-12 pm: Breast milk
2 pm: Puree (optional: apples, bananas, pears, oranges) Breastmilk
4 pm: Vegetable puree (optional: carrots, spinach, potatoes, green leafy vegetables) Breast milk
6-7 pm: rice flour, breast milk
10-11pm: Breastmilk
Midnight: Breastmilk
(Note: The time in the above table is not a punctual point. It is only an approximate time. It depends on when the child wakes up. In addition, there are many choices for puree and pureed purée. We confirm that there is no allergy according to the principle of adding supplementary foods. Add another after the reaction)
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