What should you pay attention to when adding complementary food to your baby? What should you pay attention to between staple food and complementary food? Generally, when you want to add complementary food to your baby, new mothers encounter many problems: when should you add complementary food to your baby, 4 months or 6 months? Should you add rice flour or egg yolk first? How to arrange the time for your baby to eat milk and complementary food & hellip; & hellip; here, We have carefully selected 10 most representative questions to answer.
1. When should complementary food be added, 4 months or 6 months?
Junxi branch of Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang New Town: there is a process for the time of adding complementary food: in the 1990s, it was thought that complementary food should be added from four months; at the beginning of this century, it was thought that complementary food should be added from four to six months; in 2002, the World Health Organization put forward that complementary food should be added from six months, which is more scientific, No earlier than 4 months and no later than 8 months. But, also according to the baby's specific problems specific analysis, such as digestion function is not very good baby, complementary food add time had better be slightly delayed.
2. What phenomena suggest that our baby is ready to add complementary food?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang new city Junxi branch: in addition to the age of months, there are some signs that we can add complementary food to the baby: A. when the baby is breastfed more than 6-8 times a day or the total milk quantity of formula milk is 1000 ml, the baby still appears hungry and unsatisfied. B. When the weight of a full-term baby is twice that of the baby at birth (or the weight of a baby with a birth weight of less than 2.5kg is 6kg), enough milk can be given, but the weight gain of the baby is still not up to the standard. C. The baby began to be interested in adult food. D. When the spoon or baby's special spoon is put to the baby's mouth, the baby will open his mouth or suck, and can send the food back and swallow it.
3. What should be added to baby's first meal, rice noodles or egg yolks?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: in the past, we thought that the earliest food to add to the baby should be egg yolk, but now the consensus of children's health and nutrition experts is that the baby's first meal should add fine Cereals, the best is to strengthen the iron baby camp rice noodles. This is because, on the one hand, fine cereals rarely cause allergic reactions; on the other hand, after 4-6 months of age, the iron stored in the mother's body is gradually depleted, and the iron content in breast milk is relatively insufficient. During this period, the baby's demand for iron is significantly increased, and it is easy to develop iron deficiency anemia. The baby's special rice flour contains an appropriate amount of iron and is easier to absorb than the iron in the egg yolk. Therefore, in the latest feeding guidelines for infants aged 6-12 months formulated by the Chinese Nutrition Society, the order of supplementary food addition is: ① cereal food (such as infant nutritional rice flour); ② vegetable juice / mud and fruit juice / mud (attention should be paid to vegetables before fruits); ③ animal food (the order is egg yolk mud, fish mud, whole egg, such as steamed egg soup, poultry, animal meat mud / minced meat / meat floss, etc.).
4. How to control the amount of complementary food? How much is suitable for the first meal?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang new city Junxi branch: the amount of supplementary food should be determined according to the baby's nutritional needs and the maturity of the digestive system, and in fact, there are still large differences in the food intake and digestion and absorption of different babies. In general, complementary food must be added from a small amount. For example, feeding baby nutritional rice flour can start from 10 grams once a day, and gradually increase to 10 grams twice a day, and then to 20 grams twice a day.
5. Do you want to reduce the amount of milk after adding complementary food? How to arrange the feeding time of the baby?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: for babies from June to December, although it is necessary to add supplementary food in time and reasonably, milk is still the main source of nutrition for infants at this stage. In order to ensure the normal growth and development of the baby, take 600-800 ml of milk every day, and it is best to continue breastfeeding until the baby is 2 years old. If breastfeeding cannot be guaranteed for various reasons, the older infant formula should be mixed or artificially fed. Due to individual differences in the amount of food consumed by different babies, the whole day milk can be fed about 4 times, such as in the morning, noon, evening and before going to bed. The feeding time of small babies can be 5-6 times, and the feeding time of babies close to 1 year old can be reduced to 3 times. At first, the time of adding complementary food should be between two meals of milk, from once a day to twice a day, and gradually increase the amount of each time, and finally to replace 1-2 meals of milk. It is suggested that 6-month-old babies should try complementary food 1-2 times a day; 7-9-month-old babies can have one meal (cereal, vegetable, animal food) and one snack (fruit, bread, biscuit, etc.) every day; 10-12-month-old babies can have two meals and one snack every day.
6. Can we use microwave to heat and make complementary food?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: at present, there are still some disputes about using microwave oven to heat and make complementary food. It is generally believed that the bottled processed baby food on the market can be heated by microwave oven according to the product instructions, such as opening the bottle cap or pouring out the water to heat. Microwave oven is the same as ordinary heating method, which can damage some vitamins, such as vitamin C and B vitamins. Therefore, it is generally recommended that vegetables should be boiled in short time, and other complementary foods should be steamed, boiled, stewed and other conventional heating methods, but it is not strictly prohibited to use microwave oven to heat complementary foods. For some busy working mothers, it's a good choice to use the microwave oven to make some complementary food for the baby.
7. If the baby refused, what should I do?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: it's not a logical process for some babies to accept the taste and eating style of complementary food. After understanding the baby's basic physiological and psychological development process, you need to help the baby learn and adapt to this process with maximum patience. At the beginning of feeding a certain kind of food, most babies will go through the process of licking, reluctantly accepting, food whirling in the mouth, spitting out, and then feeding until they swallow it successfully. Sometimes it takes several times to more than ten times, and after many days of repeated attempts, the baby can accept a new kind of food. The baby's first or second refusal does not mean that he does not accept the food, and parents should not easily label the baby as' picky 'or' not eating XX 'food. If the baby is unwilling to eat a new food, don't force him to try it every 1-2 meals or even every few days. Need to remind is: it is best not to put rice flour and other paste food in the bottle to feed the baby, because this may not only increase intake, resulting in overweight or obesity, but also may lead to the baby's long-term dependence on the bottle habit, affect the oral development process from eating paste food to solid food.
8. How long does it take to observe after adding a new complementary food? How do you know your baby has accepted this kind of food?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang new city Junxi branch: add complementary food from one to a variety of, each add a new complementary food, should be observed for 3 to 7 days, to see if there is any allergic reaction or indigestion. The common allergic reactions were diarrhea, vomiting and rash. If the baby has no abnormal reaction within 3-7 days, you can continue to add the next one. To observe the baby's systemic reaction, especially whether there is obvious change in stool characteristics, is a relatively simple way to determine whether the baby has adapted to a certain food. Whether the baby is allergic to some food, in addition to genetic factors and some auxiliary tests, but also often through repeated attempts to determine the food. When the baby one by one to accept the taste of a variety of food, you can change the pattern of each meal, choose 2 to 3 kinds of food mix and match to feed the baby. In the infant stage, the baby should be exposed to a variety of food as far as possible, which is conducive to the balanced intake of nutrition, and develop a good habit of not partial to food and not picky about food.
9. When adding complementary food, how to cultivate baby's good eating habits?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: the process of adding supplementary food to the baby is not a 'cramming' nutritional supplement, but a good parent-child communication process between the mother and the baby. The family should create a good dining environment for the baby, including a relatively fixed dining location, and gradually form a relatively fixed dining time. When feeding complementary food to the baby at first, it should be carried out when he is in good mental state and mood. Adults should sit face to face with the baby and make language, movement and eye contact with the baby with a smile. Pay attention not to use TV, toys, story books and so on to attract the baby's attention, can not play while eating, can not chase feeding, to help the baby develop a good habit of eating attentively. At the beginning of feeding complementary food to the baby, you can prepare a small spoon, which can play and practice grasping. The baby aged 7-8 months can grasp the food by himself. When the baby is 10-12 months old, you should encourage him to eat with the spoon by himself, even though he may make a mess around the table, and don't bother to clean up, Deprive the baby of this learning process! Let the baby realize that eating attentively is a novel, interesting and joyful activity.
10. How to let the baby accept a variety of food?
Guangzhou Yucheng Home Economics Wuyang Xincheng Junxi branch: before the baby is 1 year old, it is recommended that in addition to ensuring 600-800 ml of milk, you can eat 40-110 g of cereal, 25-50 g of vegetables and fruits, 1 egg yolk or egg, 25-40 g of fish / Poultry / livestock meat every day. When making baby's diet, you should pay attention to less sugar, no salt, no seasoning, but you can add a small amount of edible oil, 5-10 g every day. Here are a few points to remind parents: ① not necessarily every meal should be a comprehensive match, as long as the whole day or even a few days of diet, roughly balanced arrangement of the above categories of food can be. ② Vegetables and fruits can not replace each other, because the content of vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber in vegetables is relatively high, while the content of carbohydrates, organic acids and other components in fruits is relatively high, and the taste is more sweet. It is suggested that we should eat vegetables every meal and fruits every day. ③ Fruit juice can not replace fruit, because the processing process of fruit juice will make vitamin C, dietary fiber and so on all suffer a certain loss. Although 100% pure fruit and vegetable juice can be diluted and fed to the baby, when the baby can eat semi-solid and solid food, fresh fruit should be cut into small pieces and fed to the baby. ④ Encourage your baby to try a variety of foods instead of forced feeding. Parents should always pay attention to the type, shape, color, taste, collocation of food, and do not put too much rice in the bowl each time. After eating, the baby should actively give appropriate praise.
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