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When it comes to wanting your baby to be healthy, smart and develop well, don't make a mistake when adding complementary food. There must be corresponding principles.
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Children's health needs balanced nutrition. After 6 months, it is impossible to meet the growth and development needs of children by relying solely on breast milk. Adding digested and absorbed complementary food to children can make them absorb enough nutrition, which is beneficial to their health.
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Breast milk is good, but it contains less iron. Especially after 6 months, the iron brought by the child from the mother's body is exhausted, and the child must be supplemented with iron through complementary food.
Sufficient iron can deliver enough oxygen to the child's brain, which is beneficial to the development of the child's brain.
Adding complementary food can also supplement DHA necessary for children's brain and vision development, making children smarter.
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Children can only grow taller when they are full. If you keep drinking liquid milk and don't give them reasonable complementary food, their nutrition will be insufficient, which will affect their height.
Rule 1: add meat for 7 months and eggs for 8 months.
Many mothers think that when adding complementary food, children should eat egg yolk before eating lean meat.
In other words, meat should be added earlier than egg yolk, because the iron content in meat is relatively high.
Children need iron 10 mg every day after 6 months, and it is urgent to supplement iron for children. Adding complementary food is the most important thing. The iron content of egg yolk is not high and the absorption rate is not high, so give the child meat before eating egg yolk.
Principle 2: Add vegetable oil as appropriate within 7-9 months.
Children began to add complementary food. If the child has no meat food and the fat content is low, consider dropping a few drops of vegetable oil for the child.
The daily vegetable oil should be controlled within 5 ~ 10g. After all, children who eat too much fat will have indigestion.
Add vegetable oil to children instead of animal oil, because vegetable oil is easier to digest and absorb.
Principle 3: Eat complementary food twice in 9 months.
Children add complementary food, which is to make children gradually transition from drinking milk every day to eating rice, so the amount of complementary food is added step by step.
Generally, children can eat complementary food twice a day after 9 months. There are some granular foods in the complementary food, mainly to exercise their chewing ability. After the child's teeth are trained, his pronunciation will be clearer in the future.
Principle 4: Don't eat coarse grains and spices before one year old.
Coarse grains refer to foods with high dietary fiber content, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams and taro.
Miscellaneous grains: Chinese yam, highland barley, black rice, Redmi and sorghum.
Miscellaneous beans: red beans, eyebrow beans, red beans, corn, etc.
It is beneficial for adults or pregnant women to eat more of these foods in the second month, but for infants with weak gastrointestinal digestion, these foods are difficult to digest, and whatever they eat will be pulled out, which will also hurt the child's stomach, so it is not recommended to eat them before the age of one.
Seasonings such as salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate or chicken essence will only increase the burden on children before one year old and are not recommended.
Principle 5: The complementary food structure should be reasonable.
Children always eat three kinds of food.
Staple food: rice, flour.
Meat and eggs: chicken, duck, mutton, fish and eggs.
Fruits and vegetables: all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
The ratio of the three foods is 2: 1: 1.
Divide children's food into four parts, two are staple food, one is meat and eggs, and the other is fruits and vegetables.
Many parents add complementary food to their children at will. Children eat whatever they like, and often the fruit exceeds the standard. Parents are advised to pay attention to reasonable collocation.
Principle 6: Ensure milk quantity.
Before the child is one year old, the daily milk quantity is 750~900 ml to meet the child's demand for high-quality protein and various nutrients, while complementary food only helps the child learn to eat and supplement some nutrients.
The ratio of milk and complementary food from one year old to one and a half years old is 1: 1. In other words, when a child drinks a meal of milk, he eats a meal of complementary food, and the calories provided by milk and complementary food each account for 50%.
After one and a half years old, ensure that children have 500 ml of milk every day.
Principle 7: Food is fresh and original.
It is best to buy fresh meat for children, not canned meat or ham sausage.
To buy vegetables for children, it is best to buy fresh ones in the market.
The fruit that children eat is as fresh as possible.
Children's food should be made on the day of purchase as much as possible to reduce the time in the refrigerator and avoid being contaminated by other foods in the refrigerator.
Fruits, in particular, should eat original fruits instead of drinking fruit juice.
Children's complementary food is very particular. If a mother doesn't know the ropes, she will cheat her children. For example, children don't like it or they don't digest it, and even children are allergic.
That's because it is unreasonable for parents to make complementary food for their children. Parents are advised to buy a complementary food every week to eat.
The author is Liu Changwei, a nutritionist for children, who has rich experience in complementary food consultation and is a parenting mentor in the hearts of millions of mothers.
The complementary food is made according to the growth and development, nutritional needs and gastrointestinal characteristics of children, from 6 months to 3 years old, once a week. Including the required ingredients and methods, this dish is mainly written clearly for the baby to eat.
There are also misunderstandings that parents are prone to in the process of adding complementary food. Mom can know if she stepped in the pit.
Mothers who bought a lot of cookbooks shouted. Fortunately, they bought this book, otherwise their children would be buried in the pit by themselves.
There is a big difference between the north and the south. The nourishment of the north depends entirely on millet eggs, and the real name envies the southern maternity.