When to add complementary food to your baby and what to pay attention to. First, the knowledge of adding complementary food to the baby 1, when to add complementary food to the baby
If the baby is artificially fed, some complementary foods can be added after 3 months. If the baby is exclusively breastfed, in principle, there is no need to add complementary food before 6 months.
2. What complementary food does the baby add?
Baby after 3 months, vegetable juice, fruit juice, light rice soup and fish soup are all good complementary foods. Vegetable juice and fruit juice can supplement vitamin C and minerals for the baby, and rice soup and fish soup can provide protein for the baby besides dairy products.
3. How to add complementary food to your baby?
After a trial of 1-2 months, the baby gradually adapted to the taste of ordinary food, and by the time of 5 months, he could feed the baby some thin paste complementary food. Rice paste, batter, melon paste, bean paste, vegetable juice paste and fruit paste are all good choices.
4. The principle of adding complementary food
Adding complementary food should follow the principle of from less to more, from one to more. According to the baby's nutritional needs and digestive ability, it gradually changes from single to rich.
Second, DIY production of baby food supplement 1, apple carrot paste: wash the fruits and vegetables in half, peel the apples, remove the core and chop them, cook the carrots and juice them, pour in the broken apples and boil them, add a proper amount of honey and stir well.
2. Vegetable puree: take a proper amount of fresh green leafy vegetables without pesticide pollution, wash them, mash them, remove the vegetable tendons, put them in a pot with vegetable juice, add a proper amount of vegetable oil and salt, and cook them to make vegetable puree. After drying, you can feed it to your baby with a spoon.
3, meat foam: choose fresh lean meat (pork, beef, mutton, chicken), chop it into meat foam, add seasoning and steam it in the pot, and grind it into fine foam.
4. Fish paste: Cut the washed fresh fish into small pieces, add a little salt to the water and cook. After removing the fishbone and skin, grind the fish, and then add the fish soup to the pot to cook. After mixing the starch evenly, put it in a pot and cook it until it is paste.
5, rice porridge: millet, rice, sorghum can be, but it is best to use water 1 hour before cooking, which is easy to rot when cooking. The consistency of porridge varies from thin to thick according to the child's size and digestive ability.
6. Green vegetable porridge: porridge can be cooked. Before the cease-fire, add the washed and chopped green vegetable heart and salt, mix well, and cook for about 10 minutes. Vegetables can be spinach, cabbage, rape, etc.
7. Chicken liver porridge: After the chicken liver is cooked with boiling water, change the water and continue to cook for 10 minute, peel and press it into mud, put it back into the pot, add soy sauce and white sugar, stir well and boil.
3. Precautions for the baby to eat complementary food for the first time 1. Let the baby sit well: let the baby sit all the time or let the baby sit in the baby chair (please make sure that the baby has been tied with a belt first) to avoid suffocation.
2, observe the baby: feed the baby with a spoon, but if the baby turns his head away or cries, it means that he is not ready to eat complementary food. You can try again in two days.
3. Observe the stool: If you find that your baby's stool is dry and constipated after adding rice flour, you can let your baby replenish more water, or adjust the ratio of rice flour to water to make the rice flour thinner. You can also add apple puree and banana puree to the rice flour to help your baby digest.
4, pay attention to allergies: every time you try a new food for your baby, you can know which food will cause your baby's allergic reaction. If a certain food will cause problems for the baby, the baby will vomit or get a rash, and even have diarrhea.