The first feeding during breastfeeding: a feeding table. How to introduce complementary foods correctly? How many months are complemented by complementary foods?

After the birth of the baby, the mother every now and then worries so that the child grows up healthy and receives a sufficient amount of useful substances. And so, after a few months of the child’s life, mothers think about the question of the first complementary foods.

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Readiness of the baby to introduce complementary foods

In addition to the desire of the mother to feed the baby with something except breast milk or a mixture, a child should be ready for such actions.

Important: Evaluate whether the following statements are applicable to the child:

the child sits in a chair, holding his head steadily;
the child does not spit on hard food;
the child requires to eat more often than usual;
the child does not allow you to eat calmly, now and then looking into your plate;
the scales show the number twice as large than at birth.

The opinion of the WHO is that at 6 months it is necessary to introduce complementary foods to the child who feeds exclusively with breast milk. If the child is on artificial feeding, then you can start a month earlier. The arguments are such that the actively growing body of the child needs to obtain additional nutrients and calories.

If you are a nursing mother and you decide to follow such recommendations, then remember that you yourself must eat fully. Only then will you provide your baby with the necessary nutrients until the age of 6 months reaches him

Why don't you rush to feed the newborn?

As you already understood, there is no need for earlier feeding. Yes, and you should not load the not yet ripened enzymatic system with new substances. The body is simply not able to absorb new substances, which means that there is no sense in their use. Besides

Important: premature load on the digestive system can provoke problems with the child’s intestines.

Mixed feeding and the first feeding of the child

With mixed feeding, the child’s body absorbs two types of products: breast milk and mixture. By adding complementary foods, you increase the load on the digestive system. Your goal is to exclude breast milk or mixture from the diet. It will be ideal to leave breast milk and complementary foods. To do this, analyze at what hours your child needs to be fed with a mixture. Replace the first to this feeding, if this does not contradict the rules for introducing complementary foods.

What product should be the first feeding of the baby?

Pediatricians recommend choosing vegetable puree for the first feeding. The first to offer the child zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli. The body absorbs these vegetables easily and allergies to them are less common than the rest. If your pediatrician now and then assures you that the child is poorly gaining weight, then start complementary foods from silent porridge. According to the same criteria, optimal cereals for starting complementary foods: rice, corn, buckwheat. Buckwheat among these three cereals is more often allergic, and rice - constipation. Consider it.

Since the taste of vegetables and silent cereals leaves much to be desired, mothers want to give the child something delicious. At the beginning of complementary foods, you can dilute fresh vegetables and porridge with fruit mashed potatoes and juices. These products are not only tasty, it is also a storehouse of vitamins.

Important: Remember: having tried delicious fruit puree, the child can abandon less delicious vegetable puree.

Scheme for the introduction of the baby's complementary

Each product begin to give with half a teaspoon and bring a portion to 150 grams within a month. Enter two or three types of vegetables first, only then start giving porridge. Or vice versa.

IMPORTANT: Do not give a mashed potatoes of two or more vegetables, or porridge of two or more cereals. This will not only give a large load on the baby’s digestive system, but also deprive you of the opportunity to determine what there is a reaction to.

Each product introduce each product for 3-5 days. If these days there is no reaction to the product, introduce a little by another, simultaneously increasing the portion of the previous one. Your ultimate goal is to replace one breastfeed or mixture with full feeding feeding. If the child after eating asks his mother to give her chest, then do not refuse. After all, most likely he just wants to drink.

Important: Enter each new product in the morning, otherwise you will deprive yourself of the opportunity to follow the child’s body to perceive it.

3 days after the introduction of a new product and in the absence of a reaction, begin to give the product at the due time

Councils of Dr. Komarovsky for the introduction of child feeding

Separate lighting is required by the theme of complementary foods according to Komarovsky. The doctor, contrary to the recommendations of most pediatricians, adheres to his personal opinion on this.

IMPORTANT: feeding before 6 months not to start. The priority of the introduction of products is as follows:

low -fat kefir. You need to start with 3 teaspoons and in geometric progression to bring to 150 ml;
cottage cheese. We start with one teaspoon added to kefir and finish 30 g. So you replace the morning feeding between 9 o'clock in the morning and 11 o'clock in the morning for a full breakfast;
milk-circular porridge: rice, oatmeal, buckwheat. We start with 3 teaspoons and similarly increase to 200 ml. Thus, we replace another feeding. It is better if it is the last, before night sleep;
vegetables. We start with vegetable decoctions. We offer the baby 30-50 g of decoction and observe, as usual. If everything is fine, then we increase the portion, and after 5 days we give vegetable mashed potatoes. Here is a full dinner for your crumbs;
fruits and juices. We give when the first tooth was cut through, but not earlier than 6 months;
meat. Introduce 2-3 weeks after vegetables. The procedure for administration is similar to the introduction of vegetables. First - broth, after - meat. So lunch becomes meat and vegetable.

The scheme for the introduction of complementary foods according to the methodology of Dr. Komarovsky will be more understandable when studying visual schemes for the age of 6, 7, 8 months, respectively.

Prepare the complementary foods to the baby or buy the finished one?

Every mother herself must find an answer to him. There is no consensus on this subject. Everywhere there are positive and negative moments.

Pros of finished products for kids:

time saving;
the opportunity to take with you on the road;
perfect consistency for the smallest;
cereals are enriched with additional vitamins and prebiotics;
the ability to diversify the diet with polycomponent dishes.

Disadvantages of finished products:

high price;
storage 24 hours after opening vegetable, fruit and meat puree. At first, the child does not eat even half of the contents of the jar, which means that the rest has to be thrown into the garbage bucket;
storage for 2 weeks (usually) after opening porridge. Similarly, when the child eats in small portions, he does not eat all the porridge in 2 weeks. So we also send porridge to the garbage bucket;
the taste of vegetable mashed potatoes is much worse than those that you can cook yourself.

The pluses of dishes cooked independently:

tastier than purchased, as a rule;
saving money;
you can regulate the consistency at your discretion.

Cons of dishes cooked independently:

the preparation process takes a lot of time;
the inability to cook outside the house;
it is difficult to diversify the dish with new tastes.

Tips and reviews of experienced mothers to introduce child feeding:

take your time. Do not rush to enter each new product. When you introduce many products in a row, and the baby will have an allergic reaction, you will be forced to cancel everything. Otherwise, continuing to feed at this pace, you will only aggravate the situation. And the baby’s health is the main thing;
if you are a supporter of purchased baby food, try to at least occasionally cook yourself. Otherwise, it is likely that the adopted child will refuse the food you have prepared. And it will be quite difficult to accustom him to her. But sooner or later the child must be translated at the general table;
when buying ready -made baby food, carefully study the composition. There you can see a product that your child cannot eat;
first, give complementary foods, and only then - the chest or mixture. If you first give a chest or mixture, and then try to give complementary foods, the child may refuse. The chance to feed the feeding of a hunger child is much higher.

As you can see, the topic of complementary foods is satisfied with the difficult and responsible.