Can a four-month-old baby drink juice? Can a four-month-old baby drink juice?

When the baby is four months old, you can try to add complementary food. The addition of complementary food is conducive to the baby's better development and growth. Today, let's talk about whether the baby can add fruit juice when he is four months old.

Three juice recipes

Apple Juice

Ingredients: 1 apple.

Method: First wash the apples, peel and core them, then use a grater to shred them. Finally, wrap the apple shreds with clean gauze to squeeze out the juice or cut them into small pieces and use a juicer to squeeze out the juice.

Effect: Apples are rich in B vitamins and dietary fiber. The insoluble fiber in apples can enter the intestines, clean the baby's digestive tract, improve the body's metabolism, and improve gastrointestinal function. B vitamins can promote the baby's digestive juice secretion, maintain and increase intestinal peristalsis, and are good for the baby's digestion and absorption.

Banana Juice

Ingredients: 1 banana.

Method: Peel and slice the banana first, then put it into a juicer and add appropriate amount of cold boiled water to make juice.

Effect: Bananas contain a variety of trace elements and vitamins, and their nutritional value is very high. Vitamin A can enhance the baby's resistance and maintain normal vision development. Thiamine can promote appetite and help the baby digestion.

Orange Juice

Ingredients: 500 grams of oranges.

Method: First peel the orange and put it into the juicer to squeeze the juice, then remove the residue and filter out the juice.

Function: Oranges are rich in cellulose and various nutrients, which can not only promote gastrointestinal motility and help the baby digestion, but also relieve baby constipation to a certain extent. However, orange juice should be given in moderation, as excessive consumption can easily cause internal heat.

It is not advisable to add juice to breastfeeding too early

For a long time, people have been accustomed to feeding fruit juice to babies 2-3 months after birth, thinking that fresh fruit juice can be used to supplement the minerals and vitamins needed by the baby's body. In fact, doing so is just the opposite.

Relevant studies have shown that infants who are completely breastfed do not need to be fed with fruit juice before 4 months. The nutritional components of breast milk are most suitable for the growth and development of infants, and are sufficient to meet the needs of infants within 6 months in terms of calories and water. Although the minerals contained in breast milk are less than those in milk, except for iron and copper, they are sufficient for the growth and development of infants. In particular, the absorption rate of iron and zinc in breast milk is several times that of milk. The ratio of calcium and phosphorus in breast milk is relatively suitable, which is easy for infants to digest, absorb and metabolize. In addition, although the content of vitamin C and other vitamins in breast milk is not too much, it does not need to be heated and will not be destroyed. As long as the vitamin A content in the mother's diet is rich, there will be enough vitamin A in breast milk. Only vitamin D is insufficient in breast milk, but vitamin D cannot be provided by fruit juice. It must be obtained from fish liver or by getting more sun exposure. Therefore, mothers with sufficient milk can safely feed their babies for 4-6 months under normal circumstances. Only in hot summer, when the baby sweats too much, has diarrhea or takes sulfa drugs, does it need to be fed with water.

Feeding the baby with fruit juice too early will not only squeeze the baby's breast milk intake, but also lead to a gradual decrease in breast milk secretion. Moreover, feeding fruit juice with a bottle will affect the baby's sucking ability due to the large hole of the rubber nipple, which is easy to suck, and is not conducive to the secretion of breast milk and the establishment of the lactation reflex.

Precautions for complementary food before six months old

1 to 3 months baby food

Mainly supplement foods containing vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin C, because breast milk lacks vitamin D and vitamin C, and infants have poor independent activity ability, cannot go outdoors by themselves, and have little sunlight, which makes them prone to rickets. Cod liver oil can be used to supplement vitamin A and vitamin D. The dosage starts with 1 to 2 drops per day and gradually increases to about 6 drops. It should be added to infants from about 2 weeks old. Vitamin C can be supplemented with fresh fruit juice (such as orange juice, apple juice, watermelon juice, hawthorn juice) and vegetable juice (cabbage, pakchoy, tomato, radish); it is best to start adding it to artificially fed babies when they are one month old.

4-6 months baby food

When babies are 4 months old, their saliva secretion increases, and the enzymes in their saliva can begin to digest starchy foods. At this time, you can add some starchy foods, such as rice soup, rice noodles, etc. At the same time, add iron-containing foods, such as egg yolks, starting from 1/8 and gradually increasing to the whole egg yolk. When babies start to teethe and practice chewing at around 6 months old, you can add mashed noodles, porridge, vegetable puree, fruit puree, etc.