The order of adding baby food teaches you how to make your baby love eating complementary food

When babies reach the age to eat complementary foods, mom and dad start to get anxious again. How should they add complementary foods? Should they start with rice porridge or something else? What should they eat and what should they must eat at what stage? This gives novice parents a headache. The editor will tell you the order of adding complementary foods to babies and teach you how to make your baby love eating complementary foods.

The order of adding baby food

Vegetarian food can be added from 4 months of age

Meat can be added to the diet starting at 6 months of age

Seafood can be added from 9 months of age

Supplementary feeding schedule:

The first breakfast is milk (powdered milk) around 6 am

Second breakfast: complementary food (rice noodles, porridge, noodles) around 8 am

The third meal is milk (milk powder) around 12 noon

Fourth lunch: milk (powdered milk) at 2 or 3 p.m.

The fifth meal is supplementary food (rice noodles, porridge, noodles) around 6 pm

The sixth supper is milk powder around 10 pm

When the baby is around 1 year old, change the third meal to grain.

Adverse reactions to baby food supplementation

1. Diarrhea after adding complementary food

Children have poor gastrointestinal regulation ability, and improper feeding can cause gastrointestinal dysfunction. For example, if there are too many types of complementary foods and they are changed too frequently, the child's stomach will not adapt and diarrhea will occur. In addition, the baby's gastrointestinal immunity is low, and as long as the food is slightly contaminated, it may cause diarrhea in children.

Parents note: If the baby's diarrhea is not serious, you can maintain the original amount of complementary food and continue to observe for two or three days. If the situation improves, increase the amount and give new food after the baby returns to normal; if it continues to get worse, stop complementary food for a few days and try again. If a similar situation occurs again, it is recommended that the mother change the baby's complementary food.

Special emphasis: If the baby has persistent diarrhea or symptoms recur, parents should place the baby's stool sample in a plastic box or plastic wrap and send it to the hospital for examination as soon as possible to determine the cause and find effective treatment.

2. Constipation after adding complementary food

If your child has dry stools and difficulty defecating after adding complementary foods, then he or she is constipated. Constipation is a common problem for infants and young children after adding complementary foods. It can be prevented and treated by ensuring normal intestinal flora and adequate fiber intake.

Special emphasis: It does not mean that food processing should be rough in order to prevent constipation. Too rough food can easily cause indigestion and diarrhea. Food processing should be appropriate. In addition, paying attention to the supply of vegetables is also good for intestinal health and prevent constipation.

3. Allergy after adding complementary food

Allergy is an overreaction of the immune system to natural harmless substances. Therefore, any food, contact material, or airborne attachment may cause allergies. For infants and young children, food allergies are the most common.

Symptoms of allergy: abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, swollen lips, swollen eyelids, rashes, crying, restlessness, etc. It is best to feed your baby new food in the morning and observe in time. If your baby feels unwell, seek medical attention in time.

If you suspect a food allergy, you should stop eating the suspected allergic food. Parents should add new foods one by one, and each time they add new foods, they should stick to it for at least three days and observe the child's acceptance of the food.

Acute allergies occur within 24 hours, and chronic allergies occur within three days, so add a new food and observe it for at least three days. This method can easily detect food allergens.

Refuse the following complementary foods

1. Too salty rice paste

Hazard level: ★☆☆

Some mothers are afraid that their babies' rice cereal is too bland and they won't eat it, so they suddenly add salt to their babies. However, a survey by a medical organization in the United States found that when babies eat too much canned food, 11% of them suffer from high blood pressure when they are 10-13 years old. This data seems a bit scary, but mothers should not underestimate it. It is true that salt is one of the essential substances for the growth and development of babies, and it is also a common condiment in complementary foods. Adding a little salt to complementary foods can make the taste delicious and promote the baby's appetite. As we all know, salt mainly contains sodium ions, but because the baby's kidneys are not yet mature and the sodium excretion ability is weak, it cannot concentrate urine like adults and excrete a large amount of solutes. If the food is too salty, the salt content in the blood will increase, and at the same time, it will increase the burden on the kidneys and cause dehydration. In addition, if the baby eats salty food for a long time, the sodium ions in the body will increase, which will cause heart and muscle weakness. Let's not talk about babies, adults who eat too much salt may also suffer from diseases such as high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis. In addition, too salty food makes people feel thirsty, and the same is true for babies. Too much salt will reduce the baby's saliva secretion and the lysozyme in the mouth, and the virus may breed in the mouth. The baby's chance of getting sick will increase.

The editor reminds you: Canned food is not suitable for baby food because it contains a lot of salt. Even if your family likes strong-flavored food, you should make light-flavored complementary food for your baby. Before feeding your baby, you can feel the saltiness of the taste yourself first.

2. Too sweet drinks and juices

Hazard level: ★☆☆

In the past summer, mothers liked to give their babies some cool and sweet drinks to relieve the heat of the summer heat. However, for babies who have just transitioned from breast milk to complementary foods, eating too much sugar will produce many adverse side effects, such as inducing diabetes and promoting the occurrence of sawtooth. Although various sweet drinks or fruit juices are rich in vitamins, they are also high in natural fructose. After drinking too much of these drinks, blood sugar increases, the baby's hunger decreases, and then causes anorexia, gastrointestinal discomfort and even diarrhea. In addition, sugar is an acidic food without calcium. If too much sugar food is absorbed, the body fluid will be neutral or weakly acidic. In order for the body to restore normal weak alkalinity, it is necessary to consume the alkaline substance in the body-calcium, which seriously affects the baby's bone development.

Editor's reminder: It is understandable for babies to drink some beverages, but most beverages on the market now contain too much sugar. If you are worried that drinking orange juice with sugar will be bad for your baby's health, it is best to make your own sugary drinks for your baby at home. You can control the sourness and sweetness yourself.

3. Egg white

Hazard level: ★☆☆

To supplement nutrition for babies, many mothers first think of eggs, which have the highest nutritional value and are cheap. Especially in rural areas, people like to add eggs laid by their own hens to rice paste, but smart mothers will pick out the egg yolks to add to the baby's complementary food, and slowly skim off the egg whites. Babies under six months old have an imperfect digestive system and high intestinal permeability, so it is not suitable to feed egg whites at this time. The protein molecules in egg whites are small and can sometimes pass through the intestinal wall directly into the baby's blood, causing the baby's body to have an allergic reaction to foreign protein molecules, leading to diseases such as eczema and urticaria. Therefore, babies under six months old should not be fed egg whites, and should only eat egg yolks. In addition, if fresh eggs are stored for too long, the quality will change. If mothers observe that there are skin eggs, loose yolk eggs, and moldy eggs, it is best to throw them away and not feed them to babies.

The editor reminds you: For loose yolk eggs caused by rupture of the yolk membrane due to severe vibrations during transportation and sales, mothers can smell them closely with their noses. If there is no peculiar smell, they can be fed to the baby, but they cannot be stored.

Complementary food preparation

1. Carrot porridge

Ingredients: rice, millet, a little glutinous rice, carrots

Method: Wash the rice and carrots, then chop them into slices, then shreds, and finally cut into very small cubes and cook them together with the rice. Usually, the porridge is ready when the carrots are cooked too, because they are chopped very finely.

Enhance immune function: Carotene is converted into vitamin A, which helps to enhance the body's immune function.

Benefit the liver and improve eyesight: Carrots contain a lot of carotene, which can nourish the liver and improve eyesight, and can treat night blindness;

Carrots contain plant fiber, which can enhance intestinal peristalsis, thus facilitating bowel movements, promoting bowel movements and preventing cancer.

Strengthen the spleen and eliminate malnutrition: Vitamin A is an essential substance for normal bone growth and development, helps cell proliferation and growth, and is of great significance in promoting the growth and development of infants and young children. Carrots contain a wide range of nutrients.

2. Steamed bananas

Ingredients: 1 banana

Method: Peel the banana, cut it into small pieces, place it on a plate, and steam it in a steamer until it is cooked. This method can be used especially in winter when you want your children to eat bananas but are afraid that the bananas are too cold and may hurt their spleen and stomach or cause them to cough. (You can also heat it slightly in a microwave, remove the cold air, and use a spoon to scrape the banana into puree before feeding it to your children)

Nutrition of bananas: Bananas are very nutritious. Every 100 grams of pulp contains 1.2 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of fat, 19.5 grams of carbohydrates, 0.9 grams of crude fiber, 9 milligrams of calcium, 31 milligrams of phosphorus, 0.6 milligrams of iron. It also contains carotene, thiamine, niacin, vitamin C, vitamin E and rich trace elements such as potassium.

Banana's effect: As a folk prescription for diet therapy, it is more useful to stew bananas with rock sugar. For lung heat cough, use 1-2 bananas and stew with rock sugar. Take 1-2 times a day for several days for better results.

Modern medicine suggests that bananas can be used to treat high blood pressure because they are rich in potassium, which can balance the adverse effects of sodium and promote cell and tissue growth. Bananas can be used to treat constipation because they can promote gastrointestinal motility.

3. Banana porridge new

Ingredients: 250g fresh banana, 100g each of rock sugar and glutinous rice.

Method: First peel the bananas and cut them into pieces; wash the polished round-grained rice, soak it in clean water for 120 minutes, then take it out and drain it; put the pot on the fire, pour in 1000ml of clean water, add the polished round-grained round-grained rice, boil it over high heat, then add the diced bananas and rock sugar, and simmer it over low heat for 30 minutes.

This porridge has the effects of nourishing the stomach and quenching thirst, lubricating the intestines and relieving constipation, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is suitable for patients with thirst caused by loss of body fluid, constipation caused by dry intestines, hemorrhoid bleeding, chronic cough, habitual constipation, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, etc.