First lure for breastfeeding: complementary table. How correctly to introduce complementary foods? With how many months to introduce complementary foods?

After the birth of the baby, the mother continually worries that the child grows healthy and receives a sufficient amount of useful substances. And now, after several months of the baby's life, mothers are thinking about the question of the first complementary foods.

Readiness of the baby for additive feeding

In addition to the mother's desire to feed the baby with something other than breast milk or a mixture, such actions must be prepared by the child.

IMPORTANT: Assess whether the following statements are applicable to the child:

• the child is sitting in a chair, steadily holding his head;
• the child does not spit out solid food;
• child requires eating more often;
• the child does not allow you to eat peacefully, continually peeking into your plate;
• scales show a figure twice as large as at birth.

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

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

Why not take the time to pack a newborn baby?

As you already understood, there is no need in earlier lure. Yes, and load the still not matured enzymatic system with new substances is not worth it. The organism simply is not capable yet to assimilate new substances, and so the sense in their reception is not present. In addition,

IMPORTANT: premature loading on the digestive system can provoke problems with the intestines of the child.

Mixed feeding and the first lure of a child

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

Which product should be the first lure of a baby?

Pediatricians recommend choosing vegetable purees for the first time. First, offer the baby zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli. These vegetables are easily absorbed by the body and the allergy to them is less common than the rest. If your pediatrician now and then assures you that the child is not gaining weight badly, then start lure with dairy-free cereal. On the same criteria, the optimal porridge for the beginning of complementary foods: rice, corn, buckwheat. Buckwheat among these three cereals more often causes an allergy, and rice is a constipation. Consider this.

Because the taste of vegetable purees and dairy-free cereals leaves much to be desired, mothers want to give the child something tasty. At the beginning of complementary feeding, you can dilute fresh vegetables and cereals with fruit purees and juices. These products are not only delicious, it is also a storehouse of vitamins.

IMPORTANT: remember: having tasted a delicious fruit puree, a child can refuse less tasty vegetable purees.

Baby Toddler Supplementation Scheme

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

IMPORTANT: Do not immediately mash with two or more vegetables, or porridge from two or more cereals. This will not only give a big load to the baby's digestive system, but also deprive you of the ability to determine what the reaction is.

Each product enter for 3-5 days. If these days there is no reaction to the product, introduce a little by little, in parallel increasing the portion of the previous one. Your ultimate goal - one breastfeeding or a mixture to replace a full lure feeding. If a child after a meal asks mom to give a breast, 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 watch the way the child's organism perceives it during the day.

3 days after the introduction of a new product and in the absence of a reaction, start to give the product at the appropriate time.

Supplementary feeding schedule by month

Advice from Dr. Komarovsky on the introduction of a child's supplementary feeding

Komarovsky's complementary feeding needs special attention. The doctor, contrary to the recommendations of most pediatricians, adheres to his personal opinion on this matter.

IMPORTANT: Feeding before 6 months does not begin. The order of introduction of products is as follows:

• low-fat kefir .You need to start with 3 teaspoons and in geometric progression, bring up to 150 ml;
• curd .We start with one teaspoon added to kefir and finish 30 g. So you replace the morning feeding in the interval between 9:00 am and 11:00 am for a full breakfast;
• milk-cereal cereal : rice, oats, buckwheat. We start with 3 teaspoons and similarly increase to 200 ml. Thus, we replace one more feeding. It is better if it is the last, before a night's sleep;
• vegetables .We begin with vegetable broths. We offer the baby 30-50 g of broth and observe, as usual. If everything is good, then increase the portion, and after 5 days we give vegetable puree. That's a full dinner for your crumbs;
• fruit and juice .We give then, when the first tooth was cut, but not earlier than 6 months;
• meat .We introduce it 2-3 weeks after the vegetables. The order of administration is similar to the introduction of vegetables. First - broth, after - meat. So lunch becomes meat and vegetable.

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

Cooking yourself a baby or buying a ready-made one?

Every mother should find an answer to it herself. There is no common opinion on this matter. Everywhere there are positive and negative moments.

Pros of Finished Products for Toddlers:

• saving time;
• possibility to take with you on the road;
• is the ideal consistency for the youngest;
• porridges are enriched with additional vitamins and prebiotics;
• the opportunity to diversify the diet with multicomponent dishes.

Disadvantages of finished products:

• high price;
• storage 24 hours after the opening of vegetable, fruit and meat purees. At first the child does not eat even half of the contents of the jar, which means that the residue must be thrown into the trash can;
• storage for 2 weeks( usually) after opening the porridge. Likewise, when a child eats in small portions, he does not eat all the cereal in 2 weeks. So we send porridge also to the trash can;
• taste of vegetable purees is much worse than those that you can cook yourself.

Pluses of dishes prepared independently:

• is more delicious than purchased, as a rule;
• saving money;
• can adjust the consistency on your own.

Disadvantages of dishes prepared independently:

• the cooking process takes a lot of time;
• the inability to cook outside the home;
• is difficult to diversify the dish with new flavors.

Tips and testimonials of experienced moms for the introduction of complementary foods:

• take your time. Do not rush to introduce every new product. When you enter a lot of products in a row, and the baby has an allergic reaction, you will be forced to cancel everything. Otherwise, continuing to feed at this rate, you will only aggravate the situation. And the health of the baby is the main thing;
• if you are a proponent of purchased baby food, try at least occasionally to cook yourself. Otherwise, there is a possibility that a child who has become accustomed will refuse the food you prepare. And it will be difficult to accustom him to her. But sooner or later the child needs to be transferred for a common table;
• when buying ready-made baby food, carefully study the composition. There you can see a product that your child can not eat;
• first, give the lure, but only then - the chest or mixture. If you first give the breast or mixture, and then try to give the lure, the child can refuse. The chance to feed the foods of a hungry child is much higher.

As you can see, the subject of complementary feeding is happy with a difficult and responsible.

IMPORTANT: Follow the instructions, but remember that the mother feels the needs of the child, as others do not feel. Listen to your maternal feeling.

Video: Feeding - Dr. Komarovsky's school