According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization to introduce solid foods into the diet of a child must be six months.Age of weaning may vary depending on the individual, but the child's diet at 10 months already must include dairy products, cereals, vegetables and fruits.
When it's time to introduce solid foods
average age of introduction of complementary foods - for six months.But there are other, more objective signs that it's time to introduce solid foods:
- child is less than four months;
- weight baby became twice as much was at birth;
- ejection reflex disappeared language;
- child can sit, look away from the food or reject a head back;
- he may have something to take in hand and bring to his mouth;
- main criterion of readiness for complementary feeding - a new interest in food.
In cases where there are doubts about the feasibility of the introduction of complementary foods, it is better to delay than to hurry.In addition, care should be taken to ensure that products that gets a child, were of high quality and only the freshest.The emergence of diverse food in the diet does not mean that you need to cancel the breast milk or adapted formula.
Terms of weaning
should feed the baby with a spoon, and the food has gradually become thicker.It is impossible to introduce solid foods when the child is unwell.Serve the new food - no more than 1-2 teaspoons.If everything is in order: normal stool, clean skin, the baby in a good mood, good sleep - the dose is gradually increased.The next type of complementary foods may be introduced no earlier than two weeks after the previous one.In this child's diet at 10 months on artificial feeding is no different from the diet of infants, except that the bottle-still receives a mixture in the bottle and child on breastfeeding mother breastfeeds.
child's diet at 10 months
Before you introduce new foods, you should consult your pediatrician who leads the child and knows all its features.Child's diet at 10 months in grams similar to the following:
- the first morning feeding, 6-7 o'clock in the morning, the child receives a mixture of breast milk;
- 10-11 am - milk products: 150 ml low-fat yogurt and low-fat cottage cheese 30 g;
- lunch, 14-15 hours - 200 grams of vegetable puree or soup;
- for dinner at 19 o'clock - again a mixture or breast milk;
- bedtime, in 23 hours - 200 grams of milk porridge.
In his books child's diet at 10 months Komorowski described that way.Nevertheless, every mom can independently adjust the menu to suit the needs of her baby.For example, for dinner to feed the baby porridge, and before going to bed or to breast-feed mixture, the more so that the breast or bottle calming effect.The main thing that the child's diet at 10 months was varied and have included the basic food groups: dairy products, cereals, vegetables and fruits.
rules introducing vegetables
should always give preference to seasonal vegetables that grow in the area where the family lives.There is no additional benefit from the overseas fruits and vegetables.Absolutely all the vitamins a child can get from the usual carrots, beets, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, pumpkin, onion, garlic.There is no need to buy baby puree in jars, but if this option is convenient, it should be sure to read the composition of the puree.There should not be a starch, salt or sugar, only the fruit or vegetable and water.
rules introducing fruits
first in the child's diet at 10 months introduced those fruits that are least likely to cause allergic reactions, such as: green apple, white cherry and currants, gooseberries, plums.Then, when the child gets used to these fruits, you can add peaches, apricots, bananas, red currants.And at least in the child's diet at 10 months breastfed or artificially introduced vysokoallergennye oranges, lemons, tangerines, raspberries, strawberries, strawberries, grapes, pomegranates, melons.
Fruits introduced very carefully and gradually.First portion is less than a quarter of a teaspoon.Gradually increasing the dose, it must be brought up to 100 ml.When various skin reactions or adverse reactions from the gastrointestinal tract should immediately cancel the fruit that they caused.That is why it is not necessary to give the child a mixture of fruit that he had not yet tried.If you enter the fruit in one, Mom will know exactly what caused the allergy or indigestion.
rules introducing cereals
According to pediatricians in recent years among the patients there are many children with gluten intolerance.Therefore, even if the family had no cases of allergy to gluten, the first cereal in the child's life should be gluten-free.This rice, buckwheat or corn porridge.If the child are constipation, the rice is undesirable.Such popular cereals like oatmeal, cream of wheat or millet, better administered in the diet later.Those children who are breastfed, porridge can be cooked in the breast milk.Babies bottle-fed porridge is cooked on the adapted milk mixtures to which they are accustomed.The main thing is not to use cow or goat milk.If either breast milk or mixtures are not available, it is better to prepare the porridge in the water.So familiar, and familiar to us from childhood semolina does not bear any good child, so she or he did not need, or perhaps its introduction in the diet of a baby after a year.
feed the baby porridge is possible only with a spoon.Suppose he is not very successful, but eventually he will learn.This point is fundamentally important as food should be treated with saliva, which can not happen if the child will eat from a bottle.
Traditionally cereals are introduced into the lure after fermented milk products and vegetables, but if the child is not gaining weight, it is best to first of all introduce cereal as the most energetically valuable product.If warm nourishing porridge child will get dinner, he will fall asleep and most likely will wake up in the morning.But first porridge is better to feed the baby in the morning, during the day to keep track of the possible negative reaction.
Terms administration of dairy products
first portion of cottage cheese - no more than a quarter of a teaspoon a day.Gradually increasing the dose, you need to bring it up to 10 months in '50 As for yogurt, its portion within a month should be increased from 1 teaspoon to 150 ml.And cottage cheese, and yogurt is very easy to make yourself at home.It is not necessary to feed the baby yogurt or cottage cheese, which for more than two days.The ideal time for fermented dairy products - breakfast or afternoon tea.
planning a child's diet at 10 months for a week, my mother should take care that the baby receives the best possible variety of foods: a variety of cereals, fruit juices and purees, vegetable purees and soups, dairy products and, of course, mother's milk or adapted formula.
