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Complementary feeding scheme
Signs of readiness to introduce complementary foods
Complementary foods are not introduced upon reaching a certain age - age is only one of the factors. Readiness can only be judged by the presence of a combination of factors:

1. Not less than 4 months old. (for babies who were born prematurely, gestational age is taken as the basis).

2. The baby has doubled its birth weight. For premature babies, the coefficient is x2.5.

3. The child has lost the pushing reflex of the tongue. If you give a drink from a spoon, then its contents will not be on the chin (and we give complementary foods ONLY from a spoon, so that it is processed with saliva).

4. The child can sit. May tilt the body towards the spoon or lean back, refusing to eat. Knows how to control the turn of the head - in case of refusal, he can turn away. Or tilt your head.

5. If an artificial man, then he eats more than a liter of the mixture a day, and does not gorge himself. If she is breastfed, then at each feeding she eats both breasts and really wants more.

6. The child can clamp something in the fist and put it in the mouth purposefully.

7. And most importantly, children show a GREAT interest in their parents' food and are eager to taste it. Nature itself lets you know when the child's body is already able to accept food other than the adapted one (mixture or mother's milk).

For each child, this period, when ALL factors of readiness have already been manifested, comes individually. Between 5 and 9 months on average. By the way, even twins can show signs in different ways. There are situations when a child gives all the signs of readiness as early as 4 months, and there are situations when a child can wait up to a year - but these are more extreme situations, although they are also a variant of the norm.

Therefore, DO NOT HURRY with complementary foods. Better "a little bit" later than hurry. If the baby has good adequate nutrition (breast milk or a good adapted formula), he will not be deprived of a source of nutrients.

Basic rules for the introduction of complementary foods
· Start introducing complementary foods only to a healthy child or, in extreme cases, during the recovery period, with normal stool;

· Complementary foods are introduced warm before breastfeeding or formula;

· Complementary foods are given from a spoon, vegetable puree can first be added to a bottle of milk, so that the child can more easily get used to the new taste;

· Each meal of complementary foods is introduced gradually, with small amounts (1-2 teaspoons) and within two weeks is brought to the age dose;

· They switch to a new type of complementary foods 1.5-2 weeks after the introduction of the previous one;

· The density of complementary foods should gradually increase;

Complementary foods - vegetables
An important point !!! The first vegetable should be "typical for the family and area." A baby from Egypt will be bent from peas as a complementary food, but will perfectly transfer an orange. From which the "average Ukrainian" will be treated for years.

For example, carrots in Germany are considered a hypoallergenic product. The theory of "bright colors" is considered a myth. Squash and epu are not recommended to give up to a year ... and celery and carrots are considered the best solution for the first feeding. The same pumpkin - the best variety is considered "Hokaido" - a bright red little pumpkin.

Be sure to look at the label so that spices, salt, rice starch are not added to the puree. It is very important! The first puree (and the subsequent ones, by the way, too) should contain nothing but vegetables and water

How to give:

· Gradually the volume is brought to 50-100 ml, making sure that everything is in order, you can try to give another vegetable. The introduction rules are the same, starting with a small amount, the volume of puree offered to the child is gradually increased.

· Do not give two new vegetables at once, only mono puree. About a couple of months after the introduction of vegetables, you can start giving your child vegetable oil, adding a small amount to the vegetable puree. It is very useful to give oils obtained by the "cold" method, as they contain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which have a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin. Linseed oil is rich in such acids.

To minimize a possible allergic or other reaction to vegetables, you need to introduce vegetables (and any other product) as carefully as possible, especially if the baby is prone to diathesis, allergies, constipation, diarrhea, etc.

· Offer a new vegetable at the end of the feed, mix it with old familiar food if possible. If you are breastfeeding, then let the baby breastfeed each new complementary food (at his request, of course), this will help the baby to digest and assimilate a new product for his gastrointestinal tract. If the baby is artificially fed, then it is optimal to give a little familiar mixture after the introduction of a new product. If this is not the baby's first complementary food, then mix the vegetable with the “old” (familiar to the child) food.

· The lower doses you start complementary foods, the better. The less the initial amount of vegetables, the slower it increases, the less the likelihood of diathesis.

Homemade vegetables

If you do not have enough funds for purchased jars, or you have some kind of prejudice against them, you can cook your own vegetable puree for your baby - either from frozen vegetables or from fresh vegetables. It depends on the time of year - if it is autumn, the season of vegetables, then you will certainly cook puree from fresh market vegetables, if there are no vegetables on sale, then buy frozen vegetables in bags and cook puree from them.

If you have a blender, great! Cook cauliflower, zucchini, pumpkin or turnips as usual, cook for yourself (with the only difference that you add salt and spices for yourself, and for the kid you just cook vegetables in water). Then cool the vegetables a little and grind them in a blender. The only exception is potatoes - it is not recommended to grind them in a blender, because the starch in it will turn the mashed potatoes into a sticky paste, not much like tender mashed potatoes.
When you introduce mono-puree from fresh or frozen vegetables, you can make a variety of variations from the puree, make the baby taste and his discretion: boil carrots, potatoes, cauliflower. Cook peas, peppers, tomato and potatoes, etc. together. There are many options!

With the age of the baby, you may not chop the vegetable puree in a blender - it will be enough just to mash soft boiled vegetables with a fork (the baby will learn to eat in pieces, and since the vegetables are usually soft, it will be easier for the baby to get used to eating in pieces).

If you do not trust not only canned baby food, but also frozen vegetables, then you can freeze the vegetables yourself. They can be stored at a temperature of -6 ° C for a week, at -12 ° C for 1 month, at -18 ° C for 3 months.

· The second complementary food - cereal porridge - you need to start with gluten-free cereals (rice, corn, buckwheat) and cook them in the milk or milk mixture that the child receives;

· Baby food in jars contains the optimal amount of salt and sugar and therefore should not be added.

Complementary food - porridge.

The first porridge for a baby must be gluten-free - rice, buckwheat or corn porridge (by the way, one of the components of ordinary corn porridge is corn starch, which is 80% gluten). Therefore, speaking of corn porridge, I mean industrially made porridge especially for children, and not ground corn, which is also called polenta). The rest of the cereals: oatmeal, semolina, millet, barley, etc. - contain gluten and are not suitable as a first complementary food.

It is best to cook porridge in water, but it is allowed, if the baby is breastfed, to cook porridge with expressed mother's milk. The same applies to artificial people - it is permissible to cook porridge on the mixture that the baby usually consumes.

If the baby has a tendency to constipation, then it is advisable to start complementary feeding not with rice porridge. Best of all with buckwheat. Although they say that buckwheat is very allergenic, you need to look at the child. If you have a tendency to allergies, then start complementary foods with rice, if you have constipation, then start with buckwheat. If there is a tendency to allergies and constipation at the same time, then start complementary foods with corn, and then introduce oatmeal.
If the baby does not have any problems, then you can enter in this order - rice, buckwheat, corn or buckwheat, rice, corn. Once these cereals have been introduced, you can try the oatmeal. Semolina porridge in view of its high nutritional value, but low vitamin content and usefulness, it is better to postpone it for later and offer it to the baby after a year

Table with dairy-free, dairy and fruit-grain cereals:

How to give?

In no case do not give even the smallest child porridge from a bottle. Better make a thin porridge and give it from a spoon, let the baby eat a little, but right! For a baby, the amount of food is not so important in the first complementary food, for him it is still only informational, trial, and not satiating. When bottle feeding, food does not undergo the enzymatic processing of saliva, which negatively affects the digestive process. The fact is that in the baby's saliva there are special enzymes - amylase and lysozyme. When food gets into the baby's mouth from a spoon, it has time to completely, so to speak, soaked in saliva, and gets into the stomach already thoroughly "soaked" with saliva. And amylase is very helpful in the digestion and breakdown of food. Already in the stomach, it helps to break down food faster into smaller components, and thus it contributes to faster digestion. When the baby is given food from a bottle, it does not have time to soak in saliva and almost immediately gets into the throat without lingering in the mouth. Thus, it enters the stomach without primary treatment with amylase.

To reduce a possible allergic or other reaction to porridge to a minimum, you need to introduce porridge (and any other product) as carefully as possible, especially if the baby is prone to diathesis, allergies, constipation, diarrhea, etc.

Offer new porridge at the end of the feed, mix it with old familiar food to the baby if possible. If you are breastfeeding, then let the baby breastfeed each new complementary food (at his request, of course), this will help the baby to digest and assimilate a new product for his gastrointestinal tract. If the baby is artificially fed, then it is optimal to give a little familiar mixture after the introduction of a new product. If this is not the baby's first complementary food, then mix the porridge with the “old” (familiar to the child) food.

This is done to prepare the gastrointestinal tract for new food, so that the enzymatic systems, the intestines, the stomach, it was easier to work, digesting "familiar food". By introducing complementary foods at the end of feeding, you will not "catch off guard" the baby's body and will not harm it.

The lower doses you start complementary foods, the better. The less the initial amount of porridge, the slower it increases, the less the likelihood of diathesis.

When to give?

The introduction of porridge into the baby's diet depends only on the baby himself and his mother. Traditionally, if the baby is underweight, if the baby is thin, then it is advisable to start complementary feeding with cereals. If the baby is chubby, if he has a small (or large) excess weight, then it is best to start complementary foods for such a baby with mono-vegetable puree.

The time of day for entering porridge does not matter in principle. Traditionally, porridge is given either in the morning or for dinner. But for the first complementary feeding, it is better to choose the morning time in order to see during the day what the baby's reaction to the new product will be. If you give a new product overnight, you may not notice it. When you have already introduced porridge into the child's diet and made sure that the baby reacts normally to it, you can give the porridge at night (or leave it in the morning).

Fruits

Fruit purees are best added after cereals and vegetables. If you have already introduced porridge and vegetables to your baby, then it's time to give your baby a taste of fruit puree.

For the first feeding, it is imperative to take products with a low degree of allergenicity - these are green apples, white cherries, white currants, gooseberries, plums. When low-allergenic vegetables are introduced, you can eat "medium-allergenic" vegetables such as peaches, apricots, red currants, bananas, cranberries. And you need to leave at the very last turn highly allergenic foods, such as strawberries, raspberries, strawberries, black currants, blackberries, pineapples, grapes, melons, persimmons, pomegranates, citrus fruits and others.

After the first mono-fruit complementary food has been introduced, you can offer your child a variety of puree assorted fruits. There are a lot of such mashed potatoes!

How to give?

· Complementary foods are introduced starting with a quarter of a teaspoon once a day, preferably in the morning. Every day, the volume increases gradually, approximately 2 times. It is brought to the age norm in 7 - 10 days. The child's skin condition, digestive problems are assessed daily, if any changes appear, then the introduction of complementary foods is suspended.

· Gradually the volume is brought to 50-100 ml (on average 70 grams in the first complementary food, then it increases to 100 g, and then to 180 g), making sure that everything is in order, you can try to give another fruit. The introduction rules are the same, starting with a small amount, the volume of puree offered to the child is gradually increased.

· The general rule for ANY complementary foods is no more than one product every 1-2 weeks!

· Do not give two new fruits at once, only mono puree.

To minimize a possible allergic or other reaction to fruits, you need to introduce fruits (and any other product) as carefully as possible, especially if the baby is prone to diathesis, allergies, constipation, diarrhea, etc.

· Offer a new fruit at the end of the feed, mix it with the baby's old familiar food if possible. If you are breastfeeding, then let the baby breastfeed each new complementary food (at his request, of course), this will help the baby to digest and assimilate a new product for his gastrointestinal tract. If the baby is artificially fed, then it is optimal to give a little familiar mixture after the introduction of a new product. If this is not the baby's first complementary food, then mix the fruit with the “old” (familiar to the child) food.

· This is done to prepare the gastrointestinal tract for new food, so that the enzymatic systems, intestines, stomach was easier to work, digesting "familiar food". By introducing complementary foods at the end of feeding, you will not "catch off guard" the baby's body and will not harm it.

· The lower doses you start complementary foods, the better. The less the initial amount of fruit, the slower it increases, the less the likelihood of diathesis.

SCHEME OF FEEDING FROM GASTROENTEROLOGIST

Give each new product for at least 7 days. Start with 1 tsp. and bring it to normal in a week.

6 months

At about 12 noon (next lunch) - vegetables.

"Squash" (squash-pumpkin) is still a kind of pumpkin, and not to give our strip.

Remove pumpkin, carrots.

Leave everything yellow for later. Start with green.

You can cook it yourself or make mashed potatoes from frozen vegetables.

Zucchini - frozen. For example, firms "4 seasons"

Cauliflower - "Semper" or frozen

Broccoli - "Semper", "Top-Top" (not to be confused with "Tip-Top")

Green beans - do it yourself

Green peas - "Gerber"

Potatoes - "Gerber" ordinary, sweet do not give, (also not our strip), do it yourself (soak before that for 2 hours in boiled cold water, when starch is released - change the water)

Parsnips and spinach - after a year, because reduces the level of iron absorption in the child's body by more than 76%

When you try everything, you can mix, but no more than 3 types.

Vegetable oil from 8 months.

7 months

Gradually replace one feeding completely.

Buckwheat, corn, rice without additives.

Oatmeal, semolina, dairy, soy cereals are not included in food for up to a year. It is harmful.

The packaging must say: "no sugar, salt, gluten, milk, dyes."

It is best to give it on water, since with the addition of milk there is a large load on the digestive tract.

"Gerber", "Baby Sitter", "Low Allergenic Baby"

7 months

At 17 o'clock (future afternoon snack) - fruits:

Green apple - "Semper", "Top-top". Bake it yourself.

Red later.

Pear - (if there is no constipation) "Semper".

Banana - do it yourself.

Apricots, peaches - cans, do it yourself in the summer, they are not watered with anything harmful,

As for the cherries and cherries - later, in the summer, do it yourself.

Cottage cheese - after 8 months For an afternoon snack, add to fruit puree.

For example, 0% cottage cheese "House in the village". A new pack every day.

Strictly not more than the norm, if a child is overfed with cottage cheese, he will develop anorexia.

Meat - after 12 m (load on the digestive tract) add to vegetable puree. Do not exceed the amount of meat! Strictly prepared mashed potatoes with vegetables.

Gerber - turkey, pig, lamb, beef.

At least up to a year, children should not be given meat broth. There are too many carcinogens in it. Soup with vegetable broth is served.

Kefir - after 12 m

Kefir in children under one year of age causes m and bloody leakage in the intestines, which leads to severe hypochromic anemia), give at night.

Beefy, Agusha without sugar. If the child refuses, do not insist.

It is better to drink before meals, do not drink.

Juices diluted with water (min. 1/1) after a year.

Salt after a year, sugar, in general, the later the better.

Always feed your child at your table so that nothing is distracted.

Do not snack between feedings - apple, bread, drying

Total:

7 m. Fruits - 60 gr., Vegetables - 150 gr., Porridge - 150 gr.

8 m. F. - 70, O. - 170, K. - 150

9 m. F. - 80, O. - 180, K. - 180

12 m. F. - 90-100, O. - 200, K. - 200,

Butter - 5 g., Meat - start 5-30 g., Then 70, cottage cheese 10-30, then 50 g, then 60

Table with vegetable and meat purees

Feeding your baby from a jar:

1. After opening the jar, take a portion for feeding, and put the leftovers in the refrigerator.
2. Strictly follow the storage instructions for opened baby food containers.
3. Reheat only as much food as is needed for one feeding.
4. Do not return the portion not eaten to the jar - this will cause the growth of bacteria, and the enzymes in the saliva will thin the mixture.
5. Do not freeze canned baby food, it becomes inedible.

The statement that there is no need to feed a baby under six months is familiar to many. This article is intended for those parents who have already introduced their child to food 1-1.5 months ago. It can also be useful for those who want to adjust the existing diet.

In this article, you will learn:

The child has already got acquainted with mashed vegetables. If at first you gave vegetables in the morning, then gradually you can transfer them to lunchtime. The baby's reaction to this product is already clear, which means that undesirable manifestations are already unlikely.

Due to the accelerated development of the child, he needs to meet new needs for nutrients. Offer vegetables that are low in fiber, such as carrots, pumpkins, potatoes, and turnips. Puree should be monocomponent in each of the feedings. Only after getting used to one type of vegetable, you need to acquaint the child with another.

They come to a volume of 150 grams gradually, starting with one or two teaspoons. Smoothly vegetable complementary food at 5 months displaces breast milk or formula milk from lunchtime. Gruel-like food stays in the intestines longer than liquid food. With a five-day regimen, two to three meals consist exclusively of complementary foods.

Baby diet

Time of receipt	Dish	Serving (g, ml)
Breakfast	breast milk.	200
Lunch	porridge (buckwheat, rice or corn).	150
Dinner	vegetable puree with a teaspoon of vegetable oil;	150
	juice.	50
Afternoon snack	fruit puree;	60
	compote;	50
	breast milk.	100
Dinner	breast milk.	200

Artificial diet

Time of receipt	Dish	Serving (g, ml)
Breakfast	milk mixture.	200
Lunch	porridge cooked in baby milk or formula;	150
	juice.	50
Dinner	vegetable puree with a teaspoon of vegetable oil + ½ egg yolk;	150+10
	fruit drink.	50
Afternoon snack	fruit puree;	60
	compote.	50
Dinner	milk mixture.	200

Vegetables in complementary foods for a child at 5 months

Influence and addiction

The benefits of these fruits for the child's body are due to the presence of vitamins, biologically active elements and minerals in them. Intestinal function improves due to the intake of vegetable fiber. The metabolism is improving, the nervous system is getting toned. The respiratory system works better and excess water is excreted.

A thick puree, which contains small dense inclusions, prepares the throat for solid food. This happens during her irritation when swallowing such food. However, despite the usefulness, the baby can regularly spit out the offered vegetables.

Parental tolerance and gentleness helps, as well as an example that the baby will imitate. Eat mashed potatoes from the same plate that you put in front of the crumbs. For hygiene reasons, it is better to take a different spoon for yourself. As soon as the child expresses interest and tastes the dish, be sure to praise him and cheer him up with a smile.

Manufacturer's choice and delicate aspect

If you care about how to introduce complementary foods at 5 months in the best way, then use commercial jars first. In them, vegetables are more tender, since they are highly homogenized. Choose from a variety of brands from both domestic and Western baby food manufacturers. Try different formulas: carrot, spinach, cabbage and zucchini.

When vegetables are consumed, the baby's stool changes its color, acquiring an orange, brownish or green tint. With its usual consistency and the absence of mucus, there is nothing to worry about.

Fruit combinations

The crumb already got acquainted with a small share of fruit when he began to drink juice. The most beneficial and gentle on the stomach is apple... Weak dried fruit compotes have a beneficial effect on the baby's heart. Crumbs also like berry fruit drinks. At the first try, dilute the contents in half with water.

From fruit purees, children like apple, pear and banana. As soon as the child tastes one fruit, start getting to know a new one. In the future, you can make mashed potatoes from a couple of fruits at the same time. Prunes are too sweet and have a laxative effect. Suitable more for artificial people and children who have constipation.

When feeding a 5 month old baby, use a spoon, not a bottle. Buy a long-handled baby plastic or silicone spoon. So it will be convenient for you to bring a treat to your baby. Unlike metal, such devices do not injure the oral cavity of the little fidget. In one sitting, a child can devour a whole jar of fruit puree from such a spoon. However, try not to indulge your sweet tooth too much.

Hearty complementary foods at 5 months

Porridge can saturate and calm the baby for a long time. Many mothers choose it, and not juices or vegetables as the first food for crumbs. The carbohydrate component provides an influx of energy for the active phase of the child, the food is easy to digest. Promotes weight gain in those who are underweight.

It is permissible to add a teaspoon of butter to the finished porridge. For artificial people, half of the yolk can be mixed both with vegetable puree and with a cereal dish. What are the ways to cook porridge?

Dairy-free and milk porridge for children in packs

They are very convenient to prepare due to their quick readiness, and are also compact during storage. Initially, the specified amount of water is diluted with boiling water. Different cereals require different water temperatures before mixing dry raw materials. Usually within 40-60˚С. Next, spoons of dry porridge are slowly poured, stirring in parallel with a fork. It's worth starting with the dairy-free and gluten-free options.

Milk porridges are obtained by adding milk powder or an adapted mixture. Bottle-fed babies should be offered mainly milk porridge. Be sure to choose the ones that match the age of your baby.

Homemade cereals from ground raw materials

They are obtained from those cereals that we use to prepare dishes for the common table. The beans are pre-ground in a coffee grinder. It turns out the so-called flour. Before introducing complementary foods to a five-month-old baby, an allergy test must be performed.

To do this, you need to cook a small amount of porridge. Rice with corn and buckwheat are less allergic. Then you can try the oatmeal. Note that rice can help secure the baby's stool.

The resulting flour is added to boiling water, stirring constantly. Cook over low heat. Shortly before readiness, pour in a small amount of the mixture, breast or baby milk. No sugar is added.

Porridge after blender or sieve

Prepared from ordinary cereals. The goal is to get a liquid consistency. A cone-shaped blender nozzle is placed in a slightly cooled porridge. Blend the contents well. Served for testing to the baby. It is inferior to the previous options in the presence of grain grains. Not all children agree to eat such a dish.

Some mothers pass the cooled porridge through a sieve. This method is not entirely convenient, since it is difficult to complete the process after getting dirty in baby porridge. During this treatment, the product cools down a lot.

But what about fermented milk?

Some pediatricians, including eminent ones, only for the practice of serving kefir to babies. In their opinion, it is an ideal complementary food for 5 month old babies, since it is close to milk in composition. Represents its curved shape. Cottage cheese is famous for its high calcium content. It would seem that you can safely treat the toddler to fermented milk.

However, other pediatricians do not recommend rushing with these products. It is suggested to wait until the intestinal microflora becomes more mature and prepared. Premature consumption of calcium-containing ingredients can interfere with the natural growth rate of the fontanelle, accelerating it. The situation is similar with excessive bone strength. And at this age they should be more elastic.

Complementary feeding promotes the development of chewing skills. This prepares the gums for teething. The ability to eat improves fine motor skills. It takes 5-7 days for each product to get used to it. Already now, the correct formation of the order of food should begin: porridge for breakfast (it is still shifted to lunch), vegetables for lunch, and fruits for afternoon tea. You can drink meals at every meal.

Ensure adequate fiber intake for the child's body: pamper your child with fortified vegetables and fruits. Find the best way to prepare your hearty breakfast for yourself. Weigh the benefits and risks of eating fermented milk products.

The first complementary food for a 5 month old baby

Five months is the age when parents of a healthy baby begin to plan the introduction of complementary foods into the diet. If until now all the needs of the crumbs were completely satisfied with breast milk or an adapted milk formula, now the diet should become more diverse, meet the needs of a growing organism and provide it with all the necessary resources.

The introduction of complementary foods to a bottle-fed baby begins from 4.5-5 months, on a breast-feeding - from 6 (see also :)

The diet of a child at 5 months

According to the standard scheme for introducing complementary foods in artificial children, the diet begins to expand earlier than in babies who are breastfed, namely at 5 months. At this age, their digestive system is already ready to meet new food.

In contrast to HS, during IV there are no problems of underfeeding, since the amount of the mixture during feeding can be adjusted and, if necessary, made more. As a result, complementary foods can be postponed to a later date, especially if the baby does not want to eat anything other than the usual mixture.

In the case of breastfeeding, complementary foods usually start at 6 months. However, already at the age of five months, the baby may not have enough breast milk.

If the baby cries and continues to look for a breast, after completely eating one, then this may be a signal that it is time to start introducing the first complementary foods (we recommend reading :). Check with your pediatrician.

Vegetables as the first complementary food

For a healthy child with normal weight or for overweight crumbs, pediatricians advise starting complementary foods at 5 months with mashed vegetables. They contain many useful elements that help improve the functioning of the digestive tract.

Mashed vegetables can be used first for complementary foods.

For the first tests, it is better to opt for zucchini or any kind of cabbage, with the exception of white cabbage. Due to the fact that at the initial stage the child eats them in small quantities, for convenience it is preferable to buy ready-made one-component homogenized purees in jars.

The input principle is standard. The initial volume of the proposed puree should be half a teaspoon. In the absence of a negative reaction, and if the crumb has eaten the entire portion, the next day it can be doubled. Thus, over the course of a week, the volume will gradually increase until it reaches the prescribed 150 grams. After that, vegetable puree can replace one of the feedings.

Porridge

Liquid cereals are chosen as the first complementary foods in cases where the child is underweight. The basic rules of introduction remain unchanged. An important point is to first give the crumbs gluten-free porridge. This protein can cause stomach pain and digestive problems. It is best to start with buckwheat, rice or corn porridge, semolina and oatmeal should be introduced no earlier than 8-9 months.

Cereals - the second complementary food after vegetable puree

Also, you should not cook porridge in milk. No matter how useful this product is, the child's body does not yet produce enzymes that break down the starch contained in milk. It is better to introduce the baby to milk later, not earlier than 9 months of age.

It is better to give your preference to ready-made dry cereals. They are produced taking into account all the needs of the child's body. Their production is based on environmentally friendly raw materials. Plus, they have a constant composition, enriched with vitamins, prebiotics and other useful elements.

Juices and fruits

Unfortunately, neither juices nor fruits are suitable as a first complementary food. Juices are the strongest allergens. In addition, they can provoke irritation of the intestinal mucosa. It is worth giving them to drink at 10-11 months, after the crumb tastes porridge, vegetable purees and meat.

The menu of a child at 5 months does not yet differ in a wide range of dishes. This is quite normal, as the intestines are not yet prepared for digesting heavier food. For this reason, the diet of a 5-month-old child does not contain butter and other animal fats.

It also excludes sugar, salt, spices, cookies, meat and fish. The only thing allowed to add to the puree is a little vegetable oil, breast milk or formula.

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The diet of the crumbs directly depends on the type of feeding

One of the main questions of building a diet for a crumbs at the age of five months is how many times and in what quantity it needs to be fed. These volumes directly depend on the type of feeding. Children who are fed artificial formula, due to their higher calorie content, require less food.

Below are two tables of dietary patterns for infants at 5 months per day for formula / mixed and breastfeeding. The data on the volume of products in them is indicated for already prepared dishes.

Breast-feeding:

Artificial feeding:

The daily food intake is 900 ml, which does not include water, herbal tea or compote. They are available on demand throughout the day.

According to the graphs, a general conclusion can be drawn: a child's nutrition at 5 months consists of five feedings. The sixth night feeding is not excluded, possibly related to the baby's hunger.

The principles of introducing complementary foods

In order for the introduction of complementary foods to be as safe as possible for the baby, it must be fed correctly, observing a number of elementary principles:

• start complementary foods with one product;
• the next unfamiliar product is introduced only in the absence of allergies or other negative manifestations to the previous one;
• 5-7 days - the time required for the child to get used to the new product;
• cereals and vegetable purees are introduced starting from half a teaspoon;
• each time after feeding the child, it is necessary to supplement with breast milk or formula, but this should not be done by force;
• time to try a new product - morning;
• it is advisable to keep a diary for the introduction of complementary foods with the menu, volumes and the baby's reaction (we recommend reading :).

The introduction of any new type of food should start with one product.

Having started the introduction of complementary foods with one product, first of all, its amount should be brought to the norm, and then the following products should be added. Using the vegetable puree as an example, you can first start with zucchini and increase its volume for 6 days, and only then add half a teaspoon of broccoli or cauliflower. Then continue to increase the total portion. The best option is vegetable puree, consisting of three components. Subsequently, they can be replaced with other types of vegetables.

Example of a weekly menu

Below is a table with an approximate menu for a baby at 5-6 months. It presents a diet for children who are already familiar with all vegetables and cereals. If necessary, each feeding is accompanied by subsequent supplementation with breast milk or an adapted milk formula.

All cereals should be boiled in water or added to their mother's milk or the mixture that the baby eats. Vegetable oil can be added to the puree.

Menu for the week:

Day of week	First breakfast	Second breakfast (porridge)	Lunch (one-component vegetable puree)	Dinner	Second supper
Monday		buckwheat	zucchini	breast milk or formula	breast milk or formula
Tuesday		rice	cauliflower (we recommend reading :)
Wednesday		corn	broccoli
Thursday		buckwheat	potato
Friday		rice	zucchini (we recommend to read :)
Saturday		corn	cauliflower
Sunday		buckwheat	broccoli

Baby food recipes

Porridge

Rice porridge for babies

There are two ways to prepare complementary food porridge. In the first case, it is necessary to make flour from cereals. This requires a coffee grinder. With its help, you need to grind the cereals, having sorted them out, rinsed several times and dried them on napkins or paper towels.

Further, the resulting cereal flour is gradually added to boiled water or a decoction of vegetables. In this case, the future porridge should be continuously stirred. Then continue to cook it until fully cooked, continuing to stir periodically, in order to avoid the formation of lumps and burning the porridge.

The second method boils down to the fact that ordinary cereals are poured with the right amount of water and just boiled. After that, it is passed through a sieve or crushed in a blender. Depending on the ratio of water and cereals taken, the porridge may turn out to be more liquid or vice versa, semi-viscous:

Vegetable puree

It is very important that there are no lumps left when preparing mashed potatoes for babies.

Before you cook vegetables for puree, you should prepare them. To do this, they need to be washed and cleaned with high quality. Once cleaned, they are washed again under hot water. It is advisable to pour boiling water over them or even leave them in it for 1-2 minutes. Vegetables prepared in this manner should be cooked over low heat, covered, in a little water, until they are cooked.

The next step is to rub the cooked vegetables through a sieve or grind them in a blender, add the broth in which they were cooked and vegetable oil. Everything is mixed and brought to a boil.

The very first months of the baby's life are behind. From his 4-5 months of age, mothers are increasingly thinking about when new products should appear in the child's menu, which will gradually accustom the baby to adult food and develop the chewing apparatus. The procedure for introducing complementary foods into the children's diet is also ambiguous.

We will introduce you to the options for what complementary foods should be at 5 months.

Isn't it early at five months ...

With all the variety of versions and recommendations, the only correct option is not to supplement breastfeeding for a baby up to 6 months of age, provided that the amount of mother's milk and its nutritional value are sufficient for the baby. Well-known pediatrician Komarovsky thinks so.

If your baby is artificially fed or the number of breastfeeds is noticeably increasing due to the fact that the child does not satisfy hunger with the amount of milk in her mother's breast, then, by all means consulting the pediatrician, the first complementary foods can be introduced at 5 months.

What to choose?

What product will be right to give to the first baby when breastfeeding? This can be milk porridge or vegetable puree.

But Doctor Komarovsky quite logically and reasonably recommends starting the formation of a varied children's menu with fermented milk products, since in their composition they are as close as possible to mother's breast milk or artificial milk mixtures.

In addition, lactic acid bacteria, according to Komarovsky, perfectly destroy many microbes that cause various infections, and are very useful for artificial feeding.

Whatever decision you make, be sure to remember:

• the first feeding can be started only if the baby is completely healthy;
• new products should not be given if the vaccine is to be vaccinated, if the vaccination has just been given;
• feed your baby only freshly prepared food;
• you need to start forming the child's menu only with one-component formulations;
• the consistency of porridge or puree is semi-liquid and absolutely uniform;
• it is recommended to introduce new products in the morning feeding in order to have time to observe the child's stool and possible skin rashes during the day;
• the first portion on the menu should be no more than 1 teaspoon;
• it is important to enter each subsequent product into the baby's menu only than a week after entering the previous one;

until the portion of complementary foods is gradually brought to 100-150g, in order to become one full-fledged feeding, the baby needs to be fed either with breast milk or with the usual milk formulas for artificially fed babies.

What are the options?

Dairy products

If, as Dr. Komarovsky advises, you decide to start with fermented milk products:

• it is necessary to give fresh kefir without sweetening it;
• the first serving is 1-2 teaspoons;
• gradually bring the mass to 100-150g;
• the structure of kefir must be absolutely uniform;
• a week after the introduction of kefir, you can start giving cottage cheese, adding 1 teaspoon to kefir and stirring thoroughly until completely homogeneous;
• a portion of cottage cheese gradually increases to 30g over the course of a month;
• after a month, you can start feeding with cereals.

Porridge

For a five-month-old bottle-fed baby, it is better to start expanding the diet with cereals.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) First Complementary Food Introduction Table advises preparing the first cereals from rice, buckwheat, oatmeal or corn grits, carefully chopped in a coffee grinder or blender.
• The porridge should be liquid and warm.
• Don't add sugar.
• It is better to immediately give the child the opportunity to get used to eating porridge from a spoon (sterile and warm, preferably from an individual children's set of dishes.)
• Start your acquaintance with porridge with 1-2 teaspoons, gradually increasing the portion.
• Unlike kefir with cottage cheese and vegetable purees, it is better to give porridge before bedtime. According to Dr. Komarovsky, they will help to saturate the child well, and he will sleep peacefully until the morning.

Vegetable purees

Many mothers decide to start diversifying their baby's menu with vegetable purees. The WHO table almost unanimously does not recommend the introduction of vegetables with artificial and natural feeding up to 6 months in the diet of children who feed on breast milk. But babies who are breastfed, by 5 months already need additional products that will give an actively growing and developing child important trace elements and vitamins.

A vegetable sequence chart will help you decide on the first vegetable for your baby. In any case, it should be a green or white vegetable that is neutral in taste and does not cause allergies. As a rule, this is a zucchini or cauliflower. Once you've made your decision, follow these guidelines:

• choose only fresh and ripe vegetables for mashed potatoes; wash them thoroughly and peel them;
• it is better to cook vegetables in a double boiler, you can bake or boil them, dropping them into boiling water;
• after grinding in a blender, mashed potatoes must be rubbed through a fine sieve to destroy all fibers and lumps;
• achieve a semi-liquid consistency by adding your breast milk or vegetable broth to the vegetable mass;
• it is recommended to introduce olive or corn vegetable oil dropwise into mashed vegetables, gradually bringing its amount to 1 teaspoon;
• it is absolutely impossible to salt;
• always feed your baby fresh and warm puree, but not hot;
• supplement the diet with a new vegetable only after getting used to the previous one.

Fruit purees

Many grandmothers insist that the first complementary foods should be in the form of fruit juices and purees. However, Dr. Komarovsky and most WHO experts are convinced that fruits are highly undesirable for babies up to the age of 8 months. After all, all fruit complementary foods should be given raw, and the stomach and intestines of the baby, who is still receiving only mother's milk or being artificially fed, is not yet completely ready for the assimilation and processing of such food. Therefore, start additional feeding with cereals, kefir and vegetable puree. They will prepare small organisms for the painless assimilation of fruits in any form.

Introduction tables

What are the changes in the work of the child's gastrointestinal system?

As soon as the baby's feeding is supplemented by the first complementary foods, the baby's liver is activated, new enzymes begin to be produced. And this immediately manifests itself in a change in the stool: greens and mucus can be observed in it. If at the same time the child feels normal (calm, positive, he is not worried about bloating and colic), then do not worry. The stool must be normalized within 5-7 days. You should not be scared if the first mashed potatoes come out without being digested by the body. This is an absolutely natural process of the intestines getting used to innovations.

Remember that fiber in vegetables tends to loosen stools, and some fruits make them stronger.

Each child's organism is individual. Therefore, when deciding that it is time for your baby to receive complementary feeding:

• be sure to consult your doctor;
• carefully observe the child's mood and behavior;
• study the tables of the order of introduction of various products in the diet of infants;
• listen to the recommendations of leading pediatricians, including Komarovsky;
• be patient: if the baby does not immediately accept a product, try again and again or return to it in 1-2 weeks;
• immediately refuse those foods that provoke allergic reactions.

The opinion of Dr. Komarovsky

Grow healthy and well fed!

Pediatricians recommend starting complementary foods in the interval from 4-6 months (no earlier than 4 months and no later than 6 months of a child's life) and use vegetable purees or low-allergenic and dairy-free cereals as the first complementary foods.

Vegetables as the first complementary food

From 4.5-5.5 months, a thicker food can be introduced into the child's diet than breast milk or an adapted milk formula, which is denoted by the term "complementary foods". As the first complementary food, it is preferable to prescribe vegetable puree. Vegetable puree is a source of organic acids, potassium, iron, and dietary fiber, including pectins. Vegetable puree as the first complementary food should be prescribed to children with exudative-catarrhal diathesis, rickets, obesity, anemia, premature babies.

Vegetable puree for complementary feeding is a product obtained by rubbing whole or peeled fresh or quick-frozen vegetables of one or more types, previously subjected to heat treatment (blanching).

The introduction of vegetables as a second complementary food, after the introduction of cereals

The second complementary food in the form of vegetable puree made from natural vegetables for baby food (without adding milk and not containing legumes) is introduced in parallel with the first, one month after the introduction of the first complementary foods and a complete replacement of one feeding.

What vegetables to start feeding

The introduction of vegetable complementary foods should be started with one type of vegetables with delicate fiber and light color (from green or white vegetables), for example, with zucchini or cauliflower, then moving on to a mixture of vegetables, with a gradual expansion of the range using potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, later - tomatoes, green peas.

Vegetables for the first feeding

Zucchini, cauliflower, and broccoli are the top priority vegetable foods as they are hypoallergenic and are the best starting point for complementary foods. It is cauliflower and broccoli that are often referred to as “college-educated cabbage,” as they are rich in vitamins and minerals.

Vegetables to expand the diet

If complementary foods are introduced at the age of 4-4.5 months, then the first vegetables can be monocomponent, homogenized purees: from zucchini, from cauliflower, from broccoli, potatoes, from carrots.

At the age of 5 months In the life of a child and older, the assortment is expanded due to vegetable puree from pumpkin, beet, and white cabbage.

At the age of 6 months the life of a child and older, the addition of tomatoes is possible.

At the age of 7 months it is possible to expand the vegetable diet by adding green peas.

Industrial vegetable puree for the first feeding can be of various degrees of grinding:

• homogenized(highly crushed, the number of pulp particles 0.15-0.3 mm in size) - for children over 4 months of age;
• rubbed(particle size no more than 0.4 mm) and coarse (particle size 2 - 5 mm) - for children over 6 months of age.

Complementary foods from vegetables should be semi-liquid, well-rubbed, homogeneous; it is necessary to switch to thicker foods gradually, accustoming the child to chewing with age.

How to introduce complementary foods from vegetables (scheme of introducing vegetable puree)

Zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli are all hypoallergenic foods and are ideal for starting your first meal. One-component vegetable puree is given to the child with a teaspoon, preferably in the morning for breakfast. You DO NOT need to salt or sweeten the vegetable purees for your child.

Scheme for the introduction of vegetable puree as complementary foods:

First day the baby is given ½ teaspoon of vegetable puree (for example, squash), and then the baby is fed with normal food (breast milk or a bottle of formula). During the day, monitor the body's reaction to the injected product - carefully examine the skin for rashes, pay attention to the stool, whether there is mucus and greens in the feces.

On the second day if there are no signs of allergies and tummy problems, the child is given 1-2 teaspoons of zucchini (5-10 g) and supplemented with a mixture or milk.

On the third day- 3 teaspoons (15 g).

On the fourth- 4-5 teaspoons. (20-25 g.).

On the fifth day- 50 g. If there is no negative reaction to the introduced product, then you can double the portion.

On the sixth day- 80-100 g, you can give a child a portion twice the previous one.

On the seventh day- 120-150 g, which completely replaces one feeding. The rate in grams per feeding is indicated for a six-month-old baby, if complementary foods were introduced earlier, then the amount of product should be reduced. If your child is breastfed, then after taking vegetable puree, be sure to breastfeed the baby, even if the amount of complementary foods already completely replaces the whole feeding, so you can maintain lactation for a longer time.

For another week, the child is allowed to get used to vegetable puree from zucchini, and only after 5-7 days a new vegetable, such as broccoli, is introduced into the diet. This rule is important to observe if complementary foods are introduced to a child at the age of 4-4.5 months.

Eighth day- ½ teaspoon broccoli cabbage, then add zucchini puree.

Ninth day- 1-2 teaspoons of broccoli cabbage (5-10 g) and give zucchini until the age dose, etc. Gradually, the amount of broccoli cabbage replaces the first vegetable for complementary foods - zucchini.

If the child refuses vegetable puree, then take a break for several days and offer the child mashed potatoes again or replace the vegetable - for example, zucchini with cabbage.

Which is better - buy or make your own vegetable puree for complementary foods

The advantage of factory canned food is that it is sterile, the mother does not need to bother at the stove: cook, grind, it is better to devote this time to the child. It is also convenient to take canned vegetable puree on the road. Canned baby food is recommended for use by leading world and domestic healthcare organizations, so the choice of parents depends only on their preferences and financial capabilities.

If you plan to purchase factory-made vegetable puree, then carefully read the composition. In addition to a vegetable and water, there should be nothing in the jar - no preservatives, dyes, flavors and flavor enhancers, including starch as a thickener. It is desirable that the vegetable puree for complementary foods does not even contain salt and sugar, has a uniform structure and natural color.

Purchased puree in jars, before giving it to a child, must be warmed up in a water bath. Before giving the puree to your baby, be sure to try it yourself. If you feel signs of spoilage of the product, such as a pungent smell, sour taste, or when you open the jar, you do not hear the characteristic cotton, then the tightness of the jar has been broken and such a jar should be thrown away. However, an adult may simply not like the taste of baby vegetable puree due to the lack of additives such as sugar and salt, but this does not mean that it is not suitable for complementary foods. The started jar should be stored only in the refrigerator and no more than a day.

If the parents are limited in funds or eat their own vegetables from the garden or personal plot (imported vegetables often contain nitrates), then the mother will be able to prepare vegetable puree for complementary foods on her own. If you do not have your own garden, then when buying, pay attention to the country of origin, and, if possible, choose vegetables grown in your area. When choosing vegetables for complementary foods, pay attention to their appearance: they should not have defects (black dots, brown spots, dry or wrinkled skin areas, dents, etc.), but they should not look large and with a glossy sheen (such vegetables, most likely have undergone a strong chemical treatment). If the introduction of complementary foods with vegetables falls on the "off-season", when there are no fresh vegetables or there are only imported ones, pre-made frozen preparations are perfect. Just remember that vegetables should not be defrosted before cooking, since most of the vitamins are destroyed precisely during the slow defrosting process.

For self-preparation of vegetable puree, it is advisable to purchase a double boiler and a blender. Before cooking, vegetables must be thoroughly washed and peeled off, since most of the harmful substances are contained in the peel. Remove all the top leaves from the cabbage and remove the stump from it. And cut off the big "tail" of carrots and beets.

Take one type of vegetable, such as a squash, wash, peel, cut and cook in a double boiler or in an enamel saucepan with a little water.To retain more nutrients, boil the vegetables whole or cut them into large pieces. Put vegetables only in boiling water and cook with the lid closed, but the best option for baby food is steaming vegetables.

Then transfer the vegetables to a blender, if necessary, add a little boiled water (so that the puree is not very thick). Vegetables for the first feeding should be completely boiled, without lumps. It is advisable not to add salt at all, otherwise the baby will not be able to eat fresh food later.

You can add vegetable oil to vegetable puree in a few drops per serving. The best vegetable oil is considered to be cold-pressed olive oil, as well as sunflower, corn and flaxseed oil. The puree should be freshly prepared every time.