The transition of a child to "real food" is a significant stage in his development. If the baby is gaining weight normally and is feeling well, you can not rush to introduce complementary foods earlier than six months. But if the child has a lag in height and weight, the appearance of rickets or anemia, the pediatrician may recommend introducing complementary foods from 4-4, 5 months. You should start with mono-component dishes, for example, cereals containing 1 type of cereal.
Instructions
Step 1
A child should be introduced to porridge at 6-7 months of his life. But if the baby has unstable stools, experts recommend starting complementary foods with cereals (at 4, 5-5 months, if the baby is artificially fed and at 6 months, if the mother is breastfeeding the baby). First, offer your baby only 1 teaspoon of porridge. Watch him closely throughout the day. If there are no allergic reactions and the stool has not changed, the next day, double the serving. Bring to 100 g, and after a year, the serving should be 200 g.
Step 2
Start with one-part cereals without sugar and other additives. Also, they should not include gluten (sometimes children do not tolerate it well). This dietary gluten protein is absent in corn, rice and buckwheat. Then, after gluten-free, add gluten, after dairy-free - dairy, and one-component can be replaced with mixtures of cereals and cereals with vegetable or fruit additives. But do not rush and introduce them earlier than 10 months.
Step 3
For the first acquaintance with a new food, in this case with porridge, choose a time when both of you are in a good mood and have not yet had time to get tired of the day.
Step 4
Offer your baby to try porridge when he is hungry. Do not try to make him swallow everything that was in the spoon by all means. It is enough for the child to simply taste the unfamiliar food. If the kid is not enthusiastic about this, leave this attempt until the next day.
Step 5
If the baby is happy with the new dish, offer him a little more, but never force him to eat. Indeed, at this age, he receives very few calories from solid food. Therefore, your task is not to feed him, but to make the acquaintance with a new food a pleasant discovery. Monitor the child's reaction and do not miss the moment when he thinks that he has enough. Then stop feeding.
Step 6
Be quicker if your baby is outraged and cries between sips. Most likely in this way he asks you to hurry up. Indeed, until now, milk has entered the baby's mouth in a continuous stream, and now the intervals between portions may not seem very pleasant to the baby.
Step 7
Breastfeed or bottle feed your baby after eating the right amount of cereal.
