Till 5th month, maternal milk quite meets the needs of the child in nutrients. However it is good if you from 2nd month begin to give it fruit and vegetable juice from which the children's organism receives in addition vitamins and salts.
On the first time give it all a juice spoon — after feeding, for the second time — two spoons, increasing gradually this quantity up to 1/4 glasses.
Certainly, at the same time it is necessary to be very careful because various organisms differently perceive the same food. If you notice that the kcal of the child becomes rare or that tears him, stop giving juice for several days. The children inclined to locks can receive juice in bigger quantity.
On the 5th month you can increase a portion of juice to a half of a glass, giving it 2-3 times a day after feeding or in intervals between feedings. Juice can be prepared from carrots, sweet cherry, lemons, oranges, grapes, tomatoes, a green salad, etc.
In the winter the child on the 3rd month of life can give cod-liver oil. In the beginning one drop in a spoon with the decanted milk is given. Gradually we increase to a half of a teaspoon and at last, we bring to 1-2 teaspoons a day. But it is worth to remember that to the children who are often suffering from gastrointestinal frustration, cod-liver oil is contraindicated.
Since 5th month it is good to child to give 5% porridge from the roasted flour or semolina or vegetable puree. This food contains many substances necessary for growth of an organism — proteins, mineral salts, calcium, phosphorus and especially iron which reserve in the child's liver is exhausted by this time. You feed the child of 5 times a day in 3.5 hours.
Prikarmlivany by semolina or flour porridge also it has to be made gradually — since 1-2 spoons before feeding by a breast. Increase this quantity so that by the end of the week it could replace entirely one feeding with a breast. Children take porridge better, than puree; but there are children, for example rachitic for which it is more useful to begin a feeding up directly with vegetable puree. Start a prikarmlivaniye when the child is absolutely healthy. It is not recommended to begin a feeding up in the summer.
When the child gets used to 5% porridge, begin to give him 10% which is much more nutritious. Since 5th month you can also give to the child fruit and milk kissel. Besides milk, porridge can be cooked on vegetable broth, adding to it kefir.
We recommend to you to give by the end of the 6th month to the child for lunch vegetable puree, leaving porridge at after-dinner o'clock. At the same time twice a week add to it in porridge on a half of the yolk which is well welded and pounded.
By the end of the 7th month a breast it is useful to replace morning feeding with the cracker soaked in sweet boiled water with addition of the crumbled brynza and oil. For lunch, before vegetable puree give to the child of 30-50 grams of meat or vegetable broth. In broth it is possible to add a little bit rice or semolina — it is not necessary to put anything else in it.