The newborn child grows. He quickly develops and with curiosity learns the world. The whole complex of vitamins is necessary for the kid for the active growth and good health. In the first months of life it takes all necessary of breast milk. But over time it becomes insufficiently and it is necessary to enter vegetables and fruit into a diet of the baby. Acquaintance of the kid to fruit begins with apple. It is entered into a feeding up of the baby in the form of juice and puree.
Acquaintance of the child to apples
Pediatricians have different views for the period of introduction of a feeding up. A lot of things depend on specific features of the kid. Today the age of 6 months for the children eating breast milk is considered optimum. Kids who have a main type of food dairy mixes can enter a feeding up for 1 or 1.5 months earlier.
In order that acquaintance of the baby to apple took place successfully, it is necessary to choose sweet-sour apples of green color. Why green? Because they seldom provoke allergic reactions. Green apples are richest with pectin that favorably affects digestion. Existence of this component will help the kid easier to acquire a new product.
So, the child already tasted apple juice and received good impressions of its tastes. The amount of the used juice is gradually brought to age norm. If everything passed normally and there were no undesirable digestive or allergic reactions, then it is possible to pass to apple puree.
Apple puree: when to give and how to prepare
The age of input of a feeding up depends on when apple juice was entered. On adaptation to juice leaves from 2 weeks to one month. Respectively, if juice was entered at the age of 6 months, then apples puree can give to the kid in 6.5 — 7 months. It concerns babies. Children bottle-fed babies can begin to give apple puree in 5 — 5.5 months. Some pediatricians make recommendations to begin not with juice, and at once with apple puree. In more detail the doctor who observes the kid will tell about terms and features of introduction of this tasty feeding up. The child has the specific features and, first of all, it is necessary to be guided by a physical condition of the baby. Puree can be made quickly in the blender or to grate apple on a usual small grater. It is important to make it just before the use as apples contain a lot of iron and on air it quickly is oxidized. But just it is the best of all to poskoblit apple a spoon and at once to send to the kid to a mouth. In the first day the amount of apple puree should not exceed 1, at most 2 teaspoons. If it did not cause discomfort in the form of an abdominal distension in the child, the increased gas generation and a diarrhea, it is necessary to increase every day gradually a dose, smoothly bringing it to age norm. Perhaps, the kid badly acquires apple puree or not delighted with its taste. In that case it is possible to give it baked apple. It is very useful and tasty product containing the same amount of vitamins and minerals, as well as fresh apples. Apples – a source of vitamins for the small child. Competent introduction of this feeding up will help the kid grow healthy and active.