Cottage cheese – one of the first dairy products which appears in the child's diet. It contains a set of the components necessary for full development – vitamins, salts of calcium and phosphorus, milk protein, milk fat.
All new products begin to enter into a diet of the child gradually, small portions. Cottage cheese can begin to be entered into food after the child is five months old. If the kid is healthy and still there were no problems at introduction of new products, it is necessary to begin with a half of a teaspoon in day.
As it is necessary to begin a feeding up
For the first time serving to the kid cottage cheese, it is necessary to track its reaction. If no undesirable reactions are observed, it is necessary to increase a daily portion from a half of a teaspoon in four days to two spoons, that is from five grams – to twenty. Gradually increasing amount of the cottage cheese eaten in a day by the child by a year a portion to bring to fifty grams a day.
It is necessary to serve cottage cheese to the five-months kid at the beginning of feeding. It is possible to pound previously it and to part with the decanted breast milk or the adapted dairy mix. That it was more convenient to track reaction of the kid to a new product, it is better to serve cottage cheese at the beginning of a feeding up in the mornings. Later, when the organism of the child will get used to a new dish, cottage cheese can be served also to other time.
What cottage cheese it is better to use in food of the kid
Cottage cheese which is made in dairy kitchen will be suitable for small children more at the age of five-six months. Unlike the fact that it is intended for adults, children's cottage cheese on consistence softer. It is very important for children at whom the chewing reflex is not developed sufficiently yet. The cottage cheese made in conditions of production on acidity such is that mucous intestines of the child does not irritate. The product can be dairy or creamy. In milk cottage cheese the amount of fats is lowered – it well suits children in whom excess weight is found. Creamy cottage cheese contains fats in bigger quantity. As it is rather nutritious, the kid should not give in the same day other products with the high content of calories. Some mothers cook for kids cottage cheese independently – too quite perhaps, but at the same time it is necessary to follow rules of hygiene. It is possible to make fresh cottage cheese or sour – from kefir which is made especially for children. In food of kids it is impossible to use market cottage cheese and also what is prepared from sour milk. For introduction of cottage cheese to the child's diet the pediatrician has to define suitable time and quantity. In some situations the doctor can limit amount of cottage cheese or in general exclude this product from food.