Introduction of a feeding up — very important step. It is necessary to change a diet of your kid gradually, very accurately and in due time. You should not do it too early or on the contrary too late.
Instruction
1. Modern pediatricians consider that the feeding up needs to be entered since six months when need of the child for vitamins, proteins and mineral substances significantly increases. Earlier doctors advised to enter a feeding up since four months, but there is no special sense in it. If the child very thin, with low hemoglobin and small appetite, it is possible to begin a feeding up slightly earlier, since five months.
2. It is considered that the feeding up should be entered after emergence of the first tooth as it can be considered an organism signal that it is ready not only to milk. But in certain cases teeth begin to be cut through also in eight-nine months, certainly, till this time it is possible not to wait.
3. Any new food needs to be included in a diet very carefully and gradually. It is recommended to begin to enter a feeding up during the second morning feeding. For a start try to offer the child a spoon of a new product, after that it needs to be finished feeding more habitual food — mix or breast milk. If the child refused a new product, be not upset, try to repeat attempt in couple of days.
4. After the first tests it is very important to monitor reaction of the child — changes of a chair or appearance of rash. If no problems appeared, next day the dose of a feeding up needs to be increased twice and to continue in the same spirit until the dose reaches hundred fifty grams. If at some point there were any problems, it is worth stopping increase in a dose and, perhaps, to consult with the doctor. From seven to ten days are usually necessary for full replacement of one feeding with a feeding up.
5. There are no unambiguous instructions what it is worth beginning a feeding up with. Some pediatricians recommend to begin with various vegetable purees as in their structure there are a lot of vitamins and mineral substances, but the structure of such food very strongly differs from habitual milk that can cause problems.
6. If you decided to begin with vegetables, at first it is better to give to the child light or green vegetables — broccoli, squash, a cauliflower. It is possible to add carrots, pumpkin and potatoes a bit later. Puree can be done independently, and it is possible to buy already ready from the checked producers that can even be more preferable as it does not contain cellulose fibers which can cause allergic reactions in the child.
7. If the child rather thin, the feeding up can be begun with porridges: with buckwheat, rice and corn, then to add oat. In this case too it is better to buy ready nurseries which are prepared from the checked ingredients and are ideally homogenized that is very important for the small child. It is worth beginning with nonmilk porridges, on dairy it is possible to pass closer by a year. It is better to replace with porridges the last feeding before going to bed, the gorged-on child will sleep longer and more quietly.