WHO (World Health Organization) developed recommendations according to which children when breastfeeding can enter a feeding up since six months, and to "bottle-fed babies" – from five. To this age the child received all necessary of milk of mother or mix and now time to acquaint it with new food came. How it is correct to make it?
The first zubik
It is also the answer to a question: ""When it is necessary to begin to give a feeding up"". If development of the child goes normally, the first tooth at it appears in six months. It means that the kid can eat firmer food, and not just a mother's milk. In old times began to lure children with the advent of the first zubik and gave "on teeth" a silver spoon. To this age the kids, as a rule, can already sit and see how dad and mom eat - and they try to imitate parents.
We do everything by rules
Do not begin a feeding up with fruit juice, it is strong allergen which gives big load of kidneys and digestive tract of the child. Pediatricians recommend to begin with vegetable purees, and with single-component. In such purees there is a lot of cellulose and minerals which stimulate process of digestion and are very useful at rickets and anemia. Nutritionists suggest to make first course of the kid the bezglyutenovy porridge divorced breast milk. Especially relevant it for children with a low weight at whom vomiting and disorder of digestion are often observed.
Contrary to the recommendations of some doctors, WHO does not recommend to begin a feeding up with kefir. Fermented milk products which it treats contain live bacteria to which children's digestive system is not ready yet. Besides, in kefir there can be many mineral salts, and it is excess load of kidneys of the kid.
Do not forget to put the child to a breast after he ate a little porridge or puree. It will help to warn an allergy and to improve digestion so far the kid adapts to "adult" food.
Step by step
Begin a feeding up with the smallest portions, no more than a half of a teaspoon. After that surely finish feeding breast milk or mix. For other or third day give a teaspoon, but surely you monitor reaction of your kid to new food. If you noticed that at it the tummy ached or there was rash, postpone introduction of this product for several weeks. If everything passed without negative consequences, can gradually increase a portion.