Transition of the child to "the real food" - a considerable stage in its development. If the kid normally gains weight and well feels, it is possible not to hurry to enter a feeding up before half a year. But if at the child are noted lag in growth and weight, appearance of rickets or anemia, the pediatrician can recommend to enter feeding up dishes from 4-4.5 months. It is necessary to begin with monocomponent dishes, for example the porridges containing 1 species of cereals.
Instruction
1. It is necessary to acquaint with the child's porridge on 6-7 month of his life. But if the kid has an unstable chair, experts recommend to begin a feeding up with porridges (in 4.5-5 months if the baby is on artificial feeding and in 6 months if mom nurses the baby). At first offer the kid only 1 teaspoon of porridge. Watch him during the day carefully. If there are no allergic reactions and the chair did not change, next day double a portion. Bring to 100 g, and after a year the portion has to make 200 g.
2. Begin with single-component porridges without sugar and other additives. Also they should not include gluten (sometimes children badly transfer it). This protein of food gluten is absent in corn, rice and buckwheat. Then, after bezglyutenovy enter gluten, after nonmilk - dairy, and single-component it is possible to replace with mixes of grain and squashes with vegetable or fruit additives. But you should not hurry and enter them before 10 months.
3. For the first acquaintance to new food, in this case with porridge, choose time when both of you stay in good mood and did not manage to be tired in a day yet.
4. Suggest the baby to taste porridge when he is hungry. Do not try that he by all means swallowed everything that was in a spoon. There is enough also of that the child just tasted unfamiliar food. If it did not cause in the kid of enthusiasm, stop this trying till next day.
5. If the baby it is happy with a new dish, offer it a little more, but never force to eat with force. At such age he receives very few calories from firm food. Therefore your task not to feed him, and to make so that acquaintance to new food became pleasant opening. You monitor reaction of the child and do not miss that moment when he considers that it has enough. Then stop feeding.
6. Act more quickly if the child is indignant and cries between drinks. Most likely thus he asks you to hurry. Still milk came to the baby's mouth a continuous stream, and now intervals between portions can seem to the kid not really pleasant.
7. Finish feeding the baby a breast or from a small bottle after he eats the necessary amount of porridge.