The feeding up representing the additives to food appointed to the child in addition to dairy mixes or breast milk gives the chance to acquaint the kid with new flavoring feelings. Now early introduction of a feeding up can be justified only with extreme need as all useful substances necessary for the child in the most acquired form contain only in maternal milk or mix.
According to the recommendations of World Health Organization, the feeding up should be entered on achievement of 6-month age by the child in addition to breast milk. Food has to be liquid or carefully wiped. The child should give it 2 times a day in number of 2-3 full tablespoons. At the age of 7-8 months it is recommended to carry out thrice feeding by the wiped food, every time increasing its quantity up to 2/3 cups. From 9 months the child can offer small cut food or that which he can take a hand. The thrice feeding up which volume reaches ¾ a standard cup between meals is complemented with one light meal. From 12 months 250 milliliters of usual food for all family which is wiped if necessary are offered to the child or cut small pieces. Frequency of feeding remains invariable, but the amount of snack increases to two times.
Offer the children who are on artificial feeding a month before the beginning of the main feeding up a pedagogical feeding up, giving microdoses of any products used by parents. The purpose of a pedagogical feeding up is preservation of interest in food when to enter the main feeding up still early, but the child has signs of food interest concerning what is eaten by adults. In case any product was to the taste to the child, he is offered to try something else.
Despite the recommendations of experts in the field of baby food, it must be kept in mind that readiness of the child for a feeding up depends not only on age, but also on set of several factors. Among them it is possible to note doubling of weight from the birth, ability of the child to sit, to strong hold a small thing in hand and to send it to a mouth, manifestation of interest in food of parents and a request to try it, eruption of the first teeth, disappearance or weakening of a protective reflex of pushing out of firm particles of food language. Besides, for introduction of a feeding up there are contraindications: manifestations of an allergy, recovering from the postponed GIT diseases, intestinal diseases, preparation for inoculations and the period after them.