Feeding

Breast milk - the best and only food, which requires a child c birth to 4-6 months. If a child can not eat breast milk, pediatricians recommend the milk mixture with the addition of vitamins and iron.

When to start lure baby?

By 4-6 months the children began to disappear extruding reflex (infant tongue pushes all that put him in the mouth). This is a signal that can lure a child to begin solid foods.

How to lure?

Suggest lure can be used only if the child is rested and feels good, for example, after sleep. Baby should be sitting in his chair or on your lap.

Never force a child to eat. If he cries or turns away, perhaps a child is not ready to complementary feeding. Continue to feed him breast milk or infant formula and try again in a week or more.

What lure?

American Academy of Pediatrics recommends as the first solid food for the baby rice gruel. You can breed a little rice cereal with breast milk or milk mixture and invite your child on a special spoon. At first the child would eat no more than half a teaspoon, but very quickly begins to eat 2-3 tablespoons at a time.

Most doctors advise introduce porridge in the following order:

* Rice

Then, starting at 8 months:

* Oatmeal
* Pearl
* Wheat porridge and oatmeal mnogozernovye (these cereals are introduced in the least, to reduce the risk of allergies).

When a child learns to have porridge, you can enter pureed vegetables - easily digestible at first yellow and then green. You may enter vegetables in the following order:

* Carrots
* Maize
* Pumpkin
* Green Beans
* Peas
* Avocados

Then, you can enter unsweetened milk yogurt, and after them - mashed fruit.

* Apple
* Banana
* Peach
* Pear

At least the meat is introduced, because is most difficult to digest.

* Beef
* Chicken
* Turkey
* Lamb

How do I know whether a child allergic to certain foods?

If you give a child a new food, do not offer nothing new, at least within 3 days. In the case of allergies, you'll know exactly what caused it. Also, try to a new type of food appearing in the diet of the child is not the cup twice a month. Avoid meat and some grains up to 8 months of age. Allergic reactions in infants have the following symptoms:

* Diarrhea
* Insomnia
* Weeping
* A rash on the face, especially around the mouth
* Rhinitis
* A strong stimulation of the skin under the diaper
* Vomiting
* Watery eyes
* Sipyaschee or wheezing
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