Feeding the baby for up to a year

There should not be any big chunks. The child's front teeth( incisors) are designed only for biting off. Root teeth - intended for chewing - appear only in the second year of life. Until this time, children still press gums, and not chew. Products that can be taken in hand, let's just be under your supervision and when the child is sitting, and not bending over or playing. Put on a plate or tray only a few slices of food that you can take with your hands. If the food is too much and it is a mountain, there is a desire to grab it with handfuls, and not take it in a separate piece. Hotdogs( sausages) are not nutritious and are not safe for of small children. If a child bites off a whole sausage before the year, he will have a piece in his mouth about the size of a child's trachea and the child may choke. Health-safe sausages that do not contain nitrites are a favorite dish of two-year-old children, and they can be safe if you cut their along the into thin, noodle-like strips. Even these "safer" sausages can have too high a sodium content( too much salt), so limit their intake.

At the age of about a year, the child begins a period of "myself".The trick to which we resorted to cope with a child determined to eat on his own is to keep a spoonful of food in his hand and let the child also grab a spoon or give the child to take a full spoon in his hand and also take a spoonfuland direct it to the child's mouth.

Safe products that can be eaten by hand

Rice( ready-made breakfast)

rice cutlets( unsalted)

carrots( well-cooked)

toasted wheat flour with bran

burrs with bran

fried egg yolk

French toast( without egg white)

boiled peas( without pods)

pieces of pears( very ripe)

pieces of apple( well baked)

pieces of pasta( boiled)

slices of tofu( soybean curd)

green beans( well boiled, veins with pods

avocados in the form of sauce or slices

Foods that a child can choke

Nuts

seeds

grains in popcorn

hard beans

grape

sausages( whole or cut into large pieces)

hard candies

unripe pears

raw carrots

fresh apples

Attitude to food

In addition to the right food, children need the right attitude to eating. Here's how to help your child and themselves get pleasure from meals.

Table manners

Children are born clowns. When a child drops a spoon or food, everyone reacts quickly. The child soon realizes that it is he who directs this game, and continues to throw food anywhere, just not in his mouth. Rake - this is a well-known board game. Sometimes the child, who usually conscientiously feeds himself, becomes impatient, rakes down a whole handful of food and taps this handful half in his mouth and half on his face. The child continues to snap and smear until his clowning provokes the expected reaction of the public. Laughter not only reinforces this habit, but it can be dangerous if the child laughs with a mouth full of food, takes a deep breath and chokes.

The ability to stimulate the surrounding people, forcing them to respond to their antics, significantly strengthens the child's emerging sense of opportunity. Enough, that's enough. If you react too quickly to slobber behavior, this will only result in the table clown continuing to speak. It does not matter if you laugh or jabber with abuse, in any case the child takes it as a reaction of the public, and the presentation continues.

Not noticing is the best way to remove a small boor from the scene. If the situation is completely out of your control, draw a conclusion that the child is not hungry, and take the plate away from him. Do not expect that the child will sit quietly at the table as long as adults. Even at such an early age, manners are taught by example. If the kid sees that the older children( and adults) laugh with the mouth full, throw food, knock on the table with spoons and enjoy all this, the small simulator will do exactly the same. Also, do not forget to reward for good manners.

Bad eater

If the child pushes the food away with his hands, attach the toys to the tray on the suckers to hold the child's arms while you are cunningly pushing food into it( if the toys are without suction cups, you will have to raise them from the floor,because the child will endlessly throw them).We all know the game in the spoon-plane: "Here the plane is flying," and a spoon dives into the child's mouth. If the child at the table constantly waving his hands, like a mill wings, use three plastic spoons: one spoon for each child's hand and one for you to feed it. And do not forget that a child may simply not want to eat solid food. Your tricks should not cross the line and become the techniques of forcible feeding, which will form a very negative attitude for your baby.

Overcoming fear of eating

For some children it's perfectly normal to be afraid of new products. Be prepared for your child to explore new dishes before eating them. Give the child to get acquainted with the new food before trying it on the palate. One way to inspire boldness in a cautious consumer is to put some food on his own index finger and direct his finger with food to his mouth.