The scheme of introducing complementary foods to the child - the feeding of children

In contrast to the expression of the cat Matroskina from the famous cartoon "Prostokvashino": "Oh, we all have no milk and milk, and you can die. .." - young moms are interested in how long it takes to feed their child "all the milk and milk".When can I start to introduce complementary foods - by eating different foods that give the maximum amount of nutrients to the baby, which also teaches him to self-feed? Is there an ideal scheme of introducing complementary foods to a child?

Leading manufacturers of baby food recommend a variety of options for such schemes. But in our country the most popular are the three main methods of introducing complementary foods to kids: pedagogical, Russian and American.

Pedagogical method

Strange name for the method of complementary feeding of babies? However, its relative novelty and wide distribution was very useful to mothers with children who are on natural, breast-feeding. It only remotely resembles the scheme of introducing complementary foods to the child, since it does not contain precise recommendations on the combination of individual products and the sequence of their intake.

The main principle of introducing pedprikorma is the interest of the baby to "adult" food. This does not happen before the baby is 6 or 7 months old. You can notice his curiosity by sitting the child at the family table during a meal at his "crown" highchair or simply picking up his hands.

At first the baby will observe the process of eating and get used to it. Over time, he will begin to show interest: and that it lies in my mother's or father's plate? He, too, will want to lick the parental "food".The adherents of pedagogical complementary foods suggest that they offer him a "microdose": a scanty piece of "pea" or a drop on the tip of a child's( or tea) spoon.

Most likely, this food will not cause the crumbs of delight: he will start to resent and spit out the unusual "bjaku", but gradually begin to get used to the unusual tastes and flavors. Perhaps most dishes will be his favorite. Pedagogical reception does not advise parents to crush products thoroughly, "microsize" allows the child to try the product not in a puree form. However, giving the child a piece of fruit or bread crust, make sure that he does not get carried away by "tasting" and does not choke.

This method is based on children's interest. Familiarity with traditional family dishes is gradual. If the baby is tired, refuses food or just fusses, do not insist. In this case, you should not rush things. Take the crumb from the table, let it calm down, otherwise it will begin to negatively perceive the process of eating and the hunting will try to beat it for a long time.

The number of products used is gradually adjusted to 12 months to three teaspoons and the crumb becomes a full taster of the food ration of the family table.

Become favorite dishes alternate with others. For example, adorable mashed potatoes should be changed for another week by another useful side dish. Otherwise, there is a risk of daily feeding a child with potatoes, which can forever turn it away from this product.

Advantages of pedagogical complementary feeding

Pros and cons of pedicure:

• The positive moment of this practice is a wonderful appetite: the crumb does not need to be persuaded to eat a little "for mother, for dad and for a beloved cat."The baby will perceive the food in a natural way, as a necessary and tasty rite.
• The parents consider pedicure to be a strict adherence to a balanced, healthy, hypoallergenic diet. Despite megapopulyarnost habits of a healthy lifestyle, most families sometimes allow themselves to eat fried meat, pickled mushrooms, herring "under a fur coat" or smoked fish. It is not even necessary to feed a six-month-old baby such a "poison" in "microdoses".

Russian method

There is no well-defined "Russian scheme" for today. The recommendations of the pediatricians of the Soviet times about the introduction of juices to babies are already at the age of three weeks. But modern specialists treat them with caution, since such extreme "lure" can lead to early colitis and gastrointestinal diseases.

Argued and supporters of the introduction of gifts of nature in the children's diet. Some advocate for the early feeding of the child with fruits that "prepare" the baby for digesting vegetables. Other, more experienced mummies, advise initially to give crumbs to grated vegetables. A kid who is not familiar with any product, except for mother's milk or a vitaminized mixture, will gladly try cauliflower or a fresh vegetable marrow.

Starting with apple or apricot puree, you can face the unwillingness of children to eat "unsweetened and therefore not very tasty," in his opinion, vegetables. But the main task of complementary feeding is to accustom the crumb to full lunches or dinners, and not to turn them into dessert.

And when is it necessary to introduce complementary foods? On forums and in everyday life, mummies read and hear: "Are you still on milk? In four months? ! "-" And my soup with a spoon crackles! "Or another option:" It is not necessary to give the child a lure up to 9 months, or it will earn diathesis or indigestion!. . "These are the two extremes,and others.

What signs indicate the readiness of the crumbs to lure

According to experts, the age of the child is just one of many factors determining its willingness to well accept unfamiliar products:

1. Until four calendar months, the immature pancreas does not produce enough of the necessary enzymes forcorrect digestion of complementary foods.
2. Since birth, the baby has doubled the initial weight. A premature early baby, increased its weight by 2.5 times.
3. Krokha learned to drink from a spoon, not using the pushing reflex of his tongue. Lure in this case will fall into the mouth and be treated with saliva, which will facilitate its digestion.
4. The child no longer only confidently sits, but also leans forward, toward the spoon, or leans back, showing his reluctance to continue eating.
5. Controls the turn or tilt of the head, than it can also show its agreement.
6. The natural baby eats the contents from the right and left breast and does not eat up. A baby on artificial feeding consumes a liter of the mixture a day, but also wants to behave restlessly.
7. If the child develops a grasping reflex, and he, clutching the object in the cam, puts it in his mouth.
8. The kid shows great interest in adult food, seeks to try it. Nature thereby shows that the child can learn another food, so you need to diversify a little bit of his diet.

The scheme of introducing complementary foods to the child contains several rules:

• This healthy exercise can be started only by a healthy baby or, if necessary, during his recovery and normal stool;
• Feeding is given to the carapace only at the second feeding;
• Food should be slightly heated and fed by the baby before feeding with mother's milk or a mixture;
• Lure is given always with a spoon. Only vegetable puree can be diluted with milk and placed in a bottle, so that it is easier for the child to get used to the unusual taste;
• We begin to introduce complementary feeding from small doses, 5-10 g( 1-2 tsp), and then, within 14 days, bring it to the age level;
• We introduce a new kind of complementary foods not earlier than 10-14 days from the beginning of feeding by the previous one;
• The initial liquid form of food should eventually grow in density;
• The first lure is puree from vegetables, the second is cereal cereals( without gluten): rice, corn or buckwheat. We prepare them on milk, diluted in half with water or with the help of the usual milk formula.
• The factory baby food is supplied with an optimum amount of salt and sugar. Add these ingredients will be unnecessary.

The above advice of pediatricians, as a rule, moms are perceived on "hurray", until the time comes for supplementing protein food: meat, fish, egg yolk and cottage cheese. The rules and regulations from the specialists of children's medicine say that it is better to start meat from 7 months, fish - from 8, and cottage cheese and yolk can spoil the kids with half a year. However, often parents, reinsured, shift the early terms of supplementary feeding with dense protein food for two or even three months.

In recent years, the theory of the maximum possible breastfeeding has become widespread: children are not separated from the mother's breast until 12 months, and even up to two-, three-year-olds. All is well, mother's milk is not only a very nutritious product, but also containing many protective components from harmful external factors. There is a growing concern about the growing number of consultants denying the benefits of complementary foods and recommending a refusal in favor of a single product - mother's milk. In addition, most of them can hardly boast of medical education.

American method

This scheme of introducing complementary foods to a child comes from the United States, but spread throughout the world, including in Russia.

The main feature of this approach is that Americans begin to feed their children with porridge. At first it is a single-grain brew: from rice or corn enriched with iron, for better assimilation. Prepare it on the water, the mother's milk or a mixture to which the baby is used. In the cereal do not add oil or sugar. Finished porridges "sin" the presence of these not absolutely necessary ingredients( fructose or glucose).

The consistency of porridge for complementary foods is chosen liquid: 1 tsp.cereals by about 4 tablespoons.water or low-fat milk.

Feed the baby with such porridge from a spoon, but after receiving the mother's milk or a mixture. Each kind of cereals is introduced into the diet only after at least 10 days. Rice and corn are replaced by barley, then - oat-flakes. Although Americans do not eat buckwheat or millet porridge, these traditional cereals are introduced in Russia for complementary feeding to babies. Porridge from one type of grain over time replaced by a combination. In six or seven months, children are introduced into the diet vegetable purees, and only then fruits and squeezed out of them juices. Sometimes you can add apples as an additive to the store porridge, but after the baby's complete adaptation to it.

The norms of food consumption for babies are very different. Someone needs a very "good meal", but someone suffices and small portions. Therefore, all "average rates" are adjusted by 30% in the direction of increase or decrease, depending on the appetite of the crumbs.

Classical scheme

Having chosen a suitable product for the baby, we begin lure with half a spoon in the first couple of days, then adjust the amount to the age appropriate, 50 or 60 g. At the first signs of rash, dry skin, bloating or pain in the tummy,chair discard this product for 2-3 weeks. Another product is introduced only after the disappearance of these symptoms. If the lure was successful, then the next product will be introduced after 14 days. A "new dish" of complementary feeding is given to the youngster in the first half of the day before the main breastfeeding or mixture. At the same time it is necessary to give a child a high-quality children's water. Full replacement of feeding occurs when a small lure turns into a full day portion. In half a year - porridge or vegetable mashed potatoes( 50 or 100 g);