Further introduction of solid food
Ties with food stains in my wardrobe testify to the fact that although I mastered the science of feeding children, I did not master this art. As I mentioned earlier, in all likelihood, the feeding of the child makes three demands for the parents: knowledge in the field of proper nutrition, in the field of child development and the ability to creatively carry out marketing. Starting with a test dose of rice porridge or bananas, go to half a teaspoon, then to a teaspoon, to a tablespoon, then to about 60 grams, or half the jar. Go from soup to thick consistency, and then to not exactly homogeneous products, with small pieces. Remember that your initial goal is to introduce the child to the new taste and sensation that solid food gives, rather than to fill the baby to the limit. Gradually change the consistency and quantity according to the skills and appetite of your child. Some like more liquid dishes, in a larger amount;others prefer thick food and smaller quantities. Do not wait for order in the child's gastronomic habits. In one day your child can eat a whole jar, and in the other only a teaspoonful.
By the age of six months, many children are ready to take mashed or mashed to a consistency of food from a spoon.
Keep a diary of your favorite dishes
We made a conclusion that it is very useful to keep a diary with four columns on the page. In the first column, list those products that the child seems to like;in the second column - products, which, as you found out by trial and error, your child does not like;in the third, write down possibly allergenic products and signs of allergy and in the fourth - the techniques that you invented to get as much food as possible into the child with a minimum of battles. A culinary diary helps you identify the child's preferences and abilities at each stage of development;this is another way to get to know your child better and get more joy from communicating with him. In case your child has an intolerance or an allergy to a food product, introduce new products separately at least weekly intervals and keep a diary indicating products to which the child may be hypersensitive or who simply does not like it. In addition, a child with an allergy much later agrees to take solid food, and progress is slower.
When to feed
Offer solid food at the time of day when your child seems most hungry, tired or when you both need
Favorite first products
rice peaches
ready tomorrow- apple puree
ki carrots
pearl barley squash and pumpkin
bananas sweetcartouches fel( sweet potato) avocado
rhythm change. Choose the time that is most convenient for you, as a little mash is an integral part of the game. For children who are breastfeeding, it is usually best to take solid food for the morning, because you have the most time for the baby, and you do not need to worry about making food for the rest of the family. If you are breastfeeding, offer solid food when you have the least amount of milk in your breast, which is usually observed by the end of the day. Give your child solid food between breastfeeding. Recent dietary studies have shown that lure can interfere with the assimilation of valuable iron from mother's milk, if you give lactation simultaneously with breast milk.
"The child grazes."Since children do not have any idea about breakfast, lunch and dinner, it does not matter if they get vegetables or dinner for lunch and fruit. If before your mind's eye there is a picture on which your child is sitting quietly in the
highchair and eats up to three adult hearty meals of several dishes a day, forget about it! Children do not sit quietly in one place for long periods, even during the game, not like during a meal. Throw out the head of feeding on a schedule and give your child a delicate pleasure graze. Remember, small eaters have small tummies. Tweaking a little throughout the day from the point of view of dietetics is more useful than dense eating three times a day. Three dense meals a day - it's more like a schedule for adults, and even for us it's not such a healthy schedule, as more frequent meals in smaller quantities.
Forget about fast food. Try to organize the feeding of your child when you are not in a hurry. Eating a child takes a lot of time. Young children wait for a long time, splash food, spit it out, splash in it, smear, drop it and throw. Children eat just like that.
To have your child get more food than sex, mix your child's developing skills with a big pinch of patience and sprinkle with some laughter.
Enter the conversation conversation. Eating is communication. When you
offer the child solid food, consider that he probably thinks: "Something new comes from someone I love and trust."Talk about food, and about the process, so that the child learns to correlate words with the type of food and interaction that will follow. Here is an example: "Stefan wants a carrot. .. open her mouth!" - and I bring the loaded spoon to Stefan's mouth. When I asked Stefan to open his mouth, I opened my mouth wide, and he repeated my facial expressions. Impatient eyes, open palms and open mouth - signals of the body language that your child is ready to eat.
Stop before the stop sign. Compressed lips, closed mouth, turned away from the approaching spoon head - these are all signs that your child does not want at the moment. Not
It's quite obvious that this child
does not want to eat at the moment.
Do not force.
feed power. Some children eagerly eat solid food at four months, while others show little interest even in nine to twelve months. You want your child to have a healthy attitude to food and to eat. Perhaps at this time the child wants to play, sleep, or just the food is not interesting to him, or he is not hungry.
Do not feed your baby before bedtime. Porridges are often recommended as nourishing fillings for the stomach that can be stuffed into a baby to increase the intervals between breastfeeding or bottles and to get the baby to sleep through the night without waking up. Not only does this delusion rarely produce results, it can also create problems with controlling appetite at an early age, thereby contributing to obesity in the future. The child may need other forms of interaction between the bottles, and not just a crowded stomach. Remember that milk, breast or artificial, is still at this stage the most important food. Try to resist the temptation to feed the child to the dump before night sleep, desperately hoping that the child will sleep all night long. We, exhausted parents, also could not resist this temptation. Control studies showed, however, that children who are given solid food before bedtime begin fully, without awakening, to sleep at night, not earlier than children who are not fed up before going to bed.
Encourage self-reliance at the table. In , at the age of about six months, two wonderful skills begin to develop in children, which, if perfected, will greatly facilitate feeding: the ability to sit directly in the high chair or on your lap and the ability to take small items with your thumb and forefinger. In addition to using your finger and spoon for getting to know solid food, you can let the child feed themselves. Some children simply can not stand when food is imposed on them, and they resist your efforts to introduce them to solid food, until you realize that Mr. Independent wants to do it himself. Put a little banana puree on a table or on a tray of highchair at an accessible distance. At the age of about six months, children attack all the interesting things that are laid before them. You will notice that your child will grab this delectable substance with his thumb and forefinger and eventually will aim in his mouth. At the initial stage of searching for one's mouth, the child is more likely to miss than to hit, and as a result, most of the food will be on the child's cheeks and on the floor. As the mother of one very self-indulgent expressed herself: "The sex has a more balanced diet than my child".
So that the child does not grab for the spoon and does not send its contents into the air, give him something in the hands, for example another spoon or even a toy. Never punish him for having messed up everything or for wanting to take part in what is happening. If you really intend to put something into your child's mouth, gently take both his hands in his free hand, talking to him while still playing his teeth or even singing his favorite song to distract him and make him forget about the desire to "help."
Let the smell come to a close. Share food with a chair, face and sex - it's part of the fun. Be prepared for the child to perceive food as toys. So that most of the food is where you would like, try the maneuver that our family calls "the upper lip from the spoon dared": put food on the tip of your finger or on a spoon in the baby's mouth and gently lift the finger or spoon upward tothe upper lip dared all the food.
Spitting is another way to feel food;this research, which requires the development of the child more than the food itself."What will happen to this, if I do it?" is the question of the day for the child. He nourishes his intellect, while you are more engaged in feeding his body. Do not be nervous! The milk that your child receives meets all of his basic nutritional needs. You can let your child conduct research. When he is really hungry, the instinct will prevail and he will understand that whistling shells can work miracles, filling this huge emptiness in the tummy.
Get your child to open their mouths wider. Try the following: when you hold a full spoon in front of the doubting baby's mouth, refer to the child with these words: "Baby [name of child] wants a pear? Open your mouth! "- and open your mouth yourself in the hope that your child will simulate the movement of your face. The conversation about interaction, which will soon follow, is an old parental trick called setting for an event, i.e.words and gestures that foreshadow a familiar event. When the child establishes the relationship between a full spoon of food and your opening of the mouth, he will open his mouth much wider.
Help your child find an interest in solid food. Use the new acquisition of a child in the field of communication - his desire to repeat the actions of those who care for him. Let your child watch how you eat and enjoy the meal. Learn by example: cook a small dish for a small dish, such as rice porridge or banana puree, and eat a little yourself, exclaiming: "Mmm, tasty!" Some children at this age are rather reluctant to try something new. Take a few pieces of any new food yourself. Give the child to tune up by observing how you enjoy this new food. Maybe it's so, that he would gladly take that interesting wand on your plate. Do not laugh! Almost absolutely eaten chicken leg( shin, from which you should tear a thin bone and discard) will serve as an ideal food for a start. The child can hold it by itself and suck this wonderful juice, and also gnaw the articular end of the bone - excellently during teething.
Alternate dishes. Children get bored when they are offered too much of the same food. Be prepared for the fact that your child will from time to time give up yesterday's favorite dishes. Take it as a sign that your child needs a greater variety in the menu.
Do not mix products. Enter products one at a time, instead of mixing a few. In the event that the child has an allergy
or he does not like any product, it will be much easier to calculate the culprit if you will offer the child products separately. Once you make sure that certain products do not cause harm, you can mix them during feeding. In fact, some fruit on the tip of a spoon with meat or vegetables can sometimes hold the least favorite taste through the duty post.
Pass the salt, bypass the sugar. Parents, you form the taste of the next generation. If your child grows accustomed to artificially sweetened and heavily salted dishes, then it may be difficult to eradicate the grafted taste.
Dress up as befits for dinner. The child's dinner is a completely unofficial event. If you dress yourself and your child in the best outfits, it guarantees you a life near the washing machine. Two of our children loved to feed their whole body;others learned early enough to keep food above the neck. Torturing with one of our children, we found that it is much easier to almost completely undress it for the time of eating and then fun rinse it with a hose. Our seventh child, Stefan, liked to use food as body paint. To save ourselves from this misfortune, we put on it the whole body of the breastplate that was closing
, as soon as we sat at the table. This knee-length nylon bib with long sleeves is easy to rinse out and dries quickly and is a good alternative to undressing when you are in public or when it is not summer.
At the previous stage, the main goal was mainly to introduce the child to solid food - that the child is accustomed to the transition from liquid to solid food, from exclusively sucking to sucking, resorption in the mouth and chewing. Most children initially play more with food than eat, choosing only a few favorite foods. Breast milk and / or artificial infant formula accounts for approximately 90% of their diet.
Closer to the end of the first year, the child's swallowing mechanism is greatly improved. The reflex of pushing out the tongue practically disappears, the gag reflex weakens, and the swallowing becomes more coordinated. This allows you to gradually move from mashed foods to less uniform. Go ahead, changing the consistency of food - but not too fast. If you move too slowly, you will deprive the child of the opportunity to experiment with different textures and extend the period of the jars with the wiped baby
power. If you move forward too quickly, the child will avoid new dishes and a new consistency for fear of choking.
At this stage, children enjoy the greater variety and volume of food. Solid food becomes the main component of the child's diet, which by the age of one year accounts for approximately 50% of the total food consumed by the child.(This is an average figure, the nutrition of many children who receive breast by the year is still 80-90% of milk.) At this stage, new developmental milestones bring with them new feeding patterns. The grip, like a tweezers, thumb and index finger, more dexterous now, allows the child to take small pieces. Children are usually completely occupied with each newly acquired skill. As a result, children have an admiration for small things. Grab for this new desire and offer your child small pieces. The pleasure begins to eat with your hands.