Can a six-month-old baby eat mashed potatoes when adding complementary food for the first time?

As can be seen from your question, you are not very clear about what your baby should eat at the first bite of complementary food. I will tell you directly that the baby's first complementary food must be iron-containing rice noodles, and there is no other choice but to eat mashed potatoes.

Why must it be rice flour and iron?

Six months after the baby was born, the iron brought from the mother was almost used up and needed to be supplemented. The production of rice noodles is not complicated. The older generation can make it with the most primitive mill, but the homemade rice flour does not contain iron, and the baby is too young to eat pork liver and chicken liver, so it is necessary to eat the fortified iron baby rice flour on the market. These rice noodles are all added with iron, which is very suitable for babies.

How to eat complementary food for the first time?

The baby added complementary food for the first time. In the morning or at noon, when the baby is in a good mood and state, it is best to let the baby sit on the dining chair. You can feed some milk first, then feed some complementary food with a spoon (rice paste made of fortified iron baby rice noodles, less than half a spoon), and decide whether to continue adding or drinking milk according to the situation.

If the baby doesn't want to eat, use your tongue to withdraw the spoon, and don't force the baby. It is normal for the baby to refuse to add complementary food at first.

The principle of adding complementary food

Let's just say what my family did. My baby is premature. In fact, it takes almost 7 months to add complementary food (the complementary food for premature infants should be added according to the revised age). After adding rice noodles for the first time, I only ate a little and drank milk. After three days of observation, it was normal, no skin problems and no vomiting, so I was relieved to add it.

The addition amount also follows the law of step by step, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to coarse. To put it simply, in a word, when the baby gets used to it, gradually change the weight, thickness, hardness and softness of the complementary food.

Talk about drinking milk. After adding complementary food, ensure that the daily milk quantity of the baby aged 7 to 12 months is 600 to 1000 ml. After one year old, the daily milk volume is 400~600 ml. Within one year old, complementary food should not pretend to be the owner, mainly drinking milk, supplemented by complementary food.

For infants under one year old, no flavoring agents, including salt and sugar, should be added to the complementary food, and the natural flavor of the food should be preserved when making it.

In short, the baby's first complementary food must be fortified iron baby rice noodles. As for mashed potatoes, you have to wait for the baby to get used to it. Adding complementary food must follow the principle of step by step, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to coarse. In addition, complementary food should not be a kind of interference. To ensure the baby's milk quantity every day, the complementary food should be light in taste. With the continuous improvement of baby's chewing ability, parents can prepare more kinds of food.