How to add complementary food for the first time?

After four months, the baby can gradually start to add complementary food. However, due to the developmental characteristics of the baby's digestive system, the principle of adding complementary food should follow from less to more and from dilute to thick. It is best to add fruit juice and vegetable juice first, and then add rice soup and egg yolk after the baby gets used to it.

1, starting with food with low allergy and light taste.

2. feed only one new food at a time, starting from a small amount, and the concentration of food should also be from thin to thick.

3. Every meal starts with a new food. If you don't want to eat, add the food you have already eaten, and add a new food in about 5-7 days.

Add rice flour or rice soup in 4.6 months, add grains and roots in 7-8 months, and start to try various leafy vegetables and fruit purees. You can start adding meat in eight months.

Generally, the baby is physiologically calcium deficient from birth to 6 months, and calcium supplementation is needed regardless of whether the baby has calcium deficiency symptoms. Calcium deficiency symptoms caused by not supplementing calcium in time after birth usually do not appear until 6 months later.

Babies' nutrition mainly comes from milk, and breast milk is the most ideal baby food. Breast-fed babies are less likely to suffer from calcium deficiency or rickets. In the early days, mothers can take calcium tablets and deliver them to their babies through milk. When the baby is older, you can buy calcium tablets for him to eat, or you can supplement the absorption of calcium through complementary food.