How many months does the baby start to eat complementary food?

Hello, I'm Ma Jing, and I'm glad to answer your question.

In the process of raising a baby, inexperienced novice parents can easily fall into various pits.

In the stage of adding complementary food, we should learn the knowledge of adding complementary food in advance, otherwise we will fall into the pit of "complementary food feeding", such as the time of adding complementary food mentioned in the question, as well as the common specific methods and feeding methods of adding complementary food.

A few months ago, Ma Bao began to add complementary food. My baby is almost four months old. Next, let's talk about the time to add complementary food to the baby and when to start adding complementary food.

Although the suggestion is such a suggestion, it depends on the actual situation of the baby. After all, every baby has individual differences.

So, to sum up, can you start adding complementary food to your baby, mainly depending on these two points:

1 depending on the age of the month: although it can be added as early as possible, it cannot be earlier than four months at the earliest. This is what novice parents should know.

2 Look at the performance: that is, the signal that the baby adds complementary food. How many appeared? If most of them appear, consider trying to add them. As for the "signal to add complementary food", you can refer to the picture below.

2. Several common questions about the addition of complementary food.

Baby is less than 4 months old, breast milk is not enough, and milk powder is not eaten. Can you add some complementary food?

No way!

The baby's gastrointestinal function and swallowing ability are not well developed. It may occasionally feed the baby some rice soup, and the baby also eats it, but it doesn't mean that the baby can digest and absorb it well. If you feed frequently, there will be problems. In addition, in the stage of baby's rapid growth, rice soup has no nutrition, which may affect the baby's development after a long time.

In this case, we should try to let the baby drink milk powder, such as feeding it with a small cup and spoon first, and then feeding it with a bottle gradually after the baby gets used to the taste of milk powder, but we can't directly give the baby complementary food.

Food is more nutritious. After adding complementary food to your baby, you don't have to feed it!

Incorrect!

For the baby about six months old, it is still in the stage of rapid growth, with a small stomach capacity, and needs to eat foods with high nutritional density, such as breast milk or infant formula (which strengthens all kinds of nutrients needed for the baby's growth).

In the stage of eating complementary food, the main purpose is to let the baby gradually try and accept other foods besides milk, mainly to supplement nutrition with milk, so we should give the baby milk and only eat complementary food.

③ If the breast milk is very good or the baby especially likes to drink formula milk, can you always feed the baby milk and wait for 8- 10 months before adding complementary food?

No way!

Adding complementary food should follow the principle of adding complementary food. When it has adapted to the age of several months, try to add it step by step. First, add some nutrition. Second, let the baby accept the characteristics and tastes of other foods to prevent picky eaters from being partial to food in the future. Thirdly, it also grasped the critical period of the tube and exercised the baby's swallowing and chewing ability.

If you don't add complementary food for 8 months, then your baby may especially like to eat milk, and then it will be difficult to add complementary food;

Or the baby has been eating muddy food such as rice noodles, which will affect the exercise of chewing ability and lead to partial eclipse and picky eaters.

Therefore, the time to add complementary food should not be later than 8 months, and the types and textures of complementary food should be gradually increased according to the baby's age, so as to correctly add complementary food to the baby.

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The above is the time requirement for adding complementary food to your baby. Adding complementary food should be based on the baby's development and correctly added according to the principle of addition.

Hello! I'm glad to answer your question. Because there are many children with me, I summed up the following points, hoping to help you.

First, the time for children to add complementary food is generally 4-6 months. Adding complementary food to your baby too early is often counterproductive and harmful to your baby's health.

Second, children's complementary food should be added step by step, and the principle of from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to coarse should be followed.

Third, it is suggested that children should not eat pure rice flour just after adding rice flour, and it is best to contain iron. Because after 6 months, the baby consumes almost all the iron from the mother, so it needs to be supplemented, otherwise iron will easily lead to anemia.

Fourth, 1 year-old children should not add salt to the complementary food, and excessive salt intake will easily burden the kidneys.

Fifth, children's complementary food should adapt for 2~3 days every time a new food is introduced, and closely observe whether there are adverse reactions such as vomiting, diarrhea and rash. If so, stop adding complementary food immediately. Try other kinds in a few days, you must adapt to one food first, and then add other new foods.

This problem is very common in Ma Bao. Generally, 4-6 months is a good time for your baby to add complementary food, but it depends on your baby's individual development. If the mother observes that the baby has one of the following situations, she can consider adding it:

1. The baby's weight increased to twice that at birth;

2. The baby is hungry after eating about 250ml of milk for less than 4 hours;

3. Babies can sit up;

4. The baby can eat milk above 1000ml within 24 hours;

5. When adults eat, the baby always stares, swallows, drools, smacks, and reaches for adults' food;

6. The baby is 6 months old, but the weight gain is slow, so we should give full consideration to adding complementary food to the baby;

Speaking of complementary food, let me share my experience. The baby added it when he was about five months old. At first, I added rice flour, rice flour with trace elements sold in the market, and rice flour paste specially for babies. Add a small amount at first, and then add it when the baby gets used to it. After the baby's full moon, her mother-in-law began to say that it is not enough to eat at this age. After listening to her nagging for months, I added a baby for five months.

So when is the best time to add complementary food to children?

1. It is better to add the baby after 4 months. The doctor reminded the early baby that the stomach and intestines were not well developed, and the earliest addition was 4-6 months. Early children mainly use breast milk or milk powder, which helps children absorb it.

2. It should be added when children are interested in other foods. When the baby is interested in food other than milk, it is easier for the child to adapt by adding complementary food.

3. The child grows rapidly, and milk can no longer meet his growth and development, so it is necessary to add complementary food. When mothers see that their children are still hungry after breastfeeding several times a day, they should add complementary food when the milk can no longer satisfy them. At this time, the nutrition that children need is greatly increased, and complementary food can give children the nutrition they need.

In these cases, complementary food can be added to children. Of course, every child's situation is different, so is adding complementary food, depending on your child's growth.

So how do you add complementary food to your child?

Add semi-liquid food to children first, and then add solids after getting used to it. At first, breast milk or milk powder should be the main food, and the supplementary food is dessert after meals.

Why do you say semi-fluid first? The milk that children drink is liquid, and semi-liquid is somewhat similar to liquid, which is easily accepted by children's intestines and stomach. When you start to add complementary food, children should adapt to it slowly, so add a small amount first, or mainly milk.

Second, after children get used to eating complementary food, they gradually reduce the number of breastfeeding and become more complementary food.

When milk can no longer meet children's growth needs, then children should be given more complementary foods to reduce the number of times children eat milk. After children are used to eating complementary food, their adaptability is constantly enhanced and their digestive system is improving, so they can eat complementary food better.

Third, after the complementary food is added for a period of time, you can add a variety of foods to your child.

After eating complementary food for a while, the child became interested in many foods. At this time, children can eat more foods, such as fruits, and add eggs and meat to their stomachs.

Why do you add eggs and meat when you eat complementary food for a while? Because the child's stomach is well adapted, it will not damage the child's spleen and stomach. Give your child eggs or meat from the beginning. If the child's stomach can't accept it, it's easy to have diarrhea, which is not worth the candle.

Fourth, don't force your child to add complementary food, and then slowly add it when the child can accept it.

Some parents will add complementary food to their children if they think they can, regardless of whether the children are willing to accept it or not. When the child is unwilling to accept it, we should not force-feed it, which will also have an impact on the child's psychology and produce resistance.

Every child's growth and development is different, and Bao Ma should decide according to her own child's growth and development.

First, when can the baby add complementary food? Adding complementary food prematurely will lead to indigestion, bloating and diarrhea, which will bring great pressure to the baby's immature kidneys and leave hidden dangers. Therefore, it is generally recommended to add complementary food when the baby is 4~6 months old to supplement the nutritional deficiency of breastfeeding.

Four to six months old babies gradually mature digestive enzymes and have begun to teether, laying a good foundation for them to accept complementary food. The baby will also show many signs of adding complementary food: from the weakened tongue-sticking reflex (when the mother puts food on the baby's tongue, he will stick out his tongue) to the stronger interest in what others eat, which indicates that the baby can add complementary food.

As for the specific time to add complementary food, it should be decided according to the health and growth of each baby:

1, and the weight is doubled compared with the birth weight, reaching more than one kilogram.

2. You can sit down

3. I still feel hungry after feeding breast milk 8~ 10 times a day.

Usually fast-growing and active babies need to eat solid food earlier than slow-growing and quiet babies.

Second, how to add complementary food 1 for the first time, and the choice of complementary food types

Rice flour is the ideal first complementary food, and the allergenicity of cereal food is far lower than other kinds of food. The baby who just started to add complementary food had better choose cereal, and iron fortified baby rice flour is the best first complementary food for the baby.

2. Add complementary food for the first time.

When adding complementary food to your baby for the first time, it is best to choose between two feedings in the morning to let your baby start trying new things. At this time, your baby is not very hungry. Because the baby may not be in the mood to taste something he hasn't eaten when he is hungry, you can also choose to let him eat half of the milk first, then feed him some rice flour, and then finish the rest of the milk.

3. Ways to feed your baby complementary food

When adding complementary food for the first time, the amount of complementary food should not be too much. When brewing rice noodles, it should be thinner at first, put it in a small bowl and try the temperature first. Show the baby the action of eating, and then you can put it on his mouth and gently rub his lips to make him open his mouth. As soon as he opened his mouth, he poured the complementary food on his tongue.

Some babies accept it quickly, some babies may refuse, don't start, or simply don't open their mouths, which shows that the baby is not interested in complementary food. You can try again in two days.

Third, don't add too much complementary food to your baby. Too fast and too much complementary food will increase the burden on the baby's stomach and bring trouble to the digestive system.

When adding complementary food, feed it with a spoon. At the beginning, only one teaspoon can be fed at a time, and the amount of complementary food can be gradually increased. Babies of 4~6 months only eat semi-liquid rice noodle paste once a day, and milk is still the staple food. Then the complementary food gradually increased to two or three meals. An eight-month-old baby should be able to eat complementary food three times.

When adding complementary food, we should start from a small amount in order to better control the amount of complementary food. Generally, 10g rice flour is enough every day. You can add 1/4 egg yolks and eat one egg yolk after one month. Add about 5 grams of vegetables and fruits each time, and the juice should not exceed 50~ 100 ml every day, and then gradually increase the amount of complementary food in a small amount, so that the baby can gradually adapt to the adult diet.

Fourth, don't force feed. If the baby leans back in the chair, turn his head away from the food and start playing with the spoon, which means that he is full, and breast milk or formula milk is still the baby's main source of nutrition.

If the baby eats less milk or is unwilling to eat milk, it means that the complementary food is added too much. It is necessary to adjust the amount of complementary food to ensure that the baby drinks enough milk.

The above is my answer about when the baby can add complementary food. I hope it will help you.

The World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the British Ministry of Health all suggest that complementary food should be added after the baby is six months old, because after six months, the nutritional needs of the baby can no longer be fully met by breastfeeding or milk powder, and it is necessary to supplement enough energy, protein, iron, zinc, vitamins A and B by adding complementary food on the basis of breastfeeding, but the baby's growth situation is different. Some babies began to have physiological signals of adding complementary food after 4 months. For example, if the baby's tongue-spitting reaction disappears, he can straighten his neck and be interested in food. At this time, he can also start to add complementary food. At the initial stage of complementary food addition, iron-fortified baby rice flour or minced meat should be added first to ensure that the baby can get enough nutrition. After the baby gets used to it, you can add other kinds of complementary foods, such as vegetables, fruits and egg yolks. And make it into vegetable puree, fruit puree or egg yolk puree for the baby to eat.

Hello! Let's talk about adding complementary food, which requires the baby's growth and development to meet the following conditions:

1, tongue-out reflex disappears.

2, the head can stand steadily, and the hand can catch the goods and send them to the entrance.

3, can sit alone for more than half a minute.

4. Double your weight at birth.

Step 5 be interested in food

When these five conditions are met at the same time, we can add complementary food to our baby.

Let's take a look at the effect of adding complementary food too early or too late on the baby:

Finally, you are worried about the shortage of milk in the late stage of exclusive breastfeeding. Breast milk is produced while sucking, and now it can be breastfed exclusively, which shows that the milk quantity and feeding method are very good. On the existing basis, let the baby eat good milk every day, pay attention to rest, drink more water, keep a happy mood, and avoid blockage caused by excessive milk increase. Breast milk will not decrease at once. Breastfeeding is safe!

Baby can add complementary food for several months.

Infants can generally add complementary food after 4-6 months.

With the gradual maturity of growth and development in infancy, the demand for nutrition is increasing, and it is necessary to transition from pure milk (liquid food) at birth to semi-solid food (muddy food) for children and solid food for adults. The food in this period is called milk-changing food, also called complementary food.

The time for infants to add complementary food is when their weight reaches 6.5~7kg, and most of them are 4 6 months old. The following principles should be followed when adding complementary food:

(1) Time to adapt to the age of the month: Premature addition of complementary food can easily lead to digestive dysfunction; After the party, the baby was malnourished.

(2) From one kind to many kinds: At first, only one complementary food suitable for months was given to the baby, such as the introduction of vegetables. At first, feed a vegetable paste twice a day until the baby digests well after 3 4 days or 1 week, and then try another vegetable or food to stimulate the development of taste. A variety of foods are not allowed to be added in a short time.

(3) From thin to thick: feed liquid food first, then gradually add semi-liquid food, and finally feed solid food.

(4) From fine to coarse: the first food should be fine and the taste should be tender and smooth; The baby has a thick texture when teething or teething.

(5) From a small amount to a large amount: Every time you add new food to your baby, the number of feeding should be less, the amount should not be large, and then gradually increase. A small amount of fortified iron rice flour (1 spoon and 2 spoonfuls) can be given at the beginning of feeding, and rice flour can be used instead of 1~2 times after 6~7 months of age.

(6) In order to train the baby's eating ability, we should pay attention to the introduction methods, such as eating with spoons and hands and drinking with cups and bowls, which are helpful to oral movement coordination and swallowing function.

This content was reviewed by Liu Jinquan, chief physician of pediatrics of Zhengzhou People's Hospital.

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Usually six months. Some babies have long teeth and are interested in things. You can add it early, or it is better to add complementary food in 6 months! The baby's spleen and stomach have not developed well, and premature addition is easy to hurt the spleen!

A few months ago, Ma Bao began to add complementary food. My baby is almost four months old.

First, the time for the baby to add complementary food is 4-6 months, so is it good for the baby to add it in 4 months or 6 months? Let's analyze it.

1. What is complementary food?

The baby's main food is breast milk or milk powder, and other foods that can be given to the baby are complementary foods. There are many kinds of complementary foods, including cereals, fruits, fish, shrimps, meat and vegetables.

The baby is still very young, and the digestive function has not developed well. Therefore, before the baby is one year old, the main foods are breast milk and milk powder, and the complementary foods are mostly liquid and digestible foods.

2. Why do you want to add complementary food to your baby?

The baby is growing and needs more nutrition.

Generally speaking, the nutrition of breast milk is enough for a baby who was exclusively breastfed six months ago, but after six months, breast milk can't keep up with the nutrition needed for the baby's growth speed. Therefore, adding complementary food can strengthen nutrition for your baby.

2 The baby needs iron supplementation to prevent anemia.

Babies need iron for their growth and development, but breast milk lacks iron. When the baby grows up, if the iron intake contained in other complementary foods is not supplemented, the baby is prone to iron deficiency anemia.

3 complementary food can exercise your baby's chewing ability.

Don't think that you don't need to exercise your chewing ability because your baby is young and has no teeth. When the baby is 6-7 months old, the baby's taste begins to awaken, and the baby can gradually become sensitive to taste. Moreover, at this time, a few babies began to have a tendency to grow teeth and began to like to grab things and stuff them in their mouths, that is, they had a craving period.

Then, giving the baby complementary food is to exercise the baby's chewing ability, stimulate the taste buds, and at the same time relieve the baby's itching feeling of wanting to bite during the oral desire period.

4 Cultivate your baby to develop good eating habits.

Baby's eating habits are good and eating well is helpful for growth and development.

3. So, when should we add complementary food?

It is not always the same time for babies to add complementary food. When the baby wants to eat, we can give them more.

So how does Ma Bao know that the baby wants to eat? When the baby wants to eat complementary food, he usually sends a signal to remind his mother. If the baby has the following conditions, then the mother can add complementary food to the baby:

The baby weighs twice as much as when it was born.

The baby will have the opportunity to grow at every stage, if you can supplement the baby with nutrition in time at this time. Then the baby's body can grow better, the body immunity is stronger, and the baby's physique is good, so it is not easy to take risks.

When the baby appears to weigh twice as much as when he was born, this is one of the signals that the baby should add complementary food to his mother. Mom, don't miss it!

2 The baby is interested in other foods.

When we eat other foods in front of the baby, such as eating, eating fruit and eating snacks, and the baby looks drooling or reaches for it, and his mouth screams, then the baby tells his mother that he wants to eat.

(3) The baby began to grab things around him and put them in his mouth to bite.

When a baby sees toys or other items, he reaches for them and puts them in his mouth to eat, which is also a signal that the baby wants to eat complementary food.

④ The baby's tongue extension reaction is disappearing.

The baby is small and often sticks out his tongue. This is the baby's tongue-sticking reaction, which is a natural phenomenon. When the baby's tongue coating reaction disappears, when feeding the baby with a spoon, the tongue will not push the spoon or food out, and the baby can add complementary food to signal.

⑤ The baby is not full, and the interval between feeding is short.

Give the baby the same amount every day, but the interval is getting shorter and shorter. If the baby is not full, he wants to continue eating. In other words, only giving the baby milk can no longer satisfy the baby's stomach, and complementary food can be added appropriately.

Second, what should the baby pay attention to when adding complementary food? It is not unprincipled to add complementary food to your baby. Indiscriminate or improper addition will have an impact on the baby, the baby will have resistance to complementary food, and the baby will feel uncomfortable when eating complementary food. Therefore, when adding complementary food to your baby, you need to pay attention to three principles:

1. The complementary food should be from thin to thick.

The baby's digestive function has not developed well, so he can't digest normal food. Moreover, the baby is still very young and will not chew food before swallowing. Therefore, the food added to the baby should start from thin.

2. complementary food is much less.

The baby's stomach capacity is still very small, so he can't eat too much food at a time. And the food prepared for the baby can be prepared less, depending on how much the baby can eat at a time. If it is not enough, it can be increased slightly next time. When the baby is older, you can prepare more complementary foods.

3. Complementary food varies from single to complex.

The baby's complementary food is too complicated to adapt. Let the baby eat the same. If the baby likes to eat, he can start eating the second one. Adding complementary food must be gradual, so that the baby can adapt slowly and become interested in normal food.

Adding complementary food correctly can help your baby strengthen nutrition, and adding complementary food incorrectly is your baby's burden. When adding complementary food to the baby, the mother needs to pay attention to the following situations:

Write at the end: when the baby adds complementary food, it doesn't have to take 4 months or 6 months to add it. As long as the baby signals to eat, you can start adding. Mothers need to pay more attention to the baby's situation, find the signal given by the baby in time, and add complementary food to the baby in time.

Remember not to add complementary food too early or too late, pay more attention to the baby's complementary food, don't be reluctant when the baby doesn't want to eat, and pay attention to the gradual cycle.