How much complementary food should a 7 month old baby eat?

When the baby is about seven months old, you can basically add some complementary foods, whether it is noodles specially tailored for babies or egg yolks at home, as long as they are prepared correctly, they can be fed to the baby. Of course, some mothers choose to continue breastfeeding and hope to add complementary foods when their children are about one and a half years old. There is nothing wrong with this approach. So, how much complementary food should a 7-month-old baby eat?

After the baby starts to eat complementary foods regularly every day, the amount each time varies from person to person. Babies with good appetite will eat a little more, so the feeding amount does not need to be too fixed. Generally, 60-90 grams each time is appropriate. It is not advisable to feed too much or too little.

When it is difficult to grasp the amount of complementary food to feed, you can use a plain yogurt cup to calculate. Generally speaking, the capacity of a plain yogurt cup is 100 grams, so if you choose 80 grams, you only need 2/3 of the plain yogurt cup.

A 7-month-old baby can be fed complementary food twice a day. If the baby is not satisfied each time and asks for more, he can be fed 3 times a day. If the baby is not used to it after the frequency increases, you can adjust it back to 2 times.

When the baby is 7 months old, if the mother's breast milk secretion is still good, there is no need to reduce the number of breastfeeding. The baby can be fed as long as he wants. Don't waste breast milk by adding complementary foods to your baby. If the baby still wants milk when he wakes up at night, the mother should not intentionally reduce breast milk just because she has started to add complementary foods and enter the weaning period, otherwise the baby will easily become a crybaby at night.

In the baby's 7th month, you must add complementary foods to the baby so that the baby can slowly adapt to eating semi-solid food and gradually adapt to weaning. Before breastfeeding, you should feed your baby something like rice paste, soft noodles or thick porridge. Don't feed your baby too much. Supplement the insufficient part with breast milk or formula milk. After the baby gets used to the taste of complementary food, you can gradually replace one meal of breast milk or formula milk with one meal of complementary food.

The complementary food for 7-month-old babies is mainly cereal-based, and vegetables, fruits, egg yolks, fish paste, meat paste, and some soy products can also be added. Liver puree can also be added this month and can be eaten 1-2 times a week.

By the 7th month, some babies have already grown their front teeth, so some solid food should be added to the complementary food this month to help the baby exercise his chewing ability and promote the development of teeth and alveolar sockets.