What to eat for a six month old baby?

Many parents think that when children reach a certain age, they can no longer be supplemented with breast milk and formula. They can supplement their children with some dietary supplements. However, children are still young and their stomachs are not fully developed. If they eat, it is not easy for them to digest, which may cause constipation and acute enteritis. So what should a 6-month-old child eat? How to supplement the child's diet?

Infants under one year old should still be fed mainly with milk, and complementary foods should be added on the basis of ensuring 700-800 ml of milk every day.

The first complementary food to be added should be egg yolk. Egg yolk powder can be mixed with boiling water and given to the baby between feedings; it can also be directly mixed with rice flour. At around 6 months old, you can switch to egg yolk porridge; at 7 or 8 months old, you can eat steamed eggs (including egg white).

Tips: It is not advisable to feed egg white to babies under 6 months old

The digestive tract mucosal barrier of infants under 6 months old is not fully developed, and the protein molecules in egg white are small, which can easily enter the blood through the intestinal mucosa and cause allergic reactions such as eczema and urticaria on the skin.

How to add rice flour

Do not add complementary foods to your child before going to bed. When I first started adding complementary foods, I followed other people’s advice and added some rice cereal to the milk before going to bed. They said that this would make my baby fuller and help him sleep longer. But I found that my baby couldn’t sleep for very long and had to get up several times at night to feed.

Later I consulted a pediatrician, who told me that milk is actually more filling than rice cereal because the nutrients in milk are far superior to those in rice cereal. The child should be fed enough milk before going to bed (around 10 o'clock).

In the above article, we learned what is good for a 6-month-old baby to eat. First of all, it is not suitable to feed children egg white. Many mothers think that egg white is nutritious and will feed their children egg white. At this time, the child’s stomach is not well digested. If they eat egg white, it will easily cause skin allergies.