How many months is it appropriate to add complementary food to babies?

As babies grow up, they can no longer only be fed with milk powder or breast milk, because the nutrients in them can no longer fully provide the baby with the nutrients for growth. This may lead to malnutrition of the baby. At this time, parents must find ways to make complementary foods for them. Let us understand why babies should add complementary foods at a few months.

Generally speaking, starting from April, in addition to breast milk or cow's milk, you should gradually add some vegetable puree, apple puree, banana puree, etc. to your baby's feeding. After more than 4 months of age, the iron and calcium stored in the baby's body have been basically exhausted. Breast milk or cow's milk alone can meet the baby's growth and development needs, so you need to add some iron-, calcium- and vitamin-rich foods. The baby is completely weaned (breast milk) at 10 months old, and the diet is mostly fixed. Breakfast, dinner and dinner are also mostly fixed, and they transition from porridge to thick porridge and soft rice, from meat puree to minced meat, and from vegetable puree to minced vegetables. When the baby is almost 18 years old, train the baby to eat by himself and must be weaned (breast milk). If you continue to feed the baby with breast milk, the child can drink milk and has a poor appetite, and all aspects of nutrition do not keep up with the baby's growth needs. At the same time, you must follow the step-by-step method to add complementary foods to the baby, from less to more, from thin and thick, from fine and coarse to one kind, and then add another kind. When the child is healthy and has normal digestive function, add complementary foods. If there is a reaction, pause for two days to recover and then continue. Let the baby slowly adapt to the transition from milk to food, and I believe the baby will definitely adapt

Generally, babies start to add complementary foods such as rice cereal, juice, and vegetable juice in April.

Principles of complementary food addition:

(1) Start with 1/4 of the egg yolk. If there is no adverse reaction, add 1/3~1/2 gradually after 2-3 days.

(2) Drink thin rice soup for about 10 days, then drink thin porridge for about 10 days, then drink soft rice

(3) From fine and coarse vegetable juice to vegetable puree to chopped vegetables

(4) Common species plus other species

(5) When the child is healthy and has normal digestive function, if there is a reaction, stop adding it for two days until he is healthy again.

Actually, everything is good. It is too simple and convenient to make it yourself. Often, too many things are added. I heard from a friend that Qiaorun pasta is OK. Now it seems that there is also a mom's kitchen that teaches how to make complementary foods. I am looking forward to it.

I think homemade rice noodles are nutritious and healthy. You need to spend some time to soak the rice overnight and dry it. Then grind it with a multifunctional grinder the next day. The rice noodles are more fragrant than those bought. You can also add carrot juice, vegetable juice, tomato juice, juice, milk, egg yolk... according to your needs. It is nutritious and delicious. It only takes some trouble. You can buy rice noodles now and feed them to your baby without worry. By the way, make a little more this time, dry it in a cool place, and put it in the refrigerator. It can be used for about a week.

The above article introduces to us at how many months the baby needs to start adding complementary food. When the baby is four or five months old, you can slowly increase the amount of complementary food. You can cook some porridge for them to drink. Especially in the summer when the weather is relatively hot, it is good for them to drink some porridge.