What complementary foods are available for babies aged 6 and a half months?

For many mothers, the baby's health is something they are very concerned about. As the baby is born and grows slowly, they need to add certain complementary foods to the baby's milk when they reach a certain age to help the baby absorb nutrients more comprehensively. Today I will tell you in detail how to match complementary foods for 6-month-old babies.

One-year-old babies should still be fed mainly with breast milk, and complementary foods should be added on the basis of ensuring 700-800 ml of milk per day. It is recommended not to add too much complementary food if the baby does not like it.

Babies aged 4-6 months can add rice soup, rice paste, porridge, egg yolk, fish puree, vegetable puree, fruit puree, tofu, etc. The principles of adding complementary food are:

1. Start from less to more, so that the baby has a process of adaptation. The amount added should be increased from a small amount to a large amount, and the amount should be gradually increased after the baby tolerates the food to avoid causing digestive dysfunction.

2. From thin to thick. Food preparation should be delicate, starting with liquid food, gradually transitioning to semi-liquid food, and then to solid food, to allow the baby to have an adaptation process.

3. From fine to coarse.

4. From one to many. Try one complementary food first, and then add the second complementary food after 3 days to 1 week if the baby has no indigestion or allergic reaction.

5. Do not add new complementary foods during illness. In addition, the best time to add complementary foods is before breastfeeding, when the baby is hungry and can easily accept new foods. When the weather is too hot or the baby is unwell, you should postpone adding new complementary foods to avoid causing digestive dysfunction. You should also pay attention to food hygiene to avoid diarrhea.

You can also add some fish to the complementary food for 6-month-old babies, such as flatfish, yellow croaker, and croaker. These fish have more meat and fewer bones, making them easy to process into minced meat. Fish meat is high in phospholipids and protein, and is tender and easy to digest, making it suitable for the nutritional needs of infant development, but you must buy fresh fish.

As for feeding time, you can still follow the schedule of last month. It’s just that the types and quantities of complementary foods are slightly more, with fresh food being the main focus. It is enough to start adding complementary foods every morning, and rice noodles can be regarded as a staple food. While adding rice noodles, add lean meat paste, pork liver paste, chicken liver paste and other iron-rich and easily absorbed foods, and directly mix them into the rice noodles. Rice noodles: minced lean meat, fish puree, pork liver puree, chicken liver puree, vegetable puree or fruit puree: increase the number of times complementary food is added from once to twice a day.

The time for adding complementary foods is the same as the time for the child to drink milk. It is best to add vegetable puree, fruit puree and paste foods immediately after the child finishes drinking milk. Fruit juice: vegetable juice, pear and lotus root juice, apple juice, winter melon juice

Through the detailed introduction above, I think mothers should now be clear that they must pay attention to scientific nutrition when pairing complementary foods for their babies. Only when these are achieved can the baby's complementary food be healthier and better help their nutrient absorption and body growth.