Six points to note when adding complementary food to your baby in summer

In summer, we should pay more attention to children's food hygiene. Because their digestive tract resistance is low, they are prone to digestive tract infectious diseases. The vegetables and fruits given to babies must be fresh, and no leftovers should be eaten.

Water accounts for about 70% of a baby's body weight. Due to the high temperature and frequent sweating in summer, children's need for water increases significantly. Generally speaking, you can feed water once every two hours. If you find that your child has dry lips or little urine, you can feed him more water.

Babies under 4 months old should not be fed cold drinks. As people's living standards improve, there are many kinds of beverages on the market. For children, boiled water is the best and safest drink. It is recommended that parents give their children cold boiled water instead of various beverages. For older babies, eating too much cold food frequently can easily cause malnutrition.

Due to the hot weather, babies, like adults, have reduced secretion of digestive juices such as gastric acid and do not like to eat. This is normal and there is no need to worry.

If you are planning to wean your infant, try to avoid this period as much as possible, because breast milk contains a variety of antibodies that can prevent diseases, including summer epidemic diarrhea and indigestion. At the same time, mothers are reminded that when weaning their babies, it is best to choose relatively cool weather and do it when the baby is in better physical condition. This not only reduces trouble, but more importantly, is beneficial to the physical and mental health of the child.

In summer, the baby's dietary structure should be adjusted at any time, reducing meat intake, eating more light and delicious food, paying attention to the color, aroma and taste of food, and combining it reasonably to increase the child's appetite.

The staple food can be more porridge, such as rice porridge, red bean porridge, mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, lentil porridge, etc. With sesame paste, sweet noodle sauce, eggs, ham and other ingredients as the main ingredients, the cold noodles, served with any side dishes, are refreshing and delicious, and children also like to eat them. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

⑤ Reasonable combination of various foods

Children like to eat cold vegetables. In order to ensure the hygiene of cold dishes, vegetables must be heated before being served cold.

In order to encourage children to eat more soy products, you can mix fresh vegetables with soy products in cold dishes, such as three-diced vegetables (celery, bean curd, and peanuts), three-shredded vegetables (carrots, tofu, and bell peppers), preserved egg and tofu, and three kinds of vegetables (bamboo shoots, vegetarian chicken, and carrots). When making dishes, you can add appropriate amounts of green garlic and vinegar to increase appetite and aid digestion.

⑥ Raw and cooked food should be stored separately

During the transition period between summer and autumn, baby food can generally only be stored in the refrigerator for 2 days. Raw and cooked foods should be stored separately. Whether a baby is healthy is not determined by how much he eats, but by whether his spirit and growth state are good! Eating is an art. Mothers must concentrate on feeding and cultivate the habit of eating independently at fixed times.

Experts say: Depending on the age of the baby, different training tools should be used, such as: the baby's clean hands, spoons, forks, or plates, bowls, cups that can be fixed with suction cups, etc., which will ensure that the baby can easily learn to eat complementary foods.