First Serious Meals to Your Baby

The first serious meal

When start?

Recent discoveries recommend supplementing baby's menu at the end of the sixth month of baby's life. Larger babies may begin to require diversification of the menu a bit faster, but the milk (mother milk and the powder mix) must remain the menu key components up to the first year or even longer.

There is no need to hurry with a constant product introduction. In what age your baby will begin to use them as food will not impact his intellectual development. Remember that babies who begin to use the extra feed before age of 6 months often has problems with a peaceful sleep. There are few studies that convincingly refute the ancient beliefs. Therefore, take your time and do not do anything under compulsion.

Your child is ready to pick a permanent feed, if he:

* Shows interest in what other people eat.
* Move his mouth when see how others eat.
* Is more hungry despite he have eaten a large enough portion of the milk from the breast or bottle.
* Don't reject the spoon when you try to feed him.
* Upon receipt of a meal, inhale lip, instead of crowding.
* Own-initiative keeps his head upright.

Preparation

When you begin to add other products to your baby`s menu, slowly and gradually add one product. Introduce baby with only one food in a week. This will allow you to make sure that your child is not against the food effect allergy or hypersensitivity. Allergic reaction symptoms usually appear as a rash on the cheeks and the areas where the skin is covered with napkins. Allergy symptoms can also be food repulsion or diarrhea.

Sugar and salt to children is not required. Do not add seasoning to baby`s food!

Always feed baby with spoon, do not add foods from bottle during meal.

Start with a pap

Most of the baby starts to eat baby pap produced from the same variety of grain. Most often they are rice porridge, which is easily digestible. Mixed with breast milk, milk substitute or water, they are a good iron, B vitamins and calorie source that require your baby. Once you've tried the rice pap, you can try to offer your baby the other pups.

Sit down your baby on your knee or in his furniture, and give him food with small portions, so that he could vaporize new food and get used to it. If the child refuses from food, turn away head, it may mean that he is not ready for the reception of the new food yet. If so, try again after a week. Never push the child to eat.

It's Time for vegetables

Yellow vegetables such as pumpkin or carrot, is sweeter than green vegetables, so it would be better if baby in beginnings would be offered pellets of potatoes or beans. If at first your baby gets used to the sweetest taste of vegetables, it would be hard to add green vegetables to your baby`s menu.

Before your baby has not reached the age limit of one year, do not add any beets, rapeseed and darker green vegetables, e.g., Broccoli. These vegetables are too much nitrogen-containing substances.

It's Time for fruits.

Avoid citrus fruits. They may be too acidic for your baby's stomach and promote the formation of rash. Citrus fruits are often cause allergic reaction. Many pediatricians do not recommend give your child citrus juice at this time. Fresh fruit is very healthy, but fruit juices is mainly composed of sugar and water and don`t alleviate thirst so well as mother's milk or milk mixture. When you are giving your baby a juice, use a cup rather than give to drink from the bottle. Baby quickly will learn a new type of drinking. Children, who drink juice from a bottle, usually drink too much.

Basic knowledge's of children's food.

When baby first taste adults food, it should be soft, homogeneous and shredded. Do not buy baby food containing artificial additives - carefully read the label!

Be careful!

Babies and small children can choke with some products.

Here's what you never give to eat your child:

* Grapes, olives or other small, round products
* Lollipops and jelly candies,
* Popcorn,
* Peanuts and other nuts,
* Others a solid and detailed products.

To make sure that your baby will not choke, never leave him alone during meal. Then, even your baby choke, you'll be able to respond quickly and help him. Always feed your baby in sitting posture!