Ideal food for the infant is maternal milk, and in the absence of it - highly adapted nutrient mixtures. This diet for a child who is breastfed is sufficient until the age of six months, and the artificer only up to 4 months. Next, we will tell in detail how the approximate menu of the child in 4 months should be, which is on artificial feeding .
Nutrition of the child in 4 months on artificial feeding
At 4 months of life, the activity of the child is increased: it sleeps less, motor skills are rapidly developing (the child is already turning over on his side, taking toys). That means it's time that it's time to teach the baby to the usual products. The first dish in the nutrition of a 4-month-old baby on artificial feeding is vegetable puree. Lure should start to enter in the morning to observe how the child will behave after the tasting of the new dish.
It should be said that you need to prepare vegetable puree without salt, spices and oil. To make such puree, you should take vegetables that do not cause allergies (not bright) and do not cause increased gas production in the intestine (do not use legumes). And when the baby's body adapts to the reception of such food, it can be slightly salted and add a couple of droplets of oil.
Do not immediately replace the vegetable puree whole feeding, it is enough to give 1-2 spoons on the first day, and then supplement the baby with a mixture. If the child has a good transfer of new food, then the next day, you can give 4 tablespoons. Each new dish needs to be introduced within 2 weeks.
What to feed a child in 4 months on artificial feeding?
And what to feed the child in 4 months on artificial feeding, when vegetable puree has already been introduced into the diet?
The second dish is milk porridge, which you can prepare yourself, or buy a dry mix in the store, which you just need to fill with hot water. Now vegetable mashed potatoes should be moved to the third meal, and the milk porridge should be introduced during the second meal. The principle of introducing milk porridge into the diet is the same as that of vegetable puree.
Thus, by the fifth month of life in a child who is on artificial feeding, 2 meals are replaced by ordinary foods. Feeding baby should be given with a spoon, not a bottle. If the child is not healthy for the time of feeding, then you should not give him new products, it is better to wait for the baby to recover. And most importantly, in no case can the child be forced to eat, the food should be praised and recommend to the baby to try a new tasty dish.