If the child is not fed breast milk, then they start feeding him with 4.5 months, and by 5 months they have already completely replaced one feeding.
How can I feed a baby in 5 months on artificial feeding?
If the mother is faced with the question of how she can start luring at 5 months with artificial feeding, then preference is usually given to dairy-free or milk (less often) porridge. But at this age you can start to enter instead of cereal and vegetable mashed potatoes.
How to introduce complementary foods from 5 months with artificial feeding?
If the lure at 5 months is porridge, then it is cooked on water and does not put sugar in it. Usually, soluble, dairy-free cereals are used - about a teaspoon on the first day. The amount of porridge is gradually increased, replacing with a good tolerability of feeding one feeding.
If the mother prepares porridge on milk, then first porridge should be 5% and only after 2 weeks 10% (5 or 10 g cereals per 100 ml of milk). For the first complementary meal, choose buckwheat, corn or rice porridge.
If feeding a child in 5 months on artificial feeding is vegetable puree, then only one vegetable (usually potatoes or carrots) is chosen for this new dish. It is boiled until cooked and ground with water until a uniform mushy consistency. On the first day, puree is given no more than a teaspoonful, do not add salt.
When a child is good at absorbing vegetables, then gradually the amount of mashed potatoes is increased, can add to it one and the other vegetables. You can not force a child to mash the baby, but if the child does not want to eat it, then for the usual taste in it you can add a small amount of milk formula for feeding.
At 5 months, the child usually should already receive fruit juice (up to 50 ml) and fruit puree (up to 50 ml), which with artificial feeding is introduced from 3 months. For correct introduction of complementary foods, parents can use the help of a special table of lures, which we offer below.