Moreover, it is such a liquid food that provides its tiny organism with the necessary vitamins and microelements. Meanwhile, after a while the baby's needs increase significantly, he becomes much more active, and it is time to introduce new foods into his diet.
According to most modern pediatricians, this should be done simultaneously with the beginning of the second half of the baby's life, especially if before that he was fed on breast milk. In this article, we will tell you how to correctly introduce complementary feeding for a child in 6 months, and what should be given to eat and drink first.
What can you eat at 6 months?
In the diet of a six-month-old baby should already include vegetables, such as zucchini, potatoes, carrots and cauliflower. If your child is just getting acquainted with new products, they should be introduced very carefully, no more than one new vegetable a week. Start lure with a half teaspoon, gradually increasing the portion.
In all cases, vegetables for a six-month-old child can only be given in the form of puree, and preferably one-component. So you can accurately determine what the child has exhibited an allergy, if he has unusual rashes on his body, or other symptoms appear.
In addition, a child in 6 months should eat porridge from buckwheat, rice or corn flakes. It is convenient to use children's cereals of industrial production - they have the most suitable consistency for the baby, and he can not choke on them.
If you just introduce complementary foods, and the crumb continues to receive breast milk, no more products are yet to be introduced, with the exception of fruit puree. It should be borne in mind that sweet dishes should be given very limited, so that the baby does not give up another type of food.
If your child is on artificial feeding, and you have introduced a lure for him in 4-5 months, now you can diversify his menu with a baby curd, a quarter of a yolk of a hen's egg and a homogeneous meat puree, however, and with these products you need to act cautiously.
Finally, in the intervals between feeding crumbs, you can offer a little diluted fruit juice, home-made compote, broth of wild rose or pure boiled water. Do this best after an hour and a half after eating. During acquaintance of the kid with a new drink also it is necessary to watch closely his reaction.
Approximate diet of a child in 6 months, which continues to receive the mother's milk, you can see in the following table:
Our second table will tell you what you can eat a child in 6 months if he is on artificial feeding:
