When can a child be given bread?

Everyone knows that the children's organism is somewhat different from the adult. And the difference is not only in different sizes of parts of the body, but in the features of the internal organs of the child. It's no secret that the basis of the baby's health is in his tummy, in the microflora of the intestine, which is the key to the strong immunity of crumbs. That's why moms try to carefully introduce new foods into the baby's diet, in order not to break the delicate balance in his tummy. But if everyone is more or less familiar with the sequence of introduction of complementary foods, then the question of "when it is possible to give the child bread?" Can puzzle many young mothers.

So, here are the basic rules of "slavery":

  1. Beginning to acquaint children before the year with bread follows at the age of seven months. For a start, you can offer crumbs special crunches and baby cookies.
  2. Starting from eight months, you can gradually expand the acquaintance and offer the baby bread from white wheat varieties. For the first time, the amount of bread offered should not exceed 3 grams, and by the year it can be increased to 20 grams per day. Often parents are worried that a child is eating too much, or too little bread. Do not worry, because the child is simply guided by internal needs and eats as much as he needs.
  3. Do not experiment and give the baby up to two years of rye bread or bread with various dietary supplements, for example, with bran. For stomach crumbs, these experiments will become an unbearable strain, because he does not yet have the necessary digestive enzymes.
  4. Although freshly baked bread and can cause an appetite even with the most sturdy malodezhki, give it to kids until three years is still not worth it. The enzyme system of the baby is simply not able to digest the huge amount of gluten and oligosaccharides contained in the bread directly from the oven.

What is useful for children's bread?

Many mothers, especially struggling for slim waist, are perplexed: what is so useful for children's bread? For a growing child's body, bread is an indispensable source of carbohydrates and vitamins. Thanks to the aroma of bread there is an active allocation of digestive juices, and hence the whole process of digestion improves.

Child's allergy to bread

Do not forget that bread is a gluten-containing product, often containing harmful additives, so it can have children allergic in the form of rashes. The way out in this case is to exclude or limit the consumption of bread, or to bake bread independently.