Your baby has grown enough, and this fact makes you think about the need for the first complementary foods. Perhaps, the main issue that worries young mothers concerns exactly the timing of its introduction. When to start feeding a child on artificial feeding ? Why start it?
The persistent advice of grandmothers who fed their children with semolina porridge almost from the second month of life is not always appropriate in these matters. Naturally, no one will tell a young mother better than an experienced pediatrician about the first adult food of a baby. The doctor will answer the question of when to start luring with artificial feeding in general, and also advise the timing of its introduction specifically for your child.
When can I inject baby food on artificial feeding?
Due to the individual characteristics of each baby, any hourly restrictions related to complementary foods are meaningless, and often harmful to crumbs. You can begin feeding a child on artificial feeding when he is ready for this. Usually this readiness comes to 5-6 months (sometimes later), after the maturation of the child's nervous system, brain and gastrointestinal tract. It can be seen if:
- the baby shows an active interest in food in your dish;
- since birth, his weight has doubled;
- he sits alone or with minimal support;
- a child can or tries to hold a spoon in his hand, can take food from a spoon;
- can demonstrate a refusal to eat (turns his head);
- his reflex ejection tongue of solid food has died out;
- the baby has a desire to eat immediately or occurs a short time after another portion of the infant formula;
- the first tooth has grown in crumbs (an optional condition).
Children fed on artificial feeding, lure introduced earlier than the kids eating mother's milk. Some pediatricians consider such an action a relic of the past, and advises not to tie the beginning of complementary feeding to the type of feeding.
So, when can I feed a child on artificial feeding? If the baby is healthy, properly develops, then the introduction of adult food can begin as early as the 5th month. And the essence of feeding at this age is not to feed the child: with this task, up to six months, the adapted milk formula is doing very well. The purpose of such early complementary foods is rather the intention to introduce the crumb with a new meal unusual for him.
When it is necessary to introduce vegetable complementary feeding to the baby on artificial feeding?
Lure it is necessary to start with vegetable dishes or milk-cereals (only if the child is not gaining weight). Most often, doctors recommend starting with a mono-component puree. Do not worry if the first attempts to give the child new food will not succeed. At first, children are reluctant to eat such unusual food. In some cases it is necessary to postpone the beginning of complementary foods even for 2-4 weeks.
So, when to introduce vegetable supplementary feeding to infants on artificial feeding? Vegetable dishes are recommended to enter the diet of an artificial baby after he is 5-6 months old.
When to start a fruit lure of a child on artificial feeding?
Not so long ago the question: when to introduce juices with artificial feeding, doctors answered that a few drops of juice should be given to the crumb from the 4 months of his life, gradually bringing the quantity to the required volumes. Today, doctors say that concentrated juices are contraindicated for children up to a year, because of their negative impact on children's gastrointestinal tract. Before this time it is better to give preference to fruit compotes . Fruit puree doctors recommend giving the baby from the 6th month, after the introduction of vegetable complementary foods.