How many months can you feed a child? Advices for pediatricians
Very often young parents aretom, with how many months you can feed a child. Some people think that a drop of juice will not hurt a three-month-old baby, others, on the contrary, and are more afraid of giving something to the year than milk from their mother. So when do you start feeding your baby?
Common misconceptions about the timing of complementary feeding
How to make sure that the child is already ready forthe introduction of new products, how many months can you feed a child? Sometimes you can hear such an opinion that you can give juices, mashed potatoes, etc., to a baby when the first tooth comes out. However, this is a very controversial indicator. It happens that the child is born with a tooth, and sometimes he appears only by the year. This does not mean that you need to feed from the diapers or, conversely, only by the year.
At kids of month in three starts to leak activelysaliva. Some believe that this is a clear sign of the child's readiness for lure. But at the age of three months he is not yet ready to eat anything other than the milk of the mother or, in his absence for some reason, special mixtures.
When the child is ready for the lure, hethere is, as they say, interest in food. He almost uncontrollably climbs into my mother's plate. Hardly the baby will see that the adult eats something, drinks or even just puts food on a plate, he also wants to participate in the process. Children tend to imitate and pull food into their mouths. In this case, crumb can not be distracted by any toys and rattles. Perhaps the baby does not even take the breast, but climbs into the plate. So, interest in food is one of the brightest indicators of a child's readiness for lure. But how many months can I feed my baby? Most children begin to feel the need for food before they are six months old. In many babies, interest in food appears about six months. Maybe later.
The main schemes of complementary feeding
There are two types of introducing new products into the baby's diet.
Pedagogical complementary feeding. His goal is not so much to feed the child as to teach to chew and swallow, introduce new tastes, adapt to a new type of food. Undoubtedly, the introduction of pedagogical complementary foods can not go against the background of the abolition of breastfeeding. It should be done in parallel with breastfeeding. Only after a year, and sometimes later, this kind of complementary food begins to become energetic. A child can already eat enough food himself, and breast milk serves him only for drinking.
- The second scheme is more familiar and common. This lure is energetic or, in other words, pediatric. It consists in the fact that new products are introduced into the ration of crumbs instead of a part of breast milk. Gradually, breastfeeding fades into the background, being replaced by porridges and mashed potatoes.
Why it is better to start a new baby with new products?
Many grandmothers on the question of how muchmonths to feed the child, answer: "The sooner, the better." Some of them are certainly trying to pour a drop of juice into the mouth already a month's time. From the point of view of a huge number of doctors, there is no special benefit in juices for babies. Fruit purees, for example, are no less useful, and sometimes more. This happens, if only because the big problem of children of the first year of life is a tendency to constipation, and fruit purees help this trouble. If the parents still choose juice for the first time, then it's best to start with apple. You need to prepare it yourself and to begin with give only a small droplet. Of course, parents themselves must decide on how many months you can feed a child. And yet it's better if the baby gets only breast milk before half a year (and maybe longer). And the mother herself can just eat an apple, but rather a few (for herself and for crumbs).
