Menu of the child at 6 months: the basis of the diet and nutritional principles

By the age of six months the food that a baby gets in the form of mom's milk or an adapted mixture becomes insufficient for all the needs of an older toddler. It is time to get acquainted with the new food, that is, with complementary food. Let's look at what new products can be given to try a six-month baby.

Six months is the time for the first feeding of an infant who was previously exclusively breastfed. The gastrointestinal tract is already ready to taste vegetables, cereals and fruits.

Consider the following features:

• Vegetables are given in the form of mashed potatoes of one type of vegetables, offering crumbs for the first time 5 grams. Then the dose is carefully increased to the age dosage - 100 grams per day. When the baby is used to one vegetable, they begin to offer the second kind of vegetables, again starting at 5 grams.
• Porridge in 6 months is prepared without milk, but can be diluted with women's milk or a mixture. The first portion of porridge will be 10 grams, after which the total amount of cereals eaten per day is adjusted to 150 grams.
• Addicted to vegetables and cereals babies begin to offer fruit. They are also given in the form of a one-component puree - first, 5 grams per first sample, and then every day more than a daily dose of 30 grams.

In situations where the mother has little breast milk, or there is no opportunity to feed the crumbs with an adapted mixture, familiarity with vegetables and cereals is transferred to an earlier period - 4-5 months (we advise to stick to our feeding table for feeding). At an earlier age begin feeding and kiddies-artificials. Such children for 6 months have long tasted fruit puree and cereal (non-dairy), as well as vegetable puree with vegetable oil. At 6 months of age, they only increase the portions of these dishes and begin to add butter.

• It should start with a single product, and each new product can be entered only after getting used (on average 3-5 days) and the absence of allergic reactions.
• You cannot give two products at the same time that the child was not familiar with before, because when a reaction appears, you will not be able to understand what product provoked it.
• The volume of product for the first sample is half a teaspoon.
• A new product should be given with milk from her mother's breast or with a mixture.
• Giving a new dish is in the morning feeding, then by the end of the day it will be noticeable whether the child is normally tolerating it.
• It is recommended to keep a diary in which to mark all products eaten crumbs.
• Acquaintance with the new food should be postponed if the baby is sick, as well as for the time of vaccination (three days before vaccination and several days after it).
• If the crumb refuses to try a new dish, do not insist.
• In a situation when the product caused an allergy or other negative reaction, new dishes do not give up to the disappearance of painful manifestations.

Recommendations for complementary foods:

At six months of age, a child has an average of 5 meals per day, and breaks between them take between three and a half to four hours.

In a child who was breastfed only for 6 months, at 6 months after the introduction of new products, the menu would look like this:

The baby, whose mother due to the lack of milk began to lure from 4-5 months, the day menu will be as follows:

A child who was fed a mixture, the diet at 6 months is as follows:

• Any new product must be given before feeding.
• A 6-month-old baby should use a sieve, mixer or blender for cooking, as it is important to achieve a homogeneous structure. A very thick dish is diluted with milk (my mom's or mixture), vegetable broth or boiled water.

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