Menu of the child in 10 months: the basis of the diet and nutritional principles
By the age of 10 months, those babies who are breastfed and those babies who receive an adapted mixture eat the same complementary foods, and the recommendations on the volumes of complementary foods stop being different. Let's analyze what's new, you can cook a ten-month-old toddler and how to build a menu for a child of this age.
What foods can be added to the diet?
The main product that a 10-month-old baby tries for the first time is a fish. Its advantages are a delicate texture, easy absorption, high content of beneficial fatty acids and amino acids.
For the first sample, it is worth taking lean oceanic or river fish, for example, pike perch, pollock, hake or carp. Enter fish puree from small doses (from half a teaspoon), observing whether there is a reaction to it, because this product is classified as allergenic.
It is best to cook the baby yourself at the beginning of the introduction of fish foods. Washed fish in running water (soak it is not worth it, as this affects the protein and mineral composition of the product) carefully clean, removing all the bones. If you bought a fish already in the form of a fillet, before cooking, still check if there are any bones left in it. Immerse the fish fillets in boiling water, then all the nutrients remain inside the product.
You can give your baby and ready meals, in which the fish sauce can be one-component or combined with cereals, butter, and vegetables. For the first acquaintance with the fish taste, take canned food for children in which there is only a fish. Remember that canned fish that adults eat are not strongly recommended to babies under 3 years of age.
If the child has a predisposition to allergies, the introduction of fish should be postponed to a later date, for example, after a year. For those children who took the fish normally, this product is usually given twice a week for lunchtime feeding.
How much should a baby eat?
The amount of food that 10 month old baby must eat in one day, calculated on the basis of its weight. The figure is divided by 9 and get the daily amount of food for a child of this age. On average, babies in 10 months weigh 9-10 kilograms, so the average amount of food for them will be 1000-1250 g. This volume is divided into the number of feedings and get an approximate portion of 200-250 g
With regard to individual foods complementary foods, the recommended maximum consumption rates for a baby aged 10 months on any type of feeding will be:
Diet
A child who is 10 months old is advised to eat 5 times a day with pauses between feedings of about 3-4 hours.For example, a child waking up for the first feeding at 7 o'clock will eat the second time at 10-11 hours, then at 14-15 hours, at 18-19 hours and the last time before going to bed at 22-23 hours.
Sample menu
A breastfed baby will eat at 10 months like this:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Mother's milk |
Second | Porridge without milk or milk up to 200 g, butter up to 5 g, fruit puree 50 g, half of yolk, fruit juice 50 ml |
Third | Mashed vegetables or soup up to 200 g, vegetable oil up to 6 g, meat puree up to 80 g (twice a week fish puree up to 50 g), a piece of wheat bread 10 g, fruit juice 60 ml |
Fourth | Fruit puree 60 g, cottage cheese up to 50 g, 2 cookies or crackers, kefir or yogurt up to 200 ml |
Fifth | Mother's milk |
For an artificially fed baby, the daily menu at 10 months will look something like this:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Adapted mix |
Second | Porridge without milk or milk up to 200 g, butter up to 5 g, fruit puree 50 g, half of yolk, fruit juice 50 ml |
Third | Vegetable puree or soup up to 200 g, vegetable oil up to 6 g, meat puree up to 80 g (twice a week fish puree up to 50 g), a piece of wheat bread 10 g, fruit juice 60 ml |
Fourth | Fruit puree 60 g, cottage cheese up to 50 g, 2 cookies or crackers, kefir or yogurt up to 200 ml |
Fifth | Adapted or fermented milk mixture |
Tips
Breast milk or infant formula has already ceased to be the main food for most ten-month-old babies, but pediatricians are not advised to even wean from the breast or stop feeding the mixture. Optimally, if the child will receive such food in the morning feeding and before bedtime.
- Try to grind food less so that the baby gets used to chewing, especially since many children at this age already have several teeth.
- Encourage your child’s desire to eat independently, even if the baby’s porridge or mashed spoon in the baby’s hands does not fall into his mouth in full.
- Offer meat not only in the form of mashed potatoes. At this age, you can already try to make crumbs steam meatballs or meatballs, and then knead them.
- Porridge for a child of 10 months is prepared from mixtures of cereals or from one type of cereal. In this case, the baby can be offered as a non-dairy version of porridge, for example, as a garnish for meat puree, and porridge cooked in milk, into which mashed fruit can be added.
- To diversify milk porridges, a 10-month-old baby can be offered vermicelli with milk.
- Try to eliminate distractions during feedings. Let the baby be focused only on food.
- Feed the baby from the personal tableware of the baby, and drink it from the little cup. In this case, never leave the crumbs with food or drink alone.
Your child is already very active, so the question of the introduction of vitamin complexes in the diet of a child up to a year. Should I do this, read in another article.
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