Menu of the child in 8 months: the basis of the diet and nutritional principles
In the first year of his life, the baby moves from liquid to solid food. After six months, most babies start to try a lot of different products. The task of parents in this period is to acquaint the crumb with new tastes, but to do it correctly and safely. Let's look at what products are recommended to be included in the diet of the eight-month toddler and how to make a menu of them for the day.
What foods can be added to the diet?
The main product that babies try in eight months on any type of feeding is meat. It serves as a source of valuable amino acids, vitamins, fats, mineral salts. Meat is added to vegetable dishes, as well as boiled in water porridge. The best choice would be lean meat, for example, hen, turkey, veal.
The second product, which begins to give from 8 months, is wheat bread. The first portion of the baby should be a piece of bread no more than 5 grams.
In addition to meat, eight month old baby breastfeeding starts to try these products:
- Butter. Usually it is added to the gruel.
- Fruit juice. It is given after any meal.
- Baby biscuit and crackers. They can be given together with porridge, and with fruit puree.
An artificially fed baby, as well as a crumbs, which the mother introduced to the feed before 6 months due to lack of milk, in 8 months you can begin to give fermented milk products. This may be baby yogurt or kefir without additives. Such products can be cooked at home with your own hands or taken in the dairy kitchen.
If parents follow the guidelines for introduction of complementary foods from Dr. Komarovskythen by eight months their child had long tasted kefir, cottage cheese and porridge. At 8 months, a popular pediatrician advises to expand the menu by introducing cereals, vegetable oil, fruit puree, yolk, ground meat and fruit juice.
How much should a baby eat?
The total daily amount of food for an eight-month baby can be calculated by the weight of the baby. To determine how much food a baby of this age needs per day, its mass is divided into 8 or 9.
Recommendations for feeding foods:
Product | Maximum consumption in 8 months | |
Breast-feeding | Artificial feeding | |
Vegetable puree | 150 g | 170g |
Dairy free porridge | 180 g | - |
Milk porridge | - | 200 g |
Fruit puree | 60 g | 70 g |
Vegetable oil | 3 g | 5 g |
Butter | 1 g | 5 g |
Fruit juice | 30 ml | 50 ml |
Cracker, Cookies | 5 g | 5 g |
Wheat bread | 5 g | 5 g |
Meat Puree | 30 g | 30 g |
Cottage cheese | - | 40 g |
Yolk | - | 1/2 |
Dairy products | 150 ml | |
Diet
An eight-month-old baby, as at 7 months, has 5 meals a day — the child eats five times a day, with up to four hours between meals.
Sample menu
For a child who is exclusively breastfed until 6 months of age, at 8 months the menu will look like this:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Mother's milk |
Second | Porridge to 180 g, butter to 1 g |
Third | Vegetable puree up to 150 g, vegetable oil up to 3 g, meat puree up to 30 g, a slice of wheat bread, fruit juice up to 30 ml |
Fourth | Fruit puree up to 60 g, biscuits or crackers, mother's milk |
Fifth | Mother's milk |
The seven-month-old baby, who began to be introduced to the lure at 4-5 months of age due to the small amount of breast milk from the mother, will have a day menu like this:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Mother's milk |
Second | Porridge to 200 g on cow's milk, butter to 5 g, half a chicken yolk |
Third | Vegetable puree up to 170 g, vegetable oil up to 5 g, meat puree up to 30 g, a slice of wheat bread, fruit juice up to 50 ml |
Fourth | Fruit puree up to 70 g, cottage cheese up to 30 g, baby biscuits or crackers, fermented milk drink up to 150 ml |
Fifth | Mother's milk |
A bottle-fed baby at the age of eight months will look like this:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Adapted mix |
Second | Porridge to 200 g on cow's milk, butter to 5 g, half a chicken yolk |
Third | Vegetable puree up to 170 g, vegetable oil up to 5 g, meat puree up to 30 g, a slice of wheat bread, fruit juice up to 50 ml |
Fourth | Fruit puree up to 70 g, cottage cheese up to 30 g, baby biscuits or crackers, fermented milk drink up to 150 ml |
Fifth | Adapted mix |
In the child, who began to acquaint with feeding, taking into account the recommendations of Komarovsky, the menu at 8 months will be as follows:
Meal | Products and dishes |
The first | Breast milk or adapted mix |
Second | Kefir to 150 ml and cottage cheese to 40 g |
Third | Vegetable puree or soup up to 150 g, vegetable oil up to 3 g, grated meat, 1/5 of chicken yolk |
Fourth | Breast milk or adapted mixture, fruit juice after feeding |
Fifth | Porridge on cow's milk to 200 g, fruit puree |
Tips
Although the eight-month baby eats already quite large portions of complementary foods, it is not worth to completely refuse to feed the baby with breast milk or formula. It is necessary to leave for breastfeeding morning and evening feeding, and during the day to give the crumbs only solid food, which, however, many babies prefer to drink with their mother's milk.
- Kashki at this age can be cooked both in milk and water, adding dairy mix or mother's milk to the finished product. Eight-month baby can offer cereals from several cereals. In the gruel you can add fruit and baby cookies.
- Eight-month-old children can no longer chop vegetables into mashed potatoes, but knead and give in the form of soup, teaching the child to chew. In such a soup, you can add meat, yolk, oil.
- It is necessary to enter chicken meat into the child’s diet carefully, since it is an allergenic product.
- Cooking meals for the baby need every day to give the crumbs only fresh food. To facilitate life, mother can use ready-made baby cereals and mashed potatoes.
- Most of the children in eight months actively teething, so the child will be happy to gnaw drying or crackers.
- Buy a beautiful dish for your child and give the baby soups from a deep plate, second dishes from a flat plate, and drink from a cup. Do not forget to encourage the desire of the child to eat independently and regularly give the baby a spoon so that he tries to wield this dining object.
- If the child refuses any new products, do not insist, but continue to offer the baby a new dish.
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