Types of feeding

In the first year of life for the child nutrition is of particular importance - it lays the foundation for future human health. Of particular importance is breastfeeding - that it gives the child all the necessary ingredients that are easily absorbed by the body. But over time a child gets breast milk is small, so that all mothers should know the basic rules of feeding.

Breast feeding

Natural or breastfeeding, and today is the best kind of feeding a child up to a year. Human milk is ideally suited to the newborn, as adapted to the peculiarities of its digestion and metabolism. It contains sufficient protein, fat, carbohydrate, in order to ensure proper growth and development of the child in the first months of life. At the mother's milk to the baby receives antibodies against certain infectious agents, protecting it from various diseases.

Today, it is believed that a child's birth should be fed "on demand", that is when he begins to worry and cry. Even if the child is not hungry, and he worried about something else (eg, headache), then the mother's breast, he calms down. Over time, as you grow, the child begins to suck the milk longer, and hence less likely to require chest.

The criterion for adequate child sucking breast milk is weight gain. During the first month of life, he has to add 600 g in the second and third - at 800 if he is gaining weight is much less, so it is not enough mother's milk and require supplementation.

But do not immediately rush to the supplementary feeding infant formula. First you need to do everything possible to improve lactation. A woman must observe the correct mode of the day: enough sleep, walk in the fresh air, rest and eat well. Its diet should be lean meats and fish, dairy products, cheese, cheese, eggs, vegetables, fresh fruit, cereal. You should not eat fatty, fried, spicy and smoked food - it can not "like" the child, and he will have a problem with belly because his digestive tract is not yet settled beneficial bacteria that help digest food.

Mixed and artificial feeding

If, however, despite all efforts, no milk has increased, it is possible to consult a pediatrician about how and what kind of milk formula can lure a child. Today, there are a lot of very high-quality blends, intended for the feeding of children under one year, which take into account certain features of its development: the enzyme deficiency, susceptibility to allergies and so on.

For supplementary feeding can provide separate clock, and in the remaining hours to give the baby the breast. You can also feed every time the chest and then finish feeding mixture. About how much it is necessary to give the child a mixture of the mother may learn at a reception at the pediatrician after checkweighing.

Artificial feeding today is not a problem, as already mentioned, formula milk to feed the baby enough. Quantity mixture is calculated monthly at a reception at the pediatrician. But women need to understand clearly: in human milk, besides the usual nutrient has many biologically active substances, which are not found in any mixture. That is why children who are breastfed are always healthier and less likely to suffer develop better than their peers who are bottle-fed.

Lure

Lure - a food that is introduced as a supplementary food, gradually displacing breast milk or formula. The fact is that in 5-6 months, the child is required in addition to milk and other foods, otherwise it will lag behind in development. Previously, all children up to one year the first solid foods First solid foods: cook or buy?   We began to give to 4 months. Today 4 months is recommended to give the child first, apple juice, and two weeks later - applesauce, beginning with a teaspoon. The first solid foods to children who are breast-fed, it is recommended to introduce 5-6 months and bottle-fed for 2 weeks earlier. By this time, the child must already be established feeding regime (5-6 times a day with a night break). Total lures three - they replace the three breastfeeding. But, in addition, introduce other foods that also was gradually replacing breast milk.

• The first solid foods - vegetable soup, best suited vegetable puree of zucchini. But it can also be cauliflower, potatoes and so on. Vegetables need to boil, wipe through a sieve, diluted with vegetable broth, again bring to a boil, cool and for the first time to 1 teaspoon. Remember mandatory rule foods The lure: a spoon first adult food : Any new product is introduced gradually, and only one, otherwise you will not be able to determine that your child does not tolerate. During the month the number of vegetable puree is brought to 100 g, and by the year the child should eat 150 grams of mashed potatoes. When you see that the child carries it well, it will be possible to add a little vegetable oil. After weaning the baby should be breast supplementation or formula from a bottle.
• The second complementary foods introduced a month after the first, is the milk porridge. Kashi is better to buy ready-made, are available as dairy and dairy-free, dry cereal to children a year. Prepare porridge strictly according to instructions on the package, the first time give 1-2 teaspoons, per month and gradually adjusted to 50 g, and by the year the child should eat 200 grams of cereals, which need to be alternated (buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, etc. ).
• The third solid foods - yogurt Kefir: a unique drink for health and harmony   or yogurt provides 8 months and gradually replace another feeding.

In addition, a child under one year should receive curd (7 months), meat sauce and egg yolk (8 months), cookies (7 months).

Feeding children under one year - a serious matter, so all kinds of foods shall designate a pediatrician.

Galina Romanenko

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