The introduction of solid foods into the diet of a child - the most important stage, which provokes many questions. One of the most important things that mothers need to learn is that the child will have the opportunity to come to try many kinds of diverse food, which means you should not rush to its introduction. You make the first steps in helping your child develop healthy eating habits that will stay with them for life.

Some experts argue that giving the baby solid foods, you can have four months. But most pediatricians agree that solid foods should be introduced no earlier than six months.

Whether the child is ready to lure

How can you know, ready to lure you to your child? There are some signs that indicate that your baby is ready to start eating solid foods. The child may be three or four months, when you feel that it needs something else, additional food to breast milk or infant formula Infant formula for your baby: an alternative food . Maybe he's starting to wake up at night more often and eat more than usual. Remember that just three or four months of the first year of life there is a certain leap in growth and development, and you will see that the child often wakes up and eats more than in the first month of life.

Start feeding

When you decide that a child is ready for solid food, consider foods as cereal and bananas, pears, apples, avocados. You must give your baby one new product, and to maintain a minimum of two to three days before you give the other. Many parents follow the "rule of four days' surviving four days after the start of feeding the new food. During this time, you can assess how the child reacts to the new power - if he had any allergic reactions, intolerance, constipation, diarrhea, rash, Rash: Classification - primary and secondary elements   or vomiting. If one of these symptoms is, cancel the product and consult a physician.

If there are no side effects, it is possible to continue introduction of new products and further.

Complementary foods

Teething in a child older than six months, it allows him to be ready to take solid food. However, one need not make a baby is, if he does not want. If the child refuses solid food, try again in a few days.

Cereals

• From 6 to 8 months: children can take four or more tablespoons of iron-fortified cereal each day.
• From 8 to 12 months: You can make four or more tablespoons of iron-fortified wholegrain cereal, plus biscuits, crackers, bread, pasta and brown rice.
• From 12 to 24 months: permissible six or more servings of grains per day. Examples: 1/2 slices of bread, a quarter cup of dry beans, one-third cup of cooked cereal, half a small bun, one-third cup of cooked rice or pasta.

Fruits and vegetables

At the age of about six months begins the introduction of fruit and vegetables in the daily diet of children. Since there is a risk of allergy, it is strongly recommended to introduce a new vegetable or fruit every three or four days. Never feed a child in chunks, so it does not choke.

• From 6 to 8 months from six months - one teaspoon pureed fruits or vegetables to eight months, you can bring up to 4-5 tablespoons a day.
• From 8 to 10 months: You can make four or more tablespoons of cooked vegetables in a sauce, and four or more tablespoons of fruit puree.
• From 10 to 12 months: during this period the child can be given up to eight tablespoons of vegetables and eight to twelve tablespoons of fruit or a smoothie.
• From 12 to 24 months, three servings of vegetables and three or four servings of fruit per day. A serving is equal to the volume of a quarter to a half a cup of cooked or raw vegetables, half a cup of fresh fruit, fruit juice 100-120 g.

Meat and other protein products

Meat and other protein products may be introduced into the baby's diet to eight months. As is the case with fruits and vegetables, each new species must be introduced gradually to ensure an allergic reaction.

• From 8 to 10 months, from eight to ten months, children can be given a tablespoon of meat. Same with mashed bird.
• From 10 to 12 months: You can increase the dose up to four tablespoons of meat or protein.
• From 12 to 24 months: the period from one year to two years may be given two or three portions of meat or protein per day. A serving is equal to two tablespoons of cooked meat, fish or poultry, one egg and a quarter cup of cooked beans.

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