Baby food: mixes and cereals

Proper nutrition means a lot to the life and health of the child. The best food for a newborn child - breast milk, but sooner or later it starts to get other foods, here are some special baby foods and need. And sometimes they need from birth - if the kid for some reason deprived of breast milk.

Baby milk formula

Infant formula to replace breast milk produced large amounts. Most of them have a different composition for different age children. There are so adapted formulas that can completely replace human milk, and in some cases even be useful, as there is a disease in which the child can not tolerate human milk. Yet breastfeeding is better than artificial: human milk protein is better absorbed and with the mother's milk the baby receives antibodies that help it fight infections. Therefore, children under one year who are breastfed less likely to suffer even colds.

Children are divided into infant formula composition for feeding healthy children and feeding children with some pathology (medical mix).

All mixtures for feeding healthy infants and most medicinal mixtures is based on cow's milk, in which an industrial process changes are: reduced protein content of salts and other components, and increases the content of carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Therapeutic infant formulas can not be prepared from cow's milk, for example, there is a mixture of soy. Often they contain different additives necessary sick child.

In the store you can see the infant formula made known firms specializing in baby foods, "Nestle", "Nutricia", "hippie", "Heinz" and others. There are modern infant formulas and domestic production because of "Children's Dairy Products Factory" produces a mixture "Agu" ("Agu-1" from birth to 5 months, "Agu-2" - 5 months to a year). Despite the fact that almost all of the mixture for healthy children have the same composition, parents can face the fact that the child is some mixture of transfers and some not - it individually, the mixture should be easy to pick up. When selecting a mixture of better follow the recommendations of a pediatrician, but if for some reason is not possible, the mother should carefully read the label for any age and is a mixture of what is included in its composition.

When you first give your child infant formula, then you need to carefully monitor his response to this mixture. If the child began increasingly tummy bulge appeared constant regurgitation Regurgitation in infants: Causes and Treatment , Anxiety, something of this mixture should be abandoned.

Sometimes the child has an allergy to breast milk, in which case it should also pick up infant formula. There are special hypoallergenic mixture, for example, soy isolate - purified soy protein, which has many useful properties, including the ability to reduce allergic reactions. Hypoallergenic properties are some mixtures prepared on the basis of goat's milk.

Sometimes a child in the first months of life, lack of lactase - the enzyme for processing of milk sugar (lactose). Such a state can be held for several months, but in most cases it goes, and develop lactase adjusted. For such cases special available or Low-lactose free infant formula, including those not containing cow's milk (e.g., soybean).

Baby milk and dairy-free cereal and other baby food

A few months after the birth of a child entered the first solid foods First solid foods: cook or buy?   in the form of porridge (bottle-- from 4 months, children who are breastfed - 5-6 months). Porridge can prepare yourself, or you can buy ready-made dry porridge for baby food.

The first porridge - is buckwheat or rice. Rice and buckwheat contain in their membranes vegetable protein gluten which is difficult to digest and can cause allergic reactions. Porridge to cook on the water, rub (or pre-grind on a coffee grinder), bring to a boil again and dilute the formula. After 2 months, these cereals can be alternated with the porridge, which contains gluten. Porridge for feeding The lure: a spoon first adult food   It must be 10%, which is quite thick, so it can be eaten with a spoon (the first time a child should eat no more than a teaspoon of porridge). Complementary food is introduced into one of the feeds before breastfeeding, gradually (within a month) displacing breast milk porridge.

It is much easier to cook porridge, cooked in an industrial way as a dry powder - they do not need to cook and clean. The advantage of such cereals, and that they are prepared with high-quality products, grown without chemicals. These porridges observed chemical composition (proteins, fats and carbohydrates) required for feeding the child of a given age. In addition, they are rich in vitamins and minerals, it is also necessary for proper development of the child.

Kashi baby food produced very different: dairy, dairy-free (they do not have milk, and they are designed primarily for people with allergies and children with enzyme deficiency), one type of cereals and of several gluten-free (hypoallergenic) and gluten-free, with a variety of additives in as vegetables and fruits, and so on.

Other products include baby food, canned vegetable and fruit puree, canned meat and fish. The advantage of these products is that they are guaranteed to be made from high quality products containing no chemicals.

Remember: the introduction of any new product to a child, the need to coordinate with the doctor.

Galina Romanenko

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