At every stage of a baby’s growth, parents want to do the best. It's time for babies to add complementary foods, and parents are anxious again. Especially in summer, babies are prone to loss of appetite. If you want to ensure your baby's nutritional needs, you still need to pay attention to adding complementary foods to your baby in summer. How to choose complementary food for your baby? What should you pay attention to when adding complementary foods to your baby in summer? Let’s find out together.
The best time for babies to add complementary foods
The best time for babies to add complementary foods should be 4-6 months. At this time, adding complementary foods appropriately can not only meet the needs of the baby's growth and development, but also exercise the baby's gastrointestinal and chewing functions. . However, when parents try to add complementary foods to their babies, they may fall into some misunderstandings, which are not conducive to the healthy development of their babies.
Tips for adding complementary foods to babies
Babies drink milk from birth and may not be adaptable to complementary foods, so they should start with small amounts, fine, soft and soft foods close to milk, and gradually increase the number of complementary foods. The types of complementary foods should also continue to increase. Sweet vegetable juices and jams can be added to complementary foods to arouse the baby's appetite and achieve a balanced diet and nutritional matching. When feeding complementary foods, mothers should use tools suitable for feeding their babies and find ways to make their babies interested in food.
Precautions when adding baby food supplements in summer
1. Food hygiene is very important!
In summer, we should pay more attention to children's food hygiene. Because their digestive tract resistance is low, they are prone to digestive tract infectious diseases . Food made for babies must be fresh, preferably freshly prepared and eaten. Warm food out of the refrigerator before eating.
2. Feed water frequently and drink less drinks.
The water in the baby's body accounts for about 70% of the body weight. Due to the high temperatures and profuse sweating in summer, children's need for water increases significantly. Under normal circumstances, water can be fed once every 2 hours. If the child is found to have dry lips and little urine, he or she can feed more water appropriately. For babies, boiled water is the best and safest drink. It is recommended that parents feed their babies cold water instead of various drinks.
3. Clever combination of various ingredients
Babies have small appetites and cannot eat much, so when it comes to diet, they should pay attention to the rich combination of various ingredients to make the food full of color, aroma and taste, such as stir-fried three dices (potatoes, carrots , green peppers), shrimps and mushrooms egg custard , minced meat tofu and cabbage, lean meat scrambled eggs, fungus, cucumber, etc.
Adding complementary foods to your baby is an important step to ensure that your baby gets enough nutrition and develops healthily. Therefore, mothers must put more thought into feeding complementary foods, patiently learn the skills of feeding complementary foods, and take care of the baby's body from every small detail of life, so that the baby can grow robustly.
