When can babies start adding complementary foods?
The answer to this question is that mothers will definitely blurt out: Of course, it’s 6 months.
Some mothers are also more cautious and will say: It should be decided based on whether the baby has several signals that can add complementary foods. What are the signals of
? This is the most widely circulated on the Internet:
. Babies show interest in adult food. When adults eat, the baby has a "very want" expression.
2. Be able to sit firmly and control your head and neck
3. The tongue-in-up reaction disappears
4. The baby needs a large amount of milk, reaching more than 1,000 ml per day.
Of course, some mothers think that it is not harmful to add complementary food to your children early. For example, the following:
There are also mothers who are a little suspicious:
Of course, some mothers regret it:
The case we shared today is a mother with the same questions.
The baby is not over 6 months old, but with these reactions, can you add complementary food?
My baby is 4 months and 20 days old. These days, she is very interested in adult food. When she puts the watermelon in front of her, she will hold the adult's hand and put it in her mouth. Sometimes she will lie next to her to eat, and she will snatch it. The reflex of the tongue disappears. When you sit, your neck and head will not tilt, and it will be well erected.
is currently breastfeeding and will not be full. You can eat milk every 2-3 hours.
Please advise all experienced mothers and doctors, do you need to start slowly adding rice noodles to eat complementary foods? (The main reason is that when she took her to the hospital for a physical examination a few days ago, there was no such reaction. At that time, the doctor said that she had been 6 months old. Now the baby has these signals, and I am afraid of missing the opportunity to add complementary food)
It can be said that no one on the Internet has eaten more children than we have seen. We have been doing supplementary food addition and feeding guidance for so many years. I feel that the biggest misunderstanding of mothers in the addition of complementary food is that they overestimate the child's ability and their ability to withstand stress, but underestimate the difficulty and professionalism of adding complementary food. And most importantly, they only look at what they eat and don't look at the child's digestive ability and excretion!
It’s so easy to eat. It’s zero difficulty to add complementary food to your baby. Mix rice noodles, and hit the vegetable and pork machine. Just feed it. Is it difficult?
includes how to judge whether the child can start adding complementary foods. What this mother said is simply a mess, right? Anyone who mentions complementary foods can no longer be familiar with these signals. Mom must think that her child is developing so well. It is so desirable to eat early without breastfeeding.
However, there must be a turning point here
Are you sure
You are sure that
Watermelon will be placed in front of her, and will hold the adult's hand in your mouth with your little hand and put it in your mouth. Sometimes when you lie next to her to eat, she will also come to grab
is the instinct of a child, not that you have already tasted the taste of watermelon or other foods for your child? I suggest you recall it carefully. If you don’t have one, ask your family if you have given it. It is normal for a baby of this month to be interested in food, but it is not normal for her to hold the watermelon in front of her, she will hold the adult’s hand and send it to her mouth. Before the child tasted the taste of watermelon, she had no idea what watermelon was, and she was even more likely to know that it was edible. Even if it was , , it was more about chewing her own fingers than asking adults for watermelon to eat.
Lying beside the child eats, the child will stare at the adult's mouth, look very, very focused, and seriously, which is normal.But before she tastes the food you eat, she has no idea what "eating" means, what can you eat, and what the food you eat tastes. Children may catch food, but the purpose of grabbing may not be to eat. They may just want to see what this is and want to touch it, but the movements shown are to move the body or reach out to grab it, which is easy for parents to think that they are grab food because they want to eat.
If you get rid of the matter of "eating" by your child, you will find that the child is not only interested in food, but also in toys, spoons, stainless steel basins, and everything she can catch. After getting the thing, put it in her mouth first. Do you also want to eat toys, spoons, and stainless steel basins? It just happened that she caught food that she could eat.
"e" is not born to know. All we humans have mastered when they are born is sucking and sucking milk. "Eating" is a skill that humans only master through acquired learning. Can you understand? The act of "eating" requires learning, not something you can do after birth. Otherwise, the baby will not need any tongue-in-up reaction to protect it. It would be great to eat rice noodles directly after birth. Why should I drink 6 months of milk?
And what you said, the child's tongue-relief reaction has disappeared. From the children we have come into contact with in our work, there are really not many children who have completely disappeared before adding complementary foods. I mean, before starting to add complementary foods, I have never given food other than a mouthful of milk. However, if parents have tried to feed their children before they start adding complementary food, and rice soup is also considered, then the tongue-in-up reaction may disappear when the supplementary food is officially started. If you feed your child with a spoon more often, it may disappear in 3-7 days.
I noticed that when you mentioned
, your neck and head will not tilt, and it will be well erected. How to sit on
? Are you holding the child's arm? Pull the child's waist? No matter which part of the child is pulled, I understand that the child should not sit alone. However, when sitting up, his head is relatively stable and can be kept standing up and not tilted, right? But the neck can support the head without shaking. Isn’t this the standard for a child to turn over in about 3 months? The child can independently complete the rollover from the left and right sides. After turning over, he can support him with his elbows, lie on the plane with his chest and lift his head up, and his neck can support his head to stabilize and not shake. I probably remember correctly.
I think you may only pay attention to the several signals that can add complementary food. It is mentioned that the child can control his head to not shake, but he did not notice the premise. The child can sit alone and control his head to twist and not shake.
Why is there a standard for being able to sit alone? Because when children start adding complementary food, they have to use a dining chair. Babies who cannot sit alone cannot sit in the dining chair for a long time. You may say that no one mentioned that children must sit on a dining chair when eating complementary food, and the same is true for holding and feeding. Is this true? Where are your hands when you hug them? Most parents will hold their hands around their children's stomach because of stability, which invisibly adds external pressure to their children's stomach. You said I pinched the child's waist, so the child was very stable when sitting. When she wanted to reach out to grab food, spoons and bowls, you felt unsafe, and subconsciously returned to the state in this photo, holding her hands around her. As for the problems of poor dining experience caused by the child being fed, such as the uncomfortable sitting position, the inability to move his hands freely, being fed passively, etc., I will not discuss it here.
The child cannot sit alone, which means that the waist and abdomen strength is not enough. If the waist and abdomen strength is not enough, she cannot sit for a long time. In the early stage of adding complementary food, it is normal for children to eat a meal for 30 minutes, 40 minutes or even 1 hour. If the child does not have enough strength in his waist and abdomen, he will get tired after sitting for a while. What should he do if he is tired? Cry, if you cry, you can't continue to eat complementary food, so you will carry the child out.So the child established this relationship: when sitting tired, cry, you can not eat complementary food when you cry, and you can leave the dining chair when you cry. So it will be a nightmare for you to feed complementary food in the future.
From the parents we have come into contact with in our work, we hope to add complementary food to our children in advance. There are several reasons:
. Like you, based on some fragmented and incomplete personal experience, it is possible to add complementary food.
. Feeding is painful, breast milk is not enough, I urgently hope that the child will eat as soon as possible, and get out of the bitter sea of three meals a day
. The child does not grow flesh, the child does not grow, the child looks thin, the child is not as strong as the neighbor's house, the child is always sick, etc. I am idle and I am more unhappy for myself
. Take it for granted, treat the nutrition of rice noodles and the nutrition that one vegetable intake a day as all the nutrition that the child needs. I think eating a bowl of rice noodles and vegetable puree every day is more nutritious than drinking milk.
Look at which type you belong to.
And we hate some articles on the Internet that add complementary foods. We are not professional and have only a few understandings. I copied a few foreign words. I will tell you that the suggestions for adding complementary foods that you can learn and that will tell you that you can add complementary foods. "Kill or bury", just say that children have individual differences, choose their own responsibilities.
Have anyone told you that in addition to the above signals, it also depends on the child's defecation status. At least the stool traits must be relatively stable before it can start?
Can children have diarrhea recently? Can the child get vaccinated recently? Can I add milk when my child starts to turn? Can I get a fever for my child?
What are you anxious about? Wouldn’t it be better to let your child drink more milk for one month? Worrying about missing the opportunity to add complementary foods? Isn’t it 6 months to add complementary food? Of course, do you say that you are going to have a big impact one day earlier or even 10 days earlier or 10 days later? I can tell you with certainty that the child’s age and this time point have little impact on the addition of complementary foods. It does not exist yesterday that the child could not add complementary foods during the 5-month period. Today, he had to add it on the first day of 6-month age. He would not start adding complementary foods because you were 10 days and half a month late. The child had been 6 months and 20 days before he started adding complementary foods. The child missed the "time" and never ate again.
Of course, it is not impossible for you to say that I want to add complementary food to your child now, but you need to pay attention to many details, the production of complementary food, the details of feeding, the observation and analysis of the child's status, and the order of adding ingredients are all different from the addition of complementary food for 6 months of age. Without professional, continuity guidance, we do not recommend you to start now. Why do I say that many articles guiding how to add complementary foods are "kill or bury". They only tell you how to eat, but what consequences may be caused by eating like this and what impact it has on the child's digestive system? No one tells you. You said whether the child can eat 4 months and 20 days now. My answer is yes, but it must be done under professional guidance. But if you do it yourself, follow the recipes found on the Internet for children who start adding complementary foods to 6 months old or suggest arranging complementary foods for children, do you think your child's stomach and intestines and the entire digestive system have developed to the level of 6 months old?
Finally, I suggest you wait a little longer. I have been waiting for more than 4 months and don’t care about one more month. Now you add complementary food to your child, and the nutrition required for her growth and development is not all provided by complementary food. A few bites of rice noodles, one or two dishes, not to mention the mainstream view now is to eat one ingredient for three days, but if you are allergic, add another one, and the progress is very slow. The main source of nutrition for children is still milk. The consequences of adding complementary foods now, the child's digestive burden has increased. Without professional guidance, it is difficult to ensure that the child will not have any problems before the age of 6 months. A child with such a young child is a torture for the child, and haste will not be achieved. Weigh the pros and cons.
Finally, before starting to add complementary foods, don’t try to give your child any food other than milk, and fruits are not good either!
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