The latest "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" recommends that children start to add complementary foods when they reach the age of 6 months.
In a mother's discussion group, many mothers began to struggle, when is 6 months?
Because if the child is just 5 months old and enters the 6th month, it is 150 days, and the child is 180 days when the child is 6 months old, and if the child is 6 months old and 210 days when the child is 7 months old, then when is the complementary food added?
In fact, 6 months old means 180 days for a child!
Reason 1: The need for iron in children has doubled
Children need 0. per day until 6 monthsAfter 7 months, 3 mg of iron is needed to 10 mg of iron per day, which is a 33-fold increase in iron needs.
The iron content in breast milk is very low, and although iron is fortified in milk powder, the absorption rate of iron is not high, so children should supplement iron by adding complementary foods.
The latest "Chinese Diet" suggests that the first complementary food for children to add can be meat puree, liver puree or rice noodles with high iron, mainly because children need a lot of iron.
Once a child has iron deficiency anemia, it is easy to lead to a decrease in the child's immunity, and even affect the development of the brain.
A large number of studies have found that when a child is deficient in iron, his IQ score decreases.
Reason 2: Children's ability to swallow and chew needs to be trained
After the child reaches 6 months, most of them will begin to erupt baby teeth, and after the baby teeth erupt, they need to chew, and after the baby teeth erupt, his swallowing ability will be more mature.
At this time, giving the child complementary food can exercise the child's swallowing ability and chewing ability, and the child's chewing and swallowing ability can not only help him eat the food, but also allow the child to exercise the chewing muscles and mouth, which is conducive to the child's learning to speak when he grows up.
Reason 3: Children's gastrointestinal digestion ability is becoming more and more mature
After 6 months, the child's gastrointestinal tract is becoming more and more mature, and he can slowly digest different foods.
Therefore, it is recommended that children add complementary foods after 180 days
But this 180 days is not the only one, does not mean that parents will add complementary food as soon as the child is 180 days old, this complementary food may be added a little earlier and later, the most important thing is to see whether the child has the characteristics of these complementary foods.
Signal 1: Weight attainment
The child's weight should reach at least 13 pounds before considering adding complementary food, because the child's weight reaches the standard, which means that the gastrointestinal digestion ability will be stronger.
Signal 2: The child is able to sit upright
Children add complementary food to sit and eat, so one of the signals for children to add complementary food is that they can rely on their own ability to sit on the dining stool, and their necks can be turned around, which means that they can add complementary food to children.
Signal 3: The child's saliva is direct
The main ingredient of our complementary food is starchy food, such as rice and noodles.
The first level of starch digestion is the child's mouth, because there is saliva in the mouth, and the saliva contains salivary amylase, which can help digest starchy food.
Babies under the age of 3 are the first period of physical and intellectual development, and eating good complementary food is very important for children's growth. Whether the complementary food is eaten well is directly related to the child's intellectual development, physical growth, and immunity, therefore, if you want to feed a healthy and intelligent, strong immunity, and do not like to be sick baby, a good complementary food book is essential.
Now the problem comes again, many mothers due to lack of experience, or lack of relevant parenting knowledge, do not know how to regulate the baby's spleen and stomach, so what should be done?
Here is an authoritative book on complementary foods for parents"What to Eat Weekly in Complementary Foods".The author of this book is Liu Changwei, a nutritionist and master of nutrition from Nanjing Children's Hospital, and this book has been highly recommended by Zhang Silai, a parenting expert.
This thick book is very informative and solves almost all the problems that babies will encounter in complementary food feeding.
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Between the age of 1 and 3 years old, various recipes such as how to supplement calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, constipation, and cough are given to children, with practical content.
The appendix also contains a quantitative table and knowledge for the addition of complementary foods.
In short, this thick book of "What to Eat Every Week of Complementary Foods" is full of 215 complementary foods with many patterns and complete nutrition, and explains in detail the nutrients and functions contained in each complementary food, children love to eat, and adults are easy to learn.
With a good book in hand, you will have a bottom in your heart to feed your child complementary food, especially in the half a year from the age of 6 to 1 year, how to make complementary food for your child step by step and nutritious, without parents having to worry about itBecause the recipes are clearly arranged every week, parents can satisfy their children's appetite with delicious and nutritious complementary foods as long as they follow along.
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