How do I supplement a baby who drinks breast milk? Food hard and soft can be adjusted with monthly age.

Original title: How to add complementary food to a baby who drinks breast milk? Can be combined with the age of the adjustment of food hard and soft
parents know that when the baby first added complementary food, should be based on paste-like food. So, what are the complementary foods your baby is suitable for eating? When should I start adding complementary foods to my baby? In response to these questions, People's Daily Online Science China interviewed Jiang Jianhua, chief physician of nutrition at anhui Medical University's First Affiliated Hospital.
Jiang Jianhua introduced, the average child in 4 to 6 months, in addition to drinking milk, will begin to be curious about other people's food, staring at the way the average person eats, and he can try to pinch the food with his fingers. At this point you are ready to add complementary food to your child.
many parents worry that their children won't chew hard food, so they keep giving their children a soft diet. In fact, Jiang Jianhua explained that with the increase of the baby's age, the addition of complementary food should also be soft to hard slow transition, rather than eating "soft food", children in the teeth germination, if the lack of tongue grinding, chewing training, will make its upper and lower jaw bone can not fully develop, the appearance of dental congestion or uneven arrangement of the situation, and even muscle development is not enough, resulting in a lack of mouth.
, how should I add complementary foods, and at what time should I adjust the softness and hardness of the complementary foods? Jiang Jianhua suggested:
4 to 6 months old baby, after the desire to try food, can use baby nutrition rice flour (pure rice flour) to the baby "plus meal", it strengthens calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients, the baby can get a more balanced nutrients, and the gastrointestinal burden will not be too heavy. After about two weeks of adaptation, you can start trying to add some mud to the rice flour, and the itself is relatively soft food, such as tofu, pumpkin cooked with water to stir into mud after feeding.
7 to 8 months old baby, oral muscle control and tongue movement ability is strengthened, can eat easy to chew and digest the paste food, all kinds of vegetable mud is a good choice. Such as corn, spinach, pumpkin and so on after stirring and add some water mixed into a thin paste.
9 to 11 months old baby, can gradually add thick paste or blocky semi-solid food, exercise chewing ability, this time the food cut into 5 mm to 1 cm of chopped can be. In addition to fruits and vegetables, egg yolks, puree is a good choice.
1 year old, solid foods should be gradually added to further enhance your baby's chewing ability. At this time, the child has a certain ability to express, can let the child choose their favorite food, of course, also pay attention to the nutritional content, pay attention to the combination of ingredients.
addition, complementary foods are added in small to many kinds, from thin to coarse, from thin to thick. Jiang Jianhua reminded, in addition to gradual progress, should also pay attention to the following points: choose fresh and healthy ingredients and clean production work, can gradually add fruit mud, fruit blocks, fruit slices, fruit bars, not recommended to give the baby juice, so that can not exercise chewing ability;
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