Baby is a little one whose good diet and health means everything to his parents, mainly because a good diet prevent dieases and make a child mentally and physically strong.
New mothers always wonder what they should feed to their baby and most importantly when to start.
This blog will talk about the early weaning and diet structure of the baby to help him boost his immune system and stay super active and strong.
The best time to start weaning is when your baby is 6 months old, till then it is very important to offer only breastfeed or formula milk. But if in any case, mother is not able to feed the child or baby is not accepting the milk, then early weaning can be started by 4.5 months.
In case of early weaning, only easy digestible food is preferred such as rice water, yellow split lentils water ( moong daal water), fully cooked apple puree, fully cooked pear puree and gradually to sweet potato and potato.
It is very important to give fully cooked food to a baby because a baby's digestive works very slowly, if partially cooked food is offered then either baby stomach will not digest it and you will see exactly same food in his poop or else will lead to bad stomach.
In case of 6 months weaning, then also you should start only with rice water or lentils water but then afterwards there are many more options too, such as
Homemade cereals wheat or rice or oats.
Readymade cereals.
Cereals should be mixed with breastfeed or formula to give best benefit to the baby in single feed.
In case of cereals, it is very important to start with rice first and then gradually move to wheat then oats and then multigrain.
Many fruits can be given such as apple, pear, banana, blueberries, superberries, avacado, peaches and chikko.
There is a list of vegetables as well such as sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, carrots and french beans.
All you can do is to add fruits to the sweet food like cereals or oatmeals and blend them and feed, or else you can simple boil the fruits and then puree them and feed. It all depends upon a child that which form is accepted by him.
In case of vegetables, you can either simply boil blend and feed or else you can add them with lentils or khichdi and cook them together and then blend and feed.
Again it's completely upon a baby that which form is more liked by him.
Key points:
1. Give at atleast 4 to 5 meals to baby in order to help him adapt to different flavours.
2. Mix and match the meals with breast feed , donot terminate the feeding process immediately.
3. Donot talk while feeding. This will create problem to feed the other day because the baby will demand more gestures along with different food daily and giving variation daily to small child is beyond a difficult task.
4. Donot force feed the baby, forcefeeding always end up with puking or bad stomach or child becoming stubborn to never accept anything. Be cool with the flow, always offer on demand of a child, which then help them to cherish the food and eat it till full tummy.
5. On initial days you should prefer to feed only one kind food and in small quantity, so that you can check whether baby is able digest it or not.
6. Always uplift the baby then gently move your hands on their back to help them burp and digest the food because baby's cannot walk or exercise to digest their meals and rubbing the back helps to push the trapped air in between the food to come out and food to get down and digest properly.
7. It is very important to introduce all kind of food to the baby within 1 year because in initial months baby's body try to adapt and accept new food easily, once you forget to introduce any major food then it can end to baby being allergic to those items.
May these short theories help all caring and wonderful mothers to ease their weaning step.
This is important to trust yourself that you are doing everything for your baby and anything done by you for your baby is the best for him.
Never challenge or let others challenge your motherhood.
You are best mothers!
Regards Health Benefits.
healthhbenefits@blogspot.com
New mothers always wonder what they should feed to their baby and most importantly when to start.
This blog will talk about the early weaning and diet structure of the baby to help him boost his immune system and stay super active and strong.
The best time to start weaning is when your baby is 6 months old, till then it is very important to offer only breastfeed or formula milk. But if in any case, mother is not able to feed the child or baby is not accepting the milk, then early weaning can be started by 4.5 months.
In case of early weaning, only easy digestible food is preferred such as rice water, yellow split lentils water ( moong daal water), fully cooked apple puree, fully cooked pear puree and gradually to sweet potato and potato.
It is very important to give fully cooked food to a baby because a baby's digestive works very slowly, if partially cooked food is offered then either baby stomach will not digest it and you will see exactly same food in his poop or else will lead to bad stomach.
In case of 6 months weaning, then also you should start only with rice water or lentils water but then afterwards there are many more options too, such as
Homemade cereals wheat or rice or oats.
Readymade cereals.
Cereals should be mixed with breastfeed or formula to give best benefit to the baby in single feed.
In case of cereals, it is very important to start with rice first and then gradually move to wheat then oats and then multigrain.
Many fruits can be given such as apple, pear, banana, blueberries, superberries, avacado, peaches and chikko.
There is a list of vegetables as well such as sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, carrots and french beans.
All you can do is to add fruits to the sweet food like cereals or oatmeals and blend them and feed, or else you can simple boil the fruits and then puree them and feed. It all depends upon a child that which form is accepted by him.
In case of vegetables, you can either simply boil blend and feed or else you can add them with lentils or khichdi and cook them together and then blend and feed.
Again it's completely upon a baby that which form is more liked by him.
Key points:
1. Give at atleast 4 to 5 meals to baby in order to help him adapt to different flavours.
2. Mix and match the meals with breast feed , donot terminate the feeding process immediately.
3. Donot talk while feeding. This will create problem to feed the other day because the baby will demand more gestures along with different food daily and giving variation daily to small child is beyond a difficult task.
4. Donot force feed the baby, forcefeeding always end up with puking or bad stomach or child becoming stubborn to never accept anything. Be cool with the flow, always offer on demand of a child, which then help them to cherish the food and eat it till full tummy.
5. On initial days you should prefer to feed only one kind food and in small quantity, so that you can check whether baby is able digest it or not.
6. Always uplift the baby then gently move your hands on their back to help them burp and digest the food because baby's cannot walk or exercise to digest their meals and rubbing the back helps to push the trapped air in between the food to come out and food to get down and digest properly.
7. It is very important to introduce all kind of food to the baby within 1 year because in initial months baby's body try to adapt and accept new food easily, once you forget to introduce any major food then it can end to baby being allergic to those items.
May these short theories help all caring and wonderful mothers to ease their weaning step.
This is important to trust yourself that you are doing everything for your baby and anything done by you for your baby is the best for him.
Never challenge or let others challenge your motherhood.
You are best mothers!
Regards Health Benefits.
healthhbenefits@blogspot.com
