Wednesday, March 23, 2011
baby food 6 - 8 months
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At this age your baby can eat solid food. Types of food provided is also more diverse during the softness and thickness are adjusted according to the needs of babies and not given the salt or sugar.
Signs your baby is ready to eat solid food
These are traits that need to be considered even though your baby may not do it all
- It can not enforce its own head
- Can sit in a chair with a good
- Can make chewing movements
- Weight loss seen to increase to approximately twice as much weight at birth
- Seen interested in food
- Can we close the mouth if the proffered spoon
- Can move food from mouth to mouth the front of the rear
- Can move the tongue, and no longer push food out using Aloe
- Seen still hungry after being given eight to ten times the breast milk or infant formula 1200 cc
- Begin teething
Food Type
- Breast milk or formula PLUS
- Porridge rice cereal or rice flour porridge
- Continued with sesame seeds, other cereals
- Porridge vegetables (eg sweet potato, pumpkin-Labuan) or pulp of fruit (eg banana, apple, pear, avocado)
- Broth
- Items such as cow's milk cheese
- Beef, chicken, goat meat, liver, and fish-paste. Fish is advocating delayed until more than a year because of potential allergic reactions
- Red eggs. Egg whites have a permit before one year, there is also an advocate postponed until more than a year because of potential allergic reactions
- Tofu
How
- Starting from rice flour porridge once a day is very thin, approximately 1 / 2 tablespoon at the first trial. Why rice? Rice has a low risk of allergy.
- If the baby is getting used to eating, can add a portion or added to porridge consistency. Gradually the form of food is no need to be too smooth, a bit like porridge for adults.
- Always try to introduce new foods to babies by remembering the time to wait 4 days to see whether infants possess an allergic reaction to food. Begins by giving a sense each time to add a menu. If looks do not cause allergic reactions, the following days can be mixed with other flavors that were known not to cause allergic reactions as well. Do not limit the type of food for your baby, even though it's not food that you like.
- Some people suggested to give the vegetables first before giving it fruit, so that more babies do not know the sweetness of the fruit first.
- If the baby is already accustomed to eating once a day, can be added to two times a day and then to three times that.
- Stimuli child to chew. When the baby looks can make chewing movement though not yet have teeth, can begin to be given food that is not too soft like a small piece of banana (do not softened), pieces of papaya, mango, or too little hard foods like pieces of dry bread, carrots, apples, pieces of cheese, so the baby can not bite it can only undermine. Let them hold and try gnawing. Babies do not chew food using the teeth, but was pressured by his gums. Make sure that the food provided to infants did not have the potential to make him choke and always be supervised when eating. Familiarize children from an early age makes it easy to chew him to escape from the soft food.
Foods avoided
- Honey. Not recommended for infants under age one year, because there are likely exposed to the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum. Babies do not have immunity against these bacteria.
- Salt. Baby food should not be given a strong salt because it has not processed by the kidneys. Breast milk and formula is sufficient for salt ditubuhnya
- Sugar. Let the baby is not accustomed to the sweet taste that can damage teeth.
- Nuts. In addition there is the possibility of choking, nuts are also very potentially cause allergic reactions
- Cow's milk as a beverage. Not enough fat content, nutrients (especially iron), and calories. Too much sodium. Also has the potential to become allergens. Except for dairy products like cheese, are allowed after the baby is 6 months old.
Note-In this age of 6-8 months, breast milk or formula is still the main source of baby food. Other foods just extra.
- Always wait 4 days to introduce new foods to, to be seen whether the baby has an allergic reaction to food
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