Easy-to-digest complementary food for eight-month-old babies

Many mothers will slowly add complementary foods to their babies when they are five or six months old, because breast milk can no longer provide all the nutrients the baby needs at five or six months. The complementary foods that babies eat are all very easy to digest. Because the baby's gastrointestinal function is not fully developed, they can only choose to eat relatively easy to digest foods. Let’s learn about some easy-to-digest complementary foods for eight-month-old babies.

1. What kind of complementary food should an eight-month-old baby eat if he has poor digestion?

1. Millet and yam porridge

Ingredients: fresh yam, millet, and white sugar.

Method: Wash and mash the yam, cook it with millet into porridge, then add appropriate amount of sugar and eat on an empty stomach.

Efficacy: It can cure spleen and stomach deficiency, indigestion, and loose stools.

When a baby has indigestion, you should stop adding new types of complementary foods, and the original complementary foods should be given to the baby in a fine, soft and rotten form as much as possible. It is recommended that you boil the hair moss into water or blend it into juice for your baby to drink, and add egg yolks when the baby is older and healthier.

2. Sweet and light tea. After brewing a small amount of black tea with boiling water, remove the tea leaves and add 3% white sugar. Tea has astringent effects and is a good drink for babies with diarrhea.

3. Carrot soup. Wash 500 grams of carrots, mash them into a paste, add water and boil for 10 minutes, then filter with a fine sieve to remove the residue. Then add water to dilute to 1000 ml, and then add 5% white sugar. Carrots are alkaline and contain pectin, which can absorb bacteria and their toxins and form stool.

4. Applesauce soup. Wash 500 grams of ripe apples, peel and core them, mash them into a paste, and add light sweet tea. Unlike other fruits, apples have finer fibers and rarely irritate the intestines. Apples contain tannic acid, which has an astringent effect and can absorb toxins, so they are suitable for children to eat after diarrhea or dysentery.

2. What to do if your 8-month-old baby has poor digestion

Mothers can give their babies some "Mommy Love" to regulate their stomachs. It is equivalent to the "Mammy Love" that adults often eat. When children have symptoms such as diarrhea, bloating, constipation, nausea, etc., you can use it in time. For an 8-month-old child, if the symptoms are more serious, take half a pack each time, 3 times a day, for several days in a row, and stop eating after the symptoms improve. If it is only an occasional phenomenon and the symptoms are not serious, you can take it twice a day, half a pack each time, for only one day, to regulate the stomach. Don't eat it for a long time, otherwise the stomach will become dependent.

When your child has loose stools, you can give him some apples, which have astringent properties. Stop eating other side dishes for now. You can also gently rub around the baby's belly button in a counterclockwise direction. If your child's stool is mushy and foamy, you may consider whether it is an intestinal bacterial infection. You can take some of your child's stool to the hospital for testing to reassure yourself.