How to make rice soup for three-month-old baby

Babies of three months old can also drink rice soup. Of course, it is best for them to drink breast milk. If breast milk is not enough, they can also drink rice soup. When drinking rice soup, you must gradually adapt to it. This will give the baby's stomach and intestines time to adapt. After the baby is six months old, there is no problem in eating some rice soup appropriately. Let's learn how to make rice soup.

Can children under three months old eat rice soup?

Children under three months old can eat rice soup, but they need to adapt slowly at the beginning. Children of this age should still be fed mainly with milk, and breastfeeding is best.

If the baby is exclusively breastfed, he does not need to eat rice soup or other complementary foods. As long as he gets more sun exposure, the baby will be very healthy. For babies who are mixed-fed, milk should be the main food within three months. If you want to feed them rice soup, you can start with one spoonful and increase the amount little by little. Don't feed too much at one time to avoid the child being unable to digest it. The child is young and his digestive system is not yet fully developed.

How to make rice soup for baby food

In fact, the methods of making rice soup as baby food are similar. First, wash the rice with clean water, put it in a pot, and add appropriate amount of water to cook. Then boil the water over high heat, then reduce to low heat and cook for about 20 minutes. Finally, take the rice soup from the top and let it cool slightly before feeding it to your baby. Alternatively, put 20-30g of rice in a pot, add 1000ml of water, simmer over low heat and constantly add the original amount of water. After about an hour, filter it and you will get thin rice soup. It can be suitable for slowly adding to formula milk, or adding rice soup in the early stage.

Rice soup contains a large amount of niacin, vitamins B1, B2, inorganic salts such as phosphorus and iron, as well as certain nutrients such as carbohydrates and fats. Rice soup is sweet and mild in nature, and has the functions of invigorating qi, nourishing yin, and moistening dryness. Drinking it is beneficial to children's health and development, and helps digestion and absorption of fat.

Things to note when adding complementary foods

First of all, the formula should be reasonable and nutritionally balanced. Generally speaking, the simplest formula of complementary food contains only two foods, such as porridge plus one kind of meat, which is called a basic mixed meal. But it is better to add some other foods to provide your baby with a variety of nutrients to make it a more complete and balanced diet. Secondly, the baby's stomach capacity is small and cannot accommodate too much food in one meal. Generally, babies from 6 months to 1 year old can only eat 100 to 200 ml of food per meal. Therefore, each meal should be prepared with small amounts of high-quality, nutrient-rich food to meet the baby's growth and development needs.

In addition, choose fresh food and pick its tenderer parts, such as the leaves of vegetables; meat should be liver or other offal and lean meat, and soy products should be tofu, dried tofu, etc. Before cooking, you should pay attention to chopping and cooking, but vitamin C is closely related to the production process, and vegetables should not be cooked for a long time.