Eat pureed food for several months

Pureed food is the best complementary food for babies when they are just born, mainly because pureed food is easier to be digested by the baby's stomach and intestines, and pureed food can be given to babies when breast milk is insufficient. Therefore, it is recommended that children eat some complementary food when they are weaned. Parents should understand the best time for babies to eat pureed food and when to stop eating pureed food, so as to adjust the baby's stomach and intestines.

Infancy is the period of fastest growth and development in a person's life, and the nutrients required are also quite numerous. When a child is just born, breast milk is the best food, but when the child grows to a certain stage, complementary foods need to be added. Many parents are not quite sure how old their children should be to start eating complementary foods.

In fact, you can start gradually adding complementary foods when your child is 4 to 6 months old. For babies four or five months old, breast milk can no longer provide them with sufficient iron and other nutrients, and these needs can be supplemented by adding complementary foods.

You should not add complementary foods to your child too early, and similarly, you should not add complementary foods to your child too late. If complementary foods are added earlier than 4 months, the child's digestive system has not yet fully developed and indigestion can easily occur; if complementary foods are added later than 6 months, the child cannot supplement enough nutrition in time and cannot meet the nutritional needs of the child's growth and development, which will affect the child's growth and development, and may also affect the child's chewing function.

In fact, at different stages, the complementary foods suitable for children are also different.

1. When the child is 4 to 6 months old, it is the first stage of adding complementary foods. At this time, the child's digestive system is not fully developed, and it is suitable to feed some easily digestible complementary foods, such as rice porridge, vegetable juice and egg yolk paste. At this stage, children start to add complementary foods. They should be fed mainly by trial and error, with the amount of complementary foods controlled each time, not too much, and should be fed gradually.

2. When the child is 7 to 9 months old, it is the second stage of feeding complementary foods. At this time, you can feed your child some porridge, some minced meat, and soft-cooked noodles, but make sure it is light and it is best not to add salt. Compared to the first stage, children can begin to gradually accept small pieces of food, which can also exercise their swallowing and chewing functions.

3. When the child is 10 to 12 months old, it is the third stage of adding complementary foods. At this time, children can eat more foods, such as steamed bread slices, minced meat, and buns. At the same time, children should also start eating some staple foods, and gradually change from mainly complementary foods to mainly staple foods, transitioning to adult mode. It is best for parents to give their children softer food, which is easier for their digestion and absorption.

After the child is 12 months old, he or she can gradually start eating staple foods and can also start drinking milk. But you must pay attention to whether your child is lactose intolerant. If so, it is best not to drink milk, otherwise it will easily cause constipation.