Feeding children from birth to one year old

Feeding children from birth to one year old

What kind of food is allowed to be given to an infant? And when should we introduce it? Here's the guide to feeding your baby from birth to the age of one year.

One of the first things new parents learn, when their first child is born, is baby food. Each parent at the hospital receives a preliminary explanation of how to give nutrition to the child.

Feeding children from birth to one year old

Later, he gets more detailed explanations on the subject, whether by doctors, nurses or grandmothers.
The importance of providing suitable food for the child

The importance of the type and how to provide baby food stems from several reasons:

    First, children need specific nutrition in order to strengthen, so they should get certain food compounds at first.
    Second, the child cannot eat everything, because his immune system is weak. And also because they can not swallow anything presented to them.
    Third, the baby's food should be built in a certain order, where the child fits and helps him to identify the taste of this food.

Principles of Catering

Serving children depends on two principles:

1. The first principle

Parents pay the child to eat something while they prevent him from eating other things. For example, parents try to accustom their child to eating vegetables, while preventing them as much as possible from eating sweet food.

Children feel the need to eat sweet food. In order not to develop the habit of eating this food, parents should provide foods without special taste for the child such as vegetables.
 

2. The second principle

It is based on the fact that children show parents that they want to eat something. For example, they are interested in what their parents eat, where parents believe the child has reached a point where he is interested in solid food.
The gradient is very important

Exposing children to food is a gradual process. The child eats until the age of six months only breast milk. This milk contains vitamins and antibodies that help build up its immune system.

If at this time you also want to introduce the child to other food types, it is possible to give him porridge, such as cornflour porridge (corn flour) and rice porridge.
After 6 months

After the age of six months the child should be given soup. These should be free from ground spices and without solids. Food should be served at a fixed time, to get used to fixed eating hours.

After being exposed to soup, he begins to be exposed to meat, vegetables and fruits, in parallel with the emergence of his first teeth. Of course, the food should be tender, cooked and cut into very small pieces, so that he can swallow it.
Between 9-12 months

Between the ninth and twelfth months, a child is exposed to food that will build a sense of taste. It is important to expose him to different tastes, so that in the future he knows what to take and what to refuse.

Among the foods that should be exposed in that period, are unsweetened dairy products, more solid soups, bread, cheese with more than 5% and eggs.

However, you should not expose the child at this age to honey, drinking milk, fish, tea and various juices.

Over time, the larger it is, the more it can be exposed to more food and drink, so it can choose for itself.