We can start complementary feeding (supplementary food) for babies who are over 6 months, that is, 180 days. It is recommended to start premature babies according to the corrected age, but babies with good neuromotor development can be started earlier with the advice of a doctor.
Your baby must have sufficient neurological development in order to start complementary foods; he should be able to hold his head and bring something to his mouth with his hand.
Complementary food is started with two methods;
1-The classical method in which foods are prepared in puree and fed with a spoon or a cup,
2- The method by which the baby feeds himself: BLW (Baby-Led Feeding). p>
6. continue breast milk after the month, give breast milk insufficient or if there is no formula, but reduce night feedings.
• Start foods one by one,
• comply to the 3-day rule, that is, one food for 3 days Add a new food after trying it and seeing that there is no problem,
• the 3 day rule should be applied to allergenic foods such as dairy products, eggs, wheat, sesame, fish and nuts. You can also not apply other foods.
• Start with a very small amount of tasting in the first days, gradually increase if the baby wants it. You can give a teaspoon on the first day, a dessert spoon on the second day, and a tablespoon on the third day.
• How much should the amount of additional food be during this period? A maximum of 2 baby jars (small tea glasses) can be given daily. Give it in 2 meals (for the period between 6-7 months)
• Prepare the food in a puree consistency (it will not flow from the spoon) by mashing with a fork,
Do not use a blender to develop the chewing and swallowing function of the baby! !!
• Don't force the food she doesn't want to take, try giving it again after a few days. Babies get some nutrients in 8-10 tries!!!
• Make the first attempts when you and her are pleasant and when they are slightly hungry (1.5-2 hours of fasting is enough) and before noon,
• The aim in this period is to consume 70% of the nutrition It consists of e-milk or formula, and 30% of it consists of complementary foods. For this reason, 500-600 ml of breast milk (or formula) should be given daily.
When feeding your baby, sit him in the highchair and have him join the family table.
• Be face to face with the baby while feeding, do not feed from behind the baby. No TV, tablet, computer, phone or game while feeding. Never leave the baby alone.
• Don't use the reward and/or punishment method.
• in the 6-7 months period, the aim is not to fill the child's stomach, but to get used to different tastes, to improve chewing and swallowing functions.
• main meals until 1 year old are breast milk and/or formula meals are supplementary food ‼
• Sometimes, it takes 8-10 tries for the baby to get used to a new taste.
• Foods with a risk of allergy can be given as a mixture after they are tried one by one and it is seen that there is no problem.
• Let's give water; After feeding, give it as much as it takes, preferably with bottled water, with a drinker and in a cool way. You don't need to boil the water.
• There is no food or quantity that needs to be eaten during this period, your baby is in the period of getting used to it and it may take up to 7 months to get used to it.
. Choose the food variety from foods suitable for our country and culture, and the child is fed in harmony with the foods that a mother is fed during pregnancy. The distinction from aspiration (suffocation) should be known. Responding to a gagging baby suddenly and in a panic can lead to malnutrition in the future.
ADDITIONAL FOOD BETWEEN 6-7 MONTHS
What should I give first?
You can start with yogurt or vegetables. Don't start with fruit, because baby used to the sugary taste will be reluctant to take other nutrients.
Yogurt is prepared from pasteurized cow's milk (daily milk). Vegetables can be steamed or boiled in water. After cooking vegetables, 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil is added, mashed with a fork and given as a puree.
Which Vegetable?
No priority, choose according to the season. il. Root vegetables are preferred. Carrot, potato and zucchini trio is the first vegetable to start with.
Then you can add vegetables that are suitable for the season (broccoli, leek, cauliflower, cabbage, sweet pepper).
Vegetables can be prepared for 2 days, served fresh on the first day and heated on the second day. If there are green leafy plants, they are not reheated because repeated heating increases the nitrite in the food.
Which Fruit?
It is very important to give vegetables, grains and meat to babies who take solid food, but it is not the same to give fruit. Therefore, it should be given in less amount than other foods.
Start with seasonal fruits, puree using a glass grater.
Apple, peach, banana are the first fruits to start with. If possible, avocado can be given because its content is very useful. It can be given alone in the mid-morning snack or mixed with yogurt at the afternoon meal.
I do not recommend fruit juice.
We should not give acidic fruits such as kiwi, orange and tangerine before the age of 1 year. You should peel the skin of the fruits such as grapes etc.
Important points to be known in the supplementary food period:
In which situations should I consider food allergy?
Allergy can be considered if vomiting (spurting), bloody poop, widespread rash on the body, swelling of the lips, cough and shortness of breath occurs ‼
Slight redness around the mouth, green poop, mucus in the poop (a lot of mucus needs to be evaluated) is not considered an allergy ‼
What are the foods that should not be given under 1 year old?
Sugar, salt, spices, bitter, sour, honey, cow's milk, broad beans, eggplant, acidic fruits, canned foods and liver (offal) are not allowed ‼
Offals other than liver should not be given to children. Not recommended at any age!
You can give all other foods according to their nutritional value within a certain logic!!!
Can I give this? If this is not on the forbidden (!) list, of course you can.
7-9. COMPLEMENTARY NUTRITION BETWEEN MONTHS
Our babies are 6-7. After spending months as a period of getting used to additional food, we can now give a little more satiating food.
7-8 2 meals a day and a maximum of 2 small tea glasses (250 ml) of additional food are given in the months.
After the 8th month, you can give 3 meals and 3 small tea glasses of additional food. Now more lumpy prepared foods should be given.
The remaining amount is met with 500-600 ml of breast milk and/or formula.
60% of the energy need should be met by breast milk and/or formula, 40% of additional food should meet.
Attention! Recommendations on food amount are the upper limit, not the target. If it takes less, don't try to force it ‼
What should we give?
Let's start giving grains (semolina, flour, rice flour, oats). Cereals meet the need for carbohydrates.
Let's start with lamb, eggs, chicken, fish and legumes. These foods meet the protein requirement.
All seasonal vegetables (including tomatoes) can be given. It can be prepared by mixing rice, red lentils, semolina and vermicelli with vegetables.
Give me red meat; First, it starts with walnut-sized, well-pulled lamb, and later on, a piece of meat can be added as much as the child's fist. Red meat 4 days a week, chicken once a week, fish two days a week.
Meat broth and bone broth do not help, we do not recommend it. ‼
Yogurt and fruit can be given separately or as a mixture.
Give pulses. It can be given 2 days a week. Chickpeas and beans should be soaked in water a day in advance and boiled for a while due to the phytate they contain and cooked after the first water is poured.
Rice, pasta and meatballs can be served.
Lentil and tarhana soup can be given.
Egg yolk is started as a quarter and once you get used to it, one is given every day. It can be given with the white (half an egg a day)
8. After the first month, babies who have passed three meals can be given salted white cheese or homemade curd cheese by soaking in water for breakfast, starting with a small amount and giving them as much as 1 matchbox.
Baby biscuits are not given ‼Homemade biscuits or whole wheat bread can be given.
Do not give cereal pudding or spoon foods sold in markets unless it is necessary!.
Walnut, hazelnut, Nuts such as almonds can be crushed well and added to fruit puree or yogurt.< br />
Boneless steamed or grilled fish can be given 2 times a week (30 gr/meal). Surface fish such as anchovies, horse mackerel, mackerel and bonito and salmon can be given.
Chicken meat can be given (1-2 days a week)
In this period, night feeding is not due to hunger but emotional need. Please do not feed more than 2 times a night. After the 9th month, it may not be fed at night at all.
Let's keep the balance in terms of quantity. It is not right to give more or less than the recommended amount and to load on breast milk or formula ‼
COMPLEMENTARY NUTRITION 9-12. MONTH
In this period, your baby should consume a little more supplementary foods.
Breast milk is still very valuable. You should continue to breastfeed your baby as long as you want.
9. After the first month, your baby should sit at the family table more and taste the food you eat.
Let us make an important reminder; Falls from the highchair happen most often during this period, don't forget to fasten a belt!!!
Now your baby's swallowing, chewing skills and hand skills are well developed, he already tends to try to put the food in his mouth.
Finger start the food. Let the baby feed himself with suitable foods prepared in the form of fingers. Likewise, he can eat properly prepared foods using a fork.
Meals should be given more and more solidly. Must be able to eat lumpy foods.
You can give 3 main snacks and additional food in the amount of maximum one baby jar (tea glass) at each meal. The limit can be crossed a little in babies with a very appetite.
What can she eat?
Under 1 year old can eat everything except forbidden foods. You can give suitable foods prepared for home without salt and in the firmness that adults eat.
One tablespoon of homemade curd cheese, 1 whole egg every day or every other day (white is given in small quantities in the first days), pitted unsalted olives, bread , fruit and omelette are suitable for breakfast.
Try to give red meat 3-4 days, fish 2 days, chicken 1 day a week. Be sure to have legumes 1-2 days a week.
You should reduce night feeding, 1-2 times night feeding is sufficient.
Force the baby, in front of the TV - tablet or play games
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