When babies enter the weaning period, mothers
are always anxious that which foods they should feed babies. Nutritious experts
will help mothers create the detailed menu for babies when they are 1 year old.
When do mothers begin to let babies wean?
Which dishes should you feed babies? How much should babies eat every day? To
answer mother’s questions, nutritious experts for newborn babies gave detailed
menu for babies about the kinds of food and the amount of food that babies can
eat every day from the newborn period to 1 year old.
1. Newborn babies to babies that are 4 months old
Baby’s
reflex
At this age, baby’s natural reflex is
finding mother’s breast when they want to eat.
Foods
Only let babies eat mother’s milk or
formula milk.
Babies
that are under 4 months old should only suck mother’s milk or formula milk.
Advice
Baby’s digestive system is developing, so
weaning foods aren’t suitable with babies in the period, you should only let
babies eat mothers’ milk or formula milk.
2. Babies that are from 4 to 6 months old
Baby’s
reflex
Your children don’t have all following
expressions. They are only the most popular signs of babies to begin the
weaning period:
·
Babies can hold their head up.
·
Babies can sit on chair.
·
They have expression of chewing.
·
Their weight can as twice as the time when
babies have just morn.
·
They know to hold their tongue around a spoon.
·
They are cutting their teeth.
Foods
·
Mother’s milk or powdered milk
·
Foods are grinded (such as sweet potato, apple,
banana, pumpkin, peach or pear) or grain to intensify Fe.
The amount of food for each day
When you begin to let babies wean, you
should try a spoon of grinded food or grain. You can also mix grain with 4-5
spoons (1 spoon = 5ml) of mother’s milk or powdered milk (very liquid and it is
easy to feed babies every day).
When
you begin to let babies wean, you should try a spoon of grinded food or grain.
When babies are familiar with food, you can
increase to 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon = 15ml) of grinded food or 1 tablespoon
of grain and mother’s milk or powdered milk about twice a day. If you let
babies eat grain, you can make it solid gradually by reducing the amount of
water to make.
Advice
If your baby
doesn’t eat grain in the first time, you should be patient to let babies eat in
the next times.
