Food diversification

Food diversification
Food diversification in the infant is carried out after the first four months during which the baby nourishes only milk (maternal or 1st age). It is generally about the fifth or sixth month, that one starts by introducing other food, while begin with vegetables in complement from milk.
In addition to this card, read our special folder: Successful food diversification! , with in particular the councils of a midwife.

That generally begin with the meal midday, then also of the evening. One can give food mixed with a flexible spoon. But at the beginning, one can also replace part of the milk of the feeding-bottle by a little vegetable mashed potatoes (“house” or in small pot) by replacing at the beginning of 30 ml water + a measurement milk 2nd age out of powder, by approximately 30 vegetable mashed potatoes Mg. Progressively, one decreases the quantity of milk to the profit of vegetable mashed potatoes to arrive at the end of two weeks at a meal containing approximately five measurements of milk.

Even if the milk consumption 2nd age decreases gradually, the child requires 500 ml of milk per day until his two years.

New food according to the age of the infant

One can thus start by the discovery of vegetables. In general, the babies are curious to know new savors and appreciate readily vegetables. However, if the child makes the pout, one can propose more sweetened vegetables to him standard beets or carrots, more with his taste. Of course, these vegetables are given mixed out of mashed potatoes to the spoon or mixed with the feeding-bottle.

A few weeks later, have can continue by compotes of fruits “house” or in small pots, always by privileging quite ripe, cooked and mixed fruits, without added sugar.

Towards seven or eight month, baby can start to taste the meat and fish. It is advised to give him thin meats and fish like chicken, the lamb, ox, calf or the cod, the bar, the trout, the plate, the whiting, the sea-bream… A little egg cooks hard around ten months. Lastly, the whole dry vegetables are given after 18 months.

What is necessary to avoid by diversifying the food?

> Not too much not to season. To limit to the maximum salt and sugar. It is initially important for its health, and in more baby will discover best the taste of each food. Do not add either fat contents before the age of sept-huit month.

> Not to begin food diversification with the fruits. The child prefers naturally what is sweetened. He is likely to refuse to eat vegetables if he starts initially with sweetened.

> Vegetables “with strong taste”, too rich in fibers, or at the allergic risk: cabbages, turnips, turnips, onions, leeks (green), celeries, garden pea, tomatos, salsify, cardoons, artichokes, sweet peppers, eggplants, parsley… are rather disadvised. Fruits at the allergic risk as the exotic strawberry, kiwi or fruits must avoid being to give before two years, according to the recommendations of many allergists.

> The carrots are to be avoided in the event of constipation.

Our councils

> Try to make mashed potatoes of vegetables yourself, but without salting them.

> At the beginning, make only one by one taste vegetables and the fruits with your child so that he learns how to clearly distinguish the taste from each food. At the end of a few weeks, made mixtures.

> If you prepare yourself the mashed potatoes of baby, cook rather with the vapor, it is the mode of cooking which preserves best the vitamins of food.