At the age of 5 months, the baby is fed approximately 5 times a day every 4 hours, and at night they take a break in feeding to sleep an average of 6 hours. At night, instead of eating, the child can be given a drink.
What can you feed your baby at 5 months on artificial feeding?
In the diet of a child at 5 months of artificial feeding , in addition to the mixture, include juice and puree of fresh fruit, as well as cottage cheese. At the same time, one feeding is completely replaced by a complementary feeding from vegetable puree or porridge. Juice and mashed potatoes at this age give 50 ml, and cottage cheese is slightly less - to 40 g.
Although the table on which the baby's diet is calculated at 5 months on artificial feeding, and contains vegetable or butter, it is rarely added and only in vegetable puree, if it is made the first lure. But the cracker or liver at this age is already recommended, but because of the danger of getting dry crumbs in the upper respiratory tract, it is better to soak them in milk.
Eating a 5 month old baby on artificial feeding
At 5 months, a healthy child should receive one full complementary food, which is often porridge. For complementary foods, dairy-free cereals are prepared that do not contain gluten: buckwheat, corn or rice (in the absence of constipation), they are well absorbed. You can not add sugar or salt to the porridge. Milk porridge is prepared on the water, and the usual grind into powder and boiled in milk. At the same time put 5 grams of cereals per 100 ml of milk, and when the child has fully learned this lure, it is put already 10 g.
For 2 weeks, replace one feeding with a mixture, but the porridges are given a little less in volume - by an amount equal to the volume of fruit puree that is often given after cereal (but not before it, since after the fruit the child can refuse unsweetened food).
When introduced instead of porridge, complementary foods from vegetable puree, vegetables for it are boiled in water without salt, and then ground to the consistency of thick mush in a homogeneous mixture. The first vegetable is usually potatoes, but you can start with other vegetables (carrots, cauliflower), but so far, only one. New vegetables are introduced when the child is good at absorbing the previous ones.
For taste in puree, you can add a quarter of yolk with good tolerability. If a child does not like the taste of mashed potatoes, he is bred with the usual formula for him. Completely one feeding is replaced with vegetables for 2 weeks, and the missing amount of food is supplemented to the desired mixture and fruit juice.
Dietary regime in 5 months
An approximate diet at this age can look like this:
- 6-7 o'clock in the morning - milk mixture (in the volume of 200 ml);
- 10-11 o'clock in the morning - milk mixture 150 ml, fruit juice 50 ml;
- 14-15 hours - vegetable puree 150 ml, ΒΌ yolk;
- 18-19 pm - fruit puree 40 ml, curd 40 g, milk mixture 120 ml;
- 22-23 pm - a milk mixture of 200 ml.
If the first lure is introduced porridge, then for 3 feeding they give it instead of vegetable puree.