Approximately from 4 - 4,5 months the child starts to give new food for gradual transition to adult food. Usually mothers choose porridges for the first complementary meal and cook them at home - they cook first 5%, and then 10% porridge on milk. However, modern pediatricians advise to start to enter dairy-free and gluten-free meals. If the baby tolerates milk well, you can try adding it to baby porridge for the first time. In any case, they should be homogeneous and freshly prepared, and what kind of porridge is best for the first complementary food is the question of the taste of the mother and her baby, the main thing is to try to follow the doctor's recommendations.
From what porridge to start the first lure?
If you need to choose the best cereal for the first complementary meal, then you should give preference to buckwheat, corn, rice (in the absence of constipation) porridge. Oatmeal is administered from 5 months or later - it is rich in fat and fiber, and wheat and barley - if the child is well tolerated by gluten. At the end of the first year of life, manna porridge is introduced - it is recommended to give the baby as little as possible - it can cause excess weight, and also binds vitamin D, which can contribute to the development of rickets .
The introduction of porridge as the first complementary food for breastfeeding begins a couple of weeks later than with artificial feeding.
How to cook porridge for the first meal?
Porridge can be dairy or dairy-free: it is cooked on milk or on water. Milk is most often cooked at home and some types of ready-made porridges for children. If the question is, which firm's porridge is best for the first complementary meal, then it's better to give preference to the dairy-free: the cow's milk protein (casein) can cause allergic reactions.
It is difficult to advise which brand of cereal to choose for the first complementary food: in almost all products for children, all the standards for cooking, caloric content and balance for the basic nutrients must be met, they contain the necessary vitamins and trace elements. You can choose any certified products, and which ones to stop - solve by trial and error, do not guess in advance which one the kid will like. Always pay attention to the expiry date, check if its packaging is damaged.
The first porridge of the child is given a small portion (not more than a teaspoon), it should not contain sugar and milk. The porridge should not be thick. If the child is good at absorbing it - for two weeks the porridge is replaced by one feeding. If the dish is cooked at home, the croup is ground into powder, and after cooking until homogeneous, it is grinded through a sieve or blended with a blender. 5% porridge contains 5 g. Dry cereals per 100 ml of milk, after 2-3 weeks begin to prepare 10% porridge. Porridge in a package for a child up to a year should not contain sugar, flavorings, it is not necessary to add fruit additives.