Choose baby puree
A newborn child for months up to five receives all the substances he needs from mother’s milk. As the baby’s body grows, it already ceases to be satisfied only with milk. He needs complementary foods consisting of other healthy foods. The ideal option for feeding was special children’s puree.
Most often puree is made of fruits or vegetables. First, fruit, from about four months of age, and then, after a couple of months, are introduced into the diet of a child. With artificial or mixed feeding, you can introduce puree feeding a little earlier.
Baby puree can be purchased in specialized children’s food stores and pharmacies, or you can cook it yourself. But it should be remembered that vegetables and fruits used by you for children’s mashed potatoes should be absolutely safe for the health of the child. The ingredients of ready -made children’s puree necessarily pass the strictest sanitary control.
On the label of the finished puree you will find recommendations on the age from which you should start entering this product in the child’s menu. All this needs to be carefully studied before feeding the baby. If there are no such recommendations, then this means that you need to feed the baby with this type of mashed potatoes from three years old. The composition of children’s mashed potatoes should be completely natural, without the use of dyes and chemical additives, with the exception of vitamin C. To date, there are plenty of companies producing baby food, and the mashed potatoes of each manufacturer may differ in taste. It happens that the child especially likes the product of a particular manufacturer.
With independent manufacture of mashed potatoes, it is advisable to cook it from seasonal vegetables and fruits, those that you have grown yourself. Then you will definitely know that puree does not pose a danger to the baby, that it does not have nitrates, pesticides and other harmful fertilizers. It is convenient to cook mashed potatoes for the child with a blender, or with your hands, only you need to clean fruits and vegetables from the peel and grind until complete uniform, without lumps.
Enter children’s mashed potatoes into the diet of a child
At the very beginning of complementary foods, the child of mashed potatoes should give a child of the same species. Apples are perfect for this, and you should withstand a constant variety. If you use purchased mashed potatoes, then start with a product of a certain manufacturer. Such precautions are necessary, since the child may begin an allergic reaction (read atopic dermatitis in children), and, giving only one type of puree, you can easily determine its source. If you see that apple puree is transferred well to the child’s body, then you can introduce a pear into the diet. So gradually you should accustom the baby to various types of fruit puree. And only then start complementary foods with mixed types of mashed potatoes.
You should start feeding fruit puree only with the excellent state of the baby’s health, the dose should be tiny, no more than half of the teaspoon. You need to give complementary foods after breast milk, the feeding time should be constant.
After seven days, you can increase the amount of mashed potatoes in the absence of allergic manifestations.
Further, complementary foods begin with vegetables, because fruits cannot be called complementary foods in essence, it is just a slight variety in the child’s diet. Vegetables, designed little by little replace breast milk, and there is real complementary foods. It is introduced into the baby’s body in the same way as a fruit, in a half -time spoon, but to breastfeeding, at the same time. Can be combined with fruit puree in one feeding.
It is better to accustom a child to purchased vegetable puree from one type of vegetables, for example, for easily digestible zucchini, broccoli, colored cabbage. As in the case of fruits, you should carefully accustom the child to vegetables, follow if there are allergic signs. If everything is fine, then you can slowly enter into the diet and other puree from vegetables. Potato puree should be entered into the diet last, due to the high content of starch.
Easy to prepare zucchini or potato puree and yourself. Boil vegetables without a peel, wipe them thoroughly through a sieve so that there are no lumps. Then the resulting mass must be diluted with water in which vegetables were cooked and boiled. Cool and feed your baby.
The significance of children’s mashed potatoes in the life of a child is huge, because they are the first step in the path to getting used to adult food and weaning from the mother’s chest.
