Feeding children on breastfeeding. Rules of introduction

"When and how to start feeding children on breastfeeding?" - this issue is beginning to interest parents of a few grown-up babies. After all, the wrong, as well as too early or later the introduction of new products may entail certain consequences. This article will describe how old and how you can breastfeed babies, what are the main misconceptions, and also give useful advice and recommendations.

The main mistakes of complementary feeding

Many of them came to us from Soviet times. This is explained by the fact that the country was in a difficult postwar situation, and there was a sharp shortage of labor. Therefore, most recommendations were reduced to the rapid disappearance of milk, as well as accustoming the child to "adult" food. This allowed the mother to go to work more quickly. Carrying the lure of children on breastfeeding, you can not make the following mistakes:

• Early introduction of complementary foods. Many grandmothers strive to dopot water baby almost from birth, and droplets of fruit juice advised to give a few weeks. However, because of this, children develop diathesis, digestion is disrupted, and gastric disorders occur. In addition, the juice contains an excessive amount of calories for the baby, which may lead to obesity in the future.
• Liquid semolina porridge, as the first lure of children on breastfeeding. Danish scientists have established that it is "the path to death." Studies were conducted during which it was found that children who consumed semolina in significant quantities grew weak, susceptible to colds, diarrhea, rickets and rashes on the skin.

Feeding of children on breastfeeding

Mom's milk contains all the necessary vitamins, microelements, calories, proteins, carbohydrates and fats in the right amount for the full growth and development of the baby. It is established that a healthy infant is ready to introduce new foods into his diet by about six months. There is also a specific complementary feeding scheme, which will be given in the table below.

Criteria for the willingness of the baby to introduce new food into the diet

For a child who is breastfed, it is determined by the following characteristics:

• He is older than six months;
• The weight of crumbs is 2 or 2.5 times more than at birth;
• The baby can sit;
• Is interested in the food that adults eat, tries to eat himself, imitating them, and feeding others;
• He can and wants to eat from a spoon;
• The kid does not spit out food;
• He does not have enough breast milk, the child does not gorge;
• The first teeth appeared (if this happened not too early).

Table of complementary feeding of infants