Child Feeding
The mother’s milk is the main food of the child, through which he gets all his needs of nutrients necessary for his growth, but after the age of six months begins the child a new stage of age; the slow weaning stage in which the child is ready to wean after a year and a half, Some natural meals, along with breast milk, in this article will tell you what a child eats at the age of six months.
What does a child eat at the age of six months?
- When waking up early in the morning: Breast milk, or artificial milk suitable for age.
- breakfast: In the late morning, three to six tablespoons of cider rice are prepared, mixed with little breastmilk or artificial milk, and rice can be replaced with boiled fruit or vegetables.
- lunch: Breast milk, or artificial milk.
- Afternoon or afternoon meal: Breast milk, or artificial milk.
- Meal in the evening: Breast milk or artificial milk.
- Bedtime meal: Mother’s milk, or artificial milk, and a meal of food, such as fruit, mashed vegetables or rice, can be introduced into the child’s food late in the day, after he gets used to solid foods.
Recipes eaten for the child at the age of six months
- Mashed carrots: Bring by cleaning a hundred grams of carrots, and cut them, and then immersed in water, and put on fire for ten minutes until it ripens and becomes soft, and then put with three tablespoons of water of boiling in the blender until the carrots in the form of a soft mix, , Squash, cauliflower, pumpkin are prepared in the same way.
- Fruit rice: Prepare a cup of water on the fire, add half a cup of soaked rice, leave it until it is cooked, then mix it with a peeled apple, cut into small cubes, and a banana cut into the blender, mix it until it becomes a homogeneous mixture, Freezer for two days.
Important tips for feeding the baby
- Do not spare your mother’s milk, and replace it with meals, as eating breast milk provides the child with many important elements, such as vitamins and calcium.
- The need to feed the child vegetables before the start of fruit, because if he began fruit, it will prefer sweet taste, and will refrain from eating vegetables.
- The need to identify foods that cause allergies to the child, by testing each type for four days, and if the child feels a certain type of food should stop giving him immediately.
- Avoid placing salt, or sugar into baby food.
- Keep away from feeding a child who has not reached the age of the following foods: white honey, peanuts, strawberries, berries, pineapple, green peppers, chocolates, sesame, cinnamon, soy, popcorn and cow’s milk.
- Keep the utensils that the child’s food contains clean, so as to prevent the transmission of bacteria to it.
- Avoid introducing biscuits, ice cream, and crackers into baby food.