How to gain weight with baby food

How to gain weight with baby food

Growing up, a baby often does not gain the appropriate age the weight. It can happen for various reasons, in any case, pediatricians recommend using baby food to increase the weight of the baby.

How to gain weight with baby food

You will need

  • - buckwheat, rice and oat porridge;
  • - vegetable and meat purees.

Instructions

1

Baby food is divided into two types: mixture and lure. The first of these doctors recommend to use only in the case of complete absence of breast milk from the mother. Or when the amount of milk is so small that it is not enough for the baby to saturate, and the age of the baby does not allow adding more nutritious food to the diet.

2

Add to the diet mixture is only necessary and inas specified on the bank of a particular manufacturer. This is an obligatory rule of feeding a mixture, and any deviation from it can lead to serious disturbances in the digestion of the baby.

3

At the age of 4.5-6 months in the baby's diet, you canadd juices, cereals, vegetable, meat and fruit purees. This is the so-called complementary food. If the baby is not gaining weight badly, pediatricians recommend starting lure with baby cereals containing carbohydrates and various nutrients.

4

Start lure with rice and buckwheat porridge, andthen go to the oatmeal. Introduce the lure gradually, starting with 1 teaspoon and bringing up to 150 g to 7-8 months. Over time, you can add stewed carrots or pumpkins to the porridge.

5

Together with porridges from time to time, give different kinds of mashed potatoes, so that the body also receives mineral substances and microelements necessary for development.

6

Boil porridge on the water, sometimes adding to thema small amount of cow's milk. But the baby puree and fruit juice is better to buy canned, as the amount of harmful substances in them is strictly monitored. You can, of course, independently prepare mashed potatoes from vegetables purchased at the market, but the amount of nitrates in them can exceed the norm for children.

7

If the child is sleeping peacefully, feels welland is quite active at a weight below the standard rate, you should not force-feed it with plenty of baby food. The organism of the kid, as well as the adult, is individual.