Children's mashed potatoes: we diversify the baby's diet

Baby puree can be vegetable or fruit. Fruit puree can be introduced into a child's diet beforevegetable. In fact, fruit baby puree - it's not a lure, and a nice addition to the diet, but vegetable mashed potatoes can be rightly considered the first lure. When breastfeeding, fruit puree is introduced into the diet at 4 months, vegetable - in 5-6. With mixed and artificial feeding, you can start giving the baby a baby mash for a couple of weeks before.

You can buy a child ready-made fruity babymashed potatoes, and you can make it yourself (only if you are sure of the full safety of the fruit from which you make mashed potatoes, say, raised them yourself in your garden). Baby food, sold in pharmacies and stores, passes quality control, so in its safety you can be sure.

If you give the child a ready-made baby puree, bought in a store, you need be sure to read the label: on each jar with mashed potatoes should be indicated, withwhat age can be given to his child. If there is no indication, such baby puree can be given to a child only after three years. The composition of puree should not include dyes and preservatives (except - vitamin C). Please note that different brands of mashed potatoes may differ, so it often happens that a child prefers a child's puree of a certain firm.

If you are preparing baby puree from fruit yourself, you need to use only seasonal fruits, preferably from your gardento be sure that they will not benitrates and other harmful substances that are used in the cultivation of berries and fruits. You can crush fruit with a blender, or you can make a mash by hand. Do not forget to peel the fruit from the peel and make sure that there are no lumps in the finished mashed potatoes that the baby can choke.

If you just started giving your baby a fruit puree, you need start with one kind of puree from one fruit (it is better to start with apples). In the case of mashed potatoes, you should give preference to one firm, in the case of home-made - one grade of apples. This is done because the child can start allergies: giving different types of puree, you can not determine which of them caused an allergic reaction. If the child eats a mash is normal, there is no allergy, it is possible to give a puree from a pear. And only when the child "gets acquainted" with different fruits, you can go to a mixed mashed potatoes.

You can give your baby mashed potatoes only if he is fully healthy. Start with a small dose of puree (halfteaspoon), giving it immediately after breast-feeding at the same time. Within a week, you can gradually increase the dose to a tablespoon if the child does not have allergies. By the time the vegetable puree is introduced into the diet, the child will receive 1.5 tbsp. fruit puree (about 30 g).

Vegetable puree is not a supplement to the diet, but lure, which gradually begins to displace breast milk. Like the baby puree from fruit, it is given in oneand the same time (with five-time feeding - at two o'clock in the afternoon), starting at half a teaspoon. In the first week, up to 30 grams, and a month can reach up to 150 g. First they give mashed potatoes, and then they have breasts. Fruit baby puree can be given in the same feeding, and can be in another.

As in the case of fruit puree, it is better give preference to ready-made baby food and start with easily assimilable purees from one speciesvegetables, say, broccoli, zucchini or cauliflower. You can inject mashed potatoes from other types of vegetables or a mixture only after you make sure that the child does not have allergies. With the mashed potatoes, it is better not to begin acquaintance of the child with vegetables, there is too much starch in it.

Basically, puree from zucchini or potatoes can be made by yourself. To do this, vegetables need to be cleaned, cutpieces and boil. Boiled potatoes or zucchini should be wiped through a sieve so that there are no lumps. The resulting puree is bred with vegetable decoction remaining after cooking, put on fire and brought to a boil. Before you give mashed to a child, you need to cool it.

Baby puree, introduced into the baby's diet, - this is the first step to excommunication of the baby from the breast and the transition to adult food.