Feeding a baby at 8 months. Food. What products to include in the children's menu

It is no coincidence that the age of eight months is called a turning point in the development of a baby, since it is from this time that the gradually increasing dynamics of his physical and social activity become more and more obvious. In the daily routine of an 8-month-old child, there is a strong tendency for periods of active wakefulness to predominate over periods of sleep. Communicating with the baby day by day becomes more and more interesting, although it is also more troublesome for the mother, who is constantly next to him.

Sample daily routine for an 8 month old baby

6:00-8:30 Time for awakening, first feeding, and a light massage that completes the air bath procedure.

8:30-10:00 The first sleep is preferably in the fresh air.

10:00-10:30 Baby's second meal.

10:30-14:00 Active leisure, including morning exercises, massage and educational games.

14:00-14:30 Time for the third meal.

14:30-16:00 Second period of daytime rest. It's better to combine it with a walk.

16:00-18:00 A period of active acquaintance with the environment, time for developmental activities and physical exercises.

18:00-18:30 Baby's fourth meal.

18:30-20:00 Walk in the fresh air.

20:00-22:00 Games with close relatives, the procedure for the child’s evening bathing.

22:00-22:30 Evening feeding of the baby.

22:30-6:00 Night rest period.

A few more additional options with a daily routine (you will already choose the best option, taking into account the characteristics of your baby):

Upon comparative study of the tables, one can notice that the daily routine that organizes the life of a child at 8 months has not undergone significant changes (compared to the previous period). It still includes five feedings with a four-hour interval between them and two walks in the fresh air. Only the time of daytime rest has been reduced, since the child is able to remain active for 5-6 hours.

About the need for rest

The sleep of an eight-month-old baby, which has a phase of shallow and deep sleep, begins to resemble the sleep of an adult. A baby who is sound asleep does not react to any external stimuli; his reflex reactions during this period are significantly reduced. The level of brain activity during night sleep decreases to a minimum.

The longest period of rest in an 8-month-old baby's daily routine is nighttime sleep, usually lasting at least eight hours;
Daytime sleep becomes biphasic. Most babies go for one and a half to two hour naps twice during the day, although there are often cases when its duration does not exceed forty minutes. Some eight-month-old babies rest only once during the day, and the duration of this rest can be at least four hours;
On average, a child needs eleven hours of sleep per day, although some babies continue to sleep for thirteen hours.

It is easy to guess from his behavior that the baby is tired and needs rest. The baby becomes lethargic, stops actively reacting to what is happening, begins to yawn and rub his eyes with his fists, his breathing becomes deeper and more even. Having noticed all these signs, the mother should change the baby's clothes and send him to his crib.

About proper sleep organization

In order for your baby to sleep as soundly and peacefully as possible, you need to take care to create optimal conditions for him.

The humidity level in the children's room should be no lower than 70%, and the air temperature should not be higher.
Before putting the baby in the crib, you need to take care of pre-ventilation of the room: air saturated with oxygen will promote deeper breathing for the baby.
Using a properly selected orthopedic mattress () and a neatly made crib that does not have folds on the surface of the sheet is another condition for long-term sleep.
It is necessary to put the baby to bed in accordance with the usual daily routine.
To ensure a restful sleep for your baby, you should shade the window and turn down the volume of the TV and radio (low background sounds not only do not interfere, but also help your baby fall asleep well).
It is very useful to give him a relaxing massage and sing a lullaby before putting your baby to bed.
A long night's rest is always facilitated by a walk in the fresh air and a bathing procedure (after soaking in warm water and playing enough, the baby will fall asleep faster and more soundly).

An important point concerns children who tend to roll over on their back in their sleep and sleep with their nose buried in the pillow. The baby must be turned over immediately, accompanying his actions with stroking on the back, quiet singing or monotonous affectionate muttering. If the baby, scared, wakes up, you can simply pick him up and, shaking him slightly, put him back in the crib.

To make it easier to control the sleep of a baby who turns over in his sleep, you can completely remove the side wall of the crib and move it to the mother’s bed, aligning the levels of the beds. Holding the baby by the hand, the mother can either sleep peacefully all night (if the baby behaves calmly) or wake up at the right moment. It is known that the sleep of caring parents is particularly sensitive and intermittent. Feeling the movement of the little hand, the mother will wake up and control the baby’s behavior.

About the intricacies of feeding

A child's diet at 8 months becomes quite varied. In addition to the dishes and drinks that are well known to him (vegetable and fruit purees, multi-grain and milk porridges, baby cottage cheese, kefir, tea and juices), the baby begins to receive meat. Low-fat varieties are excellent for baby food: chicken breast, rabbit and turkey meat.

When introducing meat into your baby’s diet, it is better to add it little by little to the vegetable puree. A good way to get acquainted with a new product is to add meat, chopped to crumbs, to children's soups cooked in vegetable or meat broth.

Instead of meat, you can add the yolk of a chicken egg to soups, strictly ensuring that both of these rather heavy products do not end up in the child’s stomach within one day (they should be alternated, giving them on different days).

Many mothers of eight-month-old babies believe that at this age it is time to wean them off breast milk. This is a wrong position. Most experienced pediatricians say that you should breastfeed your baby for as long as possible. Of course, the nutritional value of mother’s milk alone is no longer enough for a grown baby, so it needs to be applied to the breast at least twice a day: when waking up and when going to bed at night.

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Since breast milk is food and not drink for an 8-month-old baby, it must be given special baby tea or boiled water. During the day, the baby should receive approximately a liter of solid food and 600 ml of liquid(in the form of juices, teas, herbal infusions, water and breast milk).

The daily diet of a child at 8 months should look something like this:

Breakfast: mother's milk or formula.
Second meal: porridge (with water or milk), fruit drink or children's tea.
Dinner: vegetable soup with the addition of meat or yolk (you can make vegetable puree instead of soup), fruit juice.
Fourth meal: fruit puree or baby cottage cheese.
Feeding before bed: breastfeeding or porridge (for artificial babies).

Starting from the age of 8 months, the baby must be taught to wash his hands before eating: if you do this regularly, he will soon develop a useful habit associated with feeding. This useful skill will be useful to your child when he goes to kindergarten. Read an article about 4 basic useful skills that you should teach your child before kindergarten -

Helpful tips for moms:

About physical activity and walks

By 8 months, the baby achieves great success: thanks to stronger muscles, he can sit confidently without any support, crawls well, moving from room to room, stands on his feet and begins to walk with the support of both arms.

To consolidate these achievements and lay the foundation for future successful development, the baby needs regular physical activity: morning exercises and sets of special exercises to strengthen the ligamentous-muscular system.

The nurse will introduce the mother to a set of gymnastic exercises in the healthy child’s office. When performing exercises for flexion and extension of the limbs, performing circular rotations with the arms and feet of the baby, the mother must be extremely attentive and careful, making sure that the active baby does not get injured during an awkward turn.

To make gymnastics enjoyable for your child, after each exercise you should perform several relaxing massage movements. The total duration of physical exercise for an 8-month-old baby can be 15-20 minutes per day.. Before performing gymnastics, it is necessary to ventilate the room well.

Spending a long time in the fresh air is extremely beneficial for a child’s development, which is why pediatricians advise using every opportunity for the baby to walk as often and for as long as possible. Two two-hour walks should be a mandatory component of your daily routine.

Inhaling oxygen-enriched air promotes:

active development of the cerebral hemispheres;
oxygen saturation of the cells and tissues of the child’s body;
deep and long sleep.

The arsenal of educational activities for a child can be replenished with new interesting games:

Children enjoy rearranging bright cubes, disassembling multi-colored pyramids and laying out objects from boxes;
If you place as many toys as possible in your baby's crib, he will enthusiastically begin to throw them out of it. During this strange (from the point of view of an adult) game, the child develops coordination of movements, an eye, all muscle groups are strengthened, and a lot of energy is spent;
Kids love active games, so you can give them the opportunity to “fly an airplane” in their dad’s arms or experience the delight of playing “boom hole”;
To develop coordination of movements and motor skills of small muscles, you can offer your baby a toy wrapped in soft wrapping paper (you need to wrap it away from him). Satisfying his natural curiosity, he will certainly begin to unfold it;

When instilling in a child an interest in books, it is necessary to teach him to carefully look at the illustrations, accompanying the process with comments about who is shown in the picture. If it is an animal, you can talk about its size, habits, favorite treats, and demonstrate what sounds it makes;
Even the usual procedure of bathing a baby can be turned into an exciting role-playing game. Taking a plastic boat, the mother can show the baby how it can be used to transport a small toy. You can bathe his favorite doll or rubber toy in front of the child's eyes, soaping it with a piece of sponge and repeating the same words that are usually used when bathing a baby. After this, the baby will certainly want to perform this action on his own. The kids really love pouring water. To do this, they should have buckets, watering cans or small bottles at their disposal (). Water procedures, loved by most children, require great care from parents. It should be remembered that the baby sitting in the bath should not be left unattended, even for one moment. It is also undesirable to remove the plug that covers the drain hole of the bathtub when a child is in it. The sight of rapidly receding water and the sounds it makes can frighten him and cause him to die.

Daily adherence to the established daily routine is a guarantee of excellent mood, successful development and good health of an 8-month-old baby.

VIDEO GUIDE: 8 months: development, nutrition, sleep and daily routine, what he can do

In this video I will tell and show what a child can and can do from 7 to 8 months of life. I will touch on such important issues as complementary feeding, development, our achievements, the child’s daily routine and sleep, as well as some other topics. You will be able to get some idea of what a child is like from 7 to 8 months, what he can do and how he develops.

At the full 8 months, if the child has previously become familiar with vegetables, cereals, vegetable soups and fruit purees as complementary foods, now he can eat cottage cheese, meat, kefir, fresh seasonal berries without large seeds, and fish can gradually be introduced into the menu.

The diet of an 8-month-old baby is already quite varied, but remember that at least 2 feedings per day must be given highly adapted (or partially adapted, casein) formula or breast milk. Lactation in a minimum volume should ideally be maintained for up to 1.5 years.

The basic rule for introducing new food (including ingredients in soups) as complementary foods: no more than one new product every 10 days, starting with 1-2 teaspoons and gradually increasing to 60-100 grams. All complementary foods should be pureed or ground through a sieve.

Baby's menu at full 8 months

What can a baby eat at 8 months, sample menu:

Breakfast options:

children's cottage cheese from a specialized store, homemade cottage cheese prepared using sourdough, or cottage cheese from a dairy kitchen; plus fresh berries without large seeds (for example, lingonberries) or fruit puree;
fruit puree + baby cookies + baby cottage cheese;
porridge + compote or children's tea with cookies.

The volume of breakfast can be 200 grams.

Dinner: vegetable puree soup (150-180 grams) + chopped veal 30 grams (types of meat are already expanding, we’ll talk about this below) + children’s tea or compote. You can add 1/4 chicken yolk of a hard-boiled egg to the soup. Please note: meat (veal or lean beef) should be cooked for at least 2-2.5 hours!

Dinner: should be swapped with breakfast; if you ate cottage cheese for breakfast, then offer porridge (180-200 grams) for dinner; if porridge, then offer cottage cheese (or kefir) + cookies (5-10 grams) for dinner.

+2-3 more feedings: breast milk or formula. Also, at 8 months, the child can eat chopped fruits: pears, bananas, apples. If there are no teeth yet, then they must be ground in a blender into puree. Do not overdo it with the quantity, for the most part, children of this age are still just continuing to try new tastes, the digestive system continues to develop, and enzymes for digestion are maturing.

Do not forget after each feeding and in between to offer the child clean boiled water (be sure to boil and cool to room temperature) from a bottle or sippy cup - let him drink as needed. You should not use a special “children’s” one (or only in boiled form), since it does not meet microbiological quality standards (examination of Roskontrol).

What can be added to complementary foods for an 8 month old baby?

If you have already successfully introduced your baby to vegetables, cereals, fruit purees and a small amount of meat, then at 8 months your child can already eat the following foods:

add butter to the porridge (when purchasing, carefully monitor the composition, storage temperature in the store refrigerator and expiration date) in the amount of 1/4 teaspoon per 180 ml of porridge;
try fish broth made from lean fish: cod or pike perch;
children whose weight does not reach normal levels or children with low hemoglobin are recommended to try beef tongue and liver: they have high nutritional value and mineral content;
in addition to veal and beef, you can introduce a little chicken, rabbit or turkey into the diet;
kefir, starting with 20 ml and gradually increasing to 70-100 (in addition to main meals).

Take your time: if up to 6 months the child was completely on highly adapted IV or HF (according to WHO recommendations), it takes a long time to get used to the new taste and cannot eat a large portion of complementary foods - do not worry. All children are individual, perhaps for your baby at 8 months familiarization with veal will be enough, but he is not yet ready for rabbit, turkey and bananas.

How much should a baby eat at 8 months?

There are 3 options for how much a baby should eat at 8 months:

For a child who is slowly adapting to complementary foods or in a situation where complementary foods were started in the 7th month: feeding 2 times a day with complementary foods, once with porridge, the second with vegetable puree soup + introducing meat. Each is approximately 100-200 grams. The rest of the feedings are formula or breastfeeding as needed. Fruits - without fanaticism, a plus to the main diet, if desired.
For a child adapting to new food at a normal, unforced pace: 3-4 complementary foods per day plus 3 feedings with breast milk or formula. The volume of complementary foods per day is approximately 450 grams. Vegetables, meat, porridge, cottage cheese, and yolk have been introduced.
A child at the full 8 months can eat almost all of the above plus fish, if complementary foods were introduced from 6 months at a fast, accelerated pace. Breast milk or formula is consumed 1-2 times a day. This state of affairs is the “norm” only conditionally.

Time flies quickly... And now the little god, who previously only cried and slept, confidently crawls around the house. Along with new skills, the baby’s taste preferences also change. The stomach becomes more receptive to new food, and the diet of an 8-month-old child can already be diversified. Even when comparing the diet of an 8-month-old baby, you can see many new complementary foods. From this moment on, the child enters a new important period, where there is room for meat, fruit juices, dairy-free cereals and butter.

Baby's diet at 8 months

A baby at this age is already quite active and mobile, so he needs foods rich in nutrients. You should gradually develop a diet for your baby and feed at a certain time. There are 2 main feeding systems for babies of this age:

for planned weaning (if you are going to complete breastfeeding approximately when the baby turns 1 year old), now gradually replace 1 - 2 breastfeedings completely with complementary foods;
You can introduce your baby to “adult” food using the pedagogical complementary feeding system - giving each time a little of different foods, “washing down” each meal with breast milk.

Healthy and acceptable foods on the menu of an 8-month-old baby:

Meat is a storehouse of proteins necessary for the healthy development of the baby. Meat also contains a lot of iron, which is always in short supply in the body of 6-9 month old infants. Lean types of meat are ideal: chicken, turkey, beef. Total meat should be given no more than 30 g per day in the form of puree or as an additive to vegetable puree. Calf liver will be very useful. This product increases hemoglobin. To chop meat perfectly, you need to use an electric meat grinder or food processor. Thanks to these devices, a young mother can chop the required amount of meat in a couple of seconds and prepare a delicious dish.
Dairy-free porridge. At this age, the least allergenic cereals are recommended: oatmeal, buckwheat, rice. Since it is still difficult for the baby to chew solid food, the porridge for him should be more liquid than usual and homogeneous. To obtain this, you can first grind the cereal in a coffee grinder and then boil it with an increased proportion of water compared to the classic recipe. To cook porridge for a baby, a young mother will find a multicooker very useful, as it takes on all the trouble and prepares the porridge at the right time. In total, the baby is allowed 150 - 180 g of dairy-free porridge per day, which, by the way, can already be flavored with 1 g of butter.
Vegetables. The baby has been familiar with them for almost 2 months, so now you can expand the taste palette with new ones: pumpkin, carrots, beets, potatoes. You can make delicious mixes from already familiar vegetables, to which the child will definitely respond well, or you can slowly introduce new ones. Only one rule remains unchanged: no more than 1 new product within 2 to 3 days, so that in case of an allergy, the causative agent can be easily identified. And one more innovation: you can and should add vegetable oil to the vegetable puree of an 8-month-old baby - in total, it should be consumed in the amount of 3 - 5 g per day.
Fermented milk products can be introduced a little at a time from 7 months. At 8 months, in addition to kefir, you can add homemade yogurt to the diet. Let store-bought yoghurts stand on supermarket shelves for now, but we advise you to make yoghurt at home. For ease of preparation, use an electric yogurt maker. It is very important to properly store homemade yoghurts, because they have a short shelf life. Or don’t store it, but make a new one every night, and eat everything except the 30 g that the baby is supposed to eat together with the rest of the household.
Fruits - compared to last month, you can already introduce your baby not only to purees, but it’s also time for juices. Here, as with vegetables: we start with the least allergenic (apple, pear, plum, banana) and introduce one at a time. And it is, of course, preferable to give your baby homemade, freshly prepared juices from high-quality local fruits. Therefore, it’s a good idea for a young mother to have a juicer in her household.

Menu for a child at 8 months on IV

Still, at the age of 8 months, the baby’s main food is mother’s breast milk or an adapted milk formula. Fundamentally, the menu of an 8-month-old baby on breastfeeding is no different from the menu of an artificial baby. Differences in the policy of introducing complementary feeding may be at an earlier age and in the order of introduction of foods. So, for example, you can first offer fermented milk products to an artificial dieter, and then vegetables, like this. While infants usually begin their acquaintance with the adult table with. However, all this is relevant for six-month-old children.

But now, when several groups of products are already available to the baby, complementary feeding for 8 months in its theory and practice is no different for a baby fed with mother’s milk or for a baby receiving formula.

Menu for an 8 month old baby - table

So, if you have decided on the range of products that should be offered to your baby, now you need to figure out the dosage for yourself. Because, to celebrate that the baby has already grown so much and can eat “real food,” the mother can get carried away and simply overfeed the child, thereby overloading the fragile digestive system. So, here is a table of complementary feeding for a child at 8 months, which is worth focusing on for now.

The menu of a child from 8 months is somewhat reminiscent of the dietary table of an adult who has problems with the gastrointestinal tract: liquid milk porridge, puree of boiled (or baked) vegetables and fruits, broths from lean meat. The absence of spices and salt in the baby’s diet further enhances the similarity. This is not surprising: the child’s digestive system is in its infancy and has not yet become strong enough to quickly and efficiently digest any food; the liver and kidneys are also not working at full capacity yet - and therefore the nutrition of an 8-month-old baby should consist of dishes that do not require the work of these organs in an “emergency” mode.

Basically, complementary feeding for an 8-month-old child includes foods that are already familiar to him - the difference lies only in their quantity and degree of grinding. You can add the pulp of an apple, pear or other fruit to the porridge, and to the soup - “crumbs” of meat, finely chopped across the grain (of course, if the baby is already confident in eating from a spoon, and even tries to chew food). Mother's milk remains unchanged on a child's menu - after all, breastfeeding is still extremely important for a toddler under the age of one year.

Opportunities to expand the range of dishes with new products

However, there are some nuances that make the menu of an 8-month-old baby much more varied compared to complementary feeding for a younger child:

To the white poultry meat, which previously constituted the main diet of the little gourmet, veal and lamb meat is added;
With caution, by-products - liver and tongue - are introduced into complementary foods;
In addition, there is another source of “animal” protein - fish.

A new product should be introduced into a child’s complementary feeding according to the usual diet, giving preference to white varieties of river (pike perch, pike) or sea fish (hake, catfish, cod, pollock, sea bass, etc.). You can, of course, have red fish, but it is much fattier, and therefore can cause allergies or stomach upset.

Feeding system for children over 6 months

Unlike animal meat and poultry, fish requires less cooking time, is more tender in consistency and is better digestible (since it contains less connective tissue) - however, preparing fish dishes for a child requires more care due to the presence of a fairly large number of bones, and the risk of an allergic reaction to fish is much higher.

And a few more rules for introducing fish dishes into the diet of a breastfed baby:

Any fish should be introduced into a child’s complementary foods carefully, with special attention to his well-being. If there is the slightest suspicion of an allergy, it is better to avoid this product for now - perhaps, closer to the age of one, the baby’s body will not react so sharply to such food;
Fish can be on a child’s menu no more than 1-2 days a week;
Meat and fish should not be included in the baby’s daily diet at the same time, even as part of dishes that are not included in one feeding;
It is better if fresh fish is present in the children's menu, but, in the absence of such, fresh frozen fish can be used in complementary feeding: it must be boiled by immersing it in boiling water (without defrosting).

Diversity of nutrition - in different combinations of tastes of already known products

An 8-month-old baby has a fairly wide range of products on its menu that have been successfully “tested” since the first complementary feeding. In addition to egg yolks (chicken or quail), as well as the previously mentioned fish, the child’s diet includes:

Cereals - buckwheat, rice, corn, oats (rolled oats), pearl barley and barley, millet. If you don’t have an allergy, don’t semolina, this cereal can also diversify your baby’s diet - however, you shouldn’t get too carried away with such complementary foods (even if the baby is delighted with semolina porridge): the benefits from it are minimal, and the risk of gaining weight too quickly is high (and this is undesirable ). Peas and beans should be used in complementary feeding with caution - these are still too “heavy” foods for the baby’s digestive system, which also cause increased gas formation;
Fermented milk products - cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt, etc.
Vegetables are also quite widely used in the diet of an 8-month-old baby - zucchini, pumpkin, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, beets. In addition, spinach and celery are useful (although little picky eaters don’t particularly welcome them on their menu). Onions and garlic are also useful (but in small quantities, and after heat treatment in vegetable purees and soups). Currants, strawberries, cherries, apples, pears, apricots - all this fruit and berry variety is included in the child’s diet, depending on the presence or absence of an allergic reaction;
Meat and offal - chicken, turkey, rabbit, young lamb, horse meat, veal. All these types of meat are included in the diet of a child who has reached the age of 8 months. Boiled and carefully crushed offal (beef tongue, liver, heart) are especially useful for children with low hemoglobin levels, underweight and other initial signs of rickets.

Criteria for creating a menu for a 7-month-old breastfed baby

It is possible that the list of foods consumed by a child is even more diverse than those listed above: these days it is quite common to believe that a healthy child, starting from 6-7 months, can eat everything except salt, sugar, honey and nuts. However, even for an absolutely healthy baby, significant adjustments should be made, focusing on his tastes and preferences - after all, the child does not accept some foods under any circumstances (and forcing the baby to eat them is far from the best way to diversify the children's menu).

In this case, it is easier and more logical to do the following: eliminate the “unloved” food for a while (replacing it with products of similar composition), and expand the range of dishes included in the children's menu due to taste variations in their components.

Menu options for the little gourmet

A variety of baby’s menu is a guarantee of maintaining his food interest and desire for new taste sensations. However, you should not wean your baby off the breast too early. Therefore, when drawing up a menu for a child at 8 months, feeding a baby who has just woken up (6-7 hours) and is already falling asleep (around 22-24 hours) is considered a priori to be a breastfeeding process.

During the rest of the feedings (lunch, lunch, dinner), the baby is breastfed - and therefore it makes sense to think through a daily menu for 3 meals a day.

Lunch:
Porridge cooked from equal amounts of rice and millet, with the addition of a small amount of butter or vegetable oil. When preparing porridge, you should first cook the cereal until half cooked, then grind it in a blender (adding milk or water to the desired consistency), and only then bring the porridge to final readiness.
Dinner:

Chicken soup. Boil clear chicken broth from the breast, add finely chopped vegetables (onions, carrots, potatoes) and cook until tender. Next, you can choose from: you can thoroughly mash the vegetables with a fork or chop them in a blender (we do the same with some of the cooked meat). You can add ¼ hard-boiled and mashed egg yolk, ½ tsp. vegetable oil. Dilute the resulting puree with broth and bring to a boil.
Vegetable puree from cauliflower and potatoes (with meat). In the puree of boiled and pureed vegetables, add the meat, chopped in a blender, from which the broth was cooked.
Apple-pear juice

Dinner:
Cottage cheese with apricot pulp and kefir.

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Similarly, you can come up with countless menu options that will delight your baby with their variety. From the tables below you can also get inspiration and data for a balanced diet for your baby:

Table 1. Menu aimed at a healthy child

Table 2. Sample menu for a child with an allergic reaction to cow's milk

The meal consists of five meals. The first morning and last evening feeding is formula, the remaining feedings are usually completely replaced. The menu of the average baby without special indications consists of the following products:

Vegetable purees and soups. Zucchini, pumpkin, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage, carrots, beets, peas, green beans, corn and others can be used for this. Vegetables in the diet provide a sufficient amount of fiber necessary for proper digestion. It is also a source of vitamins for healthy development.
Fruit juices and purees. These are apples, pears, plums, apricots, bananas, prunes, peaches. If your baby is already familiar with fruits, you can gradually introduce blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and cherries. Allergies to fruits, especially those colored red, are common. Therefore, it is important to give them little by little, carefully noting all the reactions of the child’s body.

Be sure to monitor the contents when changing to understand how well the new food is digested

Milk and non-dairy porridges. Porridge is especially important for children who are not gaining enough weight. These can be dairy or dairy-free cereals, depending on whether there is an allergy. Milk porridges are not prepared with pure milk, it is diluted to half. Among porridges, preference is given to buckwheat, rice, corn, oatmeal, and semolina.
Fermented milk products, cottage cheese. Such products are especially important for bottle-fed babies, as they help improve digestion and are easily digestible, supplying protein and other important substances. Kefir, yogurt, children's curds - all this must certainly be present on the menu.
The yolk of a hard-boiled egg. You can use both chicken and quail yolks on their own or as part of purees and soups.
Cookies and crackers as snacks. You shouldn't get carried away with such products. However, in small quantities they will not harm and will help to captivate the child for a while.

New products

A gradual introduction of fish and new types of meat. It is better to start feeding meat with turkey and rabbit, since chicken and veal can be difficult for children’s digestion and cause allergies. Meat puree can be diluted with the mixture so that the child feels a familiar taste and does not resist introducing the dish. If your baby is already familiar with meat products, you can add a little broth to the diet.

Fish is an extremely important source of nutrients and trace elements. It contains proteins, amino acids, B vitamins, and minerals. This meat is useful for the development of the retina, brain maturation, cardiovascular system, and immunity. There is much less connective tissue in fish than in meat, so it is not only easy to chew, but also perfectly digestible. You can serve fish with vegetables or as part of soups.

Sample menu

The first and last feeding (around 7:00 and 21:00) is mixture.

The second meal around 10:00 is milk or dairy-free porridge with a small amount of butter, juice or fruit puree.

Feeding at 14:00 - vegetable soup or light broth, possibly with the addition of yolk (twice a week). The second option is vegetable puree with meat and fruit juice.

At 18:00 you can include cottage cheese in the menu, supplementing it with kefir or yogurt. In addition, fruit puree or juice is perfect. The curd can be softened by diluting it with kefir or yogurt.

Don’t forget that you need to accustom your baby not only to new products, but also to the culture of nutrition - use with a safe composition

Conclusion

The baby will tolerate the introduction of new products just fine if you follow simple rules:

Products must be introduced in the sequence recommended by the pediatrician, without overloading the baby’s body with foods that are heavy for it.
You need to monitor the reaction when entering each new element; it is better to write down your observations.
If the baby is not ready to accept a new product, it is better to postpone it and try again after a while.