Showing posts with label Baby feeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby feeding. Show all posts

A Healthy Start: Feeding Your Baby from Birth to Four Months

Feeding Your Baby from Birth to Four Months:

Breastfeeding is the ideal way to feed your newborn. It provides essential nutrients, antibodies, and comfort. If breastfeeding isn't possible or desirable, formula is a suitable alternative.

Breastfeeding:

  • Frequency: Breastfeed on demand, as often as your baby wants. This can be every 2-3 hours initially and may decrease as your baby grows.
  • Positioning: Experiment with different positions to find what's most comfortable for you and your baby. Common positions include cradle hold, cross-cradle hold, and side-lying.
  • Latch: Ensure a correct latch to prevent sore nipples and ensure effective milk transfer.
  • Burping: Burp your baby after each feeding to help expel any swallowed air.

Formula Feeding:

  • Preparation: Follow the instructions on the formula can carefully to ensure proper dilution.
  • Frequency: Feed your baby every 3-4 hours initially, adjusting as needed.
  • Warming: If desired, warm the formula to a comfortable temperature.
  • Burping: Burp your baby after each feeding to help expel any swallowed air.

Signs of Hunger:

  • Rooting: Your baby may turn their head and open their mouth when seeking the breast or nipple.
  • Sucking: Your baby may make sucking motions with their lips.
  • Crying: Crying is a late sign of hunger. It's best to feed your baby before they become too upset.

Introducing Solids:

  • Around 4-6 months: Start introducing solids gradually, one at a time, to monitor for allergies.
  • Iron-fortified cereals: Iron-fortified cereals are often the first solid introduced.
  • Purees: Offer purees of fruits, vegetables, and meats.
  • Breast milk or formula: Continue breastfeeding or formula feeding as the primary source of nutrition.
Remember to consult with your pediatrician for personalized advice on feeding your baby.

Preparing baby milk.. Do not add sugar to the sweetener because it contains a cluster bacteria

Preparing baby milk:

Doctors or nutritionists are not advised to give a child under the age of milk powder or boiled milk, pasteurized or even yogurt or milk, because it contains bacteria and your child has not yet completed the development of his immune system.

Do not use sugar:

Do not add sugar, because the digestive system can not digest the sugar and the duo of food sugar or honey to milk, where modern science has proven the existence of honey on a cluster bacteria can poison the child in this period of his age.

The father's role in the success of breastfeeding.. Massage the lactating wife's neck to give her some comfort

The father plays a crucial role in the success of breast-feeding by supporting, encouraging and trusting the mother. It is possible to read books and topics related to breast-feeding, as well as offering a snack or a drink for the mother while breastfeeding. Gives her a kind of comfort, as well as a helper in the responsibility of home and caring for other children.

Baby's need to drink water.. A small amount of water in the hot air

Does my child need to drink water?
A question in which there is a lot of difference, some of them say enough water in the milk and some of them said no.
I believe, according to the last reading of a modern American book, that your child may need a small amount of water and may not need (in hot weather where your child loses a large amount of sweat can be given a cup or two of water after breast feeding, Boil after cooling, or feet have sterile water bottled in cans.
If you have to breastfeed your child instead of your milk for God's or God's disease, see your doctor. He can advise you on the type of milk that suits your baby and how to prepare him. Do not use dry milk for adults. Use only dry milk for children. You can consult with your doctor, preferably iron-fortified milk).

How to mix ready-made milk for a baby.. Do not taste the milk directly from the nipple to make sure it is hot

How to Mix Ready Milk for My Child:
1 Wash your hands with hot water and soap.
2 Wash bottles, nipples and bottle caps with hot water and soap, and rinse thoroughly with water.
Place the bottles and their clean wrappers in a large container filled with clean water. Add a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to the water to get rid of the white foam from the boiling. Cover the pot and boil the bottles for 15 minutes. For another five minutes.
4 Then put on the other side the water to be mixed with milk ready for fifteen minutes, then the Turkish cool.
5 pour boiling water in all bottles and cover with nipples and bottle caps, then put the bottles in the refrigerator until it is time to breastfeed the child. Make the appropriate amount of milk before presenting it to your child,
6 Do not drink milk directly from the nipple to make sure of its heat, but put some drops on your hand to make sure of the heat of the milk.

Types of baby food.. Do not place solid food in the bottle and give it to the child with a spoon

You can start serving foods when you are four or six months old.
Your baby needs food other than milk. As a result, hardened food must be added to its daily diet, and solid food should not be placed in the bottle, but given to the child with a spoon.
When your child is six months old and you begin to feed him with the suspension, he may try to reject it and take the food out of his mouth. This is usually because he is not used to eating with a spoon and is unfamiliar with the taste of the new food, he only knows how to breastfeed.
Start by feeding it slowly and with small amounts of solid food in the form of liquid. Gradually increase your intake so that your child will get used to this new method of feeding it (remember that your baby's stomach is small and that it is usually more pleasant if he can eat the food he needs in several small meals instead of 3) Great meals).
Try one new food at a time. (Some foods may cause your child allergies. If you start to feed him just one new food every week and get allergies, you'll know what food is the reason.)

The baby refused to eat food.. Do not add salt, pepper or oil to your child's food

What would I do if my child refused to eat new food?
Try to mix a little of that food with other food you like, then gradually increase the amount of food you eat and reduce the amount of food you like, and if it does not work with it, wait a few days and try it again later.
Note:
If you are using ready-made baby foods, never feed your baby directly from the box, but open the canister and take the amount that is enough for your baby to place the container directly in the refrigerator.
You can safely feed your baby for three days and then get rid of what's left of it.
Remember my dear mother:
Type the date of opening the case on the case cover.
Do not add salt, pepper or oil to your child's food.
When you add food to your baby's food, you will notice that it consumes less milk.

The appearance of the teeth when the baby .. Do not give him a bottle of feeding to sleep in the mouth to protect his teeth from decay

Your baby's teeth may start to appear early, when he or she is four months old. To keep his teeth from decay, do not give him a bottle to feed in his mouth. Do not give him a bottle of juice or milk to carry in his mouth and walk around.
Wipe your baby's gums with a damp cloth after each meal. When teeth appear, use a soft toothbrush without toothpaste.
When your child is six months old, encourage him to drink from the cup, and this age is appropriate to start giving him natural juice, especially grapes and apples. Do not add sugar or honey to him, and it is not recommended to give your child under the age of orange juice.

The best vegetables to feed the baby.. Pumpkin, carrots, green beans, peas and spinach

When do vegetables for my child ..?
In five months or six months, you can provide ready-made baby food or cooked fresh vegetables to your child.
If you want to prepare vegetables and grind them yourself, do not add sugar, salt, pepper, spices, oil or butter.
The best vegetables to feed your baby are:
Pumpkin, carrots, green beans, peas, and spinach.
Avoid these foods in feeding your child:
Intended vegetables, or large amounts of cooked vegetables, such as cabbage, onions, corn, tomatoes, broccoli, okra.

Provide fruit for the infant.. Cooked apples, apricots, mashed bananas, pears, plums - cumin

When can I provide fruit for my child?
- After giving the child vegetables, start by feeding boiled fruits (boiled with water) and filtered when he is six months old.
What are the best fruits that can be offered to my child?
- Cooked apples, apricots, mashed bananas, pears, plums (cumin)
- Your child can eat 2 to 4 tablespoons of fruits or vegetables every day, gradually increasing to four tablespoons (about 1/4 cup).

Provide meat for the infant.. Meal of chicken and fish

When can I provide meat to my child?
You can provide meager meat at the age of eight months, and recommended that my sister mother provide the following:
- meat, chicken, fish
Start by giving the child a spoonful or two teaspoons of meat every day gradually to two tablespoons or three tablespoons.

A balanced diet for an infant

When your child is about 8 months old, you should be able to eat a balanced diet that contains the following:
Mother's milk.
- Meat or substitute it like chicken.
Vegetables and fruits.
- Grain Food.

Feed the child from eating the rest of the family at the age of ten months

When your child is ten months old, the food must be well cooked and not contain spices and fat, free from seeds and scales, and can be served:
(Whole egg, boiled starchy foods such as boiled potatoes or boiled noodles, apple slices, pears, plums...)
You can provide added food seasonings such as soup, which contains the vegetables and meat used by the child at the age of one year.

Foods useful to the baby.. Slices of meat or cheese. Fish or minced chicken. Hard boiled eggs. Vegetables, minced and cooked

Foods I can offer to my child:
1 slices of meat or cheese.
2 Meat, fish or minced chicken.
Hard boiled eggs.
4 Vegetables, minced and cooked.
5 chopped fruits, either fresh or cooked.
6 Toasted bread, Arabic bread or biscuits.
7 whole cow pasteurized milk in small amounts in a cup.
8 lentils or beans cooked and mashed in a few quantities and can be provided at the ninth month.
To know that my sister is generous, your baby can start eating his food at the age of one year, but gradually he will stain himself at the beginning, be patient and try to put him on the dining chair.

Feeding the baby after the age of the year.. Dairy products. Protein foods. Fruits and vegetables. Bread and cereal food

As your child continues to grow (aged 1 year or older), he will still need to eat foods from the four main groups:
1- Dairy products:
Including milk and yoghurt, give him 4 servings (250 ml per day) of this group.
2 protein foods:
Including meat, fish, chicken and eggs, give him one egg and 60 grams of meat, fish or chicken per day.
3 Fruits and vegetables:
You should give your child four servings (the portion of the fruit is a whole grain, and the vegetables are one cup of delectable vegetables and one third cup of vegetables) of the vegetables or fruits, and do not forget my mother's sister, the acidic fruit is a source of vitamin C.
4 Bread and food grains:
Give your child plenty of servings of bread or cereal food every day, including cereal fortified foods once a day.
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