Having a baby is extremely difficult, because they can’t speak yet, therefore you can’t understand what they want and what bothers them. What you have to do is to make sure that you’re doing your best when raising the baby, and to do this you need to be informed on certain essential steps that every infant must go through.
If you have a baby and you’re not sure how to handle the food diversification stage of the baby’s life, read the following lines to find out some useful tips that will definitely help you.
The feeding steps and stages
For the first six months of the baby’s life, it’s recommended to only feed the small one breast milk, because breast feeding will provide the child with all the nutrients that he needs to grow healthy.
When the child turns six months the food diversification process begins, the first step being to feed the baby pureed carrots, applesauce, and cereals for a month.
After the month passes and the baby turns seven months old, you can safely widen the range of foods by adding foods that he can eat with a spoon.
The recommended foods for this period of the baby’s growth and food diversification process are mashed poultry, mashed vegetables, and mashed vegetables mixed with rice.
However, you must avoid feeding the baby anything that is based on wheat, flour, barley and pasta, to decrease the chances of him developing the celiac disease.
From the seventh month to the ninth month, you can start feeding the baby oranges, cheese, yogurt, bread, pasta, oats, potatoes, rice, fish, cooked eggs, and cold water.
The final stage of the food diversification process begins in the tenth month, when the baby should have 3 regular and consistent meals every day that are based on vegetables, eggs, fish, bread, cheese, yogurt, potatoes and rice, just like you were to cook for yourself.
Signs that your baby is ready for diversification
When it comes to food diversification, you shouldn’t stick only to the stages of the baby’s growth that we explained before, but you have to look for certain signs that the baby is giving you as well.
If the baby is ready to take it up a notch when it comes to food diversification, he will inevitably produce more saliva, he will develop the lateral movement of chewing, the ability to swallow non liquid food, the baby will be able to sit up with support, he will have a good neck and head control, and he will improve the ability to show satiety and hunger.