The correct feeding scheme from 5 months: a note to mom

Complementary feeding is a real test for mom. Each new product carries with it potential hazards for the child's body.

Therefore, it is important to stick to the portions recommended by the doctors. In the material you will find medical recommendations that will make complementary foods easy and useful, because the likelihood of digestive problems is minimized.

Standard feeding scheme 

A child at 5 months is already able to assimilate small portions in the form of mashed potatoes.

Now, when it's summer, we recommend using zucchini for cooking the menu; broccoli, pumpkins and green apples are suitable in other seasons.

How much puree to give to the baby?

On the first day of introducing complementary foods, it is advisable to start with half a teaspoon. If the child reacted normally to the new product, the volumes should be increased over the next seven days.

Detailed feeding scheme from 5 months

• First day 2.5 g (approximately ½ h. spoons)
• Second day 5 g (one teaspoon)
• Third day 10 g (two teaspoons)
• Fourth day 20-30 g (4-6 teaspoons or 3 desserts)
• Fifth day 40-60 g of product
• Sixth day 70 g of product
• Seventh day 140-150 g of product.

The doctors' recommendations are as follows - it is advisable to give new products to the baby not after, but before the daytime feeding. Firstly, you will reduce the risk of the baby's refusal to feed, and secondly, you will be able to track how the body transferred the food.

Complementary feeding scheme for a five month old baby

• Feeding # 1

Mother's milk or mixture 200 ml

• Feeding # 2

Porridge with milk 150 g

Apple puree 50 g

• Feeding # 3

Green vegetable puree 150 g

Infant formula / milk 50 g

• Feeding # 4

Curd 40 g

Milk / mixture 150 ml

• Feeding # 5

Milk / mixture 200 ml

What can you give your baby for complementary foods at 5 months?

At the age of five months, a mother can introduce a variety of cereals into the child's menu, for example, corn, rice or buckwheat. Do not give up cottage cheese either. If cooking porridge, add 2-3 grams of butter.

• Zucchini, pumpkin or cabbage puree (broccoli) 150 g
• Fruit puree 50-60 g
• Cottage cheese up to 40 g
• Milk porridge with buckwheat or other cereals 120-150 g
• Butter or sunflower oil 1-4 g

At 5 months old, doctors strongly recommend giving the child only meals that consist of one main component. It is important that the body gets used to food gradually and adapts to one product, and not to several at once.

The main advantage of this approach is that it is easy to determine the cause of an allergic reaction if it occurs.

If you notice that your baby is underweight at five months, adjust his diet. In this case, the emphasis should be placed not on mashed potatoes, but on cereals. The child will begin to gain weight more intensively if he receives buckwheat and corn porridge.

What is important to remember?

Complementary feeding for a five month old baby has several features that make it safe and pleasant for the baby himself.

Try to choose one-component products and always keep track of the amount of that product. It is necessary to start complementary foods with 2-5 grams, regardless of how useful or, conversely, potentially allergenic, the food chosen by the mother for the first complementary feeding is.

This amount will be enough for the body to adapt, and the allergy is not bright, experts and pediatricians say.

Over time, try to diversify the food for the child, taking into account the permitted foods.

Nutrition will go better if the mother provides the baby with food of different consistency, texture, taste, and smell.

It is normal for a baby to refuse bitter food. By nature, children tend to eat sweet and salty foods with great pleasure.

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