All children have different perceptions of the transition to adult food. How to help the crumbs to cope with the difficulties of complementary foods when eating lumps caught skillfully wield a spoon and a fork. Yes, there still is not enough of ...
At some point, you notice that the child is ready to move from purees to adultfood, He has enough skill and teeth. It is important to keep the baby, so he was not disappointed.
How to prepare baby food
When the crumb goes from mashed to chopped foods, texture plays an important role. And parents should understand that:
- Pieces of soft food - a piece a piece that does not need to chew, and you can stretch your tongue (boiled cauliflower, juicy pear, banana).
- Shredded solid food - melkonaterty product whose fibers do not turn into a puree, if they stretch their tongue (the twisted in a meat grinder meat, apple, cucumber).
- Soft foods require chewing, but does not require serious effort (boiled egg, noodles, much soft rice). Bread, potatoes and poultry appear to be mild, but they are difficult to chew. Bread and potatoes become sticky by saliva, and the fibers are difficult to break down the meat.
- Solid food requires active chewing.
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Do not tighten with the grind puree - when given adult food?
Between 6-9 months the child has an active interest in the adult food. It is necessary to use and give small portions of vegetable and cereal garnishes (first - on the tip of a spoon), and to nine months - and small pieces of well-cooked-meat. First, they will come out with a chair in an almost unchanged form since the crumb will swallow without chewing them. But then begins to pre-process the food in your mouth.
- If this step is of interest to the adult table to ignore, for fear that the child will choke, the interest fades and may indeed be difficult in the transition to adult food. Such problems are often the result of pedagogical mistakes rather than problems with the maxillofacial system.
- If the 9-month-old toddler grabbed the apple and chews it, it is not necessary to select. But we need to be there, because the child may bite off a large chunk of which can neither swallow nor push the tongue. In such a situation it is necessary to quickly enter into the oral cavity bent forefinger (enter from the side, from the corner of the mouth) and, as a hook, this piece of control.
- As for the full transition to the adult table, then stretch the process to three years is not worth it. A child of two years, should already and could easily and chew, and swallow a spoon and feed himself, and more or less understand the basic rules of behavior at the table.
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