Is Your Baby Already to be given complementary feeding? Exhortation to give complementary feeding is after your baby past the age of 6 months. Even according to the doctor, infant nutrition actually be fulfilled by breastmilk until she was 9 months.
But indeed some infants at the age of 5-6 months have already started to “curious” to see what’s being eaten by their parents. Then, when’s your baby actually receives complementary-feeding READY? Here among other signs:
She’s getting interested in seeing the food. If she’s already starting to notice the food on your plate, even tried to grab and put it into her mouth, well … this means she’s already interested in food …
Your baby can hold her head properly. If she can not, should you delay giving your baby complementary-feeding. If she can entering the food with her tongue to the back of his mouth, meaning that she already for it. Baby’s bottom-lip also has been able to “take” food on your baby’s spoon.
Her stomach must be able to digest food which entered with. If, every time you try to feed the baby food and her tongue kept pushing the food out, meaning she was not ready to be given complementary-feeding. If so, do not be forced to … Just In addition, at the age of 4 -5 months, Nefertiti look like drooling when we’re eating. Her mouth never stop moving like who really want to taste it.
When we asked to her doctor, doctor was apparently not allowed of giving complementary-feeding ecspecially seeing the development of nefertiti’s weight is good. Doctor recommends breastfeeding at 6 months of age after considering the prior six months of age, the digestive enzymes in the intestine is not functioning properly, and feared no abnormalities later in the intestines. The consequences will not be immediately visible, possibly in the upcoming years (God forbid). Yes, as long as breastfeeding is sufficient, it should only breast milk, no added any others.
5:13 pm on August 1st, 2010
Nefertiti is indeed beautiful. The best advice I can offer is to listen to your baby. As your doctor points out, switching to baby food is not necessary. In fact doing so early can be harmful. Iron is available in small amounts in breastmilk, but the composition of breastmilk makes all of it digestible. When babies who are not breastfed get iron supplements, they have to take in a great deal of it because only a tiny amount is absorbed.
Allowing babies to touch and taste food when they show an interest is fine. But baby knows better than you or the doctor when they are ready to switch. Breastfeeding does not just give your baby food, it gives your baby the protection of the mother’s immune system.
I suspect that many food allergies are the direct result of introducing babies to foods too early. Many things like dairy products, strawberries or eggs should not be introduced to a baby before they are a year old.
Although he played with and sampled our food, my child didn’t eat enough other food to cause any discernible decrease in breastfeeding for his first year. It was months longer before he could process cow’s milk without distress.
We bought a bit of bottled baby food, and our baby didn’t like it much, so we tried it. It tasted so disgusting we never made the baby eat it. When we fed him solid food it was what we were eating, sometimes pureed but more often just peeled and cut small enough. The one thing I don’t miss is the time consuming process of peeling grapes.
Possibly the best advice I can offer is to look up the closest La Lech League, the non-profit mother-to-mother network. It was a wonderful support group for parents.
But my baby is now a legal adult, as well as a happy well adjusted talented and brilliant young adult.
2:53 pm on August 2nd, 2010
hi laurien. I have visited your blog, great post about breastfed. thanks for sharing it, very informative and helped me to raise my baby with a better course. Thanks God, breastfed help us (and we’re sure) my baby avoid diseases that commonly attack the baby.
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