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Is baby ready for solid foods?
Many parents unnecessarily rush solid foods to their babies. However, U.S. doctors agree that during the first year, the main food of the baby should be breast milk or formula. Moreover, recent research suggests that giving your baby solids too early can trigger allergies later in children. Therefore, do not give your baby food before 4 months old.
Around 5 or 6 months old, babies can begin to incorporate more foods into your diet, such as infant rice cereal, applesauce or baby food variety. Clear that we must take care that the food is good ground. Also, watch out to see if a food you are allergic.
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Weight Variation
The relationship between a baby’s weight and age are key to observe its development. It is a curious fact, namely that infants have a different development still having the same age, just as not all countries, children develop at the same speed, so one should not be compared with other babies.
On average, in general, newborns usually weigh between 2800-4200 grams, with a length of 48-56 cm. Do not worry if your baby begins to gain weight since the early days, the important thing is food and then, little by little they will gain weight Read the rest of this entry »
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Fish In Diet
Fish, an important element in any diet in children, so feeds such as meat, and has the advantage of being less greasy and much better digested.
The introduction of fish to your baby’s diet is recommended after nine months. At that point all babies can and should eat fish at least two or three times a week. It all sounds very promising, but … However, the fish has a problem: their spines, which can transform it into an unappetizing dish and even dangerous for children. Many times in addition, children find it tasteless, so not attracted much. Read the rest of this entry »
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Disease In Premature Babies
The premature baby are the risks arising from a lack of maturity of some organs are therefore not work well or are exposed to external aggression.
The problems of this baby are focused on the difficulty of adapting to the environment extrauterine by their immaturity and low weight. The smaller and immature, the greater the risk of diseases of the baby.
The respiratory, nervous, digestive, renal, immune and vision may be involved. The respiratory system is one of the most affected. Respiratory distress syndrome occurs as a consequence of the lack of surfactant protein that is responsible for the pulmonary alveoli are elastic and remain inflated or expanded. Read the rest of this entry »
Diets for Children
Menus for children’s diets
Childhood is the period of greatest physical, intellectual and psychological development. Food plays an essential role in this cycle of life. The incorporation of micro and macro nutrients in the diets of children reinforce the overall development of infants. It is therefore necessary to make menus for children’s diets, to help strengthen both your body and your mind.Childhood is the period of greatest physical, intellectual and psychological development. It extends from birth to puberty. Food is extremely important at this stage of life, and thanks to her, she may achieve a better physical and mental development.
Within this period, the requirements are changing, not the same thing a baby needs, that a child at age 6, or a child at 12. The best way to establish the different diets for healthy children, children would be divided into three stages:
* Infants of 0-2 years.
* Early childhood from 2 years to 6 years.
* Second child of six years to 12 years.
The feed will aim to meet the nutritional needs of each stage. In general, we can establish what foods to be included in a menu for children’s diets, food and basic essential for a child to grow up healthy and strong. It should be noted here will indicate the food to be included in a menu for the first and second childhood.
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Just When We Meet MP-ASI In Babies?
Mother’s Milk is the most appropriate food for all newborns. Mother’s Milk has the advantages of nutrition, immunology, and physiology better than commercial formula. Thus, breastfeeding is very important, especially babies who are born in developing countries, because the cost and method of preparation of formula can lead to inadequate nutrition and / disease.
Can be exclusively breastfed infants during the first six months of age. However, not all infants can be given breast milk exclusively. Criteria babies could be given exclusive breastfeeding is sufficient months of age and healthy birth, the newborn was also a low-risk preterm (born after 32 weeks gestation, without respiratory problems).
After six months, babies can be introduced with the food co-ASI (MP-ASI). Introduction of MP-ASI is an important stage in the life of a child. Because this is where habits are formed and the development of the child. “MP-milk intake should be prepared in such a way as to be in harmony with the process of growth and the ability of infants to receive the food,”
MP-ASI should be given to infants and introduced gradually, both in form and amount so that baby can adapt digestion. MP-ASI should be given after the baby is six months old. MP-ASI must meet several requirements, among them; materials should be easy to eat food, easily digested, and up; hygienic and nutritious. If possible, use local food ingredients and make sure the tools used to eat quite hygienic.
It is recommended that parents introduce complementary foods made with milk alone. Besides being with homemade food, you can have full control over what will be the intake by the child. You also instill healthy eating habits early on to children. Moreover, homemade food will be more nutritious and free of additive substances, can also be more varied, more delicious, cheap, and frugal.
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ASI Runway Intelligence Children
Fulfillment adequate nutrition is the main requirement in the development of the child, including brain development. Malnutrition will decrease the quality of a human brain. Therefore, babies need a good food quality and quantity.
Forming the main component of the brain is fat and raw materials to form the nerve cells in the brain of new protein. Breast milk (ASI) as the main food-rich baby long-chain fatty acids, polyunsaturated fats are an important influence in the brain and intelligence. Not surprising that breastfed babies are smarter.
In this study the researchers note that breastfed children tend to have better values than the academic who did not receive breast milk.
Children who are breastfed as a child tend to be more intelligent and healthier, so that their academic value in better schools.
This study is the first to use the data to the respondents to the exclusion of siblings, other factors, such as socio-economic, family environment, and intellectual parents.
Child nutrition, Key Concern Parents
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Caring parents be the deciding factor nutritional condition of children. Abundance of food in the house would be useless if not properly processed by the mother or other family members. When this happens, no wonder if children are malnourished, and even malnutrition. Especially if the child is fed only improvise or even snacks to deceive the stomach to fill.
Malnutrition occurs because the child’s lack of attention from parents. Children abandoned and nutritional needs are not considered because their parents more often in the garden. Not because there is no food in the house. Read the rest of this entry »
Do not Force Solid Start Baby Food
Digestive system immature babies should not be given solid food before his time. At the age of 6 months, then the digestive system begins to be ready to process solid foods.
Breast milk (ASI) is the staple food of infants from birth. When the baby was growing up, the energy required more course. That’s why he needs to be introduced to solid foods. The need for food is generally started when the 6-month-old baby.
Because of ignorance, we often see parents who are too quick to give solid foods to babies. New baby step on the age of two months had been fed tentative special porridge, and even bananas. The reason is that big fast kids, if not considered that the baby was not enough to milk. This according to experts it can cause indigestion. Read the rest of this entry »
How do you feed your baby premature?
Food By Mouth
Before birth, during the last trimester of pregnancy, the fetus makes sucking motions and swallows amniotic fluid.
The premature baby can suck from the breast or bottle from as early as 26 weeks. Unless the baby has serious problems, it is desirable that your bowel receives food from the very first hours of life. This contributes to mature their digestive functions. You can also take milk through a cup (used in places where you can not put probes). Usually shots are given small volume (less milk), but more often. Read the rest of this entry »
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