So your baby is one year old. He grew enough, feel independent and can do many of the things that adults can do. Mother's milk and various purees are not enough for his growing and development already. A baby is ready for a gradual transfer for more serious food, which will finish by about 5-6 years. This "transitional period" requires especially responsible attitude from parents. Experts note that it is irrational feeding in early childhood that is a reason of many problems with Baby clothes manufacturer from Turkey digestion and metabolism, appearing already in mature age. To avoid dangerous mistakes, let's arm ourselves with scientific facts.
- How and in which terms a baby's transfer to an "adult" food should be carried out?
- It's very important for a baby to receive food of consistence that corresponds to his age. Many parents, taking too much care of their babies, keep on feeding him with grated dishes up to 2-3 years. But such "care" brings no good, and is rather injurious to health. Food should stimulate, not delay development of masticatory apparatus and digestive system of a baby.
One year old baby should be already given minced dishes, instead of purees. By 2 years a baby already has 20 calf's teeth, he already can chew well, so it is possible to transfer to larger pieces. After 3 years a healthy baby should already receive a piece of dish. He already can chew, digest and assimilate even beef.
- How much meat a baby of 1-6 years should eat? And which meat is good for a baby?
First of all, remember that every child is individual and his needs in meat, fish and other food are individual too. So we can talk only about approximate norms and recommendations, oriented on such "average" baby. Taking this into account, we can say that a baby from 1 to 1,5 years needs about 60-70 g of meat gross per day. In this case a baby will receive enough protein, easy assimilated iron, and also a range of vitamins of group B. It will be better, if this is minced meat or - if a baby already can chew rather well - meat-balls.
At 1,5-2 years a baby should already receive 70-80 g of meat gross per day 4-5 times per week. In this age you can already cook steam cutlets for a baby. A child of 2,5-5 years should eat 120 g (gross) of meat per day-and-night. You can and should offer not minced boiled meat, in the form of beef and bird meat, goulash, schnitzel. A 6 y.o. child needs 120 g of meat, including bird meat, daily. Exactly meat, not sausage food and other convenience foods, which, as it's known, contain much more fat, than protein.
As for sort of meat, for children feeding lean beef or veal, chicken, turkey are preferable, you can use lean pork and mutton. Moreover, meat by-product: kidneys, tongue, heart, liver should be definitely included in menu. Don't forget about fish, which is also the most valuable source of some indispensable fatty acids, iron, vitamin B12 and other health-giving elements. It's better to choose lean sorts of sea and river fish, such as pike perch, cod, hake, perch, shrimps.
- After year a baby already eats enough solid food, this means, his necessity in liquid increases. How much should children from year and upwards drink?
- For children from 1 to 3 years a daily norm is about 100 mL of water on kilogram of weight, from 3 to 7 years - about 80 mL. Probably bigger quantity. In connection with children's high activity, losses of water are rather significant, so you should not restrict your child in drinking.
It's better to drink water - children mineral gas-free or boiled and cooled till room temperature. Sweet compotes, juices and drinks should be drunk during intervals between meals, not during eating. The matter is that if a child drinks water during eating, water fills his stomach and a child feels satiety prematurely. In a while he will become hungry again, and this will lead to breach of dietary habits.
- Many parents complain that their child eats little. Why does a child eat little? How to improve his appetite?
- As for the first question, children appetite lowers due to different reasons, but most popular is wrong organization of feeding. It's desirable that a child upwards year would eat according to strict schedule. When a child takes snacks all the time, he just has no time to Baby clothes manufacturer from Turkey get hungry, and good appetite is out of the question. Moreover, if a baby applies himself to sweets and drinks, he does not receive many more wholesome products in necessary quantity.
Another reason of bad appetite can be a monotony of food - a child is just tired of eating the same food. So you should not cook in store, moreover while keeping and warming up food value of products lowers.
Sometimes there are cases, when a child secretes not enough saline, and because of this it's difficult for him to chew and swallow food. Of course, such child eats unwillingly. In this case you should cook more liquid dishes, pour second course with sauces, offer taking drink while eating.