Babies from 6 to 12 months

For many years the issue of complementary feeding has been a real chaos when making recommendations because each center, and each professional, explained it in its own way and in the end it seems that there were as many recommendations as professionals. Some said they had to start at 4 months, others than at six; some said that first it was necessary to give fruit, others that first cereals and others that did not matter; some said that what gave more allergy had to wait and others that was not necessary; and so, as I say, each family did a different thing and as it occurred to them to ask other families the debate was served.

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Cry, cry and keep crying. It seems that he is not hungry, we rock him, we give him the pacifier, we talk to him, we walk him ... We have tried everything and the baby does not calm down. All? Have we sung him? Perhaps this is one of the best ways to reassure the baby or at least, as a study has just shown, singing to the baby is better than talking to him to calm down.

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The six-month visit arrives, at which point the baby begins to eat other foods than milk and the pediatrician (and / or the nurse) gives the parents a role with the guidelines to follow to start feeding him. I do not want to say that such papers are wrong, because even when we do it fatal our son will end up eating things that are not milk, like everyone else, however I cannot say that they are well (at least not all), because many have mistakes that they can pose problems and anxieties for parents and children, such as (one, two, three, answer again): express the amounts that babies should take.

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Continuing with our Child Food Special today we will talk about the egg, one of the most common foods in the human diet. The egg began to be considered an important food during the first half of the twentieth century, when most of its vitamins and amino acids were identified, becoming classified as a health protective food.

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Continuing with the interview with Carlos González in Criatures, we offer you a new video in which he talks about complementary food and how to offer it. Contrary to what is usually done, which is to offer a guideline of recommendations, the pediatrician is guided by a single premise: make it easy.

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We continue with our review of the foods that constitute the diet of the smallest since they introduce complementary feeding, from six months. In the last entry we talked about the introduction of meat in infant feeding, the third food group that is incorporated after cereals and fruits and vegetables.

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Several years ago since we can find yogurt on the shelves of supermarkets intended for the consumption of babies from six months. Hundreds (and thousands) of mothers have bought them for their children convinced that it was a suitable and suitable food for them. Even many pediatricians have advised them as dessert or snack.

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Milk and its derivatives are a group of foods rich in calcium and protein (cow's milk is triple that of breast milk) and being liquid or semi-liquid (milk, yogurts, milkshakes ...) children get more protein those that can assimilate in a healthy way. Children who drink artificial milk are already taking cow's milk proteins The start and continuation formulas (type 1 and type 2) are derived from cow's milk that have been treated to decrease the protein concentration and modify the type of protein in order to be assimilated by babies.

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After touching the fruit, legumes, vegetables, meat and fish today comes one of the best known in the kitchen: the egg. The egg is rich in proteins of high nutritional value (that they tell the bodybuilders, which inflate to clear) and lipids rich in phospholipids with a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids (help lower bad cholesterol).

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After reviewing several of the most common food groups, we arrived today in the legumes. It is a food that is slowly disappearing from our tables and yet it is one of the healthiest we could consume. Legumes are foods rich in iron, vitamins and fiber and an important source of protein.

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Fish is an excellent source of proteins of high biological value and, like meat, is a good source of iron and zinc. The fatty acids of blue fish have a large proportion of long chain omega 3 polyunsaturates, important for neuronal development and that of sea is a good source of iodine.

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After a small break to talk about glute and proteins, we return to the different food groups with meat in the complementary diet. Meat is an important contribution of protein, iron and vitamin B12 and is also an important source of zinc. After six months, infants usually begin to need, precisely, a complement of zinc and iron (although there are children, especially those who experienced a late cut of the umbilical cord, which have iron reserves up to twelve months).

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Fruit is a food rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and sugars. Ideally, the fruit that our children eat is fresh, or packaged, or powdered. After six months they can start eating all the fruits, including strawberries and those that are considered more allergenic, and we know as "hair fruits", such as peach.

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After several days talking about complementary food, I start to re-break the different types of food according to the groups that are most recommended at the beginning of the complementary food (vegetables, fruit, cereals and meat) and I do it with vegetables, although there could be Started by any other.

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I've been suggesting days that babies can eat alone and today I'm going to get a little more into the subject. With the studies that I already mentioned of Davis and others, we saw that children are able to eat the necessary amount of food and, more importantly and surprisingly, they are able to adapt their quality to their needs.

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When feeding our babies, we have to take into account what we give them and how we give it to them. The immaturity of babies does not allow them to eat in the same way that adults do, and there may be a risk of choking depending on what food or preparation. That is why we must take into account the texture of the food that can be assimilated, being aware that not all children mature at the same time and therefore some will accept one type of food and others later.

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We end with this entry today the issue of how much children have to eat. As you can see, it is an extensive subject that deserves a little more argumentation than the rest because, as we said a few days ago, how much to eat is one of the mothers' greatest concerns. For whatever reason, most think that their children eat less than they should eat.

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