How to mix feed?

Timely mixed feeding for the baby is the need of the baby's natural growth. Before the baby reaches the age of eating complementary food, some special milk substitutes are supplemented to meet the needs of the baby's growth and development. How to mix feeding, can best let the babies eat happily and eat healthily? Moms have to learn a lesson!

1. When the amount of breast milk is too small to meet the nutritional needs of the baby's growth and development, or the nursing mother cannot guarantee to feed the baby on time due to work, when the baby is not yet old enough to add supplementary food, the baby must be supplemented with cow's milk, goat's milk or Milk replacer to ensure the needs of growth and development, that is, mixed feeding for babies. But remember, in any case, breast milk cannot be given up before the baby is 6 months old. Other milk or milk substitutes should be used as a supplement to breast milk.

2. Let the baby eat half the amount of breast milk first, and then use milk or other milk substitutes to feed. Doing so can ensure that the baby absorbs the nutritional value of breast milk, and other milk or milk substitutes are only supplements to breast milk before the baby is 6 months old. Note that when feeding infant milk or milk substitutes, it must be heated to a temperature close to that of breast milk.

3. Feed the baby alternately with breast milk and other milk or milk substitutes, that is, alternate feeding with breast milk and milk. This method is conducive to the flexible adjustment of time for mothers who go to work, and they can go home on time to feed their babies.

4. After 4 and 6 months of age, babies need to add a small amount of egg yolk to ensure the iron needs of the child's growth and development. The method is: add about 15% of the cooked egg yolk, add a little warm water to make a paste, and feed it to the baby bit by bit with a small spoon. You can also add a little rice flour to the paste egg yolk, so that the taste will be good and the baby will eat it more deliciously.

5. It is not advisable to add too many ingredients too fast when feeding supplementary food for babies at the beginning. It is more appropriate to add one supplementary material each time, and proceed gradually according to the principle of increasing the amount from small to large and from thin to thick in quality, and slowly let the baby form a mixed food. The eating habit of feeding can achieve the goal of balanced nutrition absorption and healthy development and growth of infants.