When the baby reaches a certain age, parents begin to think about adding supplementary foods to the baby. Baby rice noodles are the supplementary foods most babies come into contact with for the first time, and many parents often have such troubles:
When do you give it to your baby in what?
Do you want to buy it or make it yourself?
How long does it take to eat rice noodles?
Let’s answer these questions one by one.
After 6 months, supplementary foods should be added.
Under normal circumstances, after the baby reaches 6 months old, breast milk or formula milk powder alone cannot meet the nutritional needs.
At this time, the iron and other important nutrients brought from the mother’s body when the baby was born were basically exhausted, and the iron content in breast milk was relatively low, so the supplementary food introduced after 6 months should be rich in iron.
Why did you usually choose rice noodles at the beginning?
Because rice is one of the foods that are least likely to cause allergy in cereals, and it is easy for babies to digest and absorb.
The original supplementary food should be rich in iron.
Although rice is easy to digest, the content of iron and zinc is not high, and the absorption rate is relatively low, so it is recommended to add rice flour with fortified iron and other nutrients to the baby at the beginning.
Rice flour is one of the most common foods in the initial complementary foods, but it is not necessary to start with rice flour. Even if the baby’s initial complementary foods do not add rice flour, you can try iron-rich foods such as meat paste or fish paste first. The key is to ensure that the baby’s initial complementary foods are rich in iron.
In order to avoid allergy, rice flour is added for the first time, and it is best to choose original fortified iron baby rice flour.
When the baby adapts, under the condition of no allergy, he can gradually try some rice noodles with various flavors, such as various vegetable flavors, fruit flavors, salmon flavors, etc.
For example, some merchants have introduced 2 sections of [fish and carrot nutritious rice noodles], adding fish meal and carrot meal to the rice noodles. Then, before trying this kind of rice noodles for your baby, you must first determine whether your baby is allergic to the fish and carrot added in it.
Parents should carefully check the food ingredient list when purchasing to avoid the ingredients that make the baby allergic or intolerant.
In terms of nutrition, homemade ones are not as good as those on the market.
Some mothers worry about food safety and choose to make their own rice noodles at home. They feel more relieved to make them than to buy them.
However, homemade rice noodles also have some problems compared with commercially available rice noodles:
- Nutrition is not comprehensive enough: the main ingredient of self-made rice flour is starch, while the commercial rice flour is generally nutritionally blended according to the needs of the baby, and some nutritional ingredients have been strengthened in the processing process, which is relatively more suitable for the baby to eat. It is difficult to ensure hygiene: all kinds of equipment in the home, after all, cannot compare with industrial production.
In order to balance the baby’s nutrition and avoid iron deficiency anemia, it is recommended to buy fortified iron rice flour.
If conditions do not permit, you can also make your own rice flour, but if you make your own rice flour as a supplementary food for your baby, pay attention to:
- Timely introduction of meat mud, fish mud and other foods rich in iron and with high absorption rate; You can also add meat paste and fish paste to the rice flour, only one at a time, so that the baby can find allergic substances in time when allergy occurs. Pay attention to the hygiene of all operation links, and be sure to eat and do it now to avoid bacterial contamination.
It is not recommended to add seasonings to rice flour.
Some mothers think that the baby rice flour has no taste and worry that the baby does not like it. In order to make the baby have more appetite, sugar, salt and other seasonings are added to the rice flour to attract the baby.
This is not good.
- One is that children’s ability to accept original food may exceed our imagination. Don’t worry about the baby’s refusal to eat original food, But once the baby receives sugary and salty supplements, It is likely to reject the original complementary food, Refusing to eat original food or not eating much. Second, it is not conducive to the cultivation of long-term eating habits. Some scholars at home and abroad believe that there may be a [critical period window] that is easy to accept certain taste food in infancy. If a baby is accustomed to a certain taste, it will affect his food preference and intake in the future. Therefore, adding sugar to rice flour can easily make the baby develop the habit of eating sweet food and increase the risk of dental caries.
When brewing rice flour, it can be brewed according to the water temperature and dosage required by the instructions without adding any seasoning.
In addition to rice noodles, sugar and salt cannot be added to other supplementary foods before the baby is one year old. To develop good eating habits, one must start with adding the first bite of supplementary food.
It is not recommended to feed rice flour with feeding bottles.
Adding supplementary foods to babies is not only to increase nutrition, but also to let babies learn to roll their tongues, chew and swallow, learn to use spoons, cups, bowls and other tableware, and gradually adapt to common diet.
Therefore, parents who use bottles to feed rice noodles should change spoons so that their babies can learn to accept spoons to eat rice noodles.
How long does it take to eat rice noodles?
Baby nutritious rice flour is only a stage in the addition of supplementary foods. Feeding rice flour for 2-4 months is enough. When the baby can accept thick porridge, rotten noodles, etc., the feeding of rice flour can be gradually stopped.
When the baby successfully adds baby rice noodles, it is also necessary to add iron-rich foods such as fish paste and meat paste in time.
The main food for babies aged 6-12 months is breast milk or infant formula milk. While adding supplementary foods including rice flour, it is still necessary to ensure that the baby has about 600-800 milliliters of milk every day. If it is breast-fed, it should be breast-fed at least 3-4 times.