👚 💂🏼 🧐 Eating a baby at 7 months: menu options, allowed foods 🤞🏻 🥜 👨🏽‍💼

A child at 7 months has become more independent and active. He is constantly engaged in "research" activities, requires the attention of adults, as well as ensuring complete safety for him. Development and intensive growth require additional nutrients that old feeding standards no longer make up for. How to make a baby’s menu at 7 months and how should it be combined with the mode of his life?

Psychomotor development

The kid every day pleases and surprises parents with the emergence of new skills. Not so long ago, he had just begun to sit, while at the age of 7 months he was already stepping over his legs, rising at the support, crouching and sitting on his knees. Interest in the outside world arises in the desire to get acquainted with various objects that appear in his field of vision. The kid grabs large toys well and shifts them confidently from hand to hand.

The child is now beginning to crawl, while doing it equally well back and forth. This method of movement opens up new horizons for the baby: it becomes possible to take any item of interest on your own, as well as get to know the space better. The interest in the environment is not limited to contemplation, and at the earliest opportunity a little researcher will try everything that’s in the access zone “by the tooth”. The kid with pleasure at the request of adults finds familiar objects, turns in the direction of the speaker, hearing his own name. At this age, attachment to relatives is especially manifested. The child recognizes loved ones with whom he enjoys meeting after a long sleep. To strangers, wariness appears.

At the same time, wakefulness is accompanied by constant babble - regularly repeating syllables that adults mistakenly perceive as conscious speech. In this case, the babble of the baby is the initial attempts at communication, imitation of adults, as well as the expression of an emotional state. The baby turns from a listener into an interlocutor who eagerly repeats intonation and syllables.

Feeding Features

The ability of the baby to sit, as well as confidently hold objects in his hand, allows you to organize a new way of eating food and the baby’s menu at 7 months:

feed from a spoon, while to get skills in using the device - give a spoon to the crumbs;
feeding the baby should be carried out exclusively in a sitting position, and it is advisable if he takes a seat at a common table in a special chair;
allow to get acquainted with what is contained in the plate, inaccurate, while “manual” in a very informative way;
to drink from a cup and offer the baby to drink on his own from a drinker or spill;
set your own example of behavior at a common table, which will form the rules for eating in the future.

Feeding: when, how much and what?

So, what to feed the baby at 7 months? The feeding regime for babies of this age includes a five-time meal. The main feature is the formation of food receptions corresponding to a full future breakfast, lunch and dinner. Day after day, new products displace mother’s milk, which is now given exclusively before bedtime and in the morning.

Between feedings, intervals of 4 hours at the same time correspond to the physiological capabilities of the child's body, from the gastrointestinal tract without causing discomfort. There are certain norms of food consumption. The amount of food eaten depends largely on the characteristics of the baby:

metabolic rate;
Constitution
physical activity.

Let's figure out how to feed a baby at 7 months. An approximate diet of the baby is presented:

Mashed vegetables.
Baby formula or milk.
Egg yolk.
Porridge (on a vegetable broth or milk).
Meat puree.
Curd cheese.
Kefir.
In a can or freshly made fruit puree (juices can be given to a child of 7 months).
With bread.
Crackers (drying or biscuits).

So what to give to the child in 7 months? There is a traditional priority for the introduction of complementary foods: vegetable purees, cereals are offered at 6 months for breastfeeding, earlier - with artificial, 2 weeks later alternately - yolk, kefir, butter, meat, after 8 months - cottage cheese.

Breastfeeding diet

The introduction of complementary foods for a baby at 7 months of age fulfills two main tasks - it compensates for the lack of breast milk, and also prepares the baby for eating adult food. It is believed that during normal lactation in the mother, the time of introduction of complementary foods can be postponed for later. Although there is a second point of view, which is aimed in favor of the introduction of complementary foods:

helps to master chewing skills in a timely manner;
acquaintance with various new products stimulates the motor and enzymatic functions of the digestive system;
gives the baby additional energy sources, minerals and vitamins, building material, offsetting the costs of increasing physical activity, development and growth.

Now let's see what explains the presence of various dishes in the kid’s menu.

What kind of cereal is possible in a 7 month old baby?

Rice, buckwheat, and corn grits are preferred, since they are low-allergenic, gluten-free, highly digestible, and the growing body is supplied with slow carbohydrates and B vitamins. Slowly digested and absorbed, they maintain a feeling of satiety for a long time.

At the same time, the “first” porridge for the child should be one-component and liquid. Only after its successful introduction into the complementary foods should any other ingredients be added. Thus, it will be easier to identify which product the baby will have an allergic reaction to. At the same time, you can cook porridge yourself or take advantage of ready-made offers.

For cooking, they use this method: grind the grits or grind the cooked porridge with a blender before cooking. To the required consistency, it is diluted with a vegetable broth, milk mixture or breast milk.

You can calculate the amount of ingredients for creating porridge by measuring with a spoon the right amount of cereal:

In order for the porridge to turn out 5% liquid, take 1 small spoon of cereal for half a glass of water.
After a couple of weeks, you can switch to 10%, adding 1.5 tsp to the same volume of water. cereals.
A new dish for the baby is introduced from a small spoon. Portions with good tolerance increase every day, by the end of the 2nd week reaching 150 g and completely displacing breast milk from one feeding. The ideal time for eating is 10 in the morning for lunch.

Eggs - only boiled yolk

What else is included in the diet of a child at 7 months? The eggs in the baby's menu appear only after the introduction of porridge. There is no particular difference in properties between quail and chicken eggs. In raw form, any of them is an opportunity to get salmonellosis. Doctors all the time insist on compliance with the necessary rules for their preparation: wash thoroughly before cooking, check for freshness (missing ones “stand” upright in the water or float), cook for at least 10 minutes.

Yolk, like protein, can cause allergies. Therefore, it is administered with caution. For a 10-hour breakfast, they offer yolk (1/8), grated with milk, on the tip of the spoon. After 3 days, in the absence of allergy, the yolk is increased to 1/4, gradually increasing to ½ of the yolk a maximum of twice a week.

The growing body will provide this valuable product with vitamins, phosphorus and selenium. If in its pure form the proposed yolk, the baby refuses to eat, the product is mixed with vegetable puree or porridge, which is also able to diversify the baby’s diet at 7 months.

Vegetable and Butter

Consider this product as well. Eating a baby at 7 months of age includes vegetable oil, which is added to vegetable purees, as well as a small amount of cream, which softens cereals. With a normal reaction of the baby, the amount of the latter is increased to 5 grams, and the vegetable - up to 5 ml.

Kefir and cottage cheese

Baby food at 7 months also includes cottage cheese and kefir. The introduction of kefir in this case requires the same rules as any other new product - with a small amount. After the child is acquainted with him in the diet, you can easily introduce cottage cheese. A teaspoon of it is diluted to a uniform consistency with kefir, increasing the volume by 2 times daily. In order to track the emerging reaction to a new product, they offer it to the baby for the 2nd breakfast. With normal tolerance, the reception of kefir and cottage cheese is transferred for 2 half a day (afternoon snack), when these products are absorbed best.

To feed a baby at 7 months of age, it is unacceptable to buy market cottage cheese, as well as an "adult" store yogurt. The safest and most useful are products from special children's departments, as well as those purchased in a dairy kitchen. At the same time, when buying, you always need to be interested in the composition and date of manufacture. Dairy products can be given to a child every day, while observing age norms. In the baby’s diet, by the end of the seventh month of life, cottage cheese is 30 g, while kefir is about 170 ml.

It is necessary to abandon kefir temporarily with the appearance of an unstable stool, cottage cheese with rapid overgrowth of the fontanel, as well as in the presence of kidney diseases.

Artificial Baby Diet

It should be understood that artificial feeding does not meet all the needs of a small organism, like breastfeeding. Even adapted quality mixtures cannot provide the baby with the necessary amount of nutritionally important elements. Consequently, the nutrition of a 7-month-old baby on artificial feeding involves the introduction of complementary foods a month earlier than in crumbs on natural feeding.

Products unfamiliar to the baby have long been in the diet of children-artists - mashed potatoes, cereals, egg yolk. According to indications, the liver, meat, kefir and cottage cheese can be entered earlier in the menu according to indications.

Mashed potatoes and meat broths

From 7 months on the baby’s menu, meat appears in the form of mashed veal, low-fat beef, chicken, turkey and rabbit. It is worth noting that the assortment of food departments for children is ready to offer a huge selection of products from domestic and foreign manufacturers (Hipp, Heinz, Grandma’s basket, Gerber, Agusha, Tema, Fleaur Alpine, etc.). It is important to look at the age recommendations indicated on each jar.

Trying to diversify the baby’s nutrition at 7 months with the introduction of meat, it can be cooked at home, which is not at all difficult:

Cook the meat, chopped into pieces, until cooked.
Grind thoroughly with a blender.
Dilute before feeding to the consistency of light mashed potatoes with the prepared broth.
If the child refuses the proposed dish, add it to vegetable puree or porridge.

Meat products are digested longer than the same vegetable soup for a child of 7 months, therefore, they always have lunch time. Light hated broths are used to create mashed vegetable soups, cereals. They improve the digestion process, while increasing the activity of the secretory glands.

During this period of time, the baby, on artificial feeding, tastes new types of cereals, and also gets acquainted with mashed vegetable soups on meat broth, and other multi-component mashed potatoes. What kind of fruit can a baby be at 7 months in this case? An apple, a banana, prunes, a pear - these are the fruits that a baby can already taste. Mashed potatoes once a week can replace mashed potatoes prepared from the liver.

Regardless of the type of feeding, crumbs of 7 months should be offered to try solid food, of course, if they already have teeth. Crackers, drying or baby cookies for an afternoon snack is a great opportunity to stimulate the chewing process on time. At the same time, from a homogeneous puree, a slow transition to food containing small lumps and pieces smoothly begins. At the same time, a special grater is used to create puree from fresh vegetables and fruits, while boiled vegetables are simply chopped with a fork.

We replenish the cookbook

Most of the young mothers are thinking about how to diversify the baby’s nutrition at 7 months, so that it is diverse. Recipes for babies are simple to prepare.

Pumpkin Oatmeal

Ingredients:

about 50 g of pumpkin;
12 g oatmeal;
50 ml of water;
70 ml of milk;
butter.

The pumpkin is thoroughly washed, peeling and sunflower seeds, cut into small cubes, pour boiling water and stew for half an hour with the lid closed. Next, oatmeal is poured, hot milk is poured, after which the stewing process lasts another 20 minutes on low heat. At the very end, everything is whipped with a blender.

A cup of rice and apples