The menu of the child of 8 months on artificial and breastfeeding

The menu of the child at 8 months is quite diverse. At this age, he is offered many products from the "adult" table, rich in vitamins and other beneficial substances. Every mother is concerned about the question of how to make baby's nutrition balanced. After all, a growing body must receive all the necessary trace elements. Let's get acquainted with the generally accepted norms and recommendations of pediatricians.

Nutrition for children at 8 months

Kids eat 5 times a day. At the same time, in the first and last feedings they are offered breast milk or an adapted mixture. Three meals are recommended to be replaced with complementary foods. The intervals between feedings are 4 hours. At night, most babies sleep peacefully, but there are babies with a small volume of the stomach. If the baby wakes up and demands milk, go to meet him.

The menu of an 8-month-old baby on artificial feeding differs little from the nutrition of infants. Both of them eat porridge, kefir, vegetable dishes, fruits, meat, cottage cheese. The only difference in the fish, which can already be given crumbs on artificial feeding.

All new products are introduced carefully, starting with a teaspoon. You can not give kids some unfamiliar dishes on the same day.

Dairy

They are necessarily included in the menu of a baby of 8 months. Mom's milk should be maintained to maintain crumb immunity. For a day, the baby eats about 900 g of dairy products. Of course, these are average indicators. Much depends on the appetite of a particular child.

In addition to milk or a mixture, sour-milk products are introduced into the diet: baby yoghurts and kefirs, biolact, cottage cheese. They are allowed to add fruits or dried fruits for taste. But leave finished products with additives and sweeteners on supermarket shelves. It is safer to stock up on everything you need in a special dairy kitchen. Kids can eat 200 g of kefir per day, up to 50 g of cottage cheese.

This complementary foods provides the body with calcium, vitamins B, supports a healthy intestinal microflora.

Porridge

For their preparation, you can use buckwheat, barley, rice, corn or oatmeal. It is permissible to cook porridge from several cereals. First they are prepared in water, and later in diluted milk. Kashi is the main course on the baby’s menu at 8 months of age with breast and artificial feeding.

Twice a week, half of the yolk is mixed in them, if the baby is not allergic to it. Eggs are not given to children suffering from diathesis, and porridge is boiled on water. If the baby refuses to eat, sweeten the dish with fruit additives. You can grind the banana, and cut the apple into slices and add to boiling water. Ready porridge is allowed to flavor 5 g of butter. The standard daily serving for this age is 180 g.

Vegetables

In the menu of a child of 8 months, you can safely include:

• potatoes;
• cauliflower;
• carrot;
• broccoli;
• zucchini;
• pumpkin;
• white cabbage.

Onion is offered with other vegetables. Legumes (peas, beans) are also introduced into the diet. They are added to soup or mashed potatoes in an amount of 40 g. A day, according to the norms, a child should eat up to 180 g of vegetables.

The following are some useful recipes:

• Vegetable puree. Stew potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots and peas in olive oil, add finely chopped spinach and parsley. Beat mass in a blender or scroll through a meat grinder until smooth.
• Cauliflower soup with zucchini. Vegetables (50 g each) are cut into pieces, cooked until cooked. Water is poured into other dishes. Cauliflower, as well as zucchini, are crushed in a blender, put in a broth, brought to a boil. In the finished soup, you can put butter and half the yolk.
• Vegetable soup. Grated carrots stew for 10 minutes in water, then put cabbage, green peas, sliced ​​potatoes. Add water to the pan, cook the vegetables until cooked, grind them in a blender. Before serving, the dish is once again brought to a boil, a little butter is put in it.

Fruit

They are the main tool in the fight against vitamin deficiency. For a day, the baby should eat up to 80 g of fruit. Children are already familiar with apples, pears. Plums, bananas, peaches and apricots are actively introduced. From berries, you can offer crumbs cherry, blueberries, black currants. Dried fruits are also useful: raisins, dried apricots, prunes. From them brews, the first compotes. Watch the baby’s well-being, his skin condition. For allergic children, with great care, offer fruits and berries of red and orange colors.

You can mash fruit. Interesting combinations of apple and pear with carrots, zucchini, pumpkin. The last two vegetables are pre-boiled or baked in the oven. You can bake and pieces of apple with cottage cheese. For softness, add some milk. Put fruits in porridge, cottage cheese, yogurt. If there is no allergy to the product, crumbs are given juice from it, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1. Sugar has not yet been added to dishes. Children get used to the natural taste of foods.

Bread

It must be included in the menu of a baby of 8 months, but not as food. To scratch gums well with a bread crust. After all, kids just have their teeth cut. In addition to white bread, introduce the child to crackers, baby cookies, and dryers. A child can receive up to 10 g of such products per day. Thanks to them, he gradually learns to bite off pieces, chew them.

Meat

It is first introduced into the breastfeeding menu of a baby. 8 months is an indicative period for babies who have been feeding since 6 months. Thanks to meat, the growing body receives animal proteins and useful trace elements: iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus.

Feeding is best started with a low-fat rabbit or turkey. Use chicken and lean beef with caution - some children are allergic to them. If you are intolerant to cow's milk, discard veal. Banned until fat pork.

Canned meat for baby food can be purchased in stores. Look for jars marked "1 step". Do not buy canned foods that contain spices and starch. Many parents puree mashed potatoes at home. The meat is cleaned of veins, fat, boiled for about an hour. Then thoroughly crushed in a blender or meat grinder to a homogeneous mass without lumps. When everything is ready, add a little vegetable oil.

First, the child receives 1/2 tsp. mashed meat. The next day he is given a whole spoon, by the end of the week the volume increases to 5-6 spoons. After two weeks, the baby can eat up to 50 g of meat per day. It is cooked in the form of mashed potatoes, mixed with vegetables, added to the finished soup.

But meat broths are not yet offered to children of this age. They can lead to irritation of the immature gastrointestinal tract, often cause rashes on the skin. In addition, all the harmful substances that were present in the meat initially remain in the broth.

Fish

Meat from 7 months is present on the baby's menu on artificial feeding. At 8 months, these babies are gradually introduced to the fish. It is a source of phosphorus, calcium, iodine, fatty acids, vitamins D and B. At first, buy sea fish with white meat: pollock, hake, cod. To make mashed potatoes you will need a fillet thoroughly cleaned of bones. It is boiled and ground in a blender. Serve fish with mashed potatoes.

Nutrient is administered starting with 1/2 teaspoon. By the end of the month, this amount is increased to 30 g. Within a week, the fish should appear on the table no more than twice. It is an allergenic product, so carefully monitor the condition of the crumbs. If all is well, after two weeks you can make mashed salmon, zander or carp.

You can serve fish in the form of a delicate souffle. To do this, cook the fillet or stew, grind to a state of homogeneous mass along with the yolk. In a pan, heat 100 ml of milk, beat with a tablespoon of flour until thickened. In the finished sauce add 1.5 tsp. butter. Beat the egg white in a foam, mix it with fish, pour in the sauce, put everything in a mold. Souffle is cooked in a double boiler or in an ordinary oven. In the latter case, the pan is filled with water and a container of fish is placed on it. Keep in mind that the souffle will rise slightly when baked.

We make up the menu

What should a baby eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? A sample menu of a baby at 8 months is as follows:

• Around 6.00 - morning feeding of mother's milk or the selected mixture.
• At 10.00 - milk or milk-free porridge, which can sometimes be seasoned with butter (120 g), for dessert fruit puree 40 g, juice or yogurt 35 g.
• At 14.00 - a hearty lunch, which includes vegetables and meat. They can be served in the form of soup or mashed potatoes in the amount of 150 g. The child is fed twice a week by artificial feeding fish dishes. For dessert, offer fruit juice (approximately 30 g).
• At 18.00 - the baby can enjoy kefir or yogurt with cookies (120 g), as well as cottage cheese (40 g), fruit puree (up to 80 g) or porridge (60 g) to choose from.
• At 23.00 - the last feeding with milk or an adapted mixture.

Baby menu at 8 months for a week

How to make your favorite baby food diverse? Below is a menu for the week, which you can use as an example:

When composing a menu for a baby of 8 months, focus on his tastes. At this age, kids already have their favorite and least favorite dishes. A new product can be mixed into the usual food, gradually increasing its quantity. Cook with love, and the crumbs will always delight you with an excellent appetite.