The Most Nutritious Porridge From 5 Months

The most nutritious for the baby porridge from 5 months

From the five-month old baby, they are gradually introducing baby food and purees, which will be part of your daily diet, providing important nutrients to your diet. We told you what the most nutritious for the baby porridge from 5 months are.

Like adults, babies need variety in their diet, to get different nutrients and to prevent the small get tired of always eating the same food.

The most nutritious porridge from five months

For the reasons stated in previous lines, we will know what the most nutritious from five months old baby food are.

PAP CARROT

It is one of the most popular for babies, for the great attraction that has both color and flavor, and one that has more vitamins.

Ingredients

- 400 gr. carrots
- 200 gr. potato
- 1/4 onion
- 1 small clove garlic
- Water
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Method of preparation

Peel, wash and chop all ingredients and place in a pot with water to cover them up. Simmer for about 30 or 45 minutes until ingredients are tender. Grind until a thin mush; add the olive oil, stirring with a spoon until all ingredients are merged.

PUMPKIN MUSH

It is a very nutritious and very suitable for younger porridge, as they find it soft and pleasant to eat.

Ingredients

- 500 gr. Pumpkin
- 1 carrot
- 1 leek
- 1/2 onion
- 2 small potatoes
- Water
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Method of preparation

Peel, wash and chop the ingredients in a saucepan with enough water to cover them up and cook until tender. After that, grind in a blender to a fine puree, add the olive oil and stir properly.

PAP ZUCCHINI

Like squash, zucchini is suitable for babies begin to introduce new foods into your diet, you can even cook and crush with skin, which provides more vitamins.

Ingredients

- 2 zucchini
- 2 potatoes
- 1/2 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 clove garlic
- Water
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Method of preparation

Wash and chop all ingredients in a saucepan with water until the cover and cook until ingredients are tender. Grind in a blender until a fine cream and add the virgin olive oil. Finally, remove properly until it meets with the other ingredients.

PAP POTATO AND CARROT

It is a simple porridge, which can help you in times when the baby has diarrhea.

Ingredients

- 400 gr. carrots
- 1 medium potato
- 60 gr. of rice
- Water

Method of preparation

Peel, wash and dice the ingredients in a saucepan with water, without covering the ingredients and watching that this is not consummated. When the ingredients are cooked ground to obtain slurry.

What is for you the most nutritious porridge for the baby from 5 months?

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Complementary Feeding, Step by Step

We offer a power scheme that will guide you in introducing the first solid food in your baby's diet, from six months until the first year of life.

With regard to the introduction of the first different than milk, pediatricians indications are less rigid than a decade ago. For example, it is not strictly necessary to start with cereal or fruit give the first slurry at noon or offer food to the child one at a time, leaving a few days before introducing a new food. Now, the introduction of foods can be started with the meat, the first slurry can be given at night and can be offered at the same time, several new foods. However, some mothers prefer to opt for a more traditional scheme, which in fact corresponds to our Mediterranean culture. We present it below.

When to start ideally; start adding foods at six months

Until now, breast milk is more than enough to ensure proper growth of the small. In fact, the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding exclusively for at least the first six months of baby's life, and advised to continue breastfeeding along with other foods, up to two years or more. Pediatric Scientific Community recommends not enter any food other than milk before 17 weeks of age, but do not wait more than 26 weeks to do so.

5-6 months: cereal and fruit

According to the traditional scheme, cereals and fruit are the first foods that are introduced into the infant's diet.

The first porridge

They are made with rice and corn because it does not contain gluten. To begin, simply added a few teaspoons milk bottle below (or milk), to then gradually increase the amount and offer them on a plate. Later, when the child's digestive system is able to digest gluten, you can enter other cereals such as wheat, barley, spelled, rye or oats.

Regarding fruit
- You can start with a puree of apple, pear and banana
- Finely ground, replacing the decision in the afternoon, without adding sugar to the liquid. 

Gradually, they will be introducing new fruits such as oranges, peaches or grapes, and gradually increase the consistency of the purees, offer the child until chopped fruit from the year.

6 months: vegetables and white meat

The vegetable is introduced into the child's diet after six months, in the form of purees and soups. We must give preference to those vegetables that have a sweeter flavor, such as carrots, potatoes and green beans, as it is easier for the child to accept them. After about two weeks, vegetable purees can be enriched with meat.

At first sparingly and finely ground. It is recommended to start with the white meats, such as turkey or chicken, because they are more digestible and have a milder taste.

7 months: red meat

Now, you can add the mashed red meat (beef, lamb, foal ...) and new vegetables, like zucchini, squash, celery, spinach, etc. To keep the nutrients from vegetables and meat intact, it is best to steam. It is also important not to add salt to puree, in order not to meet, from very tiny, too much "sympathy" for salty foods.

9 months: fish

The first pieces of fish can be incorporated into mashed vegetables from nine months. 

It is advisable to start with the white fish (sole, hake, monkfish, etc.), because it contains less fat and is easily digested. To give the child oily fish (tuna, sardines, etc.), we have to wait 18 months; crustaceans will have to avoid up to two years.

It is very important to ensure that the fish is fresh; when in doubt, we will resort to frozen fish, from the nutritional point of view, has nothing to envy to cool and provides greater assurance of hygienic safety.

10 months: egg

At 10 months, you can start giving the child a teaspoon of egg yolk, always well cooked. If allergic reactions occur during administration after 48 hours, we can give a teaspoonful every other day, to move to a bud.

The light has a higher allergenic power, so its introduction is recommended as of the year, starting with a very small amount dissolved in the slurry.

10-12 months: legumes

Lentils, chickpeas, peas ... At this age, they usually enter
Early vegetables in the diet of children (although some pediatricians recommend starting and eight months). At first, we will give pulses as creams or purees. Later, we can offer them whole, trying very overcooked and with some kind of cereal serving. In the case of lentils, it is best to choose those without skin, as are more digestible. If we use dried chickpeas, it is important to keep in soaked for at least ten hours in water before baking.

12 months: growth milk

After the first year of life, if the mother not breastfeed, you can move to the growth milk, whose composition is adapted to, the nutritional needs have children aged one to three years:

Growth milk has more iron and vitamins than cow's milk, but less protein. This is also an advantage, as different studies have shown that excess protein can promote the development of obesity in children.

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Baby Food According to Age

Here are some recommendations for choosing baby food, depending on the stage passing through.

FROM 0 TO SIX MONTHS

The child is a being who is in development and growth, the choice of food offered is determined by the body's ability to handle baby food, both at the hearing, and digestive.

In the newborn, the ability to manage oral food manifests search reflexes, sucking and swallowing. So food is offered during this period is basically settled.

Search these reflexes are present in the baby from birth and beginning to change over time with the growth and development of the baby, while skills that later will allow handle differently food is produced. 

Breastfeeding, as has always been said, is the food par excellence of this stage of growth. Breastfeeding can be offered through breast naturally or artificially with a bottle or bottle.
 

In the bottle, it forms a bed with the tongue and the upper gum and mouth itself, generating a suction mechanism that allows the milk off the bottle.

So the bottle and breast are not the same, either for the baby or adult. Because the child must develop a learning experience that allows the identification of those expressing different behaviors and attitudes towards food offered and adults to ignore the above, I interpret it as a rejection response by the baby.

Between 3 and 4 months begin to take the first changes. Their interaction with the environment, allows the attitude demonstrated to the food, begin to have variations, from a child "judicious" when eating to show interest to a lot of their environment, distracting.

At this time, he develops in the lips and tongue better control, allowing you to start playing with saliva and sometimes the food itself.

It is recommended to continue breastfeeding until the fifth month, basically to give the body time to complete a series of processes that will optimally manage the next stage which we call complementary feeding.

This period is determined by the changes the child to develop in oral skills, to help manage the complementary food properly. To realize the process that occurs, he has to learn to differentiate between spontaneous swallowing food, as we did during the intake of fluids (milk) and at that time you are offered, to be prepared in the mouth, swallowed properly.

When eaten, these actions are done spontaneously, almost without being aware of these, but a baby, the must develop those skills, and this takes time. To facilitate this process the first foods that will offer porridge, which are foods that have a semi-liquid preparation.

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Baby Solid Foods Age 10 to 12 Months

So far, the aim has been to your baby used to the idea of solid foods and to share the table with the rest of the family. Breast milk or formula is still an important part of their diet. However, at the end of the first year, solid foods will be an even more important part of the nutrition of your child.
 

Signs that are ready to eat a more varied selection of solid foods 

• you can hold your head up alone.
• You can sit well in his high chair to eat.
• It is able to make chewing motions.
• Shows interest in food.
• You can close your mouth around a spoon.
• Take things with thumb and index finger (or pinch object).
• You can transfer things from one hand to the other.
• It takes everything in their mouths.
• It has begun to mimic chewing, moving the jaw from side to side.
• It is easier to swallow food.
• He has more teeth.
• Gone is the extrusion reflex of the tongue, that is, the reflection of pushing his tongue out of his mouth all that is solid.
• Try a spoon.

Foods you can give 

• Breast milk: about 3-4 times a day. Either formula: about 3 to 4 bottles of 5 to 6 ounces (147-177 ml), a day.
• Bits of soft pasteurized cheese, yogurt or cottage cheese. If you wonder why those dairy products may be given to a child much earlier than cow's milk (which should not be introduced to the baby's diet until 12 months of age), it is because the culture processes used to make the manufacture easier to digest milk protein and reduce the amounts of lactose.
• Iron fortified cereals (rice, barley, oats, wheat or various mixtures).
• Strips or diced or crushed fruit.
• Chips and soft as cooked peas or carrots vegetables.
• Meals "combo" (macaroni and cheese, stews or casseroles).
• Food you can make with your fingers (dry O-shaped cereal low in sugar, pieces of lightly toasted bread pieces of ripe banana, well-cooked spiral pasta, special teething biscuits).
• Small amounts of protein foods such as eggs, mashed red meat and poultry and fish without spines. You can also offer vegetable purees which have thin skin, such as lentils, peas and or black beans.

How much to eat per day

• 1/3 cup of milk a day (or 1/2 ounce of cheese) products.
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup of iron-fortified cereal.
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup of fruit.
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup of vegetables.
• 1/8 to 1/4 cup protein foods.
• 1/8 to 1/4 cup of food "combo" (macaroni and cheese, stews or casseroles).

Other tips

Enter the new food with three days apart from each other. Thus, if your little one has an allergic reaction you may realize.

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Baby Solid Foods by Age 8 to 10 Months

Baby solid foods by age: 8 to 10 months

This is the time to begin to offer your baby foods that you can take with your fingers, so you can practice how to feed him.

Signs that are ready to eat solid food and you can take with your fingers

• You can hold your head up alone.
• You can sit well in his high chair to eat.
• It is able to make chewing motions.
• Shows interest in food.
• You can close your mouth around a spoon.
• You can move the tongue from side to side but is losing the extrusion reflex of the tongue, that is, the reflection of pushing his tongue out of his mouth all that is solid.
• Take things with thumb and index finger (or pinch object).
• You can transfer things from one hand to the other.
• It takes everything in their mouths.
• It has begun to mimic chewing, moving the jaw from side to side.

Foods you can give

Breast milk: about 3 to 5 times a day. Either formula: about 4 to 5 bottles of 5 to 6 ounces (147-177 ml) daily. In addition to:

• Bits pasteurized soft cheese or cottage cheese. If you wonder why those dairy products may be given to a child much earlier than cow's milk (which should not be introduced to the baby's diet until 12 months of age), it is because the culture processes used to make the manufacture easier to digest milk protein and reduce the amounts of lactose.
• Iron fortified cereals (rice, barley, oats, wheat or various mixtures).
• Fruits and ground as bananas, peaches (peaches), pears, avocado (avocado), cooked carrots, squash (zucchini), potatoes (potatoes) or sweet potatoes (sweet potato) vegetables.
• Food you can make with your fingers (dry O-shaped cereal low in sugar, pieces of lightly toasted bread pieces of ripe banana, well-cooked spiral pasta, special teething biscuits).
• Small amounts of protein foods such as eggs, mashed red meat and poultry and fish without spines. You can also offer vegetable purees which have thin skin, such as lentils, peas and black beans.

How much to eat per day

• 1/4 to 1/3 cup of dairy products a day (or 1/2 ounce of cheese)
• 1/4 to 1/3 cup of iron-fortified cereal
• 1/4 to 1/3 cup of fruit
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup of vegetables 
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup protein foods.

Other tips

Enter the new food with three days apart from each other. Thus, if your little one has an allergic reaction you may realize.

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