Menu for a 6 month old baby. Introducing the first complementary foods if the baby is bottle-fed

Baby nutrition at 6 months changes no matter where the baby is on artificial feedingor natural.

It is upon reaching this age that the child begins to be accustomed to regular adult food, gradually introducing into the menu different kinds complementary foods

We have prepared for you detailed material on how to choose the right first products and dishes, how to prepare them and create a menu for the first time.

New feeding standards: technical details

All parents carefully study information in advance about how and what to feed their baby.

Over time, the child begins to lack the nutrients that he receives from his mother’s milk or infant formula, which means it’s time to introduce him to regular food.

But how do you understand that the time has come, and how exactly to start giving your baby adult food?

By the age of six months, the child becomes more curious, active and active, cooing with might and main and communicating in every possible way with the people around him and the world.

It is at this time that, on average, his acquaintance with complementary foods begins.

It is worth noting that this is true for breastfed babies.

For feeding a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby specialists and parents forums It is advised to introduce complementary foods earlier - in the fourth or fifth month.

We understand the intricacies of feeding a bottle-fed baby at 6 months

The thing is that formulas are not as nutritious as breast milk, and the child will most likely need vitamins"from outside".

Advice: your pediatrician will be able to tell you more precisely when complementary foods should be introduced in your particular case. Consult a professional before making your own decisions.

By six months, the feeding regimen also changes.Mothers can breathe a little more freely and sleep: the baby no longer needs night feedings.

During the day, you should give your child food five times at intervals of three or three and a half hours.

The night break is from eight to ten hours.

Thus, Candidate of Medical Sciences and employee of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Irina Belyaeva recommends giving new food for lunch or another daytime feeding, and saving the first and last for traditional milk or formula.

Nutrition for a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby according to the doctor Komarovsky should include complementary foods during the second feeding - around ten to eleven o'clock in the morning.

The World Health Organization generally recommends offering new foods 2-3 times a day.

Baby nutrition at 6 months: complementary feeding table

The complementary feeding chart is a visual step-by-step schedule with information about foods and when and in what volume they should be introduced into the baby’s diet.

It must be said that there are quite a lot of options for such tables.

Tip: to conveniently organize nutrition for a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby, select a complementary feeding table, print it and hang it in the kitchen. This way, the necessary information will always be directly accessible.

There are several options for products that can be included in the menu for the first feeding.

Among them:

Kefir
Cottage cheese
Porridge
Vegetable puree

It is better to offer the last two to the baby at the beginning of the meal: he feels hungry, which means he will be more willing to pay attention to unusual food.

To begin with, a very small amount, about a teaspoon, will be enough.

If your baby likes the product, gradually increase the serving size to the recommended amount of 150 grams.

The adjustment period averages about a week.

Advice: never force feed your baby if he doesn’t like something! Try changing the product - your baby can be very picky about the flavors offered.

Nutrition for a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby with allergies should include complementary feeding from vegetable puree, and fruits should be chosen only white or green (zucchini, green beans in pods, peas, cabbage or potatoes).

Potatoes can also provoke an allergic reaction, so add them to the puree very little at a time.

Don't force your baby to eat

Vegetable complementary foods will quickly replenish missing vitamins and microelements and improve your health.

Nutrition for a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby without formula may include kefir or milk.

During daytime feeding, you can begin to accustom your baby to solid food: baby crackers or dry bread.

Tip: Swallowing thick food is a real challenge for a six-month-old baby. Be patient and careful. It is best to purchase a soft silicone spoon for the first feeding.

If a child is underweight, porridge is prescribed as the first complementary food.

The best option is milk porridge without milk content, and these are the following cereals:

Corn
Buckwheat

Finished children's products, as a rule, are good option, since environmentally friendly products are selected for its preparation, which are additionally enriched with vitamins and minerals.

Advice: Some children suffer from cow's milk intolerance from an early age. When choosing baby food in this case, make sure that it is based on water or a special dairy-free formula.

Nutrition for a 6 month old baby breastfeedinggiven that good health It starts with pureed vegetables, and only then can you add porridge to complementary foods.

Mastering a new menu: recipes for a six-month-old baby

Having learned general principles, you can move on to direct nutrition planning for a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby and creating a menu.

In general, it can be varied with the following dishes:

Vegetable and fruit puree
Grated apples or carrots
Porridge
Crackers or dryers

Porridge is cooked in water or vegetable broth (the second option is for children with rickets).

It is necessary to thoroughly wash the cereal and cook it, adding 100 grams of water or broth for every 5 grams of grain.

When the dish is cooked, rub it through a sieve or mix thoroughly in a blender, then add hot milk and return to the stove for a few minutes.

The finished porridge can be slightly sweetened and butter added.

After a week or two, add pureed vegetables and fruits to the milk feeding.

Delicious puree for your baby can be made from peas, zucchini, broccoli, apples, bananas, etc.

Vegetable dishes can be seasoned with a small amount of refined, odorless vegetable oil.

Advice: do not prepare dishes for future use - the portion should be fresh each time. If you don’t have time to fuss with preparing for each feeding, prefer ready-made infant formula for complementary feeding.

An approximate daily menu for a six-month-old bottle-fed baby will look like this:

150 grams of porridge with milk and butter and 60 grams of fruit puree
150 grams of pureed vegetables with vegetable oil and 60 milliliters of children's fruit juice
150 milliliters of milk mixture, 40 grams of cottage cheese, 30 milliliters of juice and one small cookie
180-200 milliliters of fresh or fermented milk mixture

In a similar way you can plan menu for a week or more to feed a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby.

A special case- preparing a diet for a baby with an allergy to cow's milk.

Sometimes in such cases, small portions of pureed animal foods are included in the menu to replenish protein in the diet.

In adults, this deficiency is easily compensated by plant sources such as beans or tofu, but these foods are not yet suitable for children.

If you, as a parent, are against meat additives, consult a pediatrician who is monitoring your baby: he will tell you how to optimally create a menu without compromising the child’s health.

We wish you good luck and excellent health to your baby!

Your baby is already 4 months old. He has grown noticeably, become more active, is interested in objects that fall into his field of vision, looks attentively and reaches out to them. The child’s emotional reactions have become much richer: he smiles joyfully at all the people he sees more and more often, and makes various sounds.

Are you still breastfeeding your baby or have you had to switch to mixed or bottle feeding? The child is actively growing, and only with breast milk or infant formula can he no longer receive all the necessary nutrients. This means that it is time to think about complementary feeding.

The optimal time to start introducing it is an interval of 4 to 6 months, regardless of whether the baby receives breast milk or formula. It is at this time that children respond best to new foods. Until 4 months, the baby is not yet ready to accept and digest any other food. And with the late introduction of complementary foods - after 6 months, children already develop significant deficiencies of certain nutrients and, first of all, micronutrients ( minerals, vitamins, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, etc.). In addition, children at this age often refuse new foods, their development of chewing skills for thick foods is delayed, and inappropriate eating habits are formed. It is important to know that, strange as it may seem at first glance, with delayed administration of complementary feeding products, allergic reactions to them are more likely to occur.

In what cases is it advisable to give complementary foods as early as 4 months, and when can you wait until 5.5 or even 6 months? To resolve this issue, be sure to consult your pediatrician.

As a rule, more early age(4 - 4.5 months) complementary foods are introduced to children at risk of developing iron deficiency anemia, as well as children with insufficient weight gain and functional digestive disorders.

The optimal time to start introducing complementary foods to a healthy baby is the age of 5 - 5.5 months.

The World Health Organization recommends that breastfed children be introduced to complementary foods from 6 months of age. From the point of view of domestic pediatricians, which is based on extensive practical experience and conducted scientific research, this is only possible in cases where the child was born on time, without malnutrition (since in these cases the reserves of mineral substances are very small), he is healthy, grows and develops well. In addition, the mother must also be healthy, eat well and use either specialized fortified products for pregnant and lactating women, or courses of vitamin and mineral complexes. Such restrictions are associated with depletion of iron reserves even in absolutely healthy child to 5 - 5.5 one month old and a significant increase in the risk of developing anemia in the absence of complementary feeding products rich or fortified with iron. Other deficiency states also arise.

The first complementary feeding product can be vegetable puree or porridge; it is better to give fruit puree to the baby later - after delicious sweet fruits, children usually eat vegetable puree and porridge worse, and often refuse them altogether.

Where is the best place to start? In cases where a child has a tendency to constipation or gains weight too quickly, preference should be given to vegetables. If there is a high probability of developing anemia, unstable stools and small weight gains, use baby cereals enriched with micronutrients. And if you started introducing complementary foods with cereals, then the second product will be vegetables and vice versa.

If the first complementary foods are introduced at 6 months, it must be baby porridge, enriched with iron and other minerals and vitamins, the supply of which through breast milk is no longer sufficient.

Another important complementary feeding product is meat puree. It contains iron, which is easily absorbed. And adding meat to vegetables improves the absorption of iron from them. Meat puree It is advisable to administer to a child at the age of 6 months. Only daily use children's fortified porridge and meat puree allows you to meet the needs of babies for iron, zinc and other micronutrients.

But it is better to introduce juices later, when the child is already receiving the main complementary foods - vegetables, cereals, meat and fruits. After all, complementary feeding is needed so that the baby receives all the substances necessary for growth and development, and juices contain very little of them, including vitamins and minerals.

Juices should not be given in between feedings, but after the child has eaten porridge or vegetables with pureed meat, and also as an afternoon snack. The habit of drinking juices between meals leads to frequent snacking in the future, a love of sweets is instilled, children are more likely to develop tooth decay and the risk of developing obesity increases.

With the beginning of the introduction of complementary foods, the child is gradually transferred to a 5-time feeding regimen.

Rules for introducing complementary foods:

preference should be given to children's products industrial production, they are made from environmentally friendly raw materials, have a guaranteed composition and degree of grinding
a complementary feeding product should be offered to the child from a spoon at the beginning of feeding, before breastfeeding (formula feeding)
the volume of the product increases gradually, we start with ½ - 1 spoon, and in 7 - 10 days we bring it to the age norm, subsequent products within the same group (porridge from other cereals or new vegetables) can be introduced faster, in 5 - 7 days
We begin the introduction with monocomponent products
It is not advisable to give a new product in the afternoon; it is important to monitor how the child reacts to it
new products are not introduced in the event of acute diseases, as well as before and immediately after preventive vaccination (you should refrain for several days)

Introducing the new kind complementary foods, try one product first, gradually increasing its quantity, and then gradually “dilute” this product with a new one. For example, you can start vegetable complementary feeding with a teaspoon of zucchini puree. For a week, give your baby only this product, gradually increasing its volume. After a week, add a teaspoon of broccoli or cauliflower puree to the zucchini puree and continue to increase the total volume every day. A vegetable puree made from three types of vegetables would be optimal. The portion must correspond to the age norm. Over time, you can replace the introduced vegetables with others faster.

After introducing one vegetable (bringing its volume to the required amount), you can move on to eating porridge, and diversify your vegetable diet later.

If the child does not like the dish, for example, broccoli, do not give up on your plan and continue to offer this vegetable in small quantities - 1-2 spoons daily, maybe not just once, but 2-3 times before meals, and after 7 - 10, and sometimes it takes 15 days for the baby to get used to the new taste. This will diversify the diet and help the baby form the right taste habits.

Spoon feeding should be done patiently and carefully. Force feeding is unacceptable!

In the diet of healthy children, porridge is usually introduced after vegetables (the exception is healthy breastfed children, when complementary foods are introduced from 6 months). It is better to start with dairy-free, gluten-free porridges - buckwheat, corn, rice. It is important to use porridge for baby food industrial production, which contains a complex of vitamins and minerals. In addition, it is already ready for use; you just need to dilute it with breast milk or the formula that the baby receives.

For children suffering from food allergies, complementary foods are introduced at 5 - 5.5 months. The rules for introducing products are the same as for healthy children; in all cases, it is introduced slowly and starts with hypoallergenic products. Individual tolerance must be taken into account. The only difference is in adjusting the diet taking into account the identified allergens. From meat products At first, preference should be given to turkey and rabbit purees.

Diets for different age periods

It is better to explain how you can create a diet using several examples that will help you navigate in creating a menu specifically for your child.

From 5 months, the volume of one feeding is on average 200 ml.

Option 1.

If your child began receiving complementary foods from 4 to 5 months, then at 6 months his diet should look like this:

I feeding 6 hours	Breast milk or VHI*	200 ml
II feeding 10 hours	Dairy-free porridge**	150 g 50 ml
III feeding 14 hours	Vegetable puree Supplementary feeding with breast milk or VHI*	150 g 5 - 30 g 1 tsp 30 ml
IV feeding 18 hours	Fruit puree Breast milk or VHI*	60 g 140 ml
V feeding 22 hours	Breast milk or VHI*	200 ml

* - infant formula

Option 2.

Another option for the diet of a 6-month-old child, if complementary feeding was introduced from 4 to 5 months:

I feeding 6 hours	Breast milk or VHI*	200 ml
II feeding 10 hours	Dairy-free porridge** Fruit puree	150 g 20 g
III feeding 14 hours	Vegetable puree Meat puree Vegetable oil Fruit juice	150 g 5 - 30 g 1 tsp 60 ml
IV feeding 18 hours	Fruit puree Breast milk or VHI*	40 g 140 ml
V feeding 22 hours	Breast milk or VHI*	200 ml

* - infant formula
** - diluted with breast milk or DMS

Option 3.

Approximate daily diet for a breastfed child aged 6.5 months, if complementary foods were introduced at 6 months:

I feeding 6 hours	Breast milk
II feeding 10 hours	Dairy-free porridge** Supplementation with breast milk	100 g
III feeding 14 hours	Vegetable puree Meat puree Vegetable oil Supplementation with breast milk	100 g 5 - 30 g 1 tsp
IV feeding 18 hours	Breast milk
V feeding 22 hours	Breast milk

** - diluted with breast milk

Until 7 months, the volume of porridge and vegetable puree should be increased to 150 g and fruit puree should be introduced.

The materials were prepared by employees of the department of nutrition of healthy and sick children of the Scientific Center for Children's Health and are based on the recommendations given in the “National Program for Optimizing Feeding of Children in the First Year of Life in Russian Federation", approved at the XVİ Congress of Pediatricians of Russia (02.2009)

The baby is six months old. It's time to diversify his diet. A child’s menu at 6 months must necessarily consist largely of: breast milk. If the mother does not have enough milk, then the children are prepared with various milk formulas appropriate to their age. Such mixtures are optimal for fully providing the child with the necessary microelements and vitamins. But besides this, the time has come to accustom the baby to adult food.

Noon is the ideal time to introduce complementary foods.. It is better to breastfeed your baby in the morning and before bedtime. If before this period the child ate only breast milk, then juice or vegetables and fruits can be introduced as complementary foods. Consult your pediatrician; he already knows your child well and will help you choose the most optimal products. You need to start giving complementary foods with half a teaspoon and gradually increase to 150 grams. When the baby gets used to one new product, you can introduce something else into his diet.

Start preparing the porridge thinner at first, then gradually make the porridge thicker. You can add a few drops of vegetable or fruit juice to the porridge.

It’s one thing to know about a child’s nutritional problems “theoretically” and quite another to face them in practice. How to organize? At what time, in what form and in what quantity should they be offered? These questions often confuse moms and dads. We hope that the sample menus for a growing child, which we are starting to publish in this issue, will become a model that will help you create an individual menu for your baby.

TO 6 months baby He grew up noticeably and became more active and energetic. He is interested in objects that come into his field of vision, looks at them carefully, and increasingly makes guttural, melodious sounds, repeating them with different intonations. The child’s emotional reactions have become much richer: he smiles joyfully at his mother, father, and other people whom he often sees, and is wary at the sight of strangers, reacting to the intonation of adults. Of course, you are still breastfeeding your baby, but the composition of breast milk can no longer fully meet his needs. This means that it is time to think about complementary feeding.

Menu for a 6 month old baby: new dishes

If a breastfed baby develops normally, then until 4-6 months he does not need any additional food products, including fruit puree and juices. This also applies to those children who are breastfed prone to allergies: if the pediatrician does not identify any deficiency nutrition for a 6 month old baby, then complementary foods are introduced at the usual time, taking into account individual tolerance of the products.

Artificially-bred children quickly begin to experience a lack of a number of substances necessary for normal growth and development. Consequently, the need for additional nutrition for children 6 months old. Therefore, new products in the form of juices and then fruit purees are introduced into their diet at approximately 3.5 - 4 months. Children receiving formulas made from soy protein or protein hydrolysate (this happens in the case of an allergy to cow's milk proteins) experience a lack of animal protein earlier than others. Therefore, meat puree from twice-cooked meat is introduced into their diet already at 5 - 5.5 months. If you are intolerant to beef, veal, the proteins of which are similar in composition to cow's milk proteins, it is recommended to use lean pork, horse meat, rabbit, turkey or chicken, as well as baby food containing horse meat or pork. However, these products must be introduced to children with allergies carefully, taking into account individual tolerance.

Menu for a 6 month old baby: new diet

On 5 months of baby's life should be fed not 6, but 5 times a day at intervals of 3.5 hours and a 10-hour night break. Complementary feeding is best given at lunch (about 13 hours), and if for some reason this is inconvenient, then at any other feeding except the first and last. In this case, it will be easier for the child to wean himself off the first feeding (at 6 a.m.), and overeating at night is just as harmful for children as it is for adults.

A non-dairy product should be offered before breastfeeding or formula feeding - while the baby is still hungry and attracted to food. Start with a small volume (a few drops of juice, half a teaspoon of puree or porridge). Over 10 - 12 days, gradually increase the amount of food to the required volume (for complementary foods this volume is about 150 grams). In order for a child to learn to swallow thick food, he must be fed with a spoon patiently and carefully; It is advisable that the baby’s first spoon be soft (for example, silicone).

If the child does not like the dish, do not insist; Force feeding is unacceptable!

Let your child get used to one dish first and only then introduce him to another. When introducing a new type of complementary food, try one product first, gradually increasing its quantity, and then gradually “dilute” this product with a new one. For example, vegetable complementary feeding can be started with half a teaspoon of zucchini puree. For a week, give your baby only this puree, gradually increasing its volume. After a week, add half a teaspoon of pea puree to the zucchini puree. Continue to gradually increase the volume of the zucchini-pea mixture, etc.

You should start complementary feeding with either porridge or vegetable puree. In cases where a child has signs of rickets, anemia, or food allergies, we recommend starting with vegetable puree. Part puree for children with food allergies, it is necessary to include only green and white vegetables (zucchini, cabbage, green beans, peas, potatoes). Since potatoes have fairly high allergenic properties, their amount should not exceed 20% of the total volume of puree. To prepare puree, you can use both natural (including frozen) vegetables and canned vegetables for baby food from the above light-colored vegetables. Vegetable oil (sunflower, corn, olive) is added to the vegetable puree - preferably refined and deodorized.

Menu for a 6 month old baby those with insufficient body weight, as well as children who regurgitate frequently, can be given porridge as their first complementary food. In the diet of healthy children, porridge is usually introduced after vegetables. It is better to start with gluten-free milk porridges (buckwheat, corn, rice). In this case, preference should be given to cereals for baby food industrial production, which are prepared from environmentally friendly raw materials, enriched with vitamins, mineral salts (including iron) and do not require cooking. Even if your baby is healthy, has no signs of allergies, and you prefer to prepare porridge yourself, it is advisable not to use whole cow’s milk to prepare porridge until 8 months. It can be cooked breast milk, the mixture that the baby is fed, if necessary - with water. Many industrially produced cereals already contain milk powder; you can also give them at 5-6 months. In the first days, the porridge is prepared at 5 percent strength (5 grams of cereal per 100 grams of liquid): the porridge should be liquid - such that it flows from a spoon. Gradually cook the porridge thicker. You can add butter (from 5 months) and 1/4 hard-boiled egg yolk (from 6 months) to the finished porridge.

For children suffering from cow's milk protein intolerance, a second complementary food - dairy-free porridge - is introduced from 5 months. It can be buckwheat, corn, rice, oatmeal, barley porridge (the range of cereals is selected individually). When purchasing ready-made porridge, make sure that it does not contain powdered cow's milk. Porridge is prepared with water or with a specialized mixture that the child receives (based on soy or protein hydrolysate).

Menu for a 6 month old baby

Option 1. If your baby received exclusively breast milk up to 5 - 6 months and was growing and developing normally, then now is the time to start introducing new foods into his diet. Depending on the individual characteristics child, doctor’s recommendations and your personal wishes, it can be juice, puree - fruit or vegetable. If a child is prone to allergic reactions, as a first, new baby product in some cases, vegetable puree can be recommended (from half a teaspoon, gradually increase the serving volume to 150 g). 2 - 3 weeks after this, the child can be offered another new product. A month after the baby started receiving new foods, his menu may look something like this:

Option 2. If your child starts receiving additional nutrition and complementary feeding at an earlier date (from 4 to 4.5 months) as prescribed by a doctor, then by 6 months his diet may look something like this:

Option 3. Approximate daily diet for a 6-month-old child who is bottle-fed and receives new foods from 4 months:

Option 4. Approximate daily diet for a 6-month-old child with an allergy to cow's milk proteins:

I feeding	Breast milk Fermented milk product Soy mixture
II feeding	8-10% dairy-free porridge with added breast milk, fermented milk product, soy formula or hydrolysate Ghee (vegetable) oil Fruit puree (apple, pear, plum)	3 g (1/2 tsp)
III feeding	Vegetable puree Vegetable oil Meat puree Fruit puree	3 g (1/2 tsp) 20 – 50 g (4 tsp) 20 g (4 tsp)
IV feeding	Dish of cereals and vegetables dish (zucchini+rice; cauliflower+buckwheat 1:1) Vegetable oil Meat puree Fruit puree	3 g (1/2 tsp)
V feeding	Breast milk Fermented milk product Soy mixture Protein hydrolyzate mixture

The nutrition that the baby receives in the form of mother's milk or an adapted formula becomes insufficient for all the needs of the grown-up toddler. The time is coming to get acquainted with new food, that is, complementary foods. Let's look at what new foods you can give your six-month-old baby to try.

What foods can you already eat?

Six months is the right time for the first feeding of a baby who was previously exclusively breastfed. Gastrointestinal tract The little one is already ready to try vegetables, cereals and fruits.

Parents should decide together with their pediatrician which product to introduce first. Babies who are gaining weight poorly are recommended to start with cereals, and well-fed babies with frequent constipation should start complementary feeding with vegetable dishes. Check out the table for introducing complementary foods when breastfeeding.

Calculate your complementary feeding table

Please note the following:

Vegetables are given in the form of puree from one type of vegetable, offering the baby 5 grams for the first time. Next, the portion is carefully increased to the age-appropriate dosage - 100 grams per day. When the baby has become accustomed to one vegetable, they begin to offer him a second type of vegetable, again starting with 5 grams.
Porridge at 6 months of age is prepared without milk, but can be diluted with human milk or formula. The first portion of porridge will be 10 grams, after which the total amount of porridge eaten per day is increased to 150 grams.
Babies who are accustomed to vegetables and cereals begin to offer fruits. They are also given in the form of a one-component puree - first 5 grams for the first sample, and then every day more up to a daily dose of 30 grams.

There are also many supporters of using it for first feeding fermented milk products. Among them is the famous pediatrician Komarovsky. A popular doctor recommends starting to give kefir to a healthy 6-month-old baby. The product is offered during the second feeding, gradually increasing the portion to 160 ml. From the fifth day of introducing kefir into the baby’s diet, Komarovsky advises starting to add cottage cheese to it. Its daily portion for a 6-month-old baby is 30 g. Read more about introducing complementary foods according to Komarovsky in another article.

In situations where the mother has little breast milk or is unable to feed the baby adapted mixture, acquaintance with vegetables and cereals is postponed to more early date– 4-5 months (we advise you to follow our table for introducing complementary foods when artificial feeding). Artificial babies also begin complementary feeding at an earlier age. By the time they are 6 months old, these babies have already tried fruit purees and porridge (dairy-free), as well as vegetable purees with vegetable oil. At 6 months of age, they only increase the portions of these dishes and begin to add butter.

Rules for introducing complementary foods

You should start with one product, and each subsequent new product can be introduced only after habituation (lasts on average 3-5 days) and the absence of allergic reactions.
You cannot give two foods at the same time that the child is not familiar with before, because if a reaction occurs, you will not be able to understand which product provoked it.
The volume of product for the first sample is half a teaspoon.
The new product should be washed down with breast milk or formula.
It is worth giving a new dish in the morning feeding, then by the end of the day it will become noticeable whether the child tolerates it normally.
It is recommended to keep a diary in which you note all the foods your baby eats.
Introducing new food should be postponed if the baby is sick, as well as during vaccination (three days before vaccination and several days after it).
If your baby refuses to try a new dish, don’t insist.
In a situation where a product has caused an allergy or other negative reaction, new dishes are not given until the painful manifestations disappear.

How much should a baby eat?

Total amount of food per day for six month old baby calculated based on his body weight. Children over 6 months of age should eat 1/8 to 1/9 of their body weight per day.

Diet

At six months of age, a child has an average of 5 meals a day, with breaks between them ranging from three and a half to four hours.

Sample menu

For a child who was exclusively breastfed until 6 months, at 6 months after the introduction of new products, the menu will look like this:

For a baby whose mother, due to a lack of milk, began feeding from 4-5 months, the daily menu will be as follows:

For a formula-fed baby, the diet at 6 months is as follows:

Any new product should be given before feeding.
A 6-month-old baby should use a sieve, mixer or blender to prepare food, as it is important to achieve a uniform structure. A very thick dish is diluted with milk (mother’s milk or formula), vegetable broth or boiled water.