Is your child finally eight months old? As loving and caring parents, you just need to find out how the baby's day regimen should now become and how often you need to eat crumbs at that age. The natural nutrition of a baby at 8 months is different from artificial. However, it is different up to a year.
Meat feeding
At the age of 8 months, doctors are allowed to give the baby a broth cooked on meat, and even add a little mashed vegetables. In order for the child to learn to eat bread, it is recommended to crush a small piece of it into the broth. You can also allow sweet cookies to be eaten.
A child of 8 months, whose daily regimen is strict and clear, should eat boiled meat, as it contains many vitamins and amino acids, protein, and minerals. Doctors recommend using poultry or beef to feed the baby. These varieties are not so fatty, which means that they are easier to digest in the children's body. In addition, all the beneficial substances are preserved in such meat. But before you include boiled meat in the baby’s menu at 8 months old, you need to fully examine it at the pediatrician to avoid various troubles.
Diversity
A child’s nutrition at 8 months should be varied, not only so that the baby does not get bored with the same food, but also to receive all the useful substances in the products.
It is also recommended that the baby be fed with giblets, for example, with a liver or lung, because they are not inferior to meat in usefulness. This way you diversify the diet of your child.
You can add cereals to the meat.
2 times a week instead of meat baby you need to feed fish broth. Fillet is best for its preparation. And you need to check carefully that there is not a single bone in the slush. And fish is very useful for a growing organism.
Also, the baby must be fed cottage cheese once a day, but not more than 50 g.
Despite the fact that a child already has 2-3 teeth by the age of 8 months, all food needs to be well ground.
Vegetable Soup
After testing the meat broth for 14–16 days, the child’s menu at 8 months should include vegetable puree soup, in which 1-2 teaspoons of cream and half boiled chicken yolk can be added. But the portion should not exceed 200 g.
In mashed potatoes, add 2-2.5 small tablespoons of oil to improve the taste and assimilation of nutrients. As well as in meat broth, it is recommended to put a small cracker or just a small piece of bread in the vegetable soup, so that the baby gets used to it. In addition, all pediatricians recommend giving children a little kefir after 6 months to improve the functioning of the stomach and not only.
After the vegetable soup, crumbs can be pampered with a fruit dessert, mashed from it. Or drink natural, preferably freshly squeezed juice.
If a child of 8 months, whose daily regimen has been prescribed above, follows him, then he will certainly grow up to be a healthy and strong person.
Food schedule
Rules for the natural feeding of children without allergies:
- Give your child no more than 250 ml of mother’s milk or mixture and no more than 60 ml of natural juice per day.
- Feed baby puree fruit, but not more than 60 grams per day. To give mother's milk or milk porridge - no more than 190 g per day, adding 2 small tablespoons of butter and 50 g of cottage cheese.
- Cook the broth for your child, adding mashed vegetables (150 g), crumble a small piece of bread. The amount of soup should not exceed 0.23 liters. After you need to drink the child with juice (0.05 l).
- Instead of your milk, you can feed the baby with kefir, but not more than 0.016 liters, treating the baby with sweet baby cookies. Give mashed vegetables and fruits, about 50-60 g.
- Breastfeeding or mixture - 0.22 liters.
Nutrition for a child allergic to cow's milk:
- Feed the baby with mother’s milk, a mixture with a protein substitute or any dairy product. All give about 0.22 liters.
- Boil the porridge in your milk, adding the baby mixture and kefir or fermented baked milk, pour 2 or 2.5 teaspoons of olive oil. For dessert, give your child a delicious fruit puree.
- Make crumbs vegetable puree, but not more than 180 g, and pour 2 small spoons of vegetable oil on it. Make mashed potatoes from meat, and then from fruits, about 60 g each.
- Make any dish of vegetables and cereals and also pour 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil on it. Give meat, and then fruit puree - 40 g per serving.
- Feed the baby with breast milk, a mixture with a protein substitute or any dairy product, soy mixture. All about 220 ml each.
Daily routine
By 8 months, the baby becomes more active. It is very important to pay attention to all the nuances of his upbringing, because at this time the child begins to communicate with society.
Sweet dreams
A child of 8 months, whose daily regimen becomes more intense, sleeps less and plays more, has fun, is naughty, cries, laughs.
The baby has more strength, and therefore instead of the previous 2 hours of wakefulness, now he may not want to sleep 3-4 hours. Parents will also have to gather strength, because upbringing is a job.
Toys for a baby of 8 months are becoming more attractive. And often the baby does not want to sleep during the day, which frightens the young mother.
Ideal for an eight month old baby
6:00 - 7:00
Rise! The kid wants to eat.
6:30 - 8:00
The child needs a morning walk.
8:00 - 10:00
The walk was completely exhausted. Need to sleep.
10 a.m.
Awakening the crumbs. We must eat.
10:30 - 14:00
During this time, the baby needs to have time to do so many useful things! Charging, washing, massage. And walk again!
14:00 - 14:30
Dinner.
14:30 - 16:00
The baby goes to rest, falls asleep if possible, giving her mother a little exercise in her affairs.
16:00 - 18:00
Baby goes to play with his favorite toys. By the way, toys for an 8-month-old baby should be different than before, so their assortment needs to be reviewed.
19:00
Bathing.
19:30 - 22:00
Sleep.
10 p.m.
The kid wakes up and asks to eat. We need to feed him, and he will fall asleep until the morning.
Of course, all this is rarely observed by a child. But if you roughly follow this schedule, the baby will be properly brought up and grow up healthy, strong, strong.
The vagaries of the baby
A child of 8 months, whose daily regimen must be strictly observed, is not always subject to parental rules. The reason for this may be:
- Mother's milk. Mom gives her baby milk too often. It should be given only after the main meal.
- Violation of the regime of the day. The development of a child of 7-8 months depends on the diet, so non-compliance with it can harm the child. Even if something has changed in plans, the baby needs to be fed strictly by the hour, then everything will be in order.
- The teeth . This is the most common cause of moods. The baby experiences pain when the teeth erupt, and the touch of the spoon to the gums causes discomfort, so the baby refuses to eat. In this case, you can not insist. Let him eat as much as he can.
- Room temperature. If the child cries for no apparent reason, then most likely the room is too hot. Scientists have proven that children suffer higher temperatures. Therefore, you need to constantly ventilate the house, but do not forget about the health of the crumbs. Do not create drafts where the baby is. Before nightly airing, it is good to cover the child so that he does not catch a cold.
Young parents will probably wonder when their child turns 8 months old: “What can he do and what should he be able to do at that age?” It all depends on how often they deal with their baby. The more they teach him now, the more hobbies, aspirations and hobbies he will have in the future.