Your baby is growing and developing. And now he was already seven months old. You are already familiar with complementary foods; one feeding is replaced by solid foods. If the child likes everything, there are no allergic reactions, rashes, upset stools - you can introduce new dishes. Nutrition at 7 months involves the introduction of cottage cheese, meat, egg yolk and cookies into the diet. The time has come to expand the range of already familiar dishes: porridge or vegetable puree, juices, fruits. In vegetable dishes , you already need to add not only vegetable, but also butter.
Nutrition at 7 months should be based on gradualness, moderation. Diversity in the diet should not be achieved through frequent product changes, but through different dishes. A new complementary feeding product should be introduced gradually, achieving a complete replacement of one feeding within a week or 10 days.
Let's find out how to feed a baby at 7 months and what delicious dishes can be prepared.
The options and sequence for introducing new dishes can be different:
- porridge, cottage cheese, meat, cookies, egg yolk;
- meat, yolk, cottage cheese, cookies;
- mashed vegetables, cottage cheese, cookies, meat, egg yolk.
Pumpkin Puree
To prepare pumpkin puree, it is necessary to peel the ripe pumpkin from the peel and seeds, cut into small cubes, and put on the fire to stew in water (small amount). When the pumpkin is ready (soft), it is rubbed through a sieve, mixed with hot boiled milk to the required consistency, and salt is added. Beat the whole mass well, and again boil for about 2-3 minutes. In the finished puree add butter.
Meat Puree
30 grams of meat, sliced, put in a container of water (50 ml) and simmer until cooked. Pass the meat through a meat grinder twice, add 25 ml of hot broth, salt. Beat the mass well so that the meat puree is soft and airy.
In the early days of the introduction of meat, it is added to vegetable puree, starting from 5 grams and gradually bringing to normal. After a while, you can cook the meat broth for the soup, and give it to the baby every day.
Meat broth
To prepare the meat broth, 30-40 grams of beef or veal, cut into small cubes, put in a pan with water and put on the stove. When the water boils, reduce the heat and cook the meat for 2-2.5 hours. 20-30 minutes before cooking, chopped carrots (5-10 grams), parsley and dill can be added to the broth. After the meat broth is ready, you can put vegetables in it and cook the soup.
As for cottage cheese, it must be purchased in a dairy kitchen. If there is none, then you can cook the cottage cheese at home or buy a children's cottage cheese, specially designed for children from 6 months.
If you cook cottage cheese for a child at home, all sanitary conditions must be strictly observed, because dairy products are the most frequent culprits of intestinal infections in young children.
Nutrition at 7 months involves the introduction of another new product in the diet - egg yolk. You can enter the yolk, provided that the child has no allergic reactions and rashes.
The egg must be hard boiled, after which they take out the yolk and rub it with breast milk or an adapted milk mixture. Yolk is added to mashed vegetables. Offer it to the child every other day in ¼ part.
Offer your child a variety of juices: plum, carrot, quince, blackcurrant, apricot.
Supplementation at 7 months involves the expansion of the range of fruit purees, the baby has already met with them at six months. In the seventh month of life, you can enter two-component fruit purees from different berries and fruits.
At 7 months, biscuits are introduced into the diet (biscuit, without aromatic additives), soaked in milk or a mixture.
The menu of a baby at 7 months looks something like this:
- 6:00 - milk (breast or adapted mixture);
- 10:00 - milk, cottage cheese 40 gr, 50-60 grams of fruit puree;
- 14:00 - 150 gr vegetable puree, ¼ part of the yolk, juice (20-30 ml);
- 18:00 - 50-150 grams of cereal with fruit, cookies (5 grams), milk (breast or adapted mixture), 20 ml of juice;
- 22:00 - milk (breast or adapted mixture).