When to start feeding the baby for dinner?

One of the parents' biggest doubts regarding food is the theme of dinners. It is, because when they start eating the different foods they are distributed throughout the day and at night two things happen: either the baby is very sleepy and it is impossible to give him dinner or the custom is to breastfeed (or failing that the bottle) to take the dream.

But of course, at some point you have to start dining like the elders, and that's why we're going to talk about it today: When do they start having dinner?

Spreading food throughout the day

As I have explained, when a baby begins towards six months with complementary feeding, food begins to be distributed throughout the day. This is not how everyone does it, but it is something that many people do: in the morning they are given cereals, made with water or breast milk in the event that they are breastfed or made with artificial milk in the case of I take a bottle. There are those who do not give cereals and directly give more solid food, such as bread, some fruit, and accompany it with the breast or a bottle.

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At noon, when he touches the food, he is given vegetables with protein, which can be both meat and fish. Fish? Yes. It is often recommended to wait with the fish until 9 or 12 months, but the new recommendations say that it is not necessary. In fact, they can eat even egg, which was formerly forbidden until the year and now can be given from six months (The grace of the matter is to add only one new ingredient per day and observe in the following hours, until the next day, to see if there is any kind of reaction).

To snack, the fruit, either in compote or in pieces, and for dinner, milk again. Those of breast milk sure that throughout the day they have been sucking several times. This is desirable, because it is the way to keep getting enough breast milk. Those of artificial milk have to try to reach the 280-500 ml of milk daily, adding the one they have used in cereals.

Milk is still the main food

Until the year of life, milk remains the main food of babies, so you have to try to prioritize those 280-500 ml.

The order that I have explained before is indicative, it is done this way at the beginning because it seems more comfortable and easy, but when you start eating more, the ideal is to start mix the ingredients: put together a meal, for example, vegetables, meat, some bread and some fruit. In this way the absorption of nutrients is better.

Now, the 280 to 500 ml is a rule that must be followed, because many children stay in the middle, precisely because they eat very well. So what you need to do is limit the food and add milk shots again during the day. Therefore Babies who drink breast milk must continue to breastfeed on demand, because you will tell me if not how they are going to take about half a liter with only two or three shots as some professionals suggest (which on the other hand would produce some fear engorgements and perhaps some mastitis in a few days).

When to start dinner?

It seems that he was never going to answer the question, but to answer it he had to explain all the reasons before. Babies start to be fed at dinner when it is not up to 280-500 ml of milk daily to depend on it.

If the baby sucks very little for the day because he barely sees the mother or because he simply does so, it is better not to give him dinner, or give him little, so that he may suck a lot. If the baby has not had much artificial milk for the day, because he eats a lot and arrives at dinner having taken about 180-220 ml of milk, another bottle must be given to try to get it.

Trying to arrive means offering it, in case you want it. If one day you do not arrive and stay at least, nothing happens, but it better not be a rule.

What if he wakes up at night and takes a bottle?

Then you have to tell it too. If you do it every day, if you take a bottle at night, that must also be told. You add it to the total of the day and if between the one of the previous night and the day it already reaches the recommended amount (or stays close, or passes them), you can give it dinner without any regrets.

In fact, they are often given dinner and They also ask you for a little bottle To catch the dream.

What if at night mama?

For the same, there is no way to tell it, but if during the day it has been sucking and at night it also does, because it gives it a little dinner and then, to sleep, the tit. As usual.

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What can I give you for dinner?

That is another question, what to give them for dinner. Until at least 12 months, the ideal is to give them anything, less protein. Babies' kidneys are still immature, so if we have already given them meat, fish or egg at noon it is better not to repeat at night (unless they have eaten too little protein at noon, then it can be done). We can give them vegetables again, add some bread, make them a soup of pasta with broth, some rice too, etc., and finally, some milk to sleep.

I do not know, there are no rules in this regard, the ideal is to give them things that you also eat. Something like making the same dinner for everyone, that's why he already eats your own and you don't have to make extra meals.

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