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Feeding babies 1 year
Your baby is one year. He now eats almost like you. Almost? Yes, for 1 year, a child still has specific nutritional needs: the diet should provide him good health, sufficient energy and harmonious growth. Here’s how it should ideally be composed, and some tips for eating your baby a year.
Outline of feeding young children 1 year
- Until you give your baby milk second age: replace it with milk growth (± 500 ml daily);
- To fill its need for protein, it will take Baby, more than 30 grams of meat, fish or egg per day;
- Avoid giving your baby fried foods, limit sugar, chocolate and other sweets and soft drinks;
- The only drink for essential baby (except milk)? Water! ;
- Add butter or oil but in small amounts (1 teaspoon per meal);
- A supplement of vitamin D is needed for baby until the age of 2 years. It is prescribed by the pediatrician;
- Offer your baby fruits and vegetables at every meal: sources of vitamins, minerals and fiber, they are valuable for their nutritional balance. In addition, they offer a wide range of tastes and textures to stimulate baby’s taste buds! ;
- A child of 1 year requires 1,300 kcal per day (about 2000 per adult);
- A child knows instinctively what it needs to be shaped. Do not force it to finish his plate if he has more hunger and no incentive to snacking. Otherwise it might grow.
Day type of food a baby or young child of 1 year: breakfast
240 ml of milk growth if necessary with flour or cereal with or without gluten.
Day type of food a baby or young child of 1 year: lunch
- 30 g of meat, fish or egg;
- 200 g of puree (100 g potatoes 100 g + Vegetable + 5 g of butter or a little oil);
- 100 g of milk or 20 g soft cheese;
- 100 g cooked or raw fruit;
- A little bread.
Baby: references, reflux, vomiting
Baby eats only recently and his digestive system is still immature. Often he spits, or even vomit. Sometimes the discomfort generated by the ebb cry long. Here’s what you can do to help your baby overcome releases, reflux and vomiting.
Baby has reflux
Baby spits up milk, sometimes distant meals? It may be reflux, which affects 20% of babies.
Why reflux in a baby? During digestion, milk mixed with stomach juices back up into the esophagus and that baby burn.
To fight against the ebb
- You can use a thickened milk and sleeping baby at a slight angle.
- The doctor may also prescribe medications to promote the closure of the stomach and neutralize its acidity.
Baby references
Immediately after eating, your baby spits up some milk? This is probably a reference and it is common, especially in babies on the go. The reference occurs without effort, and is not dangerous for your baby, even if it is frequent.
Why referrals? The baby’s stomach can not contain any milk ingested and beyond. Or baby drinks too fast. Moreover, during digestion, which occurs in the stomach, gases are produced and removes the baby by burping, sometimes combined with a little liquid.
Preventing references
- Does not widen the hole nipples to increase flow.
- Please make pauses in breathing during the baby bottle so that his stomach does not fill too quickly.
- Around 6 months, with food diversification, references should disappear.
- Consult a doctor if emissions are significant, appear to be painful. It may be reflux.
Baby Digestive system
Baby eats only recently and his digestive system is still immature. Often he spits, or even vomit. Sometimes the discomfort generated by the ebb cry long. Here’s what you can do to help your baby overcome releases, reflux and vomiting.
Baby has reflux
Baby spits up milk, sometimes distant meals? It may be reflux, which affects 20% of babies.
Why reflux in a baby? During digestion, milk mixed with stomach juices back up into the esophagus and that baby burn.
To fight against the ebb
- You can use a thickened milk and sleeping baby at a slight angle.
- The doctor may also prescribe medications to promote the closure of the stomach and neutralize its acidity.
Baby references
Immediately after eating, your baby spits up some milk? This is probably a reference and it is common, especially in babies on the go. The reference occurs without effort, and is not dangerous for your baby, even if it is frequent.
Why referrals? The baby’s stomach can not contain any milk ingested and beyond. Or baby drinks too fast. Moreover, during digestion, which occurs in the stomach, gases are produced and removes the baby by burping, sometimes combined with a little liquid.
Preventing references
- Does not widen the hole nipples to increase flow.
- Please make pauses in breathing during the baby bottle so that his stomach does not fill too quickly.
- Around 6 months, with food diversification, references should disappear.
- Consult a doctor if emissions are significant, appear to be painful. It may be reflux.
The baby pacifier
If you chose to give a pacifier to your baby, here are our tips to good use with baby.
Why the pacifier?
For baby to suckle the baby is a real pleasure and even a physiological need that reassurance.
This stage lasts up to 3 years. During this period, some babies are discovering for themselves how to calm down with the thumb, but not always.
The first few months, give your baby a pacifier to calm thus allows many tears.
To you identify what your baby needs: he does not his thumb, the pacifier but not why it’s a good thing baby also learns to calm himself with a familiar security blanket.
Note: if you are breastfeeding, the nipple may, especially in the first weeks of life, disrupt sucking reflexes and make breastfeeding more difficult.
Choose a pacifier
Choose a teat of a new quality mark (Bébisol ®, Remond ®, Chicco ®, etc..) Teats poor quality can be dismantled and become dangerous to baby.
Check the absolute strength of the nipple and change it when in doubt.
There are different sizes of nipple: choose the right one! In fact, too big nipple can cause the heart to high infant.
The hygiene of the teat
A pacifier, it often falls to the ground … and so it becomes dirty. The pacifier, not to carry germs, should be regularly washed with water and dishwashing liquid and rinsed. You can also sterilize.
The loss of the nipple
Baby fell asleep the pacifier in his mouth but was lost. When he awoke, he cries for the return.
If baby is big enough, put several pacifiers in the bed to be sure he found at least one. If baby is too small, no choice: he must get up!
Attach the nipple to the baby’s pajamas with a short chain (about 10 cm) that will not wrap around baby’s neck. There are such strings in all stores childcare or in supermarkets.
Do not tie the pacifier around his neck so it does not fall: this dangerous system could strangle your baby.
When removing the nipple?
Ideally, for his 3 years, your little no longer use the pacifier (or thumb) elsewhere than in his bed. The risk is to curb his language development.
It may be that your baby is dependent on its tototte, especially if used early. Few children who only decide to part with their pacifier.
Namely especially do not worry if your child still sucks his pacifier and do not make a drama. Help him by asking him to pose while you tell him a story, for example, or walk.
Pacifier or thumb?
The pacifier has several advantages over the thumb can be washed when dirty and discarded when the child is ready. It deforms under the palace baby because it keeps the shorter the thumb.
The thumb’s many other cheaper, we will not lose!
Oral Hygiene Dental baby
The first baby teeth have emerged? No need to wait to worry about your child’s teeth. Here’s how to wash their baby teeth and teach him to have impeccable oral hygiene tooth.
The thrust of baby teeth
The baby teeth have begun to form during pregnancy but usually shows its first baby tooth, an incisor, between 6 and 12 months. On average, a 1 year old baby has 4 teeth. It will then turn the upper incisors (about 10 months down, 12 months and above) and lateral incisors (between 7 and 16 months) and first molars (around 12 months). Finally, the canines (between 16 months and 2 years) and second molars (between 20 and 33 months) will complete the teething baby.
About 3 years, a small child has his 20 baby teeth. And they begin to fall between 5 and 8 years to make room for permanent teeth.
To learn more about teething, you can refer to our fact sheet devoted to the topic of the teething.
Fluoride supplements
Just because your baby has teeth it should be ignored.
If you have sensitive teeth or a history of decay, your baby may also develop caries, and the pediatrician may prescribe fluoride. This mineral, given the form of drops or tablets, protects tooth enamel, which limits the risk of cavities in baby teeth and strengthens tooth enamel formation.
Up to 2 years, pediatricians often prescribe a tablet of 0.25 mg or 4 drops of fluoride each day. Between 2 and 4 years, double the dose: 2 tablets of 0, 25 mg or 8 drops per day.
Eating
However, fluorine is not a shield to decay! Good oral hygiene tooth also requires food. Because sugar promotes the onset of caries.
- Do not add sugar in the bottle of water or giving baby fruit juice throughout the day. When baby is thirsty, give him water pure.
- Avoid leaving a bottle of milk in bed: the sugar and the acidity of milk are harmful plaque.
- Avoid also enjoy the bottle nipple: Your mouth contains bacteria! But caries is an infectious disease that is transmitted through saliva.
How to breastfeed twins
For breastfeeding binoculars most mothers choose to give them one you take two baby seals, and another taken at each separately. This has the advantage of having a more intimate contact with each baby. However, if your baby suck well you can give the breast to both simultaneously.
If babies are still very small, a comfortable position to nurse is to sit in bed, the couch or rocking chair cushions and place in the other two arms and two on your thighs. It supports the baby on pillows and holding her Cabecita with each hand. His feet are below your arms around your back.
If your baby is already bigger, you feel the same way as in the previous position but places two pillows in the lap. It supports the baby in the crook of your elbows, with hands on your buttocks and legs on your thighs. This posture is to hold them too.
Another position for breastfeeding is to combine the previous two. Put two pillows on your lap and place one of the babies in the posture of the previous point. Place another baby as in the first position. The head of the second baby to stay close to the belly of the first baby.