Proper diet for an 8 month old baby. Eating a child at eight months: diet regimen and menu

In the full 8 months, if earlier as complementary foods the child has already met vegetables, cereals, vegetable soups and fruit puree, now he can eat cottage cheese, meat, kefir, fresh seasonal berries without large seeds, fish can be gradually introduced into the menu.

The diet of an 8-month-old baby is already quite diverse, but remember that at least 2 feedings per day must be given a highly adapted (or partially adapted, casein) milk formula or breast milk. Lactation in a minimum volume should ideally be maintained up to 1.5 years.

The basic rule for the introduction of new food (including ingredients in soups) as complementary foods: no more than one new product in 10 days, starting with the amount of 1-2 teaspoons and gradually increasing to 60-100 grams. All complementary foods should be pureed or ground through a sieve.

Menu of the child in full 8 months

What can a child eat at 8 months, an approximate menu:

Breakfast options:

• children's cottage cheese from a specialized store, home-made cottage cheese prepared using sourdough or cottage cheese from a dairy kitchen; plus fresh berries without large seeds (for example, lingonberries) or fruit puree;
• fruit puree + baby biscuits + baby cottage cheese;
• porridge + compote or children's tea with cookies.

The volume of breakfast can be 200 grams.

Dinner: vegetable puree soup (150-180 grams) + chopped veal 30 grams (meat types are already expanding, we will talk about this below) + children's tea or compote. In the soup, you can add 1/4 chicken yolk of a hard-boiled egg. Please note: meat (veal or lean beef) should be cooked for at least 2-2.5 hours!

Dinner: should be interchanged with breakfast, if cottage cheese was eaten for breakfast, then offer porridge (180-200 grams) for dinner, if porridge, then there will be cottage cheese (or kefir) + cookies (5-10 grams) for dinner.

+ 2-3 more feedings: breast milk or formula. Also, at 8 months, a child can eat chopped fruits: pears, bananas, apples. If there are no teeth yet, then they must be ground with a blender into a puree. Do not overdo it with the quantity, for the most part, children of this age are still just trying new tastes, the digestive system continues to develop, the enzymes for digestion continue to mature.

Do not forget to offer your baby a clean boiled water(be sure to boil and cool to room temperature) from a bottle or drinker - let him drink as needed. You should not use a special "children's" one (or only in boiled form), since it does not meet microbiological quality standards (Roskontrol's expertise).

What can be introduced into complementary foods for an 8 month old baby

If you have already successfully introduced your baby to vegetables, cereals, fruit purees and a small amount of meat, then a child at 8 months old can already eat such foods:

• add butter to the porridge (when buying, we carefully monitor the composition, storage temperature in the store’s refrigerator and expiration date) with a volume of 1/4 teaspoon per 180 ml of porridge;
• give a taste of fish broth from low-fat fish: cod or pike perch;
• children whose weight does not reach the norm or babies with low hemoglobin are recommended to try beef tongue and liver: they have high nutritional value and mineral content;
• in addition to veal and beef, you can introduce a little chicken, rabbit or turkey into the diet;
• kefir, starting with 20 ml and gradually increasing to 70-100 (in addition to the main meals).

Take your time: if up to 6 months the child was completely on a highly adapted willow or hw (according to WHO recommendations), it takes a long time to get used to a new taste and cannot eat a large portion of complementary foods - do not worry. All children are individual, perhaps for your baby at 8 months old, acquaintance with veal will be enough, but he is not yet ready for rabbit, turkey and bananas.

How much should a baby eat at 8 months

There are 3 options for how much a baby should eat at 8 months:

• For a child slowly adapting to complementary foods or in a situation where complementary foods were started at the 7th month: feeding 2 times a day with complementary foods, once - porridge, the second - vegetable soup-puree + introduce meat. Each about 100-200 grams. The rest of the feeding - a mixture or GW as needed. Fruit - without fanaticism, a plus for the main diet, if you wish.
• For a baby adjusting to a new food at a normal, non-forced pace: 3-4 complementary foods per day plus 3 breast milk or formula feeds. The amount of complementary foods per day is approximately 450 grams. Introduced vegetables, meat, cereals, cottage cheese, yolk.
• A child at the full 8 months can already eat almost all of the above, plus fish, if complementary foods were introduced from 6 months at a fast, forced pace. Breast milk or formula is consumed 1-2 times a day. This state of affairs is the "norm" only conditionally.

The baby is growing, he is already eight months old. The child at this age becomes more active. The usual diet no longer satisfies the needs of the crumbs for nutrients. It is necessary to expand the menu and give the child to try new dishes.

What can a baby eat at 8 months

A grown-up eight-month-old baby, regardless of type, needs to be given porridge. Rice, buckwheat, corn, oat and barley porridge are suitable for this age. Millet porridge should not be given yet, it is too rough for the baby's gastrointestinal tract.

It is good for the health of the crumbs at this age to give him broths on vegetables. At the age of eight months, babies eat hard-boiled yolk. If the baby is not used to it yet, then it's time to give him a try of this product. The yolk can be included in the diet once a week.

All new products should be given to the child gradually, starting with small portions and gradually increasing the volume. In doing so, it is important to act consistently. You can not accustom the baby to two or more products at the same time.

Eight months of age is a good time to introduce your baby to fruits. The body of the crumbs is quite strong and the likelihood of developing allergies is minimal. This is also the most recommended age to give the baby berries.

An eight-month-old baby needs to be given fish. It contains many components that help the development of bone tissue and the proper functioning of the heart. Fish is especially recommended to include in the diet of children who are on artificial feeding. There are few vitamins in their menu, besides, with the early introduction of complementary foods, the body of such children is already quite ready to get acquainted with fish. Be sure to choose marine fish, since river fish are often infected with helminths.

Not all mothers know this, but babies of eight months of age are allowed to give bread. It should be a small piece that serves as a snack for the child and teaches him to chew. Also this is the most best time for injection into milk crumbs. Initially, it must be diluted in half with boiled water.

Menu for a child at 8 months

For the health of the baby, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the diet. Feeding should be done every day at about the same time. You can have small snacks between main meals. If the baby feels hungry all the time, then it makes sense to increase the amount of servings. As a snack, there can be children's cookies, a piece of fruit or a cracker.

• The baby's breakfast should be from 6.00 to 7.00 in the morning, it should consist of breast milk or a portion of baby food.
• From 10.00 to 11.00 hours the baby receives a portion of porridge boiled in water or milk. At the same time, you can give him some chicken yolk.
• For lunch, which should be from 14.00 to 15.00, the baby is given on meat broth or meat or vegetable puree and separately broth.
• The baby's dinner should take place from 18.00 to 19.00, for which he receives some kind of dairy product and fruit puree.
• At night, the child is given a portion of baby food or breast milk. This should be from 22.00 to 22.30 hours.

This feeding regimen is not mandatory, as all babies are different. The mode of wakefulness and sleep in children is also not the same, so the feeding time may vary.

When sick or while the baby is teething, he usually becomes capricious and more often refuses ordinary food, preferring breast milk. Such nutrition, as well as the sucking process itself, soothe the baby and make him feel protected. After improving health, the feeding regimen is returned to normal.

How much should a baby eat at 8 months

In general, an eight-month-old baby should eat about 1 liter of food by volume throughout the day. However, water is not taken into account in this calculation. Since a baby of this age eats five times a day, it is easy to calculate that a child should receive about 200 grams of food per feeding.

You can learn more about the nutrition of a baby at the age of eight months from the following table. It takes into account that the child is already familiar with complementary foods, although he continues to receive breast milk or baby food.

In the first year of a baby’s life, each new week prepares something unusual and new for him, including the diet of the crumbs.

Menu 8- month old baby breastfeeding is no longer as scarce as, for example, a six-month-old baby, and therefore here you can already show your imagination and culinary talents to surprise the little one. We offer you an approximate list of allowed foods and a sample diet, which you can always use if you do not know what to feed your baby.

• Mother's milk becomes the first meal of the day, it is best to feed the baby around six in the morning, but these values ​​\u200b\u200bare very arbitrary and approximate. Therefore, it is best to build on the daily regimen of the baby itself and not disturb him in vain if, for example, he likes to sleep longer in the morning. Just move your meal times.
• The time for the second breakfast comes four hours after the first. And this time the baby should be offered something more satisfying. For lunch, nutritious and high-calorie dishes are usually offered, which at 8 months of breastfeeding can already be very diverse.
• At two o'clock in the afternoon, lunch should be offered to the child. It also consists of healthy and satisfying meals that give the body crumbs energy and essential vitamins and minerals.
• Around six in the evening, an eight-month-old baby usually begins the period of evening meals - dinner. It should not be as high-calorie as lunch, and therefore, traditionally, easily digestible dishes are chosen for it.
• The last meal of the day is between 9:00 and 10:00 pm. Here it is best to offer the baby breast milk, but if the baby needs something else, then you can offer him baby tea, some juice or compote.

What is included in the menu of an eight-month-old baby on breastfeeding

Feeding a child this month usually goes without difficulty - the grown-up peanut is happy to eat nutritious meals and treats himself to new foods. If the baby is not bothered by frequent colic, problems with stools and allergies, then it can already be fed with almost all foods and their categories, including even fish puree.

Kashi

They are great for a second breakfast and saturate the baby's ventricle for a long time. Usually children eat cereals with pleasure and love cereals, so you can please an eight-month-old baby with buckwheat, rice, and corn porridge, and also add a little pearl barley or oatmeal to them.

At this age, it is quite possible for a baby to add a little butter to dishes, moreover, with such an ingredient, babies eat their portion of porridge much more willingly.

Vegetables

Most of the vegetables are already allowed for crumbs, except for frankly heavy ones for the stomach. Carrots, zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli, ordinary potatoes and much more are very useful.

As in the case of cereals, such a dish can be flavored with a small piece of butter. And you can do with vegetable.

Meat

A crumb at eight months is very useful and even necessary to eat meat. It can be beef, veal, chicken or rabbit, as well as turkey.

If the baby does not eat meat well, try adding a little salt to the dish or mixing the meat puree with the product that the baby knows and loves well - for example, add it to vegetable puree.

Fish

At the age of eight months, the child can begin to be introduced to the fish. Doctors recommend offering only low-fat and white varieties of fish, such as cod or hake. But you should not give fish delicacies too often at eight months - it is better to do this no more than once or twice a week.

Fruits

As in the case of vegetables, during this period the baby may already try everything except for highly allergenic varieties of fruits.

At eight months, many babies are happy to eat fruit purees and drink juices and compotes.

Other products

This month, you can introduce your child to bakery products by offering him a cracker. Of course, under your vigilant control. You can also give the baby kefir with bread as a snack for a late dinner.

Sample menu for an 8-month-old breastfed baby

First feeding, early breakfast

Mom's breast milk. Usually at this age, babies drink about 200 milliliters of milk per feeding.

Lunch

Milk porridge: buckwheat, oatmeal (especially useful for babies who often suffer from constipation), rice.

As a dessert, offer crumbs fruit puree.

Dinner

Vegetable soup, a meat dish or meat puree with vegetables, fish, bread with boiled chicken yolk are also perfect for lunch.

After eating, you can offer your baby a drink - fruit juice, compote or some tea.

Dinner

At this time, it is better not to overload the baby's body with heavy foods, so it is better to offer him kefir or juice, as well as some bread or cookies. Finally, offer your baby your milk.

Second dinner

Like an early breakfast, the very last meal at eight months for a breastfed baby consists of milk.

What can you cook for an eight-month-old baby for breastfeeding

Since the list of allowed foods is growing every new month, at this age, babies can already cook a wide variety of dishes. If he is happy to gobble up new cereals and purees, then you can add a few new ingredients to them so that the baby’s menu is varied and does not bother him.

For example, hard-boiled chicken yolk is great for boiled vegetables or mashed potatoes. Mash it up and add it to potatoes or cauliflower, adding a little butter to the dish. It will turn out not only tastier and more satisfying than ordinary vegetable puree, but also much healthier.

In order for the taste buds of the baby to learn to perceive new foods, and the baby himself to be delighted with new treats, it is better to leave him space for a change.

This means that at eight months, the baby does not have to mix all the products into one unattractive porridge. It is better to separate them and offer them separately. For example, put fish fillet puree and vegetable puree on a plate in a separate slide so that he can experience different shades of taste.

At the same time, remember that if you mix the usual ingredients, you can get a completely new dish that the baby can happily gobble up. Therefore, if the child is already reluctant to eat porridge for lunch, make it sweeter with fruits or add his favorite cookies. Usually, babies eat their usual dishes well, if they are slightly changed.

Soups are a great category to experiment with. You can always add meat or even crackers to a light vegetable broth, and beat the soup until you get an airy soufflé, which babies usually eat with great pleasure.

You can also put cereals in the soup - for example, rice or buckwheat. It doesn’t turn out the way it usually does and it’s quite suitable for a little one for a new dish.

As you can see, the menu of an 8-month-old breastfed baby has an extensive list of products and can be called varied and complete. At this age, the crumbs in the tummy may already have all kinds of dishes, including fish, as well as most fruits and almost all cereals.

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Depending on whether the baby is breastfed or artificially fed, the menu of a child at 8 months may not differ very much. Feeding becomes less frequent, and although breast milk or formula is still the main product, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, beans appear in the diet according to the norms. Check out sample menus for an 8 month old baby and a list of allowed foods for an 8 month old baby.

Baby food at 8 months

You can diversify the diet of a child at 8 months with new food, starting with small portions. Your toddler is no longer a newborn, so you can safely expand his menu: cook soups in meat broth, combine dairy products with vegetables and fruits, gradually introduce fish and eggs. If he refuses to eat something new, it doesn't matter. After some time, you can offer the baby this dish again - perhaps he will like it the second time.

Diet

Approximately five times a day the child receives food. It can be mother's breast milk, artificial formulas and complementary foods. Recommendations for the daily regimen of proper nutrition and menu baby at 8 months:

Product	The maximum allowed amount for breastfeeding, g	With artificial feeding, g
Vegetables	150	170
Porridge without milk	180	—
	—	200
Fruits	60	70
Vegetable oil	3	5
	1	5
fruit juices	30	50
Crackers, cookies	5	5
Wheat bread	5	5
Meat	30	30
Cottage cheese	—	40
	—	½ piece
Dairy products	150 ml

A sample menu for a child depends on whether he is allergic to milk protein. If it is, cereals are not boiled in milk, and mixtures are selected without allergens. The diet of the crumbs at 8 months correctly looks like this:

Meal time	Product	Amount of food, g/ml
6.00	Breast milk or infant formula	200
10.00	Porridge	180
		1/2 tsp
	Boiled yolk	½ piece
	Fruits	30
14.00	Vegetables	170
	Vegetable oil	5
	Meat food	50
	Fruit juice	50
18.00	Cottage cheese	40
	baby biscuits	1-2 pcs.
	Fruits	40
	Dairy products or breast milk	100
22.00	Breast milk or formula	200

What foods can a baby at 8 months

How to feed a baby at 8 months depends on individual characteristics and possible allergies. Pediatricians recommend including the following foods in your meals:

1. Vegetables - up to 170 g per day. It is allowed to use canned children, including cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots, boiled onions.
2. Vegetable oil - up to 5 ml, added to puree. It is better to use unrefined olive oil.
3. Fruits - up to 60-70 g (if there are no allergies and digestive problems).
4. Cottage cheese - 10-15 g per day or 50 g twice a week.
5. Milk porridge - 100-200 g. Buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, corn cooked in cow's milk are allowed.
6. Meat puree - it is better to buy canned, 30-50 g per day. Baby food manufacturers offer hypoallergenic products - from turkey, lamb, veal, rabbit, beef, chicken. It is recommended to start introducing meat in minimal doses.
7. Sour-milk products - 100-200 ml of kefir. If there is no allergy to milk, you can give 5 g of grated cheese with puree. It is better not to use sour cream for up to a year; instead, it is recommended to give low-fat homemade cream 1-2 times a week.
8. Butter - 1-4 g with milk porridge.
9. Egg yolk - Babies try half the yolk twice a week.
10. Fish - you should start with canned mashed potatoes. Marine rocks are not as allergenic as river ones. Fatty red fish are best avoided.
11. Bread, cookies - the first complementary foods are cookies or crackers that saturate the child's body and facilitate teething. Bread must be white.

Vegetables and fruits

For the first feeding at 8 months, choose green apples or pears. Then prunes, plums, peaches, apricots are introduced in the form of mashed potatoes. Formula-fed babies are already familiar with fruits, they are allowed to give blackcurrants, blueberries, cherries, raspberries. Bananas are allowed in small quantities. Enter red fruits in a teaspoon per day to eliminate the risk of developing allergies in the baby's body. Give preference to seasonal species.

By 8 months, babies are already eating zucchini, broccoli and cauliflower. You can add pumpkin to the menu, carrots - a little. Pair them with an apple. Because of a large number starch in potatoes, use it rarely and little by little. Potatoes are best mixed with other vegetables, added to the soup along with dill. Soak the root crops in water before processing to remove the starch.

Milk porridge

A common dish for an eight-month-old baby is porridge. It can be prepared from one grain or mixed several. Add fresh or dried fruits there, cook with homemade milk with a high percentage of fat, diluted with water. For a uniform consistency, grind cereals or buy chopped ones, which can simply be poured with boiling water or hot water. You can eat porridge up to 150 g.

Dairy products

What can be given to a child at 8 months, the pediatrician will tell you. For the health of the baby, fermented milk products are allowed - cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt. It is better to alternate them: one day, one product. Try to cook them yourself, get a homemade yogurt maker and sourdough. When buying products in the store, check the composition and expiration date. Kefir is given in 30 ml for 8-9 days, then the amount is increased to 150-200 ml. Add fruit to drinks, but not honey.

Meat and fish

As a separate product, meat is given in a puree state. It is good to mix with vegetable puree or porridge on the water. Choose low-fat varieties - chicken, turkey, veal, rabbit, beef. Clean the meat from fat, films, cook, chop with a meat grinder or blender. Also choose low-fat fish - cod, pike perch, hake. Boil, strain the broth, chop the meat with a fork or blender. It is better to buy a fillet than a carcass. Calf's liver is also included in the introduction of complementary foods if the baby is 8 months old.

Egg food

For brain development, an eight-month-old baby should receive chicken or quail eggs with food. Due to the allergic properties to inject adult food can only be done with the approval of a doctor. At first, give the crumbs an egg yolk mashed with a fork in an amount of no more than half a piece at a time and no more than 1-2 times a week. Carefully monitor the baby's reaction to the eggs, such advice is given by Dr. Komarovsky.

Legumes

What can a child eat at 8 months from legumes: beans, peas, lentils. They contain a lot of protein, replace the amino acids of breast milk, while maintaining the percentage of protein in the diet. You have to be careful with legumes - they cause bloating, so don't go overboard with the portion size. At one time, you can give 20-30 g of ground beans. It is better to choose canned food.

Bakery products

From the age of 8 months, babies are allowed white bread - black causes bloating and fermentation in the intestines. The first time, give no more than 5 grams of crumb without crust. To satisfy your hunger or snack, choose special children's cookies or unsweetened crackers. Soak them well with porridge, sour-milk drinks. Let's chew large pieces carefully so that the child does not choke.

Juices and drinks

A healthy and tasty drink for an eight-month-old baby will be a full compote of fresh berries, fruits or dried fruits. You can cook it yourself or buy it in the store. Rinse blackcurrants, blueberries or raspberries, brew a fresh drink without sugar. Give the child 50-70 ml per day. From juices it is allowed to drink apple, pumpkin, carrot, diluted with water.

Menu for an 8-month-old breastfed baby

If the baby is still feeding on mother's milk, his digestive system perceives new dishes more easily. It is useful for a child to make three meals a day. Approximate daily portions will make up the menu:

• porridge - 180 g;
• butter - 1 g;
• vegetable soup - 150 grams;
• vegetable oil - 3 g;
• meat puree - 30 g;
• wheat bread - a piece;
• fruit juice - 30 ml;
• fruit puree - 60 g;
• cookies or crackers - 1 pc.;
• mother's milk - according to the need for nutrients and depending on the weight of the child.

An approximate weekly menu for a child at 8 months of age who is breastfed:
Monday

• Mother's milk
• Oatmeal
• Plum, cookies, milk
• Milk

• Mother's milk
• Corn porridge
• Pureed cauliflower with dill, beef, pumpkin juice
• Apricot, croutons
• Mother's milk

• Mother's milk
• Hercules
• Broccoli, rabbit, raspberry compote
• Pear from a jar, bagel
• Mother's milk

• Mother's milk
• Rice porrige
• Carrot-apricot, rabbit half yolk, chamomile decoction
• Pumpkin-pear, cracker
• Mother's milk

• Mother's milk
• Oatmeal
• Pumpkin, veal, cranberry juice
• Apple, baby biscuits
• Mother's milk

• Mother's milk
• Rice porrige
• Pear juice, broccoli with green peas, chicken
• Peach, bagel
• Mother's milk

Sunday

• Mother's milk
• Buckwheat
• Cherry juice, half yolk, rabbit, carrots with zucchini
• Rusk, apple, pear
• Mother's milk

Menu for an 8-month-old bottle-fed baby

A baby fed with artificial mixtures is given similar products on the menu three times a day. Approximate daily servings are:

• porridge - 200 g;
• butter - 5 g;
• chicken yolk - ½ pc.;
• vegetable broth - 170 g;
• vegetable oil - 5 g;
• a serving of meat - 30 g;
• wheat bread - a piece;
• fruit juice - 50 ml;
• fruits - 70 g;
• cottage cheese - 30 g;
• cookies or crackers - 1 pc.;
• fermented milk drinks - 150 ml.

Approximate weekly children's menu for an eight-month-old artificial baby:
Monday

• Zucchini, vegetable oil, chicken, wheat bread, apricot juice
• Courgette with vegetable oil, turkey mousse, wheat bread, apple juice
• Apple, cottage cheese, baby cookies, kefir
• Milk formula

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Buckwheat
• pumpkin, turkey, plum juice
• Pear, cracker, yogurt
• Milk formula

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Corn porridge
• Broccoli, veal, cranberry juice
• Bioyogurt, plum, bagel
• Milk formula

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Rice porridge, half yolk
• Courgette with vegetable oil, turkey mousse, wheat bread, apple juice
• Children's kefir, apricot, cracker
• Milk formula

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Hercules
• Green peas, dill, veal, cherry juice
• Yogurt, pear, baby biscuits
• Milk formula

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Corn porridge
• Broccoli with dill, rabbit, apple juice
• Kefir, apple, bagel
• Milk formula

Sunday

• Tailored mix with essential ingredients
• Buckwheat
• Cauliflower, veal, dried fruit compote
• Bioyogurt, peach, cookies
• Milk formula

The best recipes for an 8 month old baby

To make the baby's menu at 8 months varied, use the following recipes for cooking dishes for every day. They do not require a long time, children like them. For the first, parents choose cream soup with meat and vegetables, for breakfast or an afternoon snack - porridge with berries or fruits, homemade sour-milk products with delicate fruit jam will serve as dessert.

Cream soup with chicken and vegetables

• Cooking time: half an hour.
• Destination: for lunch.

The menu of a child at 8 months should be enriched with meat broth. It is recommended to make it not too rich and low-fat, so that the stomach of the crumbs can digest it without consequences. For this dish, choose chicken fillet, add cauliflower and rice grits. You will get a delicious hearty soup with a pleasant aroma. Give it 100-150 g at a time, diversify the finished soup with crackers.

Ingredients:

• chicken - 200 g;
• cauliflower - 100 g;
• carrots - ½ pcs.;
• onion - 1/3 pc.;
• rice - 1 tbsp;
• dill - 2 sprigs;
• salt - a pinch.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the meat into pieces, pour a liter of cold water.
2. Boil, drain the water, add boiling water, salt.
3. Cook until tender, remove, add rice. Boil 10 minutes.
4. Disassemble the cabbage into small pieces, cut into large parts. Chop onions with carrots.
5. Add vegetables to the broth, cook for five minutes.
6. Add meat and chopped dill.
7. Grind with a blender.

Porridge for babies

• Purpose: for breakfast.

A delicious treat for a baby at 8 months will be rice porridge with berries or fruits. Add the child's favorite fruits to the finished children's mass so that he eats the dish with appetite. Porridge is allowed to cook without sugar, but if desired, you can add a little granulated sugar. Do not forget to beat the finished dish with a blender to get a uniform consistency.

Ingredients:

• milk - 100 ml;
• water - 100 ml;
• rice - 2 tablespoons;
• berries - 30 g.

Cooking method:

1. Mix milk with water, pour into a saucepan, put on fire.
2. Pour the cereal, stir, bring to a boil.
3. Reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Pour boiling water over the berries, add to the finished porridge, beat with a blender.

• Cooking time: 20 minutes.
• Destination: for lunch.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

An option for a hearty lunch can be milk-based buckwheat porridge or water. If the baby is bottle-fed, cook the dish in cow's milk. When breastfeeding, it is better to use boiled water. Beat the finished porridge with a blender, mix with meat puree, vegetable or butter. It is allowed to serve a piece of white bread with it.

Ingredients:

• buckwheat - 3 tablespoons;
• water - a glass;
• butter - 1 g.

Cooking method:

1. Pour the cereal into cold water.
2. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes after boiling.
3. Season with butter.

• Cooking time: 10 minutes.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

A simple but delicious dessert is carrot and apple puree. It is easy to cook in the microwave or slow cooker. Apples go well with carrots, the dish acquires a sweet and sour taste and a light orange color. If desired, after readiness, the delicacy can be diluted with juice. Crackers, bagels or baby cookies go well with it.

Ingredients:

• apple - ¼ pcs.;
• carrots - 4 small pieces;
• water - 30 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Peel the apple from the peel, seeds, cut the fruit into pieces.
2. Cut carrots into thin strips, put to apples.
3. Fill the fruit with water, cover with a lid.
4. Put in the microwave for 2 minutes at maximum power.
5. Cool, beat with a blender.

Fish steam cutlets

• Cooking time: half an hour.
• Destination: for lunch.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

The menu of a child at 8 months should include fish. The best option for cooking fish dishes is steaming. So valuable proteins, vitamins and microminerals are preserved in it. To prepare cutlets, take low-fat fish, fillet is better. If you take a carcass, carefully clean it of bones, even the smallest ones, so that they do not fall into the child's throat and cause injury.

Ingredients:

• pollock fillet - half a kilo;
• white bread - 60 g;
• milk - 70 ml;
• eggs - 1 pc.;
• butter - 2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the fillet into small pieces, scroll twice through a meat grinder.
2. Soak the bread in milk, add to the minced meat with the egg.
3. Stir the mass, blind cutlets, put on a grate, greased with oil.
4. Steam for 20-25 minutes, serve with carrot puree.

Turkey meat mousse

• Cooking time: 1 hour.
• Destination: for lunch.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Pureed turkey or rabbit meat will become your baby's favorite treat. The dish is distinguished by a delicate texture, pleasant taste, great benefits. You can cook meat food in a slow cooker or a double boiler. To make the mousse not dry, add a teaspoon to it. olive oil. This will help you absorb the vitamins from the meat. If you add pumpkin or carrots to the dish, the taste will turn out even more original.

Ingredients:

• turkey fillet - 100 g;
• water - half a glass.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the meat well, pour boiled water into the multicooker bowl.
2. Place a piece on the steamer grate, set the “Steam” program.
3. Cook 40 minutes.
4. Cut into pieces, puree with a blender for 7-10 minutes.

Zucchini and cauliflower puree with herbs

• Cooking time: 15 minutes.
• Destination: for lunch.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Vegetable puree from zucchini and cauliflower is distinguished by its original taste. Added dill gives it sophistication, which additionally relieves the baby from colic. Cooking a vegetable dish is easy. The ingredients should be boiled or steamed until soft, and then beat with a blender and mixed with vegetable oil.

Ingredients:

• zucchini - 150 g;
• cauliflower - 150 g;
• dill - a branch.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the zucchini into cubes, disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences.
2. Steam or cover for five minutes.
3. Beat with a mixer, add chopped greens.

Homemade yoghurt with peach puree

• Cooking time: 1.5 hours.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Difficulty of preparation: difficult.

The menu of a small child at 8 months involves the inclusion of homemade sour-milk drinks. They are prepared in a special yogurt maker, thermos or slow cooker. For cooking, you need natural sourdough. You can mix the resulting yogurt with your favorite fruits or berries, preferably specially processed. Peach or apricot puree will give the drink a delicate taste.

Ingredients:

• pasteurized milk - 1 l;
• dry sourdough - a bag;
• peaches - 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. Boil milk over low heat for five minutes, cool to 40 degrees.
2. Dilute the starter in a small amount of milk, add to the base.
3. Sterilize the jars, cover the bottom of the multicooker bowl with a towel, fill with water so that it reaches the “shoulders”.
4. Pour the base into jars, set the “Heating” mode for 20 minutes.
5. Turn off the multicooker, leave the yogurt under the lid for an hour.
6. At this time, mash the peaches: cut the peaches in half, remove the stones, put cut side down in a double boiler.
7. Boil for 6 minutes, wipe through a sieve.
8. Mix yogurt with puree.

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You notice an increase in the motor activity of your little one. He is already confidently standing on his legs, holding on to the crossbar of the crib. Fidget walks for a long time with support. It's time to start eating your 8 month old baby. What adjustments, in addition to increasing the portion, should be made to the children's menu?

From this article you will learn:

It is necessary to systematically enrich the diet of the child. He knows the taste of cereals, vegetables and fruits, bread products, butter and vegetable oils, juices. All this is nutritious, useful and fortified. But increased energy costs require a new nutritional level. From acquaintance with carbohydrates and fats, it's time to move on to connecting protein foods.

An actively developing musculoskeletal system needs to be enriched with calcium. As before, with the introduction of new types of complementary foods, gradualness and caution are observed. The nutrition of an 8-month-old baby should keep the usual dishes, but become more varied.

Severity of the regime or satisfaction of needs?

For a baby, stool is considered normal once every couple of days or once or twice a day. If bowel movements occur more often, then the pediatrician begins to be interested in what and how many times you feed the child. A young mother is instructed that the child's diet at 8 months should be 5 times a day, and the amount of food should be 1/8 of his body weight.

True, it is not clear how to calm a baby who woke up in the middle of the night if motion sickness is ineffective. You can, of course, say this: “You have already fulfilled your food quota. Please wait another 4.5 hours. But this is unlikely to calm the night troublemaker. Consider the 4-hour interval between meals as a rough guideline. The rest of the time, feed your baby breast milk or formula as needed.

Novelties in the diet of an 8 month old baby

On the table for feeding the baby appear:

• dairy products;
• egg yolk;
• meat dishes.

Dairy products

From fermented milk products are offered: kefir for children (bio, bifido) with a volume of up to 200 ml, yogurt and cottage cheese up to 50 g. They are balanced with B vitamins and calcium. Start feeding with a teaspoon.

Egg yolk

You can offer your baby a few grains of quail or chicken egg yolk. Protein is not yet included in the diet due to potential allergenicity. For a week, the portion increases to a whole yolk daily or every other day. If the product seems dry to the baby separately, then wipe it and add it to the porridge.

Meat delights

In addition to protein, it is also amino acids. In order not to overload the children's body with protein, you need to separate the meat from the yolk. Children meat in pure form not too impressive. Therefore, add it to familiar vegetable purees. First, it is better to offer the baby a dish of industrial production. Hypoallergenic meat is turkey, rabbit and lamb. Start with 20 grams of meat.

At home, small meat pieces are boiled or steamed for about an hour. Vegetables are added 25 minutes before cooking. Everything is crushed with a blender, rubbed through a sieve or grater. Broth and a teaspoon of sunflower oil or ½ tsp are added. linseed or olive. You will get the consistency of a thick soup.

Chicken is an allergenic food. If there is intolerance to cow's milk protein, veal should be discarded. But fish is a suitable food for an 8-month-old baby, since it is easier to digest than meat. It is offered up to 2 times a week. Particularly good breeds such as:

• pollock;
• cod;
• zander
• carp.

Red fish can cause pancreatic problems. The skin and bones should be removed from the fish.

One example menu

The share of complementary foods in each feeding is 220-250 ml.

Breakfast

Lunch- porridge with fruit, butter and yolk.

Dinner- meat and vegetable puree with the addition of vegetable oil.

afternoon tea- fruit puree, cottage cheese / yogurt / biogurt or kefir.

Dinner– breast milk / adapted formula.

Drink water, juices. 70 ml of juice per day will be enough.

For a snack- cookies (for children), crackers (better homemade), bagels. Keep an eye on the baby eating sushi.

It is not necessary that the complementary foods of one of the feedings displace breast milk or formula. If the baby asks for a favorite treat, do not refuse.

In the process of eating, tantrums may appear. Distractions will help. Let the child look at the book and eat at the same time.

Feeding a child at 8 months should be approached without fanaticism. Monitor the quality of life of the child, and not the volume of food he eats. IN different days different amounts of food may be consumed. If he does not eat yolk or meat, then you do not need to stuff the child with this. Offer them in a week or two, and most likely, he will eat everything with gusto.