Pre-School Information for Parents

All we know is very good for children to drink water , but some do not ask because I still do not speak and do not know how, especially the babies . How much water do children need? It is very important for parents to be vigilant to meet demand and that children are well hydrated , since by their movements, children lose a lot of water during the day.

Why is water important for children

Through the sweat , the urine or breath, adults lose about 2.5 liters of water. The body needs to replenish this loss of fluid and, although the food provides about a third of the water lost, adults should drink a liter and a half to two liters of water a day, but how much water we should drink our children?

The child’s body is composed of a 80 percent water, whereas that of an adult is made up of water in a 65 percent. Therefore, children require more parts water. In general, during the first months of life and during lactation , it is not necessary to drink water to the infant, except in special situations, as in summer heat, fever or diarrhea .

In principle, both the milk and the formula you provided and the amount of liquid required for your body. Following initiation of weaning , you should add water to the baby’s diet in an amount equal to the weight of a meal. Drinking water is important, especially during the summer months, and that further sweat, and consequently, lose more fluids.

Depending on your age and weight of infants of 3 months , with an average weight of 5.4 Kg, need to drink between 750 and 850 ml of water per day to 6 months between 950 and 1,100 ml per day and the year of life between 1,150 and 1,300 ml each day. As they grow, water needs are increasing. Thus, since up to 10 years should drink a half liter daily (4 to 6 glasses), and two liters between 11 and 18 years (6 to 8 glasses).

To be well hydrated, you have to accustom children to drink water and this good habit is part of the educational process aimed at pampering. Water helps cleanse the body of toxins and elements to be ejected. It also serves to enhance the metabolism of food and it is important to avoid constipation . It is therefore important to introduce kids to drink water, even if not thirsty. The water take children should be at room temperature and not too cold, because it can cause bloating.

As your baby grows (and it happens very fast) must be constantly changing your diet to suit your needs and provide energy and nutrients it needs. To help a little, today we present some ideas for meals for babies 8 months .

By this time, and your baby should be able to consume a certain variety of foods, and it’s time to integrate other foods to your diet, it’s time to increase the amount of solids, such as those in full those dishes.

Meals for infants 8 months:

Continue breastfeeding or giving her formula, should not diminish the consumption of milk. Begins to integrate the protein and grains, you can offer oatmeal, rice cereal, egg yolks, cheese and avocado. Among the proteins include chicken, beef, and lentils, turkey ham.

You should also drink fruit and vegetables. You can give banana chips, apples, pears, peaches, potatoes, peas, squash, and carrots.

It is important to note that you gradually introduce foods according to the tastes of your child, do not be surprised if you feel an initial rejection to some foods, ideally, give him small portions to adjust.

There is no possible doubt: the best food for newborns is breast milk, and in case of intolerance, the formula. Therefore, there must be fed solids until after 6 months. However, it is natural to wonder when exactly the baby’s body can absorb such nutritious foods for human health such as cereals and vegetables.
Signs that a baby is ready

After 4 months, especially coming at 6, infants begin to show signs that they are already accepting some solid food. You’ll notice that your child is more aware of your environment, you want your meals, but also puts objects in his mouth, stares while eating and often still hungry after being fed.
First solid food

Just then the best food to start the new habit is eating rice cereal fortified with iron. This mineral is very beneficial in this age and the type of rice is a grain with a low probability of allergic reactions.

You should start with very small amounts. Remember that it’s time to keep trying if you baby’s stomach can assimilate something solid. It is sufficient to provide a bite at first. Then you can increase the dosage to two tablespoons if you see that all is well.

Fruits and vegetables

Once the grain has been incorporated into the baby’s usual diet (combined with breast milk or formula) can start the same process but with pureed vegetables and fruits. Should be given one week between each feed, which helps ensure that no problems are treated. Give the little new foods for breakfast or lunch, not dinner. This prevents an accident on sleep schedules.

Pureed meat should not be given until after 7 or 8 months old. The protein levels of this nutrient are very high, even impossible to digest so young stomachs.

And very importantly, any food that you give your baby in these early stages should have a semi-liquid consistency, it is best for your digestive system. Over time, the body will become stronger and you can increase the texture and consistency even more.

Your baby is 4 months . Congratulations! It’s time to start eating slowly, moving to a transition from milk to other foods. Therefore.
Why cereal at 4 months?

At four months old your baby is developing the coordination to move solid food from the front of the mouth to the back to swallow it. At the same time, control your baby’s head is improving and is now learning to sit with support, allowing you to incorporate solid foods slowly to your diet.

The introduction of solid foods at this age is a complement to breast milk and to know that it is time to do so can answer you the following questions:

Your baby can hold his head in a stable position, vertical?
Can sit with support?
Are you interested in what you’re eating?

If so, and your doctor advises you, and you can start to supplement the diet of your baby.
What can you start eating?

The first diet, in addition to breast milk, which will test your baby is the baby cereal. You can make a mixture of 1 tablespoon (15 ml) from an infant cereal with 4 or 5 tablespoons of breastmilk or formula and you give a bottle early days. You can also give rice cereal.

It is best to get used to your baby to sit upright and give your cereal with a teaspoon twice a day. For variety, you can offer a grain of oats or barley cereals. Some babies eat cereal with much enthusiasm, and others are not easily convinced, so you must be patient and keep trying.

When your baby eats his cereal can be properly introduced gradually, a pureed meat, vegetables and fruits. Ideally, you give a single ingredient at first, and in three to five days you add other food. So if your baby has a reaction to a particular food (such as diarrhea, rash), you know what was the culprit.

Some recipes

Here are some ideas of cereals for babies 4 months you can prepare your little one:
Rice cereal with rice

1 / 2 cup rice (or rice)
1 cup water

Instructions:

Boil water in a saucepan. Add the rice and stir.
Simmer for 20 minutes, or according to package directions. Go stirring during cooking.
When the rice is done, cool slightly and add 1 / 2 cup liquid of your choice (breast milk, formula, water, etc). Be careful you do not run on rice as a paste.
You are ready to have it serve your baby.

Oatmeal

1 / 4 cup ground oats (do not use instant oatmeal)
Blender or food processor
3 / 4 cup – 1 cup water

Instructions:

Boil water in a saucepan. Add oats while mixing.
Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring constantly until cooked.
Mixing breast milk or formula. You can add fruit.
Serve warm with a spoon to your baby.

Thus the process of transition of your baby will be right for him and be done with a very nutritious food such as cereals.

After having had this long-awaited baby arrives so expect when feeding, which begins with breast milk and breastfeeding. Gradually you should go solid incorporating the baby gets used to new textures. Today we’ll show you some food for babies 7 months will guide them.

Fruits and vegetables

Within this type of food we can begin gradually introducing into their diet carrots, potatoes, squash, eggplant, tomatoes, beets, peas, melon, banana, apple, mango, papaya, peach, blueberry, pineapple, pear, kiwi, grapes .

meat

The main protein source is milk. However, we can start introducing small amounts in their diet of meat, preferably white, to increase the defenses of the baby when it comes to iron. The ideal starting meat is chicken, I can come up with some boiled vegetables to begin to know its flavor. Fish is also a good option.

Milk and other

At six months we can begin to introduce: yogurt, cheese (cheddar or cottage). Also vegetables like beans and lentils, in some cases can also enter the eggs, but not always advisable.

It is important to consult with the pediatrician before starting a diet food for your baby, he will guide you and help you in this new process for the baby and you.

Our responsibility as parents is to give our babies all the nutrients they need to grow healthy and strong. So we give you these tips:

* The consistency of baby’s first foods should be soft, due to lack of teeth and an immature gut agrees not highly processed.

* The more simple the food and have fewer colors, the baby will accept it better. Studies show that too many colors and consistencies prevent it wants to babies.

* Avoid adding salt, sugar or spices, as the babies are in the formative stage of taste.

* When is the first time you give your child a food, try giving it all day on small proven and see how it behaves, what color were his stool, if it is not irritable, and that these signs can lead us to a correct tolerance to certain foods.

* When you start weaning, you should switch foods with milk, that is, if requested early in breast milk or formula, 2-hour begins with a single vegetable gruel, and every 2 hours alternating with milk and porridge.

* Avoid repeated many times a day the same food, unless it is the first time you give it. Do not repeat allows you get to know more flavors and is nurtured, and that giving different foods, you are ensuring good nutrition.

* Try new food range that you give your son, your tolerance increases, because each contains different nutrients.

What are the nutrients for baby in his first year?

Iron and vitamin C:
The spinach and liver are rich in iron. When combined with the broth of tomato, are adding vitamin C to the diet. Remember to always combine iron with vitamin C, because in this way to better absorb iron in the small of your baby.

Avoid giving citrus such as lemon, orange or grapefruit in the first year of life, as they are the only citrus acidity can cause allergies or your baby’s intestine.

Vitamin A:
Carrots and beets are useful because they often contain vitamin A (carotenes), and antioxidants that help cell regeneration.

Taurine:
Protein foods like chicken and meat contain taurine which is important in the development of the retina of your baby.

Lutein:
To find a few foods, such as some vegetables (onion, zucchini, spinach, mushrooms), and is important because it helps protect your eyes from damage caused by blue light.

Zinc:
Zinc modulates the immune system involved in the metabolism of some nutrients and promotes cell reproduction and tissue repair. Some foods that contain wheat are cereals and corn, plus chicken and beef.

In many cases parents with a great desire that the baby is well nourished, make lunch time more stress at home, with anguish, anxieties and criticisms to the child’s behavior to feed. Children have a natural wisdom meet their physiological needs.

You eat out of necessity, not out of obligation
Hunger, which is the normal demand for food is different from normal appetite is the desire to satisfy the taste. Food behavior needs a guide and no better than the mother to appreciate this fact of great importance in the physical and emotional growth of the child.

Faced with the problem noted there are several maneuvers
- The lunch should be enjoyable and necessary for the child .. Conditioned to avoid punishment if they do not complete the course
- Help your child to the perception of food. Serve on a plate larger amount of food the same way they perceive little food in his dish.
- You can motivate the setting the table, let him serve himself, and to decide and have autonomy over their food tastes.
- Whenever you can let him eat with parents to appropriate the family’s eating habits, behavior and models assimilating it.
- Allow you to choose your menu can influence the success or failure of their food. Success would mean not only food from entering the child, but natural and healthy development of the child to eat.
- Do not let complacency and delicacies. That alone would place you and your child into another problem. The lunch is a place, time and a clear purpose and need.

Do not expect your child to eat as much food as you. Let him decide, and eat as much food you need to satisfy their hunger and develop a healthy tastes. If the problem becomes chronic and it can create emotional distress without solutions in the family, please consult a specialist.
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If the child is well fed or not during the first years of life, can have a profound effect on their health and their ability to learn, communicate, think analytically, effectively socialize and adapt to new environments and people.

Food is the basis for a good physical, psychic and social development of children.

Good nutrition is the first line of defense against many childhood diseases that may leave marks on the children for life.

Good nutrition and good health are directly connected through the lifetime, but the connection is even more vital during childhood. It is in this period that children can develop good habits for food in terms of the variety, taste, etc.

The effects of malnutrition in early childhood (0 to can be devastating and long lasting. May prevent behavioral and cognitive development, educational achievement and reproductive health, thus undermining the future productivity at work.

OVER 6 MONTHS BABY WITH DIARRHEA
In the case of children who are already eating (6 months to 1 year and a half) should do the following:

* To offer more fluids than usual. You may consider the rehydration sachets.
* Continue with normal feeding, but more installments. (If you used to eat eat-eat 3 per day split into smaller portions 5 times a day).
* Do not try to introduce new foods as bad. Just give food to those who are accustomed or future could also cause allergies.
* Try to avoid fatty and spicy foods, and fruit or fruit peel raw.
* Ofréscale more food during convalescence. Need to recover what he lost.
* You can keep giving milk during the whole process will not hurt.
* Of course, no candy or energy drinks.
* Like the babies under 6 months should not be cut diarrhea but combat dehydration.

SAMPLE DIET FOR A BABY OVER 6 MONTHS WITH DIARRHEA

* BREAKFAST: Warm milk (high or low temperatures cause the diarrhea becomes acute), applesauce or jam and toast (it is easier to digest toast).
* MEDIA MORNING: Mazamorrita quince with cookies (or vanilla water alone)
* LUNCH: chicken or turkey grilled with steamed rice mixed with boiled carrots, salad, carrots, peas without skin and yellow potato and quince compote for dessert. Accompany with warm infusion.
* HALF LATER: Mazamorra cornstarch with milk and cookies.
Dinner: Chicken soup and boiled carrots, noodles and potato yellow turkey stew cooked with bits of pear and rice. Accompany with warm infusion.