Ideas of cereals for babies 4 months
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.