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Baby's first food meal

25/05/2017

Baby's first food meal

The first step towards being independent

The relationship with food is not just about eating to grow and live, but is the result of a many factors involving the emotional and relationalsphere.

This applies above all to infants and the delicate transition they face when they pass from milk, be it from the breast or bottle.

It completely changes a baby's perspective: from being fed in loving arms, in a relationship of total bonding where mother is still an extension of its body, the infant experiences and begins to understand that satisfying its need for food depends on someone other than himself, thus taking his first real step towards being independent.

Baby's first food meal is therefore a highly emotional moment for a parent, who is letting go a part of baby and accepting the fact that it no longer has total control over the feeding routine. This may cause a great deal of preoccupation which, if transferred to baby, may make this change difficult and complicated. Children are very sensitive to our moods , above all that of their mother, so you must be very careful to experience this moment with serenity, considering it as one of the many development stages in your child's life.

Tradition

Generally, the first solid foods we give to our baby at about 4-6 months, are baby foods like apple purée, which has a mild flavour and soft texture: you will start by teaching your baby to eat with a spoon and getting used to a new way of swallowing, in order to experiment with new flavours, and stronger and more elaborate textures.

The first real food meal, after a couple of weeks, will be a vegetable broth made by boiling potatoes, carrots and zucchini, combined with cereal flour.

New methods

In recent years, however, another theory is becoming popular, which does not go against what we call conventional medicine, but suggests a more natural and less forceful approach: child-led-weaning or self-weaning.

According to those who support this method, a child who can sit up and shows interest in what his or her parents are eating (approximately 6 months), can wean itself on its own and taste what is on the table, gradually adapting itself to the family diet: thanks to the natural instinct to imitate, the desire to be independent and experiment new flavours, the child will gradually abandon milk, and learn to eat in a more complex manner. Obviously the choice to follow this method, means that the family must follow a healthy and balanced diet, introducing foods generally considered to be allergenic only very gradually.

Whatever you decide to do to help your child through this development stage, the most important thing to remember is that food should not be associated with anything other than hunger, and that a serene and cheerful attitude is the key to dealing with any change.

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