By 10 months of age, both those babies who are breastfeeding and those babies who receive the adapted formula eat the same complementary foods, and the recommendations for the amount of complementary foods cease to differ. Let's take a look at what new things can be prepared for a ten-month-old baby and how to build a menu for a child of this age.
What foods can be added to the diet?
The main product that a 10 month old baby tries for the first time is a fish. Its advantages are delicate texture, easy absorption, high content of beneficial fatty acids and amino acids.
For the first samples, it is worth taking lean ocean or river fish, for example, pike perch, pollock, hake or carp. Introduce fish puree from small doses (from half a teaspoon), observing if there is a reaction to it, because this product is classified as allergenic.
It is best to prepare the fish for the baby yourself at the beginning of the introduction of fish food. The fish washed in running water (it is not worth soaking it, as this deteriorates the protein and mineral composition of the product), thoroughly clean, removing all bones. If you bought the fish already in the form of a fillet, before cooking, still check if there are any bones in it. Dip the fish fillets in boiling water, then all the nutrients will remain inside the product.
You can also give the baby ready-made meals, in which the fish puree can be single-component or combined with cereals, oil, vegetables. For the first acquaintance with the fishy taste, take canned food for children, which contains only fish. Remember that canned fish that adults eat is strongly discouraged for babies under 3 years old.
If the child has a predisposition to allergies, the introduction of fish should be postponed until a later date, for example, after a year. For those children who perceived the fish normally, this product is usually given twice a week at lunchtime.
How much should a baby eat?
The amount of food a 10-month-old baby should eat in one day is calculated based on his weight. Divide the figure by 9 and get the daily amount of food for a child of this age. On average, babies at 10 months weigh 9-10 kilograms, so the average amount of food for them will be 1000-1250 g. This volume is divided by the number of feedings and receive an approximate portion of 200-250 g.
As for individual complementary foods, the recommended maximum intake rates for a baby at the age of 10 months on any type of feeding will be:
Diet
A child who is 10 months old is advised to eat 5 times a day with pauses between feedings of about 3-4 hours. For example, a child who wakes up for the first feeding at 7 o'clock will eat the second time at 10-11 o'clock, then at 14-15 o'clock, at 18-19 o'clock and the last time before going to bed at 22-23 o'clock.
Sample menu
A breastfed baby will eat at 10 months something like this:
For a bottle-fed baby, the daily menu at 10 months will look something like this:
Tips
Breast milk or formula is no longer the main food for most ten-month-old babies, but pediatricians still advise against weaning or stopping formula feeding. It is optimal if the child will receive such food in the morning feeding and before bedtime.
- Try to grind foods less so that the crumb gets used to chewing, especially since many children at this age already have several teeth.
- Encourage the child's desire to eat on his own, even if the porridge or puree from a spoon in the baby's hands does not fall into his mouth in full.
- Offer meat not only in the form of puree. At this age, you can already try to make steamed meatballs or meatballs for the crumb, and then knead them.
- Porridge for a child of 10 months is prepared from mixtures of cereals or from one type of cereal. At the same time, the baby can be offered both a dairy-free version of porridge, for example, as a side dish for mashed potatoes, and porridge cooked in milk, into which mashed fruits can be added.
- To diversify milk porridge, a 10-month-old baby can be offered vermicelli with milk.
- Try to eliminate distractions during feedings. Let the baby be focused only on food.
- Feed the baby from the baby's personal dishes, and offer the child a drink from a small mug. In this case, never leave the crumb alone with food or drink.
Your child is already very active, so the question of introducing vitamin complexes into the diet of a child under one year old is natural. Whether it is worth doing, read another article.
For a baby's menu at 10 months, see the next video.
