What are the first foods for weaning?
Introduction
What are the first foods for weaning ?
If you are about to introduce foods other than breast milk and formula into your little one's diet, this article is for you.
In the following lines, I will go into detail about the typical traditional weaning scheme, obviously also talking about self-weaning and how the guidelines on aspects such as the chronological insertion of foods have changed.
For further information on on -demand complementary feeding and its benefits , you can learn more thanks to the video course “ Practical, easy and stress-free self-weaning ”, curated by Doctor Federica Dell'Oro, nutrition biologist.
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First weaning foods: what are they?
In the case of a traditional approach , the first foods for weaning are almost always baby food.
To prepare them, you use vegetable broth , characterised by the presence of vegetables such as celery, carrots, courgettes and potatoes .
Also not to be forgotten is the use of creams , which can be made from rice, corn, tapioca or semolina.
The 6-month weaning schedule based on the traditional approach includes, as regards fruit, starting with apple and pear.
Traditional weaning involves timed insertions .
Allergenic fruits, such as strawberries, are introduced when the child is 12 months old, with the intention of preventing the onset of allergy symptoms.
Chronoinsertions also involve vegetables. As mentioned above, traditional weaning starts with potatoes, carrots, and zucchini.
Just to give an example, I remember that tomatoes (without the peel) are introduced into the child's diet around 8 months.
The traditional weaning plan , which, as Dr. Dell'Oro recalls several times in her course, is not personalized, is characterized by a gradual approach regarding carbohydrate sources.
We start with creams , to continue, around 7 months, with extremely small-sized pasta , for example sand, arriving, around 12 months, to administering barley and spelt.
Foods at 6 months: sources of protein and fat
The first foods for weaning, a process that generally begins around six months, also include various sources of protein.
Those who choose the traditional plan start, as far as meat is concerned, with the administration of rabbit, turkey, veal, chicken and beef homogenized foods.
When the puppy is 9 - 10 months old, we move on to steamed and pureed meat.
After 12 months, pork is introduced. Cooked ham, on the other hand, is offered to the child at approximately 8 months.
What can we say, instead, about cheeses ? As I mentioned in this article, very often the first proposed baby food is added with parmesan (which represents, as I specified here , a contradiction when talking about salt management during weaning).
Fish is also frequently included among the first foods offered during weaning.
Those who opt for the traditional approach start with cod and trout purees.
Another important source of protein, namely legumes , is introduced at around 8 months , initially choosing steamed, peeled lentils.
From the egg, only the yolk is offered first , starting when the baby is around 9 months old.
When the child turns one year old, the whole egg is given.
The main source of lipids when talking about the first foods for traditional weaning is extra virgin olive oil.
