Appropriate Nutrition To Grow Babies
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Babies
(0 to 24 months) requires the type of foods breast milk (BREAST MILK), milk
formula, and solid food. Calorie needs for the baby between 100 – 200 kcal/kg.
In the first four months, the baby better gets only BREAST MILK (BREAST MILK exclusively)
without given milk formula. More than 4 months of age can be given food
companion infant formula or BREAST MILK, except in some specific cases when the
child does not get BREAST MILK, such as mothers with postnatal complications,
pregnant women, suffering from infectious diseases and still in a steroid
therapy or morphine.
Following
are the awarding of appropriate nutrition from birth in infants aged to 12
months:
a.
Newborn until the age of 4 months
The
baby began early feedings possible, directly after birth. Time and long
breastfeeding baby need (on demand). Avoid the granting of extra food like
honey, water, an aqueous solution of glucose and other pre-lacteal foods. If
after feedings then turns out the baby became bluish and shortness of breath,
need a thought to the possibility of the existence of such obstruction or
abnormalities of esophageal fistula.
Next
baby may be given fruits (banana) or biscuit since the age of 2 months while
feeding pulverized to tender ( a porridge of milk) at the age of 3 – 4 months,
according to the baby's needs respectively. The baby will be hungry and be
crying when BREAST MILK is less and it will also be seen from the growth of the
baby that is not satisfactory. To cope with the growth, the baby needs to be
weighed regularly, i.e. whenever possible conducted every day on the first
week, then every week until the end of the first month, and then every 2 weeks
in the second and third month onwards every month.
On the fourth month usually
begins feeding solid food, namely pulverized milk porridge, for example, which
can be made of flour (rice or corn), milk and sugar. Time to give food
pulverized can be selected accordingly, for example, around 9:00 am by
observing that the approximately 2 hours earlier. Now were not given what –
nothing. Thus the baby breastfeeding with its needs, given the one-time milk
porridge and fruits once. At this age can also be given chicken eggs, but will
need to be alert to the possibility of allergic reaction with symptoms of urticaria.
When this occurs, the granting of the egg is suspended. Usually, every baby is
already resistant to the egg at the age of 7 months.
b.
Infant age 5 – 6 months
Can
be given pureed food 2 times a day, milk fruits and eggs.
c.
Infant age 6 – 7 months
Babies
can start given the rice team which is a bland foods and also a complete mix of
food because it can be made from rice, food sources of animal protein (liver,
chopped meat, egg or fish meal) and vegetable protein sources food ingredients
namely tofu, tempeh, green vegetables (spinach), tomatoes and carrots. Thus the
steam rice is foods that contain nutrients that are complete when made with the
ingredients. During infancy, the steam rice must be filtered beforehand to
facilitate swallowing and not a lot of fibers that can be difficult for
digestion.
d.
A baby aged 8 – 12 months
Porridge
of milk can already be replaced entirely with steam rice, that is, early in the
morning as the morning meal, for example, hours 9:00 am, during the day as a
lunch around 13.00 and in the afternoon as the dinner around 17.00 – 18.00.
When the baby is feeding in accordance with the suggestion that is exceeding
the period of 1 year, to note the incidence of anorexia to food possible, so
that the child will lack protein and calories, and eventually suffer disease
Protein Energy Malnutrition.
A
successful baby eating arrangements in infancy will facilitate the smooth
setting to eat at the age to come. At the end of infancy have been conditioned
babies received food 3 times a day, i.e. in the morning (breakfast), noon
(lunch), and the afternoon or evening (dinner). During infancy the eggs enough,
given once a day, when the baby is not allergic. Eggs can be eaten cooked or
cooked in its own half-cooked or eaten together with the rice team.
Appropriate Nutrition To
Grow Babies
The Impact Of Nutrition On Growth Child
8:14 PM
Providing nutrition to children is not merely-eyes to meet physical needs or the physiology of children, but also have an impact on aspects of psychodynamic, psychosocial development, and organic. These following will be described the effect of nutrition on these aspects.
1. The psychological impact
· Psychodynamic
In children aged infant, fulfilling basic needs are basic needs through oral. Oral phase successfully just passed if the child gets satisfaction in the fulfillment of oral during eating and drinking. Eating and drinking need of children filled the environment, especially the mother, either in the form of milk (breast milk) during breastfeeding or creamed foods.
The impact of psychodynamics to the infant is a satisfaction for the fulfillment of basic needs and warmth when these basic needs fulfilled.
· Psychosocial
The initial phase of growth and development of children under the psychosocial approach is to achieve a sense of trust and distrust as a failure in meeting those needs.
Food can be a stimulus to alleviate child hunger and quench consistent against hunger can affect the child's trust in the environment, especially in the family.
· Organic (Piaget)
Organic developments experienced by children through food is getting some sensory experiences, such as flavor or taste, smell, movement, and touch. Thus introduced a wide variety of food, the child will be rich with a variety of flavors, as well as increasing the wealth of smell through foodstuffs.
Furthermore, with the food the child will be able to improve their skills, like holding a bottle of milk, holding cups, spoons, and movement coordination skills such as bribing and scoop the food.
2. Physiological impact
The impact of nutrition on children who are clearly visible on physical growth of children. During intrauterine (in the uterus), adequate nutritional intake in the mother affects not only the health of the mother but more on the growing fetus. With adequate nutritional intake, from day to day growing larger mother's pregnancy and the fetus grows in line with evolving to gestation and mature, the fetus is ready to be born with body weight, body length and physical growth of more normal organs.
Especially in the first trimester in the event of brain growth, adequate nutritional intake, especially protein affects my brain growth. Conversely, if the mother is not gotten adequate nutrition, the baby can be born with low weight. Diet or food restriction in the mother during pregnancy will lose weight babies. Likewise, after the child was born, proper nutrition for the infant, toddler, preschool, school age, and teens will be very affected their physical growth, the child will be tethered weight and increased high or increasing in quantity.
The Impact Of Nutrition On Growth Child
5 Essential Nutrients All Babies Need
10:46 PM
When babies age 6 months, it's time to give your intake of nutrients through solids. BREAST MILK is indeed still required the baby, but the baby's development necessarily requires the intake of other nutrients from food companion ASI. The following nutrients will help grow flower baby starting from the physical to the development of the brain.
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| Essential Nutrients All Babies Need |
1. Iron
The type of these minerals plays an important role in the production of hemoglobin. Iron has the functionality to smoothen the red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body. Iron also helps the development of motor skills and memory.
Make sure the little one getting 11 milligrams of iron to be had from beef, chicken, fish, eggs, avocado, broccoli, and spinach.
2. Zinc
Almost the same as iron, these nutrients keep the infant's brain to continue to evolve and move. Zinc also serves for the production of white blood cells that can fight off the infection as well as ensure the body's cells to grow properly.
This type of nutrition usually presents in beef and chicken meat. Usually, iron-containing foods also contain zinc.
3. Calcium and Vitamin D
Calcium is very good for developing strong bones and good vitamin D to help calcium absorption. Breast milk and infant formula did give the calcium it needs. However, you still need to give the second intake of these nutrients which can be got from eggs and fish.
4. Omega-3
Omega-3 is indeed known for heart health. For infants, these nutrients have another function helping the development of the brain and the eyes.
Various studies also reveal omega-3 will help the development of the cognitive ability of infants. These healthy fats, helps the body absorb vitamin A and e. Omega-3 can be obtained from the avocado, salmon, tuna, olive oil, and more.
5. Vitamins A, B, C, and E
The four types of vitamins can help the development of the nerves, organs, skin to enhance immune function. Type this into a complete package of vitamins as nutrients needed.
You do not hesitate to incorporate different kinds of vegetables which proved to have a high content of vitamin.
Vitamin A is inside the carrots and yams. While green vegetables and bananas have vitamin B is high. Vitamin C present in tomatoes, oranges, strawberries until the melon. The grain is also required because it contains vitamin e.
Essential Nutrients All Babies Need
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