Summary
1. Vaccine
2. Diversification
3. Tips
4. Notifications
5. Baby's sleep position
6. For mothers
The sixth month of the baby's life
The baby aged 6 months is allowed to consume milk with cereals (rice flour, cornflour), boiled fruits (apples, pears, plums, quinces), cooked vegetables (carrot, courgette, parsnip, parsley root, celery, pepper, onion, potatoes), meat - beef, chicken, turkey, boiled eggs and cheese homemade.
Solid food should be introduced into a baby's menu after it has accomplished 6 months old because the baby's digestive tract is not very well developed before this age and if the baby does not have teeth at all and also he can not sit in the table seat, it is clear that he is not ready yet for the solid food.
Concerning the colics, you can tell when a newborn has colics because it will rub its legs and will not calm down even when you take it into your arms.
At the evening meal, after you have inserted the rice cereal into the milk powder, you will notice that the newborn will not cry any longer when the milk is over and that it will sleep even better. For 150 ml of boiled water, you will add 5 measures of milk powder and a measure of rice cereals.
Also, this month, you will change the baby's milk. The passage will be done gradually, reducing the amount of milk powder number 1 and adding the new formula.
1. Regarding the vaccine, if you take the vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae, you will notice that the spot will become reddish, but the redness will disappear on its own. It is possible not to make a fever at all and that the vaccine does not give any adverse reaction. Also, the baby can wake up and cry because of insomnia.
Talk to the pediatrician about the scheme for vaccines in children, as changes occur from time to time!
2. Diversification
At the age of 6 months, some babies can sit on the chair, while others will sit at the age of six months and a half or later after diversification begins (it will be done gradually). The baby should not be forced to sit on the chair. You will place it for 2-3 minutes in the table seat or between the pillows, then you will increase the duration from one day to the next. Until the baby can sit alone in the table seat, you will feed it in your arms.
And when you walk outside with your baby with the stroller, you must offer to your child the possibility from returning the stroller from the raised position to the sitting area, because the baby should not be forced to sit in this position for a long time, especially if he is not yet ready to do so thing.
For the beginning of the diversification, we will first add the vegetables, then the fruits, otherwise the baby will prefer the sweet and will not eat any vegetables at all.
We can begin with the introduction of the boiled carrot. Cut a carrot and add an onion for good taste and put all to cook. The boiled composition will be given by the mixer, and we will get a mixture like sour cream, but boiled water should also be added to the vegetables because, at the beginning of the diversification, the amount of vegetables for one serving is tiny.
At first swallow, the baby will not eat with appetite, like the moment when he drinks the milk. Still, we are talking about something new, but you will notice that the baby is interested in both the novelty of the product introduced and the ritual of eating with the teaspoon.
In this first phase of diversification, the baby is playing with the food, rather than eating.
On the next day, add the parsley root.
At the beginning of the diversification, a smaller amount of solid food is administered to the baby, about 20-30 ml, 4-5 teaspoons, and the amount increases gradually from a day to another. Breastfeeding or powdered milk is used as a supplement, because a baby between 6 and 8 months will eat 5 meals * 150 ml or, if necessary, before the baby's evening sleep, a meal up to 180 ml.
The parsley root will give a better flavor to the vegetable puree, and the baby will stretch his hand to catch the teaspoon to eat.
The baby's "seat" after the first day of diversification will be just a little darker.
Allergies, reactions from the newly introduced foods will be followed up and possibly removing harmful foods from the baby's menu.
After you start diversifying, you will notice that the baby will sleep more and be quieter.
As for the posture, the baby tries to sit down, but gets tired quickly, falls back and tries to balance himself with his hands.
Turning to diversification, another day, we can add the pepper. We have now ready for lunch: onion, carrot, parsley root, parsnip, pepper, potatoes. We will do the same as at the beginning, and the mixture will be as tasty.
A meal will look like this:
- at 7 a.m., the baby will eat milk,
- at 10 o'clock - will eat milk again,
- at 13 o'clock - vegetable puree,
- at 16 o'clock we have a table of milk,
- and at the evening meal, we have cereal with milk.
We will add to vegetable puree and other vegetables such as celery, courgette.
At the doctor's advice (ask the pediatrician!), if the baby's medical tests show an iron deficiency, that fact will require the administration of the iron syrup.
Keep in mind and not be scared, because after the administration of this medicine, the baby's "seat" will be dark.
Objects needed for diversification:
Now that we have passed to the diversification, we need to buy new products, namely:
• a plastic strainer to squeeze the cow's cheese,
• A Y-shaped teat,
• a container that measures the food.
The first day of meat is described in The baby's seventh month of life.
3. Tips:
Still, use the sterilizer!
Milk and tea should only be cooked with boiled water.
Be careful when you are making the baby's bath because it can face upside down in the water! Just like in the trolley, be cautious that your baby does not fall!
4. Notifications:
The newborn begins to prefer to sit on his belly.
Now that he has discovered the surrounding world, he will look at nature, even at the stones, and he will also like to touch and handle the materials around him with his hands.
The baby will develop his preferences for his toys, so that if another child takes this favorite toy, then he will get upset.
The baby is scheduled to laugh. He laughs even to the people who have recently been known.
The baby will try to catch the drawings on people's clothes.
For a baby, the cradle is the most relaxing way of spending the time.
The newborn begins to analyze you, to study you. The baby will raise his hands above your face, he will touch you. He will start to laugh.
Easy, easy, begins to sit like an adult. When your baby is leaning against a pillow, he will start to lean, and he will keep his foot flexed.
Also, when the baby wants to reach a certain thing, he will lean more firmly in his knees, he will keep his balance with the help of his hands, or he will cling to the materials around him with his hands.
When you hold your baby in your arms, he will keep his hands united, or in the direction of the mouth.
5. Baby's sleep position
Until now, if the baby was sleeping only on his back, now he sleeps also on his belly.
If a very long time passes, try to move your baby and to alternate his sleeping positions.
6. For mothers
6 months after the birth of the baby, the mother will visit the gynecologist doctor for the transvaginal ultrasound and the appropriate medication.
