From 6 months old, your baby can go on a weaning diet. This is the first step for making your baby get acquaintance with a much healthier diet and preparing for a normal diet in the near future. In order that your baby will have a good appetite for a new diet, the weaning diet needs to contain 4 groups of foods: starch, fats, vegetables, and protein.
Starch:
- Foods: rice, bean, potato, wheat …
- Amount: depends on the consistency
- How to make:
* 6 months: super fine powder
* 7 months: moderate fine powder
* 8 months: puree porridge
* 9 – 12 months: fine grain porridge
* 12 months: grain porridge
Protein:
- Foods: meats, fish, shrimp, crab, tofu, beans, egg …
- Amount: 30 grams/ 2 tablespoons
- How to make:
* 6 – 7 months: puree and soft protein
* 8 – 9 months: minced
* 9 – 12 months: minced
* Over 12 months: chopped
Vegetables:
- Foods: leaf and tuber vegetables, fruits …
- Amount: 20 grams/ 2 tablespoons
- How to make:
* 6 – 8 months: puree chopped
* 9 – 12 months: chopped
* Over 12 months: chopped and eat with leaves, fruit slices.
Fats:
- Foods: cooking oil, fats of fish, lard, butter …
- Amount: 6 – 10 grams/ 1 tablespoon
- How to make: put fats into hot porridge or powder
Note:
- Salad oil: do not need to be cooked
- Cooking oil: need to be cooked before eating
Diet for baby from 0 to 24 months old
| Months | Milk diet | Weaning diet |
| Less than 6 months | breastfeeding | |
| 6 – 7 months | Breastfeeding (800 1000 ml) | Start to go on weaning dietDrink fruit juice |
| 7 – 8 months | Breastfeeding (800 – 900 ml) | ½ bowl of consistent infant powdery fruits |
| 9 – 12 months | Breastfeeding (700 – 800 ml) | 2/3 bowl of infant powder or consistent porridgeFruits, soybean products, flan cake, yogurt |
| 12 – 24 months | Breastfeeding ( 500 – 600 ml) | ¾ bowl of consistent porridgeFruits, milk products, noodles … |
Misunderstanding perceptions in making a weaning diet for a baby:
- The more the baby eats meat, the healthier it becomes
- Do not eat oil when the baby gets sick
- Grinding all the food for the baby
- Steamed the food to get the gourmet
- Do not eat marine fish, egg, and beef
- Feeding the baby too many nutritious foods at a time
- Drink much water
- Drink milk instead of eating
