Nutrition for an 8 month old artificial baby. Feeding a baby at eight months: what to feed and what to give? Is it possible to give fish

You can start introducing fish into your children’s diet in the ninth month. Along with animal meat, fish is a source of complete protein with a well-balanced composition of amino acids, fat, vitamins B2, B12 and minerals. Compared to meat, fish contains 5 times less connective tissue, due to which it boils quickly, has a delicate consistency after heat treatment and is easier to digest. Fish oil is characterized by a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, including the ω-3 class. These substances are necessary for the child to mature the brain, retina, strengthen the cardiovascular and immune systems. Sea fish contains microelements that are important for the child’s body, such as iodine and fluorine. The child should be given 1-2 times a week instead of meat, being sure to monitor how the child tolerates fish in general and its individual varieties. Preference should be given to ocean fish, preferably white (cod, hake, pollock), red salmon can be recommended, and river fish - pike perch, carp.

Self-cooked fish is given to the child with boiled and pureed vegetables. You can also offer your baby canned fish and vegetables, but they contain only 10 - 20% fish.

At this age, when all the main food groups have already been introduced, special attention should be paid to the diversity of the composition of dishes. New, possibly combined products are being introduced, for example, not only purees from various fruits and berries, but also their combinations with cottage cheese, cream, cereals, etc.

From 8 months, the child’s diet can be expanded to include fermented milk products (baby kefir, biokefir, bifidokefir, yogurt, bioyogurt, biolact). Fermented milk products are prepared using a special starter that breaks down milk protein, so that the baby can receive an essential set of amino acids in a readily accessible form. Fermented milk products improve the composition of the child’s intestinal microflora and are rich in B vitamins and calcium. Their regular consumption has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the intestines, stimulates appetite, and increases the absorption of micronutrients. Children's fermented milk products are introduced into the baby's diet gradually, starting with 1 tsp. and if well tolerated, increase their volume to 150-200 ml per day.

Sample menu for a healthy 8 month old baby

I feeding 6 hours	Breast milk or infant formula	200 ml
II feeding 10 hours	Dairy-free* or milk porridge Butter Boiled egg yolk Fruit puree Fruit juice	180 g ½ tsp. 1/2 pcs. 20 g 30 ml
III feeding 14 hours	Vegetable puree Vegetable oil Meat puree Fruit juice	170 g 1/2 tsp. 50 g 50 ml
IV feeding 18 hours	Cottage cheese Children's cookies Fruit puree Supplemental feeding with breast milk or baby kefir/yogurt	40 g 1 - 2 pcs. 40 g 100 ml
V feeding 22 hours	Breast milk or infant formula	200 ml

* - diluted with breast milk, infant formula or water

Approximate daily diet for an 8 month old child
with an allergy to cow's milk proteins

I feeding 6 hours		200 ml
II feeding 10 hours	Dairy-free* porridge Vegetable oil Fruit puree (apple, pear)	120 g 1 tsp 80 g
III feeding 14 hours	Vegetable puree Vegetable oil Meat puree	170 g 1 tsp 40 g
IV feeding 18 hours	Vegetable puree or porridge Vegetable oil Meat puree	170 g 1 tsp 30 g
V feeding 22 hours	Breast milk or medicated formula for children with allergies to cow's milk proteins	200 ml

* - diluted with breast milk or medicinal formula for children with allergies to cow's milk proteins

At this age, children are fed 5 times a day with a night break. As a rule, children skip night feedings and only some can feed at night. The nutrition of a child at 8 months is practically the same. It's great if you continue breastfeeding. Along with complementary feeding, he receives healthy breast milk from his mother. After all, it contains antibodies, enzymes, immunoglobulins, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins in sufficient quantities.

The immune system at this age is not yet sufficiently developed. Therefore, it is ideal to breastfeed for as long as possible. And why buy expensive artificial milk formulas if breast milk is available at any time and completely free. It is safe to say that a child’s nutrition at 8 months should be and remain natural.

It is very useful to feed children breast milk until they are 2 years old, then they get sick less, and by this age, the immune system becomes more mature, and the body is not yet poisoned by drugs. At this age, you can already give fermented milk products, kefir, and cottage cheese. You can diversify fruit juices and vegetable purees. Of course, you can completely replace 3 feedings with complementary foods, but it’s still better to supplement with breast milk or adapted milk.

Baby's diet at 8 months

The diet of a child at 8 months should be structured in such a way that morning feeding and night feeding remain with breast milk or formula. At this age, there can be only one complementary food, vegetable puree. Although children who are bottle-fed already have 3 complementary foods. Don’t worry, this happens to many people, they just don’t want anything other than mother’s milk.

Those children who are bottle-fed have a wider diet. Almost all of them eat vegetable puree, porridge, minced meat, egg yolk, crackers, cookies, fruit juices and fruit puree.

You can introduce fermented milk products, kefir or cottage cheese into your diet. Fermented milk products can be purchased ready-made, or, if possible, you can prepare them yourself. By the end of the 8th month, you can introduce fish into your diet, but not fatty varieties. In addition to minced meat, you can already give the liver of young veal. During cooking, you can add butter and vegetable oil, but not more than 5 grams. Porridge can be cooked with added sugar.

Under no circumstances should you give cakes, buns, sausages, or grapes. Even though it’s been 8 months, don’t forget to keep notes in your food diary. This is very helpful in sorting out some unpleasant situations and providing timely assistance. If things don’t go quite smoothly, you can always give breast milk and temporarily remove the complementary foods that caused the trouble. still need maternal protection, and feeding time is a huge confirmation of this. Do not forget that after feeding, children should rest, at this age they are already mobile, and perhaps walk independently, so try to distract them with a calmer game.

Baby's menu at 8 months

If you don’t know how to create a menu for a baby at 8 months, ask a pediatrician who knows all the individual characteristics. Milk formulas should only be adapted, although they are expensive, but then you will have fewer problems. All prepared food must be fresh, warm, not hot, and attractive in appearance. Since only the appearance of the prepared food already causes appetite, and the taste continues to contribute to a good appetite. We can offer a sample menu for this age, but it is not mandatory.

Non-fatty fish should be given once a week. Porridge should be alternated every day, minced meat should be alternated with liver, cottage cheese should be alternated with kefir. Only fruit juices and fruit purees should be given every day after feeding or between feedings. It happens that fish and minced meat are introduced into the diet, but porridge does not work, there is nothing wrong with that, many children do not want to eat porridge.

The amount of food per feeding can be calculated by volume or calorie method; your local pediatrician will explain this to you.

The 8-month-old baby's menu continues to be updated with new dishes and products. This must be done slowly and carefully, monitoring the body's reaction. If a rash, vomiting or diarrhea occurs, you should stop introducing complementary foods. There is a list of foods that are allowed at this age, and some dishes should be left for subsequent months.

An 8-month-old baby must be fed cottage cheese and other fermented milk products. You can include yoghurts in the menu. Products should not have a long shelf life. It is better if the dishes are prepared at home.

Complementary feeding from cottage cheese dishes can be combined with fruits or dried fruits.

Kefir can be served as a complement to morning or evening milk feeding. If a child refuses to eat this product, then it will be enough to give him a few spoons before the main feeding with breast milk or formula.

At 8 months, the menu contains all types of permitted cereals. You can cook them from rice, corn, oatmeal, buckwheat. You can diversify your diet by cooking porridge from several grains. Start adding a little butter to the finished dish. The porridge needs to be cooked in water; you can use pasteurized milk.

Complementary food in the form of hard-boiled chicken yolk is a new product on the menu of an 8-month-old baby. The whole yolk should not be given yet; it should be divided in half. Yolk should be included in the diet no more than twice a week. If your child does not like this product, you can finely grate it and add it to the mixture or porridge.

The child's diet includes complementary feeding from meat dishes. Initially, you should cook broth with meat, then soup.

On average, it takes about two weeks to become familiar with meat dishes. It is recommended to replace the meat dish with fish twice a week.

The menu is complemented by complementary foods made from fruit puree. It is allowed to be made from peaches, apples, pears, apricots, and bananas. You can squeeze juice and cook compotes.

With caution, you can try introducing complementary foods made from legumes (beans, peas, lentils) into the diet of an 8-month-old baby.

Between main feedings, it is allowed to feed the child with cookies or white bread crackers, no more than 10 grams.

Features of feeding at this age

At 8 months of age, the child eats five times a day at intervals of approximately 4 hours. The child’s diet looks like this: in the morning it is advisable to prepare porridge, for lunch – soup or meat broth, in the evening – a light dinner with fermented milk products. An early first breakfast and a late evening dinner should consist of breast milk or formula. A breastfed baby should receive about 900 g of milk per day.

An approximate menu schedule for an 8-month-old baby follows the following hourly schedule.

The baby still wakes up early, around 6 am. During this time, you need to feed him breast milk or formula. You should not stop breastfeeding, especially if your baby urgently needs it. Mother's milk contains components that ensure the maintenance of immunity and normal intestinal function, which is especially important during the period of introducing complementary foods.
Breakfast must consist of cereals. They are boiled in water, without adding salt or sugar. Cereals should be chosen without gluten (oatmeal, rice, buckwheat, corn). If children are breastfed, then the menu will consist of new cereals; by this time, artificial ones are familiar with all the permitted grains. You can add a small piece of butter (5 g) to the finished dish. Additionally, you can serve the yolk of a chicken egg (1/2 pcs.).
For lunch, you can serve vegetable soup or broth made from lean meats (rabbit, chicken, turkey, veal). You can make cutlets or steamed meatballs, or cook pureed vegetables. It is allowed to include natural juice from fruits familiar to the child’s body for dessert in the diet.
Dinner should not overload the digestive organs. It is best to give your baby kefir or cottage cheese, fruit puree.
Before bed, breast milk or formula is indispensable.

If the child is bottle-fed, then the first complementary foods were presumably introduced earlier, at 4-5 months. Therefore, at 8 months you can include fish in your diet. It is better to choose river or ocean fish with white meat (hake, pollock).

Fruit dishes should be included between main feedings. They cannot be used to replace other products. This way they will be better digested by the body and all nutritional components will be absorbed.

Feeding rules

The table will help you visually study what the diet of an 8-month-old baby looks like, regardless of what kind of feeding he is on.

Feeding time	Products, dishes and their quantities
First breakfast (6.00–6.30)	Mother's milk or formula (220 ml). If the child is bottle-fed, then half of the volume is kefir (110 ml).
Second breakfast (10.00–10.30)	Porridge (170 g) with added butter (5 g), familiar fruit puree (50 g).
Lunch (14.00–14.30)	Vegetable puree (160 g), meat cutlet (40 g), favorite fruit puree (40 g), natural juice (30 g).
Afternoon tea (18.00)	Curd dish (40 g), fruit puree (50 g), cookies (10 g) and kefir (100 g).
Late dinner (22.00)	Breast milk or formula (220 ml). You can give kefir (110 ml).

Sample menu for an 8-month-old baby for a whole week in the form of a table.

Days of the week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Time
6.00	Breast milk or formula and kefir.
10.00	Rice porridge, egg yolk, fruit puree.	Corn porridge, applesauce.	Buckwheat porridge, fruit.	Oatmeal porridge, yolk, apricot puree.	Rice porridge with carrot puree, pear puree.	Buckwheat porridge, beet puree.	Oatmeal, plum and applesauce.
14.00	Meat broth, mashed potatoes with meat, jelly.	Broth on meat, meat with boiled carrots, natural fruit juice.	Fish broth, meat cutlet with zucchini puree, compote.	Vegetable puree with fish cutlet, apple juice.	Meat cutlet, cauliflower puree, jelly.	Mashed potatoes and meat, natural juice.	Meat puree with vegetables, apricot juice.
18.00	Kefir, cottage cheese, cookies.
22.00	Mother's milk or adapted formula.

food must be pureed;
You cannot add spices, as well as salt and sugar;

three breastfeedings can already be replaced with complementary foods;
the dish should be prepared for one feeding;
The baby should be weaned from feeding at night.

The first feeding directly affects the further development of the child’s digestive organs. Mom should schedule a feeding regimen on time and correctly, including approved foods.

It is no coincidence that the age of eight months is called a turning point in the development of a baby, since it is from this time that the gradually increasing dynamics of his physical and social activity become more and more obvious. In the daily routine of an 8-month-old child, there is a strong tendency for periods of active wakefulness to predominate over periods of sleep. Communicating with the baby day by day becomes more and more interesting, although it is also more troublesome for the mother, who is constantly next to him.

Sample daily routine for an 8 month old baby

6:00-8:30 Time for awakening, first feeding, and a light massage that completes the air bath procedure.

8:30-10:00 The first sleep is preferably in the fresh air.

10:00-10:30 Baby's second meal.

10:30-14:00 Active leisure, including morning exercises, massage and educational games.

14:00-14:30 Time for the third meal.

14:30-16:00 Second period of daytime rest. It's better to combine it with a walk.

16:00-18:00 A period of active acquaintance with the environment, time for developmental activities and physical exercises.

18:00-18:30 Baby's fourth meal.

18:30-20:00 Walk in the fresh air.

20:00-22:00 Games with close relatives, the procedure for the child’s evening bathing.

22:00-22:30 Evening feeding of the baby.

22:30-6:00 Night rest period.

A few more additional options with a daily routine (you will already choose the best option, taking into account the characteristics of your baby):
Upon comparative study of the tables, one can notice that the daily routine that organizes the life of a child at 8 months has not undergone significant changes (compared to the previous period). It still includes five feedings with a four-hour interval between them and two walks in the fresh air. Only the time of daytime rest has been reduced, since the child is able to remain active for 5-6 hours.

About the need for rest

The sleep of an eight-month-old baby, which has a phase of shallow and deep sleep, begins to resemble the sleep of an adult. A baby who is sound asleep does not react to any external stimuli; his reflex reactions during this period are significantly reduced. The level of brain activity during night sleep decreases to a minimum.

The longest period of rest in an 8-month-old baby's daily routine is nighttime sleep, usually lasting at least eight hours;
Daytime sleep becomes biphasic. Most babies go for one and a half to two hour naps twice during the day, although there are often cases when its duration does not exceed forty minutes. Some eight-month-old babies rest only once during the day, and the duration of this rest can be at least four hours;
On average, a child needs eleven hours of sleep per day, although some babies continue to sleep for thirteen hours.

It is easy to guess from his behavior that the baby is tired and needs rest. The baby becomes lethargic, stops actively reacting to what is happening, begins to yawn and rub his eyes with his fists, his breathing becomes deeper and more even. Having noticed all these signs, the mother should change the baby's clothes and send him to his crib.

About proper sleep organization

In order for your baby to sleep as soundly and peacefully as possible, you need to take care to create optimal conditions for him.

The humidity level in the children's room should be no lower than 70%, and the air temperature should not be higher.
Before putting the baby in the crib, you need to take care of pre-ventilation of the room: air saturated with oxygen will promote deeper breathing for the baby.
Using a properly selected orthopedic mattress () and a neatly made crib that does not have folds on the surface of the sheet is another condition for long-term sleep.
It is necessary to put the baby to bed in accordance with the usual daily routine.
To ensure a restful sleep for your baby, you should shade the window and turn down the volume of the TV and radio (low background sounds not only do not interfere, but also help your baby fall asleep well).
It is very useful to give him a relaxing massage and sing a lullaby before putting your baby to bed.
A long night's rest is always facilitated by a walk in the fresh air and a bathing procedure (after soaking in warm water and playing enough, the baby will fall asleep faster and more soundly).

An important point concerns children who tend to roll over on their back in their sleep and sleep with their nose buried in the pillow. The baby must be turned over immediately, accompanying his actions with stroking on the back, quiet singing or monotonous affectionate muttering. If the baby, scared, wakes up, you can simply pick him up and, shaking him slightly, put him back in the crib.

To make it easier to control the sleep of a baby who turns over in his sleep, you can completely remove the side wall of the crib and move it to the mother’s bed, aligning the levels of the beds. Holding the baby by the hand, the mother can either sleep peacefully all night (if the baby behaves calmly) or wake up at the right moment. It is known that the sleep of caring parents is particularly sensitive and intermittent. Feeling the movement of the little hand, the mother will wake up and control the baby’s behavior.

About the intricacies of feeding

A child's diet at 8 months becomes quite varied. In addition to the dishes and drinks that are well known to him (vegetable and fruit purees, multi-grain and milk porridges, baby cottage cheese, kefir, tea and juices), the baby begins to receive meat. Low-fat varieties are excellent for baby food: chicken breast, rabbit and turkey meat.

When introducing meat into your baby’s diet, it is better to add it little by little to the vegetable puree. A good way to get acquainted with a new product is to add meat, chopped to crumbs, to children's soups cooked in vegetable or meat broth.

Instead of meat, you can add the yolk of a chicken egg to soups, strictly ensuring that both of these rather heavy products do not end up in the child’s stomach within one day (they should be alternated, giving them on different days).

Many mothers of eight-month-old babies believe that at this age it is time to wean them off breast milk. This is a wrong position. Most experienced pediatricians say that you should breastfeed your baby for as long as possible. Of course, the nutritional value of mother’s milk alone is no longer enough for a grown baby, so it needs to be applied to the breast at least twice a day: when waking up and when going to bed at night.

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Since breast milk is food and not drink for an 8-month-old baby, it must be given special baby tea or boiled water. During the day, the baby should receive approximately a liter of solid food and 600 ml of liquid(in the form of juices, teas, herbal infusions, water and breast milk).

The daily diet of a child at 8 months should look something like this:

Breakfast: mother's milk or formula.
Second meal: porridge (with water or milk), fruit drink or children's tea.
Dinner: vegetable soup with the addition of meat or yolk (you can make vegetable puree instead of soup), fruit juice.
Fourth meal: fruit puree or baby cottage cheese.
Feeding before bed: breastfeeding or porridge (for artificial babies).

Starting from the age of 8 months, the baby must be taught to wash his hands before eating: if you do this regularly, he will soon develop a useful habit associated with feeding. This useful skill will be useful to your child when he goes to kindergarten. Read an article about 4 basic useful skills that you should teach your child before kindergarten -

Helpful tips for moms:

By 8 months, the baby achieves great success: thanks to stronger muscles, he can sit confidently without any support, crawls well, moving from room to room, stands on his feet and begins to walk with the support of both arms.

To consolidate these achievements and lay the foundation for future successful development, the baby needs regular physical activity: morning exercises and sets of special exercises to strengthen the ligamentous-muscular system.

The nurse will introduce the mother to a set of gymnastic exercises in the healthy child’s office. When performing exercises for flexion and extension of the limbs, performing circular rotations with the arms and feet of the baby, the mother must be extremely attentive and careful, making sure that the active baby does not get injured during an awkward turn.

To make gymnastics enjoyable for your child, after each exercise you should perform several relaxing massage movements. The total duration of physical exercise for an 8-month-old baby can be 15-20 minutes per day.. Before performing gymnastics, it is necessary to ventilate the room well.

Spending a long time in the fresh air is extremely beneficial for a child’s development, which is why pediatricians advise using every opportunity for the baby to walk as often and for as long as possible. Two two-hour walks should be a mandatory component of your daily routine.

Inhaling oxygen-enriched air promotes:

active development of the cerebral hemispheres;
oxygen saturation of the cells and tissues of the child’s body;
deep and long sleep.

The arsenal of educational activities for a child can be replenished with new interesting games:

Children enjoy rearranging bright cubes, disassembling multi-colored pyramids and laying out objects from boxes;
If you place as many toys as possible in your baby's crib, he will enthusiastically begin to throw them out of it. During this strange (from the point of view of an adult) game, the child develops coordination of movements, an eye, all muscle groups are strengthened, and a lot of energy is spent;
Kids love active games, so you can give them the opportunity to “fly an airplane” in their dad’s arms or experience the delight of playing “boom hole”;
To develop coordination of movements and motor skills of small muscles, you can offer your baby a toy wrapped in soft wrapping paper (you need to wrap it away from him). Satisfying his natural curiosity, he will certainly begin to unfold it;

When instilling in a child an interest in books, it is necessary to teach him to carefully look at the illustrations, accompanying the process with comments about who is shown in the picture. If it is an animal, you can talk about its size, habits, favorite treats, and demonstrate what sounds it makes;
Even the usual procedure of bathing a baby can be turned into an exciting role-playing game. Taking a plastic boat, the mother can show the baby how it can be used to transport a small toy. You can bathe his favorite doll or rubber toy in front of the child's eyes, soaping it with a piece of sponge and repeating the same words that are usually used when bathing a baby. After this, the baby will certainly want to perform this action on his own. The kids really love pouring water. To do this, they should have buckets, watering cans or small bottles at their disposal (). Water procedures, loved by most children, require great care from parents. It should be remembered that the baby sitting in the bath should not be left unattended, even for one moment. It is also undesirable to remove the plug that covers the drain hole of the bathtub when a child is in it. The sight of rapidly receding water and the sounds it makes can frighten him and cause him to die.

Daily adherence to the established daily routine is a guarantee of excellent mood, successful development and good health of an 8-month-old baby.

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A person grows every day, so it is necessary to diversify his diet, taking into account how many months the child is. The menu of children aged 8 months should include more products compared to those aged seven months. But what exactly can be given to an 8-month-old baby to eat and drink is worth looking into in more detail.

It is important to add that a person aged 8 months should still eat 5 times a day, and complementary foods are introduced before breastfeeding begins. Night sleep is usually calm and serene, but some children may wake up from hunger, so they should be given the mother's breast as an emergency feeding, because a hungry body requires this.

What should be the diet for 8-month-old children while breastfeeding?

If at 8 months the child is still fed the most beneficial mother's milk, this is simply wonderful, since there is not a single artificial formula that contains all the necessary vitamins and minerals. It is breast milk that will help to easily digest new dishes, which can already be used as complementary foods from 8 months.

Experienced pediatricians advise not to force children to feed new complementary foods if the child has enough mother's milk. You can give a new product to eat or drink in one sitting, that is, prepare one dish that will diversify the diet of an 8-month-old baby, and give it before lunch feeding. It is advisable to use the following as the basis for complementary feeding:

grated fruits;
boiled vegetables, pureed;
You can choose boneless fish as a new dish and, of course, you need to grind it thoroughly.

It’s also a good idea to choose milk as an additional dish if a nursing mother doesn’t have enough of it.

Menu for bottle-fed babies 8 months old

If we consider the menu of 8-month-old children who are fed artificial formula, it will not differ too much from the option with mother’s milk.

Daily feeding is divided into three stages:

Morning.
Daytime
Evening.

However, the menu should be designed in such a way that a bottle-fed baby can receive the maximum amount of vitamins and minerals that his peers receive from breast milk.

It is allowed to give a child at 8 months the following types of complementary foods:

easily digestible porridges prepared with milk or artificial mixture;
vegetable or fruit purees;
lean types of meat and fish.

The child should eat and drink new foods regularly, but make sure that the weekly diet is varied. For example, in the first two days you can give an 8-month-old child (regardless of what his main food is - artificial or breastfeeding) porridge prepared on the basis of oatmeal, then prepare low-fat fish, then add buckwheat porridge, and so on. Further.

What new foods should you give your baby at 8 months?

A child who is 8 months old can be given the following new foods:

turkey or chicken meat;
hard-boiled chicken or quail egg yolk;
boiled potatoes.

Potatoes are not introduced together with other vegetables as early complementary foods, which could be given to children from 4 months, since this vegetable is an allergenic food. Initially, it is allowed to give only 5-7 grams of potatoes, gradually increasing the amount of complementary foods so that by the end of the week this figure is no more than 70 grams. When preparing vegetable complementary foods, you should take such a ratio of different vegetables so that potatoes occupy a third of the menu.

Boiled yolk can be given from both chicken and quail eggs. It is best to give a quail yolk to an 8-month-old child, especially if this bird is domestic. The fact is that such an egg contains more minerals, does not cause allergic reactions, and is easily absorbed by the body. It is recommended to give the yolk twice a week, and for the first administration you need to take only a few grains of hard-boiled egg. For the second injection, half a quail yolk or a quarter of a chicken yolk will be enough, then the amount of yolk is increased to a whole quail yolk or half a chicken yolk. To make it convenient for your baby to eat the yolk, you can grind it and combine it with regular or expressed breast milk.

As complementary meat, you can take chicken, turkey or rabbit meat, since these species do not cause allergenic reactions. In addition, such products have minimal fat content. The initial administered dose of complementary meat should be no more than 5-7 grams; you can add chopped meat in a blender to vegetable puree and feed an 8-month-old child this dish for lunch. After a month, it is time to introduce boiled and chopped beef or lamb into the menu, but it is recommended to give pork only after a year.

An approximate table showing the diet of children of 8 months.

	Age (by month)
Products introduced into the diet	6-6,2	6.5	7-7,2	8-8,5	9-9,5	10-12
vegetable puree in milligrams	12-55	65-110	160	175	185	200-220
vegetable oil in milliliters	1,5-3,5	3,5-4	4-4,5	4,5-5	5-5,5	5,5-6
puree made from fruit in milligrams	—	7-35	35-55	65-75	75-85	95-120
freshly prepared fruit juices in milliliters	—	—	10-60	65-75	75-85	95-110
curd product in milligrams	—	—	15-25	35-45	45	55
porridge made from milk in milligrams	—	—	55-75	110-130	135-170	200-220
lean meat puree in milligrams	—	—	5,5-35	35-55	55	65-75
dry cookies, sweet crackers in milligrams	—	—	1-4	4-6	7-8	11-16
quail or chicken yolk in milligrams	—	—	—	0.27	0.7	0.7
food products prepared from fermented milk base in milliliters	—	—	—	110-210	210	450-600
butter in milligrams	—	—	—	1-3	4-5	6,5
wheat based bread in milligrams	—	—	—	—	5,2	10,5