This the most appropriate time for giving your baby some
soft food.
What is the best food that may be started with?
From the end of the fourth month up to the end of the sixth
month, start with one new food a time. Rice is one of the best foods to start
with. You can buy rice specifically prepared for babies, or cook normal rice at
home by boiling it in a sufficient quantity of water so that cooked rice
becomes very soft.
Do
not put cereals or egg in the milk bottle of the baby.
Do
not add sugar, salt, honey to the food of the baby.
Use a
small plastic spoon. Give him the food with the end of the spoon.
While
feeding your baby, have him sit straight with his face forward to
facilitate swallowing process.
Never
try to quickly insert food into his mouth. Rather, allow him a sufficient
time to swallow the food.
What is the proper quantity of food given to the baby?
In the beginning, give the baby one meal a day consisting of
1-2 spoonful of a soft, easily digestible food. A week later, try to increase
the quantity to 2-3 spoons once a day for two weeks. Thereafter, try to give
him two meals of soft food a day.
Recommended food kinds for various phases of the baby age
When he is four months’ old:
Give him one or two spoonful of mashed rice.
Best timing:
Give your baby half the quantity of the milk first, and then
give him mashed rice. In the beginning, he may reject the food and spits it
out. Try again every day until he accepts this food.
A week later, try again to give your baby a soft food with
the third and fourth times you breast-feed him. When he becomes four months’
old, you can give him mashed potato.
When he is 5-6 months’ old:
Introducing new kinds of food:
When the baby becomes able to take about five spoonful of
food in each meal, you can start introducing other food kinds. Try to give him
cooked vegetables, cooked meat or mixer-blended fruits. If you wish to use
canned or packed types of baby food, you must follow the instructions provided
on the food can or pack. Keep the food cans and packs in the refrigerator
during the hot weather. Dispose of the opened cans or packs. When the baby
becomes six month’ old, you may give him ground wheat.
When he is 6 months’ old:
Recommended feeding plan:
Naturally, the baby will be given less amount of milk when
he starts taking soft food. Still, milk remains essential for him.
Breast milk (or other kinds of milk) may be given him after
taking food at any time during the day. He should be given about 6 meals.
First meal:
The baby should be
given breast milk (or other kinds of milk). He should also be given vitamins.
At forenoon time:
After giving him little quantity of milk, give him 1-5
spoonful rice or mashed rice.
At this time, you
may also give him cereals, wheat, well cooked egg yolk, and then some of breast
milk or other milk
At noon time:
Give the baby 1-5 spoonful mashed cooked meat, vegetables or
fruits, and then some of breast milk or other milk.
In the evening:
Give the baby 1-5 spoonful mashed cooked meat, vegetables or
fruits, and then some of breast milk or other milk.
At night:
Give the baby breast milk or other milk
Suggested kinds of food appropriating a baby of this age:
Mashed
chicken soup
Cooked
ground meat
Cooked
tomato
Rice/potato
mashed together or mixer-bended
Mashed chicken soup
Well
cooked grits and chicken
Mix
them until the mixture become thick
Apple or peach compote
Peel
the fruits
Wash
them
Cut
them into small pieces
Boil
them in a little water until they become soft, then mash them
Mashed vegetables
Fresh
or canned/packed tomato
Cleaned
and cut carrots, mallow (molokhia) and citron
Cut
them soft
Boil
them in a little water until they become soft.
Mash
them by a spoon or blend them by a mixer.
Some useful facts
Adding
sugar to the baby sucker will damage his teeth and may cause infections.
Using
sucker in all times may cause crookedness of his teeth.
Any
water used for baby drinking or for making milk must be first boiled.
Babies
above nine months’ old can chew soft food even if he has no teeth.
Nuts
or crackers may cause suffocation to a child of less than one and half a
year’s old.
Giving
hard food to very small children may cause suffocation.
When
the baby becomes 9 moths’ old, he can hold a glass but imperfectly.
When
the baby becomes one year’s old, he can perfectly hold a glass.
High-fiber
vegetables (such as whole bread, lentils and beans) should not be
frequently given to children of less than two years’ old because they fill
their stomach and prevent them from taking other kinds of food.
The
weight of the baby usually become three fold when he is one year’s old.
30/08/2004
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Tips to revive matrimonial love
Rule: Renew and be creative
"Well I got bored. I don't feel I want to return home. Routine is strangling my life. I and
my wife got to the freezing point
in our relation. I don't know
why? "All taste the same "
These are the kind of words
expressed by certain husbands
who stuck with "all the same"
attitude. They don't even think of
introducing any change in their
life. They tend to loose taste of happiness and their relation with their wives
tends to grew colder and colder.
Given my interest in the
secrets of happiness in matrimonial
life, I found that a dose of
change and renewal has positive effect in reviving sentimentalities between
the couple and denying "all the
same" attitude from accumulating
in the hearts. Couples who keep
applying new program over the weeks are more likely to lead a happy life with
minimum setbacks; compared to those leading
stagnant life.
It is simple. When you look deep into the matter you find yourself by nature tending to get
bored easily by repeated and same
things. Same thing goes same pattern tends to loose meaning. It is the
sun-set that gives the sun the
potential of not being got bored
with. It is the inter-changing between
sun-set and sun rise that brings enormous unique scenes with new colors and new
feelings. It is not the sun alone
that plays the trick of internal
change. Day and night, summer and
winter all give our life a kind of ever refreshing sense that gives life a
special favor.
Matrimonial life
requires a refreshing sense
of change as well. Certain simple means can help overcome the
element of boring and stagnancy.
We need not repeat
ourselves even if the other
partner like what we do. Certain dose of change can add tense and warmth to the every-day scene.
Lunch, for instance, if
taken by the sea or river or at a
garden or park tends to have superb
flavor compared to the family
table. Matrimonial life away from home and its walls in a kind
of tour can make the difference. It is
the walls of the house that restrain
happiness and squeeze the feelings. Just try "change the
attitude" by change the
surrounding atmosphere.
Tips on change:
·
Change
does not mean extravagant spending on new furniture. New furniture set-up can
do.
·
Certain
individuals hates change and tends to feel insecure, minimal and gradual dose
of change can do the trick.
·
Men
by nature tends to keep their feelings
to themselves. They have a problem of
finding words to express their love
and affection to their women.
They might well express nothing about a change even if they like it.
Women should consider the gender difference and should moreover milk his feeling out of his chest by simply asking him what he
does think about the change. Few drops
of words may lead the way for full
expression of admiration about the change.
