Nature has ordered that breast milk is the first food for a newborn baby. It has everything that the body requires at the initial stage for the development of a little man: vital nutrients, building material, energy and protection. But in the life of every child, there is a transition from breastfeeding to feeding “adult” food. And the transition should be smooth, so many mothers ask if it is possible to start giving cow's milk to children, dramatically replacing their usual breast milk? Let's figure it out together ...
Complementary foods
Nutrition refers to the introduction of new foods into the baby’s diet, in addition to breast milk or a mixture, if you do not have the opportunity to give breasts. As a first feeding, mothers choose:
- Fruit and vegetable purees;
- Fruit and Vegetable juices;
- Cow or goat milk;
- Kefir;
- Kashka.
Read a useful article about the beginning of complementary foods (when and where to start)
New foods should not cause allergies, tummy troubles and disgust in a child. The kid already has his own taste preferences, and if he does not like, for example, mashed squash, then do not include it in the diet. With cereals, juices and mashed potatoes, everything is clear: they can not be given a lot, since this food is too different from the usual. But is it possible for babies to be given regular cow's milk?
No matter how strange it sounds, but cow's milk from all the listed types of complementary foods is the worst (!)
Cons of cow's milk
- A lack of iron can cause anemia in a baby. And she, in turn, will cause other deviations in development, weakening of immunity.
- The presence in milk of a high amount of minerals: (calcium, sodium, phosphorus, chlorine, magnesium, potassium). Excess minerals in an adult are excreted by the kidneys. In a small child, the kidneys cannot cope with excess minerals and deposits can accumulate in the baby.
- Excess casein (protein).
- Not enough carbohydrates.
- Lack of iodine, copper, zinc, vitamins E and C;
Cow's milk is often the cause of allergic rashes in children: at an early age, the body is not always able to digest milk protein.
When and how to give
Pediatricians believe that there is no need to give cow's milk to children under the age of three. It is by the age of 3 that the young body becomes ready to eat “adult” food, which also includes milk.
If you nevertheless decided to introduce natural cow's milk into the child’s diet, then this can be done no earlier than at 9 months, or better per year (!)
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For the first time, a baby should be given little milk - with a teaspoon and diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2. If the body reaction does not follow during the day, then the portion can gradually be increased. For a child up to a year, complementary foods should take only one meal, all the rest is breastfeeding or a mixture. If a rash occurs, complementary foods with milk must be canceled.
After a week, if the baby perceives milk complementary foods well (no allergies (see signs of allergy) and anxiety), then milk can be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1
A child may have an individual intolerance to dairy products - in this case, it is better to refuse milk!
Milk in the diet of children up to a year
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You can not independently compose a diet for infants and introduce complementary foods without consulting a specialist. Your pediatrician will tell you when the baby can be given cow's milk. The little man is not the one to put experiments on. Let, at first glance, they seem harmless.
On the topic of complementary foods:
I have two children, the oldest is 7 years old, and the youngest is 1.5 years old, both of them grew on cow's milk, and they didn’t bother with any allergies, on the contrary, cow's milk is very useful, it has a lot of vitamins for both adults and children.
I started giving cow's milk from the age of 8 months, but at first I diluted it with water so that the body would get used gradually. There was no allergy, but the only minus that I observed was a couple of months, the baby had problems with a chair.
My child is 6 months old, we have problems with the tummy, sometimes we go with mucus, the food is completely artificial, the problems started after the mixture was transferred from one to two (two from 6 months). Change the mixture again. A relative started giving cow's milk only a year, at first, of course, a little. No need to rush, their ventricle is still vulnerable.
Now there are substitutes for cow's milk, which are easier for the child to digest. I gave mixtures and cooked only porridge in milk. But I'm not against milk, it's just that this product didn’t suit my baby.
Milk must first be diluted with water, so that the child does not have a stomach disorder.
girls tell me please, in what proportions do you want to breed cow’s milk with baby.
Svetlana needs to be milked for the first time 1: 2, and if all is well, then it will be possible to 1: 1
Feeding cow with milk. Editors, au ???? I am silent about comments, the site should be competent.
Oksana, thanks. You can’t follow everyone, fix it)
Interestingly, of course, it is written ... How can a child up to a year be given only once a day complementary foods? If he is on breast milk, he obviously will not have enough food. In general, the meaning of complementary foods is not to divert food intake, but to introduce products from which the baby will receive the necessary useful substances, which he lacks from his mother’s milk. Try to fit all the travel card in one meal. My child at 8.5 months eats porridge, vegetables, fruits, meat, cottage cheese. And milk only in porridge, improve the taste.
My first child already ate everything in a year, the mixture was just like drinking at night, and the second child would have a year later. Everything eats and there are no problems with the tummy, but then I suddenly read that I need only up to once a day to give lure ?? Review it !!!
The child began to give cow milk with cereals. Months from 7. No problem. Natural can not be harmful. Before, they fed us ordinary food, and grew up without any problems. And now they’ve gone crazy. I. Nobody thinks about the consequences? All the followers of the mixtures, various substitutes, did not think about why so many children with oncology nowadays ???? Hospitals have a contract for everything they prescribe, and you blindly believe everything ....
We began to give cow milk to the baby from 2 months - NO PROBLEMS (I have small breast milk), moreover:
1) on the Hipp mixture, the child had constant constipation and colic, on the cow there are no colic or constipation;
2) in cow's milk, the child poops 4 times a day, as in breast milk;
3) in the composition of the mixtures there is palm, rapeseed, coconut oil, and natural milk;
4) for centuries healthy people have grown on cow's milk, and now children are not healthy on “adapted mixtures”.
Please tell me whether it is possible to give cow's milk diluted with water to a monthly infant?
They gave me milk of animal origin (sheep, cow, goat) freshly eaten, still warm, from 3 months and imagine I am ALIVE AND HEALTHY !!))) At 6 months I weighed 14 kg)))) I didn’t eat any food until 9 years old meat, forced and accustomed to meat))) Now my son is 7 months old and give him milk, although it’s cooked milk, because. I don’t know what the cows are fed, so cap milk and the baby drinks it with great pleasure!))) I began to give him cow milk at 3 months-LESS Crying, Sleeps ALL NIGHT, HOPE! Bullshit is all that is written in the article.
I fed cow food from 4 months at the beginning with cow's milk and boiled it now I don’t boil it for a year, but I boil all the rules))
we are 7 months old, we eat the mixture for now, I’ll start giving cow's milk in its pure form earlier than a year, I think if you cook the porridge as you write diluted with water, then everything will be fine, we just suffer from diathesis from purchased cereals, so we began to cook on water, if you give cow's milk, then the mixture can not be given, as I understand it
I away from sin give adapted milk drink Kozochka. I know from authoritative sources personally for me that in ordinary milk there is too much phosphorus for the child's body, which overloads the kidneys of children and is excreted along with the calcium necessary at this age. this is my humble opinion