Diet taboos for one-year-old babies

The dietary red line for a one-year-old baby is actually very clear - 4 types of food must not be touched, 3 types of food need to be added in small amounts and cautiously, and 2 types of widely circulated food supplement misunderstandings are completely unnecessary. Don’t be overly anxious and don’t dare to feed this or that. Don’t be too anxious and just put everything into your baby’s mouth.

The first absolute taboo to hit on the blackboard is honey. Whether it’s wild honey given by relatives or the hardcover children’s version sold in supermarkets, don’t let your baby touch it until half a year old. To be honest, I just went to the emergency room with my best friend and her baby a while ago. Her baby was just 11 months old. During the Chinese New Year, a relative teased the baby and licked a mouthful of honey. She started having diarrhea that day. Fortunately, the amount was not large enough and did not cause more serious problems. The reason why the one-year-old age is stuck is because there may be botulinum spores in honey. The intestinal flora of babies under one year old has not been fully established, and there is no way to inhibit the reproduction of these spores. In serious cases, it may cause poisoning. This is really not an alarmist. Pediatric emergency departments encounter related cases every year. When the baby reaches one year old, the intestinal barrier is fully developed, and it is no problem to eat normally.

What we need to be more vigilant about than honey is actually foods with a high risk of choking. I still remember the emergency room emergency experience of Sister Zhang’s 13-month-old baby downstairs. The adults didn’t watch while she was eating. The baby grabbed a whole peanut and stuffed it into her mouth, which got stuck in the airway. It took her 20,000 yuan to get the foreign object out. Fortunately, she was sent to the doctor in time without any sequelae. I have heard from parenting bloggers before that giving whole nuts can train children's chewing ability, but I asked the pediatric emergency doctor that 70% of the foreign objects in the airway of children aged 1 to 3 are foods such as nuts, hard candies, and jelly. There is really no need to gamble with the safety of the baby. If you want to eat nuts, grind them into powder or crush them and mix them into complementary foods. Jelly and hard candies are basically non-nutritious, so do it as late as possible.

Another type of food that must not be touched is high-salt, high-sugar, and high-additive foods. Needless to say, pickles, candied fruits, cola, and spicy sticks eaten by adults. I would like to mention the much-hyped "children's soy sauce" and "children's pickled mustard". They are essentially ordinary foods dressed in children's clothing. The sodium content is no lower than ordinary foods. They are purely IQ tax. I get angry when I talk about this. My mother-in-law always said before that "babies won't have the strength to walk without salt" and secretly added children's soy sauce to the baby's porridge. Later, during child care, the doctor specifically told her that the daily sodium requirement for babies under one year old is only 350mg, which is equivalent to less than 1g of salt. The natural sodium in breast milk, formula milk, vegetables and meat is enough. Adding extra will only increase the burden on the kidneys, so she was willing to stop. Now she is not even adding light soy sauce to the baby's complementary food. Oh, and definitely don’t feed uncooked food to your baby, including soft-boiled eggs, raw sashimi, half-cooked steak, and uncooked green beans. Someone in the mom group took her baby to a Japanese food store and licked a bite of salmon for her baby. The baby suffered from vomiting and diarrhea for a week. Don’t believe the saying that “deep-sea fish is clean and free of parasites.” Baby’s immunity is much weaker than that of adults, so there is no need to take this risk.

After talking about the things that you must not touch, let’s talk about the foods that you don’t need to completely avoid but you should pay more attention to. The first is mango, pineapple, kiwi, and shelled seafood that are prone to allergies. The old parenting concept said that you should wait until after three years old to add complementary foods. Now the new guideline is to gradually try after 6 months of adding complementary foods. However, if you have not given them to your baby before, you must feed them in small amounts for the first time. , observe for 3 days whether there are rashes, vomiting, or diarrhea. Don’t stop eating it completely as soon as you see redness around the mouth. When my child ate mango for the first time, the area around his mouth was red. After half a month, he stopped and tried a small amount and then he was fine. As long as it is not a serious allergic reaction and he slowly builds tolerance.

Oh, by the way, there has always been a big controversy about whether you can drink fresh milk. The older generation always say that you should drink it until you are three years old, otherwise it will not be digested. There are also many parenting bloggers who say that you can directly replace formula milk when you are one year old. In fact, the official guidelines of the WHO say that as long as the baby does not have cow's milk protein allergy or lactose intolerance, he can drink whole milk after he reaches one year old. However, if the baby's digestive function is weak and he does not eat well with complementary foods, it is completely fine to continue drinking formula milk. There is no need to force the baby to switch to milk. There are also various supplements that should not be given to your baby randomly. There are a lot of calcium, iron, zinc and DHA. I followed the trend and bought a lot of them before. Later, the child care doctor said that as long as the baby eats normally, eats deep-sea fish twice a week, eats enough eggs, milk, meat and vegetables, there is no need to take extra supplements. Just follow the doctor's advice to supplement if you are really deficient. Indiscriminate supplements will increase the metabolic burden.

Finally, let me talk about two misunderstandings that many people have encountered. One is "drink more soup to replenish nutrients." In fact, whether it is bone soup, chicken soup or fish soup, 90% of the soup is water, and the rest is basically fat and purine. All nutrients are in the meat. If you drink it for your baby, it will fill up your stomach and make you unable to eat serious complementary foods. If you really want to supplement your nutrition, it is better to stew the meat and feed it to your baby. Another one is "porridge to nourish people". Give your baby white porridge every day. The energy density of white porridge is very low. If you eat it for a long time, it is easy to lose the nutrition. When making porridge, add some minced vegetables, minced meat, egg yolks, pumpkins and sweet potatoes, which will provide enough nutrition.

In fact, there are so many black and white standards for raising a baby. Every baby's body is different. We just need to avoid those minefields that are clearly risky, and the rest can be slowly tried and adjusted slowly. Don't put too much pressure on yourself~