10 Infant Feeding Mistakes to Avoid | PARENTS.fr

Difficult as young parents to know everything about infant nutrition and to make the right decisions in the midst of all the advice from right and left! Back to 10 points on which we can be sure of the solution in terms of infant nutrition.

1. No hypoallergenic milk as a precaution

Exclusively sold in pharmacies, HA milks are recommended only if there is a history of allergies in the family. They can also be used occasionally in addition to breast milk. It is therefore better to consult your pediatrician, which avoids taking unnecessary precautions and allows you, in the event of a problem, to choose the appropriate milk. Thus, during allergies to cow's milk proteins, for example, synthetic substitutes are prescribed, composed of protein hydrolysates, and not HA milk.

2. You don't change the brand of milk as soon as your stools have a different color

It's not the color that counts, but the consistency and frequency of the stool. In general, it is better to avoid the waltz of the milks. Before you get alarmed, make sure you have followed the rules for preparing the bottle.

3. More milk? No need to leave in the middle of the night looking for your brand of milk...

If you have milk from another brand on hand, do not travel 30 km to reach the open duty pharmacy: most infant milks have a standard composition. Changing brands, exceptionally, is no problem. Ditto for special milks (comfort, transit, HA, etc.), if you respect this category.

4. We do not put infant cereals in his evening bottle so that he can sleep through the night

Sleep cycles are not dependent on hunger. Moreover, flours and cereals cause intestinal fermentation which can disturb the baby's sleep.

5. Against diarrhea, we do not treat it with raw apple and rice water

In case of diarrhea, a priority: rehydrate your child who has lost too much water through the stool. Today, there are special solutions in pharmacies that are more effective than the old recipes. The apple certainly helps regulate intestinal transit, but does not solve the problem of dehydration. Don't forget to refeed your baby with antidiarrheal milk; rice water not enough and not being nourishing enough.

6. No orange juice before 4 months (big minimum)

Until food diversification (never before 4 months), babies should only eat milk. They find in breast milk or infant milk the vitamins essential to their growth, including vitamin C. It is therefore not recommended to give orange juice to toddlers. Moreover, it is a drink that sometimes causes some inconvenience: it causes allergic reactions in some children and irritates their intestines.

7. We do not add milk powder to stall the baby

Always a level measure of powder, neither rounded nor packed, for 30 ml of water. If this proportion is not respected, the baby may have digestive problems; Feeding it more will not guarantee better health, quite the contrary.

8. 2nd age milk, not before 4 months

Don't skip the steps. We switch to 2nd age milk during dietary diversification, that is to say between 4 completed months and 7 months. And, if at the time of food diversification, you have not finished the box of 1st stage milk, know that you can take the time to finish it before moving on to 2nd stage milk. In any case, discuss it with your pediatrician.

9. We don't give him vegetable juices instead of milk

Following numerous reports of serious cases (deficiencies, convulsions, etc.) in young children who had drunk vegetable juices, the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) published in March 2013 a report on the risks associated with feeding infants with beverages other than breast milk and infant formula. It appears that the use of "vegetable milks" or milks of non-bovine animal origin (ewe's, mare's, goat's, donkey's milk, etc.) is inadequate from a nutritional point of view and that these drinks are not suitable for feeding children under 1 year old.

10. No low fat foods for children

Small children need fats and sugars to build themselves and must learn to eat well. Sweeteners create a habituation to sugar, and low-fat products to an abundance of food. Moreover, before imagining a diet for your child, he still needs it. Only the evolution of its body mass index (BMI) curves can alert you and only your pediatrician can decide on any dietary changes.