How to proceed with baby food

[How to make a video]
・Use a mortar to grind (early weaning)
・How to remove bonito kombudashi (from early weaning)
・Crush with a fork (middle weaning ~)
・This recipe is introduced in the baby food class how to make boiled white fish tomatoes (mid-weaning-).
・How to make chicken breast and turnip Yoshino boiled (mid-weaning-) This recipe is introduced in the baby food class.
・How to make soft meat dumplings (from late weaning)

[Video of eating]
・The first baby food-the state of the start day-
・About 5 to 6 months
・About 7 to 8 months
・The state of eating by hand
・Drinking a cup
・About 9 to 11 months

Start with porridge in a smooth and grinded state.
Don't give juice or ionic beverages before starting rice porridge.

About 5 to 6 months after birth, let's start referring to the following guidelines.

• You can turn over with a tight neck.
• You can sit for more than 5 seconds
• Even if you put a spoon in your mouth, it is less likely to push it out with your tongue.
• Show interest in food　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Etc.

　　If you adjust the breastfeeding rhythm and show them how you are eating, you will progress smoothly.

※If you are born earlier than the expected date of birth (preterm birth), use the "modified age" counted from the expected date of birth as a guide for the baby food time.

[Video] The first baby food-the state of the start day-

Hold it on an adult's knee or put it on a baby rack with a backrest.
The model in the video is a child of 5 months and 4 days after birth. I was a little surprised at the taste I experienced for the first time, but it is very good.
At first, it may be pushed out with your tongue or spilled out of your mouth, but it will gradually become better, so let's continue.

• Wash your hands before cooking.
• Be sure to heat the food. There are lots of bacteria in the soil. Be sure to wash vegetables with soil before using them.
• Don't give leftovers.
• Since it is a small amount at the beginning, it can be subdivided about 3 times and stored frozen.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　In that case, let's cool the one that has been reheated well before giving it.
• Do not give honey until the age of one year to prevent baby/infant botulism.
• Wash kitchen utensils and dishes such as kitchen knives and cutting boards cleanly and disinfect them with boiling water.

The purpose is to swallow baby food and to make it feel and taste.
I'll give you it once a day. (After baby food, give breast milk or baby milk.)

Give breast milk or childcare milk as much as you want according to the breastfeeding rhythm.
The tongue moves back and forth. The goal is to close the lips and swallow it up.

Weaning starts with rice porridge (rice).
Once you get used to it, try grinded vegetables, tofu, white fish, hard boiled egg yolks, etc.
Seasonings are not required at the start of weaning.

Smoothly grinded state

[Video] How to make it: Using a mortar

Recipes recommended during this season

• Baby food (cookpad) with simple vegetable soup (outside site)
• First egg-boiled egg and baby food in a rice cooker-(cookpad) (outside site)
• Tofu seaweed (cookpad) (outside site)

[Video] How to take bonito konbudashi

Try to tilt the baby's posture slightly backwards.
Place the spoon on your lower lip and wait for the baby to take it in yourself.
Use a spoon for baby food (slow and narrow) for spoons.

[Video] I'm eating about 5 to 6 months

Baby food is made twice a day to add a daily rhythm.
After baby food, give breast milk or baby milk.
It is a meal that combines cereals (staple food), vegetables (side dish), fruits, and protein foods (main dish).

The movement of the tongue goes up and down from the front and back.
Make it soft so that you can eat it by crushing it with your tongue and upper chin.
Place the spoon on the lower lip, and pull the spoon straight when it is closed.

The hardness of crushing with tongue

[Video] How to make it: With a fork

[Video] How to make white fish stewed tomatoes

[Video] How to make Yoshino boiled chicken breast and turnip

Place a flat baby spoon on your lower lips, and wait for the upper lips to close.
You will be able to crush with your tongue and upper chin.

[Video] They are eating around 7-8 months

I'll give you the hardness that can be crushed with gums.
Baby food is served three times a day.
After baby food, give breast milk or baby milk.

The tongue moves left and right, allowing food to be placed on the gums.
Vegetables are cooked softly, do not cut too much, and make them easy to crush with gums.

You will be able to eat by hand. Let's prepare something that is easy to hold.
Touching and griping food can experience the touch and lead to interest in food and actions to eat with your own will.

[Video] Start eating by hand

Even if you want to eat, it doesn't work very well, and the surroundings are dirty and it's hard to clean up.
But it's a short period of time, so lay newspapers or leisure sheets on the floor and survive.

Let's start practicing drinking a cup.
At first, it often spills, but it gets better and better.
Let's start by practicing the adult to support the cup and drink one by one.

[Video] Challenge baby food cup drinking

Hardness that can be crushed with gums

Recipes recommended during this season

• Baby food and soft meat dumplings (from around 9 months) (Cookpad) (outside site)
• Baby food French toast (from around 9 months) (Cookpad) (outside site)

[Video] How to make baby food and soft meat dumplings

It is a time to learn the shape and feel of various foods by palms and fingers.
Therefore, it is often seen that the food in front of you can grab it.
Let's not stop this kind of movement.

[Video] Eating around 9 to 11 months

Completion of weaning means that you can bite shaped foods and get most of your energy and nutrients from foods other than breast milk or parenting milk.
It does not mean that you can eat the same thing as an adult, so consider it as an extension of baby food until about 3 years old, and make it a light and easy to eat.

Meals are three times a day and have free time, so once or twice a day during meals, rice balls and fruits are given as snacks according to meals.
Breast milk or childcare milk depends on the progress and completion of baby food, but you can drink milk after one year old.

Also, let's graduate from the baby bottle and use a cup.
As for how to eat, you practice chewing with your front teeth by eating by hand, remember the bite amount, and eventually use ingredients such as spoons and forks.
Make sure to scratch the big and soft things.

I explained in order from the beginning of weaning, but in the list, it is an image like the table below.
Let's proceed slowly as your child grows up.

Please also see the materials prepared by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
"Guidelines on how to proceed with baby food" (Study Group on Revision of "Nursing and Weaning Support Guide" in March 2019) (PDF: 1,989KB)

• Information on baby food classes in Konan Ward (internal site)
• Page about baby food in Yokohama City (internal site)