Identify Appropriate Milk Intake As Your Baby Grows

KOMPAS.com – The nutritional needs of children must be a priority for each parent. Over time, there are different types of milk intake for infants that are important to sustain their growth.

In the period from zero to six months, the main intake of infants comes from bad milk (bad milk). Exclusive badfeeding is very important because it contains balanced and naturally complete nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals and fats.

Another useful bad milk is immunoglobulin, which can increase the baby's immune system. Breast milk should also be consumed until the age of the child reaches two years of age.

Then, when the baby's age pbaded 6 months, then he can receive complementary food ASI (MPASI). MPASI can be a meat, vegetables and fruits are crushed so that nutrition for growth is met.

Well, when the age of children over 6 months, there is also a mother who adds the intake of the preparation. However, sometimes there are also mistakes when the baby's weight is less, so the milk should be added.

Thinkstock Illustration of a child said mother playing

Kompas.com Tuesday (15/8/17), if children over six months experience weight problems, so this should be repaired MPASI. The key, when the weight of the child is less sensitive, also does not allow to conclude immediately to the absence of milk consumption. Give MPASI first, then if it is not enough added with milk.

Adjusting Need

Later, if the infant is to be formula fed, then the parent should pay attention to the age-appropriate milk category. Six-month-olds, for example, receive special milk from 6 to 12 months of age.

Powdered formula is recommended for babies over 6 months of age because the manufacturing process has been adapted for digestion. In addition, infant formula has also pbaded the process of enrichment or addition of nutrients.

Some nutrients are added, for example AHA and DHA. AHA is an extension of arachidonic acid and DHA is an extension of docosehaxaenoic acid

Both are unsaturated fatty acids in the long chains necessary for brain formation, neural network, vision network , and help the formation of the immune system in infants. Fresh milk or UHT milk

Well, when it is above 1 year, in fact the child was allowed to drink other cow's milk. A year is the ideal age because the physical growth and the brain of the baby will grow faster and its digestion will be stronger.

Breast milk should not be delayed so as not to induce intolerance to lactose, ie milk

Thinkstock Illustration of the child drinking milk

Keep in mind, the nutritional needs of the small child came from the food. As for the milk to be complementary to support the intake of nutrients like calcium and iron.

For the nutrition of infants for a full year, the source other than the food may also be added to other fresh milks, not necessarily from milk powder.

A type of milk that can be consumed Temperature (UHT).

Dr. Han Wee Meng, head of nutrition at KK Hospital for Women and Children in Singapore, explains that fresh milk and UHT milk are recommended for children. "The choice (milk consumption) goes back to individual preference (parent) and practical reasons," he said, quoted by straitstimes.com Thursday (21/5/17).

UHT milk is a cow's milk by a brief heating process at 140 degrees Celsius for four seconds. For variations, nutritionist and inventor of Eat Right Nutrition Consultancy, Derric Ong, said parents should provide whole milk to children under two years old.

"Toddlers have high energy requirements and should not drink skim milk or skim milk," he said. Fats derived from milk are important for the growth of the child and the development of the brain.

Now, special UHT milk for children is also available, for example, Indomilk UHT Kids Full Cream High Calcium. UHT milk may be an option because the packaging is convenient and can be drunk directly

Through the proper intake of bad milk, complementary foods, to the consumption of milk, l & rsquo; # 39; nutritional completeness of the child can be met