Your baby has just started his 4th month. If he still drinks milk, he needs fewer bottles but which contain larger quantities! This age also marks for some the beginning of food diversification. How to pass this CAP gently? The advice of Christine Zalejski, expert in infant food 0-6 years.
Your baby is already 4 months old and the time has come to Start diversifying your diet. It is now by 2nd age milk that he needs if you give him the bottle. You can start in both cases at Gradually introduce fruits and vegetables To make him discover new flavors. What can he eat exactly and what are his meals for? Here are the advice of Christine Zalejski (DR, PH), expert in infant food 0-6 years and author of the mixed diversification guide with Céline de Sousa (Ed. Larousse).
How many meals a day for a 4 month old baby?
“”If the child has to go to the crèche or other, it may be necessary to “respect” schedules. Otherwise, “You have to let baby follow your own rhythm if it does not disturb the parents“, explains Christine Zalejski. Also, if your child is in community, remember that Four months = four meals a day! It is not imperative, but it is an average.
Baby meals at 4 months old
Each child has their own pace, but, on average, Baby takes 4 slatted meals, 5 sometimes at night And little by little is added a solid power during lunch and then snack.
How much milk at 4 months?
“”Baby drinks the quantities he wants and he needs“, Underlines Christine Zalejski. Each baby has, in fact, his own needs, but on average, A 4 month old baby drinks between 720 and 840 ml of milk divided into 4 or 5 bottles.
“On average, a 4 month old baby drinks between 720 and 840 ml of milk divided into 4 or 5 bottles”.
“”It is possible to Start food diversification at the age of 4 months Without forcing your child“, Indicates Dr. Zalejski. At the start, you can first give the bottle or feed to baby, then offer him to lunch a few spoons of vegetable puree, or do it in the other direction. You should not set too rigid rules. It is above all a question of familiarizing it with new flavors and a new texture.
List of vegetables to taste a baby from 4 months
For Christine Zalejski. No reason to wait to taste all types of vegetables to baby. “”You can offer many baby vegetables apart from those can be white cabbage and red cabbage to limit to the very beginning“, she says. The first days you can offer (non-exhaustive list):
- Carrots
- Pumpkin
- Butternut
- Zucchini
- Extra-end green beans
- Spinach
- Pumpkin
- White leek
- Tomatoes
- Chard
- Broccoli
- Parsnip
- Turnips
Fruit list to give to a 4 month old baby
“You can offer many fruits to your 4 -month -old baby,” said Dr. Zalejski. So you can start with the (non -exhaustive list):
- Apples
- Pears
- Banana
- Apricot
- Khaki
- Melon
- Mirabelle
- Oranges
- Watermelons
- Fisheries
- Plum
Baby diet table at the age of 4 months
| Quantity | |
| Infant milk | Between 720 and 840 ml |
| Breast milk | On demand |
| Fruits | About 50 grams in the form of a compote |
| Vegetables | About 50 grams in the form of smooth puree |
| Cereals | 1 tablespoon per 100 ml (optional) |
Should we start to wean baby in 4 months?
If you have not yet started food diversification, you can go about it Two weeks before the desired date of weaning and go gradually by gradually replacing a feeding by a bottle of infant milk
In the event that baby is already diversifiedthere is no question of directly replacing a feeding with a solid meal right away. It is better to offer to eat with a spoon after a feeding, at each meal by gradually going there. To taste, feeding can for example be replaced by infantile milk or dairy.
Thanks to Christine Zalejski, (DR, PH) Expert in infant food 0-6 years, author of the guide to mixed diversification with Céline de Sousa (Ed. Larousse) and founder of the site www.cubesetpetitspois.fr.
