Japanese weaning food - Recipes passed on by mothers with diapers!

Japanese weaning requires mothers to invest a lot of time and effort in the beginning, but the benefits are enormous. Please remember to watch!

Japanese snacks - what is ADKN?

Japanese-style weaning is a way for babies to weaning according to the method of stimulating the baby to eat well, digest well and fully supplement nutrients.

The advantage of this weaning method is that the combination of different foods to create a varied, delicious and delicious snack menu suitable for each child's developmental stage.

Characteristics of Japanese snacks

In Japan, baby weaning starts quite early. Traditionally, after giving birth 100 days after birth, babies in Japan will be trained by mothers to wean. Breastfeeding in Japan is mainly focused on helping babies get used to the taste of food, developing their taste buds. So, every day, the mother only feeds her baby 1 meal. Milk is still a child's main meal of the day.

 

What is Japanese weaning?

When feeding Japanese weaning baby foods, mothers should note the following:

Start with 1:10 diluted porridge. The consistency of the porridge will increase gradually with the age of the baby.

Your baby's meals will have 3 food groups: starch, protein and vitamins according to the "yellow-red-blue" standard. These dishes will be regularly changed so that your baby gets used to oil with many different foods.

Do not add seasoning to your child's food.

Practice for the baby to eat at the right time and when he can sit, let the baby sit and eat with parents.

When eating, put the baby in a chair without fidgeting, but the mother still has to fertilize the baby for at least 12 months or more.

Although it will be dirty and spatter food everywhere, mothers should practice babies to use a spoon each meal. This helps the baby to be more independent.

Do not force your child to eat

When introducing new foods to children, mothers should try them in about 3-4 days

The rawness of food is tailored to each baby's developmental stage.

Encourage not to mix a variety of foods.

Eat in moderate amounts

Advantages of ADKN

The greatest advantage of ADKN is: Children have time to get used to each food taste, from which parents do not discover that they may be allergic to any foods.

Babies are trained to eat raw to create chewing and swallowing reflexes for babies at different stages.

The serving size and type of food are suitable for the baby's developmental stage.

Mother can process and freeze food while ensuring the taste and quality of food, helping her to be more relaxed and active in eating.

The child's dishes are diverse, full of qualities, and are regularly changed at different stages.

Disadvantages of ADKN

Frozen food cannot taste as delicious as instant food.

Children who eat a small amount like traditional food may not gain weight as strongly as traditional methods in the early stages.

Not all families support mothers taking care of their children in this method.

Chuan was given a baby food

 

Japanese-style snack menu

1. Time for baby food

As recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), babies should be weaned when the baby is 6 months old, because at this time the child's digestive system is quite complete, so it can absorb solid and complex foods. than breast milk.

But in ADKN, the baby's stage 1 is at 5-6 months. Do not eat solids before 5 months and do not eat solids after 7 months because before 5 months, baby's digestive system is not complete to start weaning, and after 7 months, the baby has passed the ideal golden time to discover the taste. .

This 5-month starting point is also suitable for some mothers who have to return to work after 6 months of maternity leave, as it can allow their children to gradually get used to weaning to prepare for work again.

2. Signs your baby is ready for solids

- Children know how to keep their heads balanced and can sit, or lean on a chair or someone else.

- Children know how to open their mouth when bringing the spoon closer to their mouth.

When the child shows interest in the food that the adult eats.

- Children's tongue no longer reflexes automatically pushes foreign objects (when a child is a child, when a child puts anything in his mouth, he will also push it out, except for the nipple to be secret).

- The baby quickly gets hungry even though it has not yet arrived.

If your baby has these signs, then he is ready for solids.

3. Should the baby eat solids at any time of day

During the weaning stage, the baby begins to get used to strange foods other than breast milk, so the risk of a baby having a food allergy is entirely possible.

So mothers should choose the morning 10am - 10:30 to feed the baby. Because after the baby weaned, we can monitor the baby's reaction, if there are strange manifestations of a food allergy then it will respond more promptly.

If you give your baby solid food in the evening, if it is late at night, the baby has an allergic reaction, the parents cannot detect it in time to take the doctor to the doctor, it will be very dangerous.

During the weaning process, the mother will adjust the weaning time to suit the child's schedule. You should not feed your baby near the baby's bedtime, because at that time, the baby will not sleep well.

Should baby eat solids after the baby has eaten 1 cup of milk before, babies play and sleep 1, so when waking up hungry baby will be better.

4. Is eating Japanese snacks as hard as everyone thinks ???

According to some mothers who gave their children ADKN, one of the difficulties of DNA DNA is the processing, taking more time to prepare food for their children than eating traditional overseas weaning - simply cook a bowl of porridge.

If mothers do not use frozen food, use fresh food during the day, the preparation and preparation will be agitated and take longer. 

If it is frozen - Mom can set up the menu every week, then buy processed food, freeze quickly, put frozen food in the cooler every evening, the next day the caregiver at home can steam it hot or roast Hot in the microwave is there to feed the baby. 

ADKN requires mothers to clean up after that, also takes more effort, so this weaning method requires mothers to be persistent. 

5. Prepare weaning food knowledge

Moms should refer to Tsutsumi Chiharu's Japanese Snacks book - Keiko Niihara Food. Books are sold in bookstores and online . 

 

Japanese weaning baby food

You can refer to ebook if you do not have convenient conditions to stay at the Mothers' Eating group shared with each other.

Or Japanese-style Meal Book by Master Dao Thi My Khanh , the link to refer to the ebook you can read above. 

Mothers should read books to understand the basics of food introduction order, how to prepare food for their children, the rawness of each stage, the amount of food in each stage accordingly.

6. Prepare tools and utensils for baby snacks

1. Processing tools

- If possible, mothers can buy a set of snack processing tools from Richell, Pigeon, or Akachan with prices ranging from more than 300k - 400k.

- If not, prepare: Sieve (small slot, to sift food to be smooth), pestle & mortar, grinding table. These products can be purchased at the Daiso system for 40k.

- Porridge cups (if possible), can not even use the same household utensils.

- Also need to prepare cutting boards, scissors, knives, small pots. Baby utensils are used exclusively to avoid cross-contamination from cooking adult food.

 

Prepare Japanese snacks for your baby

2. Baby food snacks

- Snacking chairs: A lot of options for mothers with the weaning chairs in the market. The Teknum series is more expensive for those who have a ticket, but for the average price, I think Masstela is well reviewed by mothers ... 

- Bowls, spoons: Depending on the mother's conditions, if buying plastic products, choose PP plastic for safety for the baby. Or can use ceramics. 

- Spoon: should choose a soft spoon for your baby to easily cooperate with, Pigeon's soft spoon set is designed to suit this new baby's stage of this spoon, priced at more than 100k.
- Bibs for snacks.

7. Psychological preparation

If your family is a traditional family, staying with your grandparents, this is a step a mother should be advocating early. Supplementing knowledge of weaning foods is not only for mothers and needs to be disseminated to everyone around, especially those who take care of babies regularly.

Seeing the long-term benefits of your baby's development should be fully utilized and fight for your baby's development.

Children take control over eating, love food and enjoy exploring with food are a benefit for their whole life, and will help parents feel gentle with their child's food. 

Mothers should be prepared mentally for the words of relatives and neighbors around such as: 

"Oh well, you guys display drawings, they can eat 3 or 4 dishes";

"Talk about, you didn't do that in the past, but you guys are still growing up" ... blah blah 

Many sentences will make you want to quit this method.

 

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