When are babies allowed to eat bread / crust?
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As a rule, young children begin to be interested in the food of the whole family at the end of their first year of life. A frequent question here is when the baby can or is allowed to eat bread or bread crust? It is important to know that the child only needs to eat bread if he is interested in it. As long as the child gets enough milk porridge or breast milk, it will consume sufficient nutrients. Bread is therefore only an additive and not a staple food for babies. In addition, one has to differentiate between the different types of bread. Since babies at 9-12 months do not yet have a complete row of teeth, it is very difficult for them to chew bread crust or hard bread. It should therefore start with a light white bread.
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When are babies allowed to eat bread / crust?
A good age to introduce the baby to consuming bread is that 9-12 Month of life. The child does not yet have fully developed molars, as these first begin to grow around their first birthday, but they do soft bread can already be eaten. From Bread crust or types of bread with grains should be avoided at the beginning, however, as these cannot yet be chewed and digested well. Only when the heads of the first Molars show, you can also start giving small pieces of bread crust (see: Teething of the molar in the baby). It is generally advisable to put the bread in little pieces to cut, as the child cannot yet bite due to the absence of the incisors. Also the gift of Tea or water makes it easy for the child to chew bread.
Which bread should you start with?
To make it easier for the baby to start chewing, you can use it soft white bread to begin. In the course of a balanced healthy diet, however, care should be taken to ensure that too dark breads to be eaten. Often children who are only used to toast are not as willing to eat dark bread with grains as other children. The types of bread that are available to start with include Mixed wheat bread, Rye bread, Sour Dough Bread, finely ground spelled bread and a farmers bread. Care should be taken to ensure that the edge is cut off first. In addition, can also banana bread given as this is very soft and rich. From Bread with seeds should be avoided at first, as the kernels are still difficult for the babies to digest and chew. But as you get older you can start with bread, which also has small grains, like some Sunflower seed breads for example.
How much bread should the baby eat?
It is important for parents to know that bread is only in this phase of development an addition represents. Milk porridge would also be enough at an age of 9-12 months. Many parents eat bread because of this slowly in daily meals. Started with a quarter of bread, in the little pieces cut, the amount can be increased over time. In addition, when consuming bread, it should always be ensured that the baby drinks a lot to make digestion easier. A slice of bread with butter and a glass of milk represents the normal amount that a toddler should take in the evening. From other toppings like cheese or sausage should first distance being held.
Does my child need teeth to eat bread?
Toddlers can have many types of bread even without teeth present eat. The fine grinding by the molars is missing, but the chewing ridges and the first incisors can also help with chewing. It is important that the bread is in little pieces is cut and initially breads with only little or small kernels given as the baby cannot chew them yet. With that the first molars grow on Beginning of the first year of life you can then start to give firmer bread with seeds. However, if the child is in pain here because the chewing bar is irritated by breaking through the teeth (teething), the administration of hard bread should be avoided.
First aid: what to do if the baby has choked on bread
If a child has choked on bread, there is a risk that they can no longer breathe and begin to cough. This Cough reflex is often enough to release the blockage in the baby's airways. If not, parents should know what to do to save the child from suffocation. The most important thing is to remove the blockage from the airways. One possibility is that Remove by handas long as you can see the piece of bread in your open mouth. If this is not the case, sit down and lay it down Baby with your stomach on your knee. Here, however, the child's head should be supported from below with one hand that lies between the child and the knee. Now lower your knee slightly so that the baby's upper body is inclined downwards. By gentle but firm patting on the back of the child, a blockage can usually be removed. It is important to ensure that you should not tap hard on the back than with an adult, since the ribs are still very sensitive, but also not too gently, otherwise the blockage will not slip out of the airways. Another method is the repeated application of pressure on the upper abdomen of the child.
Bread and spreads / toppings, from when?
If you start with the gift of bread, is Butter or margarine often as a spread the best choice. It is easy for toddlers to chew and is easy to digest. From the first birthday onwards, too cream cheese be used. With others Cheeses Care should be taken to choose varieties that not very aromatic and soft are in their consistency so that they can be chewed by the child. egg as a side dish to bread can usually be given from the first birthday. From the gift of Sausage should in the first two years of life be disregarded, as they are often very salty and difficult to digest. From the age of two, however, this is also completely problem-free.
Liquid (milk / water) with bread
With small children, care should be taken to ensure that they drink enough while eating bread for dinner, for example. Ideal for this is a glass of milk. This not only makes it easier to digest the food, it is also part of a balanced diet. But also against a a glass of water there is nothing wrong with dinner. Basically, when babies consume a whole slice of bread, around 150-200ml milk or water should take.
