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Understand the role of nutrition in the development of your child - from pregnancy
Source: Journal Grow
Child eating baby food (Photo: Thinkstock)
The stimuli and the environment are essential in early childhood, but, alone, do not go away. Another basic factor in the development tripod is power. The concern with it should begin in pregnancy. To ensure a proper diet, it is essential to talk as an obstetrician and, after birth, with the pediatrician. Breastfeeding healthy diet and proper protect against infection, and provide nutrients that are essential for the formation of the nervous system. Check out how to ensure balanced nutrition for your child from pregnancy.
IN PREGNANCY
The woman needs to eat all the nutrients, eat everything, but guided by the doctor or nutritionist to gain adequate weight. "It is expected that engorde eight to 12 kilos," says obstetrician Domingos Mantelli, author of Pregnancy - Myths and Truths Under Look Obstetrician (Ed Segment Farma.). The doctor also prescribe supplements such as folic acid (which prevents defects in the nervous system), omega 3 (which favors the formation brain) and vitamin D3 (which acts across the metabolism).
FIRST SIX MONTHS
The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months and up to 2 additional years. "Human milk has proteins that collaborate with brain connections," says neurologist Antonio Carlos Farias, the Little Prince Hospital (PR). Breastfeeding also ensures that the baby receives maternal antibodies, protecting it from infections. Not to mention that the time of feeding is perfect for the construction of bond between mother and child. If there are any complications and the woman is prevented from breastfeeding, should make use of infant formula with a composition that is similar to breast milk. But this should never be the first option.
FROM 6 MONTH
It's when you start solid food. The child begins to taste the first fruits and salty meals in between the feedings. "It is important to establish fixed schedules to create routine. Food should be delicious: worth kneading rice and beans, offer vegetables and pieces of meat or chicken for baby suck, "teaches the pediatrician and nutrition specialist Ary Lopes Cardoso, of the Children's Institute (SP). It can also be interesting to try the BLW method (Baby-led Weaning), in which the child can eat alone the whole foods or large pieces.
The FIRST FROM YEAR
The child can share meals with family, provided they are healthy. "Avoid processed products such as cookies and candy, and give preference to natural items such as legumes, cereals, vegetables and proteins," says the doctor and nutróloga Jomara de Araujo, the Brazilian Association of Nutrition. Meals should happen every three hours, without pinching in intervals. Soft drinks and juices ready, not thinking. And nothing to put sugar, chocolate or flour to thicken the child's milk.
WHAT DOES SCIENCE
* Research from Unicamp, with 280 pairs of mothers and babies, analyzed the main factors that influence the growth rate in the first year of life. These include low birth weight, gestational overweight mother, maternal prenatal anemia and anemia in the baby. That is, problems usually related to food, which could be solved with proper medical care and a proper diet, most of the time.
* At the University of Minnesota (USA), a review of studies showed that the nutrients help regulate the neurological development of the baby during pregnancy. The lack of iron in the mother-diet alters the synthesis of neurotransmitters (substances that conduct electrical impulses between neurons) and affects the operation of the baby hippocampus - an important brain area in which processes memory. Since the lack of zinc undertakes setting of nervous system.
Source: Growing
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