How to Make Baby Food: Millet and Red Date Porridge?

To make millet and red date porridge for baby's supplementary food, wash the millet and red dates, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook them together into a porridge. Seven-month-old babies can drink millet porridge, but it's best to cook the porridge until it's soft and mushy, which helps with digestion. Millet porridge is very nutritious and suitable for babies. Red dates can strengthen the spleen and stomach, which is beneficial for children with poor gastrointestinal function and weak spleen and stomach.

Generally, it's appropriate to start introducing supplementary food to babies around six months old. However, as each child's development speed is different, the timing of introducing supplementary food should ultimately be based on the baby's development. The earliest time should not be earlier than four months, and the latest should not be later than six months.

1. At 6 months, when introducing supplementary food, mainly feed babies with mud-like foods, with breastfeeding as the main source of nutrition. The amount of milk should not be reduced. Only add one new food at a time and observe for two to three days. If there is no allergic reaction, add another new food.

2. At 7-9 months, mainly feed babies with foamy foods. As their teeth start to come out, they can eat biscuits, steamed bread slices, and molar chew toys to exercise their chewing ability.

3. At 10-12 months, gradually transition from milk-based foods to various solid foods, from mud-like foods to crushed vegetables and other solid foods.

4. At 1-2 years old, breastfeeding can continue, but meals should be the main source of nutrition. Babies can eat most of the foods that adults eat.