There is an opinion, and not only among lovers, but also among specialists, that uniquely strict recommendations on the diet of a nursing mommy and her baby does not exist. It is difficult to argue with it. And let some doctors say that some products should not be given in any case, while others say that it is possible in small portions, the mother herself should decide this. Because she, like no one else, knows what kind of food she tolerates easily and with pleasure, and which one can cause not very positive reactions in her, and therefore in her newborn child. Slowly try the recommended products, carefully observe the reaction of your baby to them and draw conclusions about what can be introduced into complementary foods, and what is better to give up for a while.

One of these recommendations advises as the first product, which mommy will divert the diet of his infants, use juice from dried fruit. Especially in winter, when it is difficult to get fresh fruits, and those that are within walking distance do not inspire confidence.

Benefits of dried fruit compote

And the benefits are undeniable and comprehensive. At the end of the summer and the beginning of the fall, there are no problems with fresh fruits and berries. Grandparents from their gardens and summer cottages are ready to give the entire harvest of vitamins so that their grandson grows up healthy and cheerful. Those who do not have gardens will not be difficult to walk on a fine sunny day to the nearest market or vegetable stall and choose fresh apples, pears, prunes, apricots and any other fruits.
But in winter there is nothing better than dried fruits. Even a quick frost, who has gained popularity recently, is not able to keep so many vitamins and trace elements in the product without damaging them. So:
Dried fruits compote

• beneficial effect on metabolism.
• Improves the immune system.
• stabilizes intracranial pressure.
• Improves appetite.
• helps with depression and generally has a positive effect on the nervous system.
• strengthens the joints.
• increases hemoglobin in the blood.
• It has a pronounced bactericidal effect.
• Does not require the addition of sugar, as dried fruits themselves are rich in fructose.

At what age can you give dried fruit compote to children

When you can give a child compote from dried fruits

For the first six months of his life, the baby receives all the necessary vitamins and minerals along with mother's milk. And if a nursing mother eats properly, the baby does not need any supplementary feeding and even drinking. An exception can only be in the case of elevated temperature and a stomach disorder, when a large amount of fluid participates in the process of recovery. During this time, the child's digestive system will get stronger, and it will be possible to gradually begin to diversify his diet directly. Around the same time, other foods begin to be introduced into the baby's menu, which can cause constipation. Dried fruit compote will help in this situation, normalizing the stool.

Baby, who, for one reason or another, are devoid of breast milk, you can start giving compote a couple of months earlier, but it is very careful and carefully.

How to choose quality dried fruits

How to choose dried fruits

If at the end of summer and autumn you or your relatives were independently engaged in their preparation, then there will be no problems. But when buying in the market or in a store, you should know a few rules so as not to bring home it’s not clear what.

• Dried fruits should not look too bright, and should not feel fleshy to the touch. This is a sign that they were dried not in a natural way, but using certain chemical elements (for example, there is such a way - to overthrow the gray, when the smoke from the burning chemical is treated with fresh fruits so that they look like not too crossed). Dried fruits MUST BE SHRINKLED!
• After touching dried fruits, be sure to inspect your hands. There shouldn't be any marks on them.
• It is better to buy dried fruits in factory packaging, and not by weight.

How can you make sure the rules are not difficult and remembering them is not difficult.

Proper preparation of dried fruit compote for babies

How to cook compote from dried fruit for infants

Contrary to popular belief, compote is not boiled, but steamed. So almost all useful elements and vitamins are preserved.

First of all, it should be well inspecting every piece. Remove the fruits, sticking leaves and other natural garbage. Then you should rinse everything very carefully in running water. If you need to cut into even pieces, hold for 20 minutes in warm water to swell a little, pour into a thermos and pour boiling water. Let it stand in two hours, cool to room temperature. If you just started to give your karapuz compote, it is better to breed it with water in proportion 1: 1. It is not recommended to leave on the second day. Let a better young mother drink remnants, and tomorrow the baby will prepare fresh.

A couple of compote recipes for babies

Dried fruit compote recipes for babies

The first compote is usually made from apples. They are the least allergenic and easily digestible. There will be 20 grams of product and 200 ml of boiled water by one portion.

Prunes are useful for constipation, which happens quite often at a time when the baby begins to diversify the diet with new foods and newborns on artificial feeding. Five berries are thoroughly washed and cut in half. Dip them in a liter of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Let it brew for half an hour and strain.

Compote from dried apricots is prepared in almost the same way. The only difference is that it is necessary before omitting in boiling water, soak in water for five minutes. But you can just steam it overnight in a thermos. Such a drink will help to remove excess sodium from the body, and also has a beneficial effect on brain function and muscle tone.
Any currant can be used, but black is the most useful. It contains ascorbic acid in a compartment with vitamins A, B and C.

In conclusion, we can say with confidence that dried fruit compotes are not only tasty, but also very healthy. Both for breastfeeding children and nursing mothers.

Dried fruit compote for baby

The issue of administering dust is one of the most important for young parents. Under the prure, not only vegetable and fruit puree, but also drinks. Moms strive to give their babies all the best and are interested in when it is possible to start giving the crumbs tasty and healthy compotes from dried fruits and how to properly brew a vitamin drink so that it is suitable for introduction to the children's menu.

When and why to introduce compote to a baby

Pediatricians still cannot agree on the introduction of first complementary foods for infants. The debate about the age at which drinks should be introduced into the diet of children under one year old has not subsided to this day. Some doctors say that for the first time it is permissible to try juice or compote from dried fruits for babies as early as 3-4 months. Other experts assure that it is not worth 6 months to introduce a puree and drinks to the children's menu: the organism of the crumbs under the age of half a year is simply not ready for reception and processing any other food in except for mother milk or adapted mixture. The same opinion is shared by experts of the World Health Organization: they believe that children under 6 months of age who are fully breastfed simply do not need additional watering and supplementary feeding, since mother's milk contains all the substances necessary for the child and a sufficient amount of liquid.

At the same time, it is impossible to deny the fact that children under the year receiving artificial nutrition need to be obtained extra fluid. Therefore, the infants that eat the mixture are usually allowed to give water even until the one is reached by half a year, and then compote, if the baby moves well to the drink. The earliest age from which it is allowed to introduce compote into the diet of an infant is 3 months.

One way or another, the question of when it is possible to give a dried fruit compote to a child up to a year old should be decided only together with the pediatrician, who will take into account the developmental features and diet of the baby.

Compote from dried fruit for children is an excellent source of vitamins and trace elements. Thanks to the use of such a drink, you can increase the immunity of the crumbs and improve its digestion. It is noticed that the vitamin liquid not only perfectly quenches thirst, but also helps to eliminate constipation. Compote can be given to those kids who refuse to drink water: usually infants with pleasure try the new nice taste for them. This is a great way to replenish moisture reserves during the summer heat or illness when the crumb is losing a lot of fluid due to temperature and excessive sweating.

How to introduce compote into baby food

It is important not only to understand at what age you can drink dried fruit compote to a baby, but also to know how to do it correctly. There are several important rules that relate to the introduction of fruit drinks into the diet of children under one year old:

1. You can only give compote from dried fruits to those kids who do not suffer serious disorders of digestion and are not inclined to allergic reactions.
2. Regardless of the age of the child, for the first time, only ½ tsp should be given to the crumbs, and this should be done in the first half of the day in order to observe the reaction of the child's body to the product until the evening. If there is no allergy to the drink, you can gradually increase the amount of compote in the baby's diet to 100 ml.
3. Cooking compote is necessary without adding sugar, despite what kind of recipe you are chosen. If you really want to sweeten the drink, it is best to add fructose to it, but only after consulting a pediatrician.
4. You need to start with a monocomponent compote - for example, from dried apples. Gradually, other ingredients are added to the drink, but not more than one new dried fruit in the next recipe.

It would be useful to recall that it is necessary to cook dried fruit compote for a child up to a year only using high-quality products, previously well washed with water and cleaned of foreign debris.

Hanging fruits can be kept up to 2 years, but the smaller they lacquered, the higher their quality and the better they are suitable for a children's drink.

To be confident that dried fruits will bring maximum benefit to the baby, it is better to prepare them independently and use in the coming months after drying.

How to make a tasty and healthy drink

Compote from dried fruit for infants can be boiled or insist in thermos. Remember that from how long dried fruits were subjected to heat treatment depends on how many vitamins are preserved in them. A drink for children under one year old is prepared as follows:

1. Recipe number 1 (for children from 3 months). This cooking method is well suited for the first sample. It will take 20 g of dried apples and 1 glass of boiling water. Pre-washed and purified dried fruits are soaked in warm water for 20 minutes, then the liquid is drained, the apples are shifted into the thermos and poured boiling water. After 2 hours, the compote is transfused into clean capacity and cooled to room temperature.
2. Recipe # 2 (with fructose). Such a drink can be prepared from any familiar fruit; it will be optimal to combine a pear, prunes, dried apricots and an apple. You should take a small amount of dried fruits in approximately equal proportions and add the mixture to 300 ml of boiling water. You need to cook compote for 10 minutes, then you need to add 1 tsp. fructose and leave for 1-2 hours.
3. Recipe number 3 (for babies up to a year old, prone to constipation). For 1 liter of water you will need 5-6 dried prunes. They must be carefully flushed and cut in half, put in boiling water and pecking 10 minutes. The drink should be infused for another 30 minutes. When the time is right to give compote to a child, the liquid should be filtered and cooled to room temperature.
4. Recipe number 4. (for children under one year old, suffering from increased gas formation). 2 tbsp. l. Dry white or dark raisins are refucing into the thermos and pour 1 liter of boiling water overnight. When the compote is infused, it can be filtered and given to the baby.

If you know how to prepare a vitamin drink from dried fruits for the child of the breast age and, more importantly, as with how many months to give it to the crude, this delicious compote will become an excellent addition to the main diet of the baby and will bring it a great benefit.

Hello dear readers! I continue to monitor the growth and development of your crumbs together with you, treat their ailments, solve their small (and not so) problems, give you advice, support you and soothe your fears and worries. How much useful I already told you! Today I have no less useful information: we will discuss apple compote for babies. What will he give to the baby when he can be introduced to this type of drink, etc.

Many mothers doubt whether it is necessary to give the baby such a drink, if he already drinks mother's milk, juices (water, tea ...)? For me - there is no need to doubt, it is worth giving such a drink to a baby! Here are some reasons why:

• Compote contains many vitamins necessary for a small body;
• It helps to strengthen the immune system;
• It has a beneficial effect on digestion in those children who have problems with stools (especially if you add prunes, raisins or dried apricots to apples);
• If you cook a compote with pulp, it will become an additional source of fiber for the digestion of the little one;
• At elevated temperature, diarrhea or severe heat, compote can be an excellent alternative to simple water to fill the loss of moisture with a small organism. After all, not all children like to drink plain water. Compote here serves as such an unobtrusive "yummy". Especially if it's a slightly "season" by its pinch of fructose (such "fruit sugar" in a powder, which can be bought in any pharmacy, we will return to him).

At what age we try

So when can you give the little one such a drink? In general, pediatricians recommend introducing compotes into the baby's diet only after he has tried juices and purees from fresh apples and other fruits. That is, not before the baby is 6 months old.

Start with apples better because it is the least allergenic fruit that grows in our area (doctors against starting to start lure with mango and other exotic, alien to the digestive system, baby). They begin to introduce new food as usual, little by little - from half a teaspoon, gradually increasing the volume if the baby likes the drink.

What fruits to choose for compote

From which apples and how to cook compote for a baby? Better adjust to the season. That is, if half a year will be fulfilled in summer or in the fall - give preference to fresh apples, better "local", which have not transferred a long road and not processed to long storage with any chemical disgust. I think you can tell the difference between normal fruits and those loaded with preservatives.

Well, if you start with compote in winter or early spring, when fresh apples have already lost most of their nutrients, stop at dried fruits. Then pay attention that they also do not look too "appetizing" - polished, selected, shiny. Such dried fruits are also processed with all kinds of compounds to improve their appearance so that they can be bought faster. It is better to buy apple "drying" at the grandmother's market, choosing those that have dried in the sun, and not in the oven, and those that are not too dry - they will be bitter.

What is the recipe for compote for kids from fresh apples

There is nothing complicated in preparing a healthy drink for crumbs:

• Take one medium-sized green apple (green ones are less allergenic if your pet is prone to such reactions) and wash it thoroughly, rinsing it several times.
• Cut the fruit into small pieces, pre-cutting the core with seeds (no need to clean, there is a lot of useful substances in it).
• Dip the pieces in clean (preferably filtered) water - you will need a glass, and put on fire.
• After boiling, the apple should boil for no more than half a minute. After that, the compote must be turned off and covered with a lid for about an hour so that the apple slices give all the benefits to the water. With this method of preparation, the maximum amount of vitamins will be preserved in the broth.
• Let the drink cool down, and you can treat your little one.
• If you decide to make compote with pulp, then after it is infused, first chop the slices of boiled apples with a blender, then add the remaining liquid. This drink is also hearty.

Cook dried fruits

You will have to tinker with dried fruits a little, because all the moisture has been removed from them, they are quite hard, and in order to get to everything useful, the dry pulp must be thoroughly softened. But there is nothing tricky in this either:

• We take a handful of dried apple fruits (about 20 grams), rinse thoroughly (you can use a special brush). Make sure that the slices are not too lying, worm or blackened. Rinse a few times to make sure everything is washed off.
• Then soak the pieces of dried apples in warm water for 20-30 minutes so that they swell properly.
• Pour a glass of water (250 ml) into an enamel saucepan, put the dryer in it and bring it to a boil.
• It will take 15-20 minutes to boil dried apple fruits, so that all the benefits of them pass into the broth.
• Next, we also give to launch a chamber of 40 minutes. A nice appetite to your baby!

By the way, I want to return to the issue of sweetening baby food, which we have already touched on. It is highly undesirable to add sugar to food for babies, and even more so - honey. The first product is completely refined, the second is considered natural and useful. But at the same time, both of them are terribly allergenic.

So if your baby has a pronounced sweet tooth, sweeten his cereals and compotes with a small amount of fructose. It can be taken even by those children who are allergic to regular sugar.

Let's make a difference

So that the baby does not get bored with compote, you can add other seasonal fruits or berries to it. But at the same time, consider, for example, such nuances:

• - strawberries or raspberries can cause allergies;
• - dried apricots, raisins and prunes, as well as fresh plums and apricots, have a laxative effect, so it is useful to add them to compotes for babies suffering from constipation. This is especially true for artificial people - in any case, their food is coarser and more difficult to digest than mother's milk;
• - after consuming compote, for example, with a prune or black currant, the feces of the kid can be painted in a dark color, it is normal;
• - You can give pears to babies, but this should be done very limitedly, since it happens that this fruit has a fixing effect on a small, still weak intestine. Therefore, it is possible to enter into the diet of the Karapuz compote with pears not earlier than from 7 months: carefully and gradually, watching the condition of the kid.

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How to sweeten

What else I want to draw the attention of mothers, especially inexperienced ones: always have a sense of proportion when mixing new ingredients into baby food. If you are told that the apricot is slab, and the crumbs constipate - there is no need to feed him a glass of puree from these fruits or pour a half-liter compote. Still, the body under your responsibility is small, and the doses to it are quite small. Otherwise, you are at great risk of getting diarrhea instead of constipation. So don't go to extremes.

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The babies on natural feeding rarely requires dopping, but the introduction of additional liquid to children will necessarily need artificials, colds, and absolutely all babies in hot weather or in the heating season. You can make drinking a child healthy if you replace boiled water with delicious dried fruit compotes for babies.

When is dried fruit compote introduced to infants in the diet? What products start? What age is optimal for a baby to get acquainted with a dried fruit drink?

Drying pieces of fruit and whole fruits allows you to leave them with a maximum of useful substances and properties. No preservative is used to preserve the product, this is the advantage of this raw material over juices and homemade compotes for babies. Since children under one year old cannot have sugar, a dried fruit drink is an ideal drink for babies up to a year old, rich in vitamins, micro- and macroelements, which are carefully preserved in the fruits during the drying process.

Introduction to the diet

You can introduce the crumbs to dried fruit compote from about 6 months, with the permission of the pediatrician. You should carefully select dried fruits to create a healthy drink for your baby. Faced with new heavy elements from unfamiliar fruits, the baby’s body may “protest”, which will manifest itself in the form of allergic rashes and severe diarrhea.

To avoid these problems, it is better to cook compotes for babies from dried local fruits. It will be good if the crumb has already met them when the fruit puree is introduced. Most often, young parents choose dried fruits from apples as raw materials for their child's first drinks. If the baby rarely defecates, which is often the case with artificial people, he can be offered prunes compote. All these products rarely cause allergies. It is not recommended to cook drinks from dried apricots for crumbs up to a year for the same purpose.

At first, it is recommended to strongly (2-4 times) dilute the infusion of dried fruits with water, gradually increasing the concentration. So the digestive system of the baby will get used to the new product for him and learn how to absorb it. For the same purpose, the introduction of various dried fruits occurs gradually.

1. First, the baby is introduced to an apple drink, gradually increasing its concentration over two weeks.
2. When the baby gets used to it, you can make a drink for the child with the addition of a couple of pieces of dried pears.
3. For half a month, the volumes of dried apples and pears in the drink are equalized.
4. The next 2 weeks will be devoted to the acquaintance of the baby with prunes, it should also smoothly enter into compote from dried fruits for infants.
5. After the introduction of all three low-allergenic dried fruits - apples, pears and prunes - you need to continue to give them to the child until about 10 months.
6. Closer to the year, you can carefully try to cook dried fruit compote for babies with the addition of dried apricots and raisins. These products should be introduced into the diet carefully, since the first often causes allergies, and the second contributes to flatulence.

Cooking

The recipe for making the right compote for babies is quite simple:

1. For a liter of water you need to take only 100 gr. dried apples.
2. Dried fruits should be washed thoroughly and poured with warm water.
3. Allow dried fruits to scare a little - give them a quarter of an hour in water, so they better give their useful substances into a liquid.
4. Boil the compote for the baby and leave it on low heat for 20 minutes.
5. Cool the decoction at room temperature, but if there is no time for this, take the scope of the child the scope and split it with boiled water.

The less dried fruit compote for babies boils, the more useful substances will remain in it. If you are confident in the quality of the raw materials, for example, you dried apples and pears yourself and stored the raw materials correctly, then you can even put pieces of fruit in a thermos and pour boiling water over them. Such a dried fruit compote for babies will be much more useful than a boiled drink made from dried and even fresh fruits.

What to look out for

• Watch the quality of the raw materials chosen for the preparation of compote. Dried slices of apples and pears should be firm and should not taste bitter. Prunes should also be firm, not have whitish spots on their surface. Properly dried fruits and pieces of fresh fruit are usually unsightly, but if they shine appetizingly, refuse to buy, most likely, they have been processed with something.
• Follow the recommended proportions of dried fruits and water. Concentrated compotes from apples, prunes and dried apricots can harm the digestive system of the crumbs. No more than 100 g of pieces of fruit should be added per liter of liquid (this is about 2 “unpacked” faceted glasses).
• In order for dried fruits to give all their beneficial properties to the liquid, let the drink stand for about an hour after it has been brewed.
• When choosing which drink to brew for a small child, be guided by seasonality, if it is late summer in the yard and you have a lot of fresh fruits - cook compotes for babies from them, and leave dried fruits for the winter-spring period.
• No matter how much the child likes homemade dried fruit compote, up to a year its daily intake in the diet should not exceed 180 ml.

By 11-12 months, you can give the child not only a useful decoction. Steamed pieces of apples, pears, prunes and dried apricots are twisted in a blender, then added to the drink. So your baby's body will receive not only vitamins, but also useful fiber, which will improve his digestion.

Your baby is growing up, one mother's milk for nutrition is no longer enough. It is necessary to gradually prepare it for ordinary food and drink. Compote will be the first such drink. The preparation of this product for babies has its own characteristics, since not every fruit can be given to children. The most suitable are apples. They are the easiest to cook, and they are the easiest to digest in infancy.

It is already difficult for a mother to feed a six-month-old baby with one breast, so the baby can begin to drink compote

From what age to give compote?

Your baby is six months old! Do you have a question, what to feed him in addition to milk? For example, are apples good for a 6 month old baby? Is his digestive system strong enough? If possible, how much, how often, from what fruit should it be made?

At 5 months, the child was still too young to drink compote, but by 6 he is ready to take it. Do not rush, first let him just try - a teaspoon. Look at the reaction of the child - whether he will begin to swell, whether an allergy will appear. Gradually, by 7-7.5 months, bring the daily portion to half a glass. By 1 year old, the volume can even reach a glass. It is not necessary to give it all at once - it is better to divide it into 2-4 doses. For such babies, it is better to make it from green-skinned apples - they are more hypoallergenic than red or yellow ones.

The benefits of compote

There is almost no vitamin C in the drink - it collapsed due to heat treatment. However, there are other vitamins, pectins, minerals, antioxidants, the same fiber.

In a baby from compote, intestinal motility increases, it is populated with beneficial microflora, which strengthens immunity, helps to cope with constipation, improves digestion, and prepares the child for solid food. If the baby has a lack of lacto and bifidobacteria, he cannot normally fight infections.

For the first time, the baby can be given only one or two spoons of compote. If there is no reaction, then gradually increase the portion of the drink.

In winter and spring, there are practically no useful substances left in apples, so it is better to replace them with dried fruits, cook a decoction of them. Well, if at the same time they are dried not in the oven, but in the air, in the shade. Then there are more vitamins in them, and the fruits will not dry out. Overdried dried fruits give a bitter aftertaste, which is unlikely to please the baby. Dried fruit compote should be drunk in the same volume as fresh fruit. However, there are situations when it is especially necessary to drink a lot, for example, in extreme heat or during an illness of the child.

At this time, compote instead of water is given only to those children who are already used to it. Then they will not refuse to drink it.

cooking recipes

In the summer it is very useful to make a drink from fresh fruits. Only if you start giving your baby new types of fruit, add one each time. He needs to get used to the product and taste that is unusual for him. There are different recipes for how to make compote, choose which one you like best.

Traditional way: take an apple of medium size, wash it. Peel it from the peel and seeds, fill it with boiled water - about two glasses. Boil on low heat for 15-20 minutes. Add fructose - sugar can cause bloating, and honey is contraindicated for babies.

For children's compote, it is better to stop the choice on green apples, since such fruits should not cause allergies in a child.

Try to brew a drink in a thermos:

1. Wash a fresh apple, remove seeds and peel.
2. Cut into slices of any size.
3. Then put in a thermos and fill with boiling water.
4. Close the thermos and leave to infuse overnight.
5. After a few hours, it will be ready - the apples will “reach” by themselves.

The drink should not be hot. Before offering a drink to a baby, cool to room temperature and strain.

From dry apples

Apple compote for babies is also prepared from dried fruits. It is good because it has its own pronounced taste, sweetish and fragrant, and it does not need to be sweetened with anything. Dry apples contain the same substances as fresh ones, and it is preferable to cook it when there are no useful substances left in fresh ones - this is winter and spring. There are also various recipes for this.

The traditional way is the easiest. Take a handful of dry apples and wash them well. Put in boiled water and leave for about 30-40 minutes until the fruit swells. Particularly stubborn motes will come off them, which always remain on the fruit when dried. Rinse them again, put in boiling water - about 1.5 cups, and simmer for about half an hour. Then set aside and cool. Strain.

For compote, you can use fresh or dried apples (see also:)

It will also be possible to brew a knot in a thermos. Prepare apples in the same way as in the first method. Place them in a thermos and cover with boiling water. It should be infused, so it is more convenient to do it at night. If the compote is too saturated, add a little boiled water to it. Two cups of boiling water will require 100-150 grams of fruit.

In the same way as when preparing with fresh fruits, you should not make it immediately from a mixture of many dried fruits. Add them one by one. The next ingredient after apples can be prunes. At first, do not mix both compotes, but give them separately. With prunes compote, start introducing your child with one teaspoon too.

From prunes

For some children who have digestive problems, acquaintance with prunes can begin as early as five months - just not compote, but a drink made from prunes.

For a five-month-old baby, such a drink will be useful. It cleanses the intestines well, helps peristalsis. In any case, check with your pediatrician first. To prepare it, you need to take a glass of pitted prunes and a tablespoon of fructose (or sugar) per liter of boiling water.

Prunes in compote will help the baby with digestion

Dilute fructose in water, then soak the prunes for half an hour, rinse it. Put in water and boil for 15-20 minutes until the berries are soft. After that, cool and strain the compote.

When the baby gets used to the prunes compote, you can give him apple compote with prunes. There will be no bad reactions from him. Such compote can also be insisted in a thermos, then it will come out even tastier. And then mix with fresh apples and other fruits.

Raisin compote

It is recommended to prepare a child from 8 months of age. It can be cooked as a separate compote, or mixed with fruits already familiar to the baby in any proportion. This compote is not stored for a long time, it is better to prepare it immediately before use. Raisins are better to choose from light varieties. For cooking you need:

• a tablespoon of raisins;
• half a cup of boiling water.

A portion of raisins must be sorted out and poured with cool water for half an hour so that it swells and all the garbage that always accumulates in its folds is removed from it. There is no need to add sugar to the compote, the raisins are sweet on their own.

Rinse again, pour boiling water over and cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes. The lid must be closed. You need to start with a teaspoon, then bring to a full serving. The same raisin drink should be drunk by the mother of a newborn child - it will make milk more useful and help the baby in case of constipation.

Gradually adding new components to the compote, you will accustom the baby to a variety of drinks and foods.

From dried fruits

The complex collection of dried fruits includes many components. Cooking a compote of dried fruits for a baby is worth it when he has already tried all the fruits separately. Well, if it is made from apples, pears, prunes and raisins - there are many options, you can combine as you wish. Dried fruits must be soaked in boiled water before cooking compote for babies. Fruits should be sorted out so that they are not spoiled.

You can make such a compote in the usual way in a saucepan or steam it in a thermos. It is worth starting to give it from 7-8 months. Raisins do not usually cause disorders in children.

When the child is older, you can make compotes richer, and at the age of about a year, start adding dried apricots. Together with raisins, it will give the dried fruit compote a natural sweetness, and will allow you not to add sugar, which is best avoided until the age of three.

A child from 12 months old can drink compote with almost all fruits. It is good to add honey instead of sugar as a sweetener. To exclude an allergic reaction, it is worth smearing a drop of honey near the elbow. If after a few hours there is no redness in this place, you can try giving honey to the child, starting with a very small amount.

So gradually, starting with compotes, you can teach your child to eat fruits and various tastes.