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Posted on 23rd Jun 2010 @ 2:59 AM

1. The variety of food supplement - from one to many
At the beginning of adding food supplement, be sure to add a kind of food a time. Do not add too much supplement. When add a new food every time, there should have 3-4 days or a week adaptation period. And observe that if there have any adverse reaction for the first test of adding food supplement, such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, from the rash, breathing difficulties, crying after eating so obvious and difficult to pacify. You must ensure that there have no problem for baby before adding new food supplement.

2. The quantity of food supplement - from less to more 
First test a new food, the best tip from the scoop of a small amount then began to observe if there have uncomfortable reaction for baby. If baby is ok for this change then you can increase the amount slowly. Add the egg yolk for example when starting with 1 / 4 or even a small amount of egg yolk, if a baby can tolerate, 1 / 4 of volume to keep a few days later to 1 / 3 of the volume, and then gradually increase the amount to 1 / 2 then 3 / 4, until the whole egg yolk.
3. The concentration of food supplement - from thin to thick
Initially available with breast milk, formula milk, rice water, or dilute rice into very thin rice with water, sure baby smooth swallow, not spit no vomiting, no choke does not choke, then with water from the liquid or semi-liquid and more gradually transition to the clay paste food.
4. The texture of food supplement - from fine to coarse
Never attempt an rice or minced meat at the early stage of complementary feeding, whether it is baby's throat or tripe, coarse particles can not tolerate these foods, but also to generate fear of the food supplement because of swallowing difficulties. The correct order should be soup - mud - thick mud - Minced - Unqualified - slightly larger soft particles -  a little hard granular - block and so on. For example, from the mashed potatoes which add the milk or broth to the pure mashed potatoes, then to the broken pieces of small potatoes.