One-year-old baby routine: pediatrician's advice

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

How should a child eat? When and how much should he sleep? Find out about this and other features in the children's daily routine.

Why is the regime needed?

The daily routine is useful for the development of the child. The baby should sleep and eat at the same time. This is necessary for the body. So he adapts to a certain time and begins to work smoothly. At the right time, the little one will be happy to take food, will always be ready for bed or for games and walks. Also, the regimen of a one-year-old child (it is not at all necessary to compose it by the hour exactly to the minute, but certain frameworks are needed) allows you to allocate time, thanks to which mothers can better implement plans, take a minute for themselves. If you follow a daily routine, you will always be sure when to cook your baby, when to start preparing his bed, what you can do for yourself.

What happens if you don't follow the routine?

Permanent whims and crying, dissatisfaction, drowsiness, deterioration of attention, weakening of intellectual abilities - this is what can happen if you do not follow the regimen of a one-year-old child.

If you want to change or get rid of the usual daily routine, it will be difficult for youdo, there will be many problems with the baby. The body accustomed to the regimen will require food and sleep at the right time, and you will not be ready for this. You will try to calm the baby so that he waits for another time, but he will be constantly unhappy.

Eating mode

Karapuz should take food at a certain time so that the body prepares for its digestion. The feeding regimen of a one-year-old child should be determined based on your plans and features of caring for the baby. The main thing is to organize meals at the same time. Your baby should usually eat 4-5 times a day.

Approximate daily schedule by the hour

1. Morning 9:00. Rise, wash and breakfast. For breakfast, a one-year-old baby should be given milk or milk porridge if he is not allergic to it. It is important to give an egg or at least boiled chicken yolk, fruit puree, weak tea and white bread.
2. Walk from 10 am to 11 am.
3. After the walk, activities and games with the baby. At this time, the baby learns new information better and is not too tired yet.
4. Snack 12:00. Weak tea, compote, jelly or a glass of warm milk. Baby biscuits, cottage cheese or yogurt.
5. Walk.
6. Day, 14:00. For lunch, give your child low-fat chicken soup, vegetable puree, compote and white bread.
7. Dream.
8. Snack 16:00. A good option for a snack is kefir, yogurt or milk, cottage cheese or fruit puree, as well as cookies.
9. Dinner - 18:00. Let's give the baby mashed potatoes with minced meat, jelly and white bread at this time.
10. Water treatments at 19:30. Do not wash your baby immediately after meals or shortly before bedtime.
11. Dinner before bed - 20:00. Give your child products containing milk - kefir, milk porridge, or breastfeed him.
12. 20:30. Short walk.
13. 21:00. 12-hour sleep.

Sleep

The one-year-old's sleep pattern doesn't end with rest at night. In order for the baby to feel cheerful at a time when he should be doing something, he must also sleep between meals.

Daytime sleep. The best option for a baby during the day is 2 sleeps lasting one hour each or half an hour more. Or the second sleep time may be less - 30-40 minutes. If your baby spends more than 12 hours at night in a dream and can wake up from 4 hours during the day, then one daytime nap lasting 2 hours or a little longer is suitable for him. This should definitely be included in the regimen of a one-year-old child. You may not need advice on the schedule and number of dreams. It is enough for you to monitor the condition of the baby yourself with a certain amount of sleep at night and during the day and determine its regimen.

Night sleep. Children under 1 year of age should sleep 11-12 hours a night. This helps them to relax better and fully stock up on energy for the whole day.

In general, a one-year-old baby should sleep at least 13 hours a day. His well-being, mental and physical abilities depend on this.

Walks

Children need to breathe fresh air. It improves themgeneral condition and mood. In the daily routine, you can combine walking and sleeping.

It is useful to take the child for a half-hour walk before going to bed, at 20:30, this is just after the second dinner. Having inhaled oxygen, he will quickly fall asleep already on the threshold of the house.

Development

To use all the possibilities of the brain, you need to train it. With the development of the brain, memory and attention improve, the level of intelligence increases. Brain training is important for toddlers. The most interesting activity for children is the game. Therefore, it remains only to choose special classes and not limit the flight of your imagination. The daily routine of a one-year-old child must include fun games with mom.

It is quite possible to offer a baby simple sorters and pyramids. For children of this age, special books are produced - cardboard or fabric, with large and bright pictures and a minimum of text. With their help, you can introduce the baby to various animals, flowers, objects, etc. But the main thing that should not be forgotten is physical development. With a crumb, you can and should crawl, run, jump.

Perhaps the baby will not immediately be able to master educational games, so you need to help him. Classes should be pleasant for the child, then he will be happy to take part in games, while training his brain.

What to feed?

The regime of a one-year-old child includes only those foods that are well absorbed by him and do not harm digestion. Better not experiment with your baby's he alth.

Dairy and sour milkfoods are very important in the nutrition of a one-year-old child. Cottage cheese, casseroles, yoghurts, hard cheeses, natural butter (in mashed potatoes or cereals) diversify the diet well. Choose those dairy products that are made according to nutritional standards for children. In no case do not feed the crumbs with expired products, as the harmful bacteria contained in them can cause serious damage to his body.

The first product that should be included in the regimen (menu) of a one-year-old child should remain porridge for a long time. It contains many nutrients that will support the baby's body, help it grow and develop. In addition to buckwheat, rice and oatmeal, you can give corn and wheat. At the age of one year, a child can digest well not only pureed cereals, but also well-boiled ones. Boil them in milk or water and serve for breakfast. These products must be included in the regimen of a one-year-old child.

Let's use white instead of rye bread. From rye, fermentation processes in the intestines can occur, because of which the baby’s stomach will hurt.

You can make a daily routine for a one-year-old child by hours and days. Many things are done not only every day at a certain hour, but every week on a certain day. So, the baby can be given pasta, but not in large quantities - up to 30 g no more than twice a week.

When mashing high-fiber vegetables, grind them well to make them easier for the baby to digest. Choosefor mashed fruits and vegetables to which the child is not allergic. At 1 year, you can give weak soups and broths with vegetables and lean meat.

Don't teach your child to eat sweets. It starts by giving him a taste of sugar. Better replace it with fructose. Give him fresh fruits that grow in this season. Many berries and fruits have thick skins. It is not worth removing it, because it contains more vitamins than the pulp itself. It is better to grind the fruits into puree, then the baby will get a lot of vitamins.

Introduce each new fruits and vegetables into the diet gradually, in small portions. This way you can see how your child's body reacts to them and allow his digestive system to prepare for new foods. The daily norm is 200-250 g. These products must be included in the regimen (menu) of a one-year-old child.

Juices, weak fruit teas, compotes and jelly are suitable as drinks. Give them about 100 ml every day. But more important for digestion is plain clean water. It is better to boil it and do not give it cold or hot. It should be warm, no warmer than his body temperature.

At 1 year old, a child grows rapidly, and therefore he needs more "building materials" - proteins. Lean meat will be very useful. Cook steam cutlets, meatballs and casseroles from it. Include crumbs in the diet of 60-80 g of meat per day.

What should be the regimen of a one-year-old child in terms of nutrition? You can give dishes from the liver - puddings, liver cutlets, pates, soups, mashed potatoes. Such dishes contain a large amount of vitamins, such as A, B, D.

Cook fish in any form a couple of times a week (except fried). Also important are eggs, which are usually given for breakfast, 3 pieces a week is enough. Make not only boiled eggs, but also cook omelettes and soufflés from them.

What can not be given to a one-year-old baby?

Don't give your 12 month old sweets. Factory-made candies, cakes, and cookies can contain highly unhe althy substances that could harm your baby. Better give your baby fruits and berries that diversify his menu well.

It is also undesirable to include citrus fruits in their pure form in the menu of a one-year-old child. Cause allergic reactions and chocolate products, in addition, they excite the nervous system of the baby. This can be bad for his he alth and development.

Mushrooms contain the protein necessary for the growth of the body, but for the crumbs this product is too difficult to digest, so you should not give it in any form. Nuts are also poorly digested. Although they are useful, but not at the age of one.

It's more convenient for you when you already have frozen cutlets and vegetables ready to make a dish for the crumbs out of them. But such products contain a large amount of non-natural preservatives and stabilizers. It is better to cook minced meat and vegetable preparations yourself.