The document discusses recommendations for infant and child nutrition including breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and balanced diets for different age groups. It provides information on the composition of breast milk, advantages of breastfeeding, recommended complementary foods from 6 months to 2 years of age, principles of weaning, and guidelines for diet plans tailored to different age groups with appropriate nutrient requirements. The document emphasizes the importance of ensuring adequate and balanced nutrition for proper growth and development in children.

1. Department of Pediatrics
NKPSIMS, Nagpur

2.  Breastfeeding
 Complementary feeding
 Balanced diet

3. Sr.
no
LO Domain Level
1 Advantages of breast
milk
Cognitive Must know
2 Composition of breast
milk
Cognitive Must know
3 Feeding of normal infants
and children
Cognitive Must know
4 Weaning foods Cognitive Must know
5 Method of weaning Cognitive Must know
6 Familial Short Stature Cognitive Must know
7 Diet plan for different
age groups
Cognitive Nice to know

4.  Infants and children have higher
requirements of nutrients than adults.
 RDA is recommended daily allowances refers
to average daily amounts of nutrients
estimated to be sufficiently high to meet the
physiological needs of practically all healthy
persons in the group.

5.  Higher requirements : growth, activity, BMR
 ?RDA
 Three critical periods in relation to energy
requirements: 6 mo, 1-2 yrs, 10-12 yrs G,
15-18 yrs M.
 Calculating calorie requirements.

6.  3 cardinal principles
 Advantages

7.  Food which complements breast milk and
ensures normal growth.
 Recommendations:
upto 6 mo…..BF
6 mo – 1 yr…. 1 katori at a time, 3 to 5 per
day, with snacks in between
1-2 yrs…. DBF, family pot, 5/d, snacks
>2 yrs…. Family food 3 /d, twice snacks

8.  Dal rice
 Khichadi
 Sooji
 Sheera
 Lapsi

9. 1. Energy dense
2. Amount
3. Consistency
4. Frequency
5. Hygiene
6. Helping the child.

10.  Nutritionally adequate and appropriate
intake of food items that provide all the
nutrients in required amounts and
proper proportions .
 Ensures proper growth and development
and helps to stay healthy and disease
free.
 55-60% CHO, 10-12% PRO, 25-30% FAT.

11.  A combination of CHO rich food ( cereals,
millets fruits, sugar), protein foods ( milk,
egg, pulses, meat), fat ( oils nuts ghee )
vitamins, minerals ( fruits n vegetables).

12.  Weaning should be started at 6 months age
 It is a bridge between feeding and full family
diet .
 Principals of weaning .

13.  Formula of infant feeding

14.  Exclusive breastfeeding
 Weaning
 Complementary feeding

15.  Essential Pediatrics 8th Edition
 Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 19th Edition