New trends have come in across the whole world where women go out to work, leaving children under the care of maids.Such mothers should cautious to find out whether their children are fed to satisfaction and also guide maids on child care and feeding.
According to UNICEF, at six months of age, a baby needs more than breast milk to continue growing. There fore, start giving the child additional appropriate food at six months while continuing to breastfeed until the age of two years and beyond.
Maids should therefore be guided on how to prepare food for the baby. Such foods such as smashed vegetables and chopped meat, eggs or fish should be added to the child’s diet as often as possible.
Recognising that a child’s stomach is still smaller than the adult’s, a child can not eat as much at one meal. Such should be explained to the maids so that they do not see constant feeding of the baby as a punishment to them.
Women who guide maids and keep a good relationship with them have registered benefits of their children being looked after well. As a mother try and find out whether the maids are facing any challenges at home during your absence.
If a maid is new to work, guide her to where food is kept in the house, how to use some equipment in preparing meals for babies, never assume that maids know it all.
Above all, mothers should give a helping hand to their maids while at home. On evenings, a mother may help and buy some of the food the maid may need to feed the baby like pumpkin,ovacado, tomatoes among others. During weekends when working mothers are free, they should give maids some time to rest, they are also human beings.
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