Introduction: A healthy diet and healthy eating habits at the time of family planning are crucial for the health of the future mother and infant. Slovenian guidelines for healthy infant nutrition encourage that the infant adapts to different tastes and a varied diet fairly early in the period of introduction of complementary foods. Purpose: The purpose of the first part of the diploma work is to present the history of introduction of complementary foods to infants, the motor development of infants in the age from four to eight months, and teething. With the survey questionnaire in the empirical part of the diploma we want to find out how familiar mothers are with the developmental signs of infants for introduction of complementary foods and what are the current habits regarding the time and ways of introducing complementary foods. Methods: Literature search was performed in the following search engines and databases: Cobiss, Medline, Cinhal, DiKUL and Google Scholar in Slovene, Croatian and English language. Professional and scientific literature less than 20 years old was used. An overview of the literature used and an anonymous online survey was made. The questionnaire was created using the EnKlikAnketa – 1 KA web tool and has 13 questions. Results: More than a half of the respondents introduced complementary foods to infants between the ages of 4 to 6 months. 62 (38%) respondents started introducing complementary foods at the infant's age of 6 months, 53 (33%) started introducing them as early as at the age of 4 months, 20 (12%) introduced them after the infant was 6 months old and 5 (3%) respondents started before the infant was 4 months old. Of the 161 respondents, 121 (75%) recognised the developmental signs of infants for introduction of complementary foods and 40 (25%) did not. Discussion and conclusion: Successful further growth of infants depends on their balanced diet. When infants wean the breast, they need foods of animal as well as plant origins for ideal development. Feeding infants requires great tolerance and persistence in order for them to accept new tastes.
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