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Posted by: Crystal Brook on 2005-12-15, 09:24:37
The formula thing I would be very hesistant to suggest. Baby food is pretty simple though. Just take the food that you want to use, apple, pear, banana, peas. carrots, and remove anything that can't be processed well, seeds ect, and process it mash it until it is a applesauce type consistancy. The fresher and more organic the better of course. But keep in mind that the best food for babies is breastmilk. Not just the best food but the only one that they are designed to handle, everything else is a poor subsitute, no matter how advanced the formula or organic the apple. Breastfed babies do not NEED food until at least a year old, and honestly there is not usually a reason to give it. I know this sounds radical given our societies tendancy to start solid foods so early. And by the time children are really ready for food, very very little extra preperation is required, except to remove what might not be easily chewable or easily swallowed if they have no or few teeth. who.int/ child-adolescent-health/ NUTRITION/ global_strategy.htm in this article when they say exlusive breastfeeding for six months, they mean at least six months, not no more than, and they make the reccomendation for six months based largely on the fact that by this time the mother (living in a developing country where she may be starving herself) may not make enough adequate breastmilk as long as a woman in better circumstances would. But not before six months. who.int/ child-adolescent-health/ NUTRITION/ infant_exclusive.htm There is a LOT of info there about foods to feed and how to feed your baby too. I myself exclusively breastfed my youngest son until he was a year old, at the advice of his pediatrician, because of some possibiliies for food allergies. Suprising to even myself was how extremely healthy he was, never skinny and very sick and not a fat baby either. If ever I have another child I will do it that way again, whether or not there is a chance of the alergies that prompted that choice in my son. I have seen and learned how wonderful it is. |
