Best Food for Baby

From 4 months to 1 year of Age:

Continue to give the baby breast milk, if possible until he reaches 2 years of age. When the baby is 4 month old, start giving him other wood as well. This food must be well cooked and mashed. When baby first tastes such type of food, he spit it out. Because this foods are new to baby, but the mother should keep feeding him this food. Soon he will enjoy this food. Nutritious feeding can be made by combining at least one food from each of the following groups:

Staple food: Wheat, Rice, Potato, tapioca

Protein food: peas, pulses, beans, groundnut, soybeans, dark green leafy vegetables, milk, egg, fish.

High energy foods: Fats, oils, cheese, butter, ghee, honey, white sugar.

Vitamins and Minerals: Dark green vegetable, fruit.

4 to 6mounth:

• Well cooked split pulse and mixed with mashed rice
• Well cooked green leaf vegetables, mashed bananas, papaya, or other ripe fruits.
• Half boiled egg yolk mixed with a little milk
• Porridge made with wheat and other stable food.

6 month to 1 year:

• Rice, green leafy vegetable, milk, egg, fish, potato, ripe fruit, honey, beans.

Baby between 6 month to 1 year of age are most likely to become malnourished. It is dangerous because they often do not show any signs of malnutrition. A small child has a small stomach. He cannot eat a lot of food at one time. So feed him often. By six months, a baby should eat five to six times a day.