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.

Babies best Food

Up to 0 to 4 month: Breast milk is the best and purest food for babies. It is better than any baby food or formula. If you give the baby only breast milk during the first months, this helps protect him against diarrhea and many infection.
Most mothers have enough milk for their babies. Milk will flow if the baby sucks the breast. The more the baby sucks, the more milk will be made.
If the mothers breast does not make enough milk drink lot of water and other liquids the more liquid the more milk. She must eat better food with rich protein and vitamins will help her make more milk for baby.
If the mother’s breasts do not give any milk drink lot of liquid and eat better, let the baby suck her breast often, sometimes her breast will begin to make milk. If it does not work, give the baby some other type of milk like cow milk, goat milk or powder milk etc. don’t use condensed milk.
Always add boiled water in which milk you used. Add 2 parts cow milk, 1 part boiled water, 1 teaspoon sugar.
Always boil the milk and water, it is better to use cup and spoon to feed instead of baby bottle. If a bottle and nipple is used to fed baby please boiled the bottle and nipple each time the baby fed to avoid lots of infection and disease.

BREAST MILK IS BEST FOOD FOR BABY

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