Healthy Eating For Beginners
From the minute your new baby is born and no longer getting its nutrition directly from its mother, there are proper menus to follow for a healthy child. The first four months are usually easy. Breast milk or prepared formula will handle the full nutritional needs of yur baby. All the needed vitamins and minerals are included.
It is after your child gets to the stage of taking more solid foods that one should develop healthy options. By four to six months your child will begin to develop taste likes and dislikes and will be able to demonstrate them by going eagerly after the spoon or turning away. Rice is a good beginning food. As well as being nutritionally sound, you will be able to vary the texture and consistency for a bit of variety in the meal. Rice will also be very unlikely to produce allergic reactions and providing iron fortified meals will be necessary as the original iron resources are becoming depleted.
At this time you will need to include vitamins C and A to aid the growing body's requirements. Pureed vegetables, especially the orange ones like squash and carrots will provide the needed vitamin A for eye development. Fruits give vitamin C for many necessary body developments from growing bones to a strengthened immune system.
It is recommended that you only add one food to the menu at a time and that you give it several days so you can observe any allergic reactions a new food may present to the new baby. You can also begin developing meal patterns at this time. Cereal for breakfast and vegetables for later day meals will teach your child the customary social placement of meals through the day.
Feeding your baby nutritionally is not really any different that feeding older people. You need to research the development needs and find the foods that fit the bill.
