Healthy Foods for Babies

Choosing healthy foods for babies are hard-easy. Moreover, if the mother is either made or choose a suitable food. Instead, the baby is actually allergic to food that is given so that causes diarrhea, vomiting, bloating, or the skin becomes red. So, how to choose the best food for the baby?

Food provided for infants should vary with the composition of 4 healthy foods 5 perfect. Foods must contain carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals. "Giving food to the baby not just provide calories or nutrients, but also a process for practice, like practicing swallowing and familiar taste '

Needs will vary the content of the food has emerged after a six-month-old baby. "Breastfeeding, only about 60-70% to meet the needs of infants,". In other words, in addition to breast milk, babies need other supplementary food. If not immediately given, then worry about a critical period for introducing solid foods, which require chewing skills (about 6-7 months), will be missed. When this happens, the baby will have difficulty to swallow food or will refuse to eat when given solid food. At the age of 9-12 months, babies are more mature chewing skills.

In addition, ways of feeding the baby, must be gradual. Starting from the liquid, soft (milk porridge), and then softening (strain the team), rather coarse, and solids (eat adults). So was the amount of food provided, should be started from very small amounts, then added in stages over several days.

Therefore, providing the first solid food in infants should be done by considering the following matters:

* Quality of food. High-quality food that will ensure good quality nutrients.
* Texture and consistency (viscosity). Initially given a baby food creamed and liquid, eg milk or pureed fruit pulp (banana or papaya). Gradually, the baby food can be given more coarse and dense. Babies who have six months old can be given rice teams with complete nutrition. At the age of eight months to one year, babies begin to be fed only chopped.
* What kind of food. Infants should be introduced one by one type of food until he knew her well. Wait at least four days before you introduce other foods. Besides the baby would be familiar with and able to accept new foods, you can determine whether there is an allergic reaction in babies.
* The number or a portion of food. At first, the baby would receive 1-2 teaspoons of food. If he has been getting bigger, you can give your meal more.
* The order of feeding. Breast-feeding sequence companion is usually fruit, starchy, and vegetables. Meat, fish and eggs should be given after the baby is six months old. When babies show symptoms of allergy, the egg should be given after the age of one year.
* Schedule the right. Mealtimes should be in accordance with the state of hunger or hunger-related stomach condition. Thus, the infant GI tract is more ready to accept, digest and absorb foods at certain times.

Better food for babies is so continually fresh homemade with no preservatives and no artificial or chemical taste enhancer. It also minimizes the risk of allergic infants exposed food.http: / / www.inspiredkidsmagazine.com