Saturday, August 14th, 2010
There are many benefits gained by giving your baby finger foods, among them:
- Learn to feed themselves, Hold and enter their own food into the mouth is one way of learning for your child to feed themselves. Later this will get you feeling confident that he is able to do baby feeding activity itself, no need to be fed again.
- Starting the first solid food. Providing finger food can also be classified as coach of complementary feeding. It’s just a more specific form which can be grasped by little hands.
- Stimulate the baby’s fine motor. When a baby holding a finger food with his fingers, followed by pushing them into the mouth, actually classed as providing stimulus for the development of fine motor baby. Especially reflex to hold.
- Stimulates tooth growth ahead teething Generally, babies will experience itching in the gums. Providing finger food can stimulate the growth of teeth, while reducing the itching arises because generally have the texture of finger foods.
- Granting Exploration finger food tastes can also be used as a medium to introduce the diverse taste of food in infants. So that the child will be loved by a wide variety of food flavors.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
In addition to high nutrient, that food should be given to babies should be safe and harmless. In providing safe food for infants, mothers must consider several important things the following:
- Avoid fibrous foods like celery or green beans.
- If you want to give your baby a nutritious fish, first remove the fish bones before crushed.
- Give a chance to digest one type of baby food and see your baby’s reaction after eating the food, who knew she was allergic.
- Give the food in the form of toys. Special toys that can be bitten and swallowed by the baby safely is bananas. Some mothers are also often give her baby carrots and apples and pears poached or steamed to be bitten-bite.
- Cut small pieces of beef and chicken in a cross from the roots. Avoid large pieces that can make a baby to choke.
- Check the pieces of the food prepared. Front baby teeth just to bite. Baby teeth do not show up until a year old child. Babies still suck and not bite.
- Give food that can be held by baby finger when he was sitting, not when you’re playing or lying.
- Sausage is not nutritious food that is safe for babies. One bite-sized sausage trachea can make a baby to choke. Sausage healthy and free nitrate is a food craze toddlers and safe for them when sliced long and small like a noodle. However, even this healthy sausage can contain high amounts of sodium, so that their consumption should be limited.
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