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Safe Foods for your Baby

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.

Finger Foods for Babies

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Finger food makes your baby explore with taste. Not only had that, to pick their own food, babys fine motor skills so well trained.

Make finger food for babies is not difficult. The materials used according to stages of babys age. For babies aged 6 months, for example, the recommended material type only cereals (white rice, brown rice, and oats), vegetables (green beans, potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, cucumbers) and fruits (bananas, avocados, apples and pears).

Entering the age of 7-8 months, raw food can be more varied. Like vegetables (asparagus, carrots, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, radishes), fruits (mango, peach, cucumber suri), a source of protein (chicken, beef, liver, tofu). Avoid dairy products (cheese, cream, yoghurt) in carp introductions beginning because it was feared could trigger allergies. However, after entering the age of nine months, giving dairy foods are already permitted.

Foodstuffs such as those mentioned above can be processed into a variety of finger food. What is noteworthy is the texture. In the early stages of (infant age 6 months) finger food must still soft textured. It was only when stepping on a baby aged nine months, finger food can be made with a rougher texture. For instance, by making the preparations of food ingredients chopped chicken or beef (nughet).

Do not forget to pay attention to the size of finger food. Give finger foods in a size that can be grasped by the hands of a tiny baby. Not too big or too small. Size is too small snacks can make a baby to choke. While the piece is too large, can not even hold. Still related to security, so as not to harm the baby, some certain vegetables, like carrots, green beans, squash, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, should be boiled first to make it more tender.