Foods for 6 - 8 Month Baby
Posted by Babies - 20/01/09 at 11:01 pmNow a baby has reached the first half year mark. It is time to introduce more foods like fresh fruits, cooked or home canned fruits and vegetables. As the new foods are getting introduced to the baby at this stage, it is not meant that breast feeding should be stopped. The mother should continue the feeding but frequency of intake of the breast milk may be reduced. Mainly the first food introduced at the fourth month like rice, barley , oats or other grain cereals should always be fed to the baby .Along with these two main food, mother should introduce the above mentioned new food. Fruits like banana, pears, apple sauce, peaches etc can be introduced in the diet and vegetables like sweet potatoes, squash, cooked carrots, beans etc can also be fed to the babies. Using the fruits and the vegetables, mother can make pureed baby foods. While making it, sugar, salt or spice items should not be introduced in the food. Seeds and skins of fruits and vegetables should be removed properly as it upsets the stomach.
Unknowingly some mothers will feed the sweet foods like baby deserts, pre-sweetened cereals, chocolates, sugar, fruit-flavored drinks, soda pop etc to their babies. Baby Food fact about these sweeten foods is that they have little food value and they can even mess up baby’s appetite for nourishing diets. Other baby food fact about these foods is that they are very harmful to the baby’s newly growing teeth. Mother should be very careful about picking the baby food products from the market like checking the expiry date of the baby food etc. These new foods should be continued for next 2 months.
