Beth
5 post s
19-Mar-2008
7:15 PM
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I have been reading Nourishing Traditions and they have some different views on what to feed babies. They suggest feeding them egg yolk, they made my daughter sick. They also say to wait on the cereals until they are over a year. Since I am new to feeding my family whole food my question is: What do you think are the best things to feed a growing baby? Of course, I think breast milk is the staple.
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JenFer
9 post s
20-Mar-2008
1:05 PM
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I started my babies out on mashed (organic) bananas mixed with breast milk. My babies also ate rice. Cooked brown rice, strained into a thin puree and blended with kefir or breast milk. I did give my babies cooked egg yolk, but it doesn't surprise me that some babies would not tolerate it. Soaked millet cooked into a porridge is good. Yogurt is a nice first food, too, and most babies love it. The Urban Homemaker, www.urbanhomemaker.com, has a few good cookbooks geared towards feeding babies and toddlers. The recipes are a bit more mainstream than the N.T. guidelines, but still very healthy. I don't hold fast to everything in the N.T. cookbook. Most of it is excellent advice, but I am not by any means a 100% follower. As far as pureed fruits and veggies, a few of my favorites are...
banana
papaya
apples
plums
avocado
beets
peas
carrots
Always buy fresh & organic. Cook the root veggies until just soft enough to pass through a food mill. Raw fruits and veggies have tons of enzymes! Always feed fruits alone and for breakfast. Fruits are good morning foods, but should not be mixed with other foods or eaten after other foods because it digests so much quicker. It can cause gas and tummy aches - even in adults!
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anneatheart
2 post s
26-Mar-2008
7:37 PM
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With my first daughter, I was very careful about what she ate and made all of her food. Because of her traumatic birth and premature size I could only feed her with a bottle,and pumped breastmilk for a month. She did start out with rice cereal because she spit up so much, and then I moved on to oatmeal cereal and sweet veggies, then plain yogurt. Oh how she loved her yogurt! She got so used to the taste of vegetables and plain cereals that she was shocked when she got some fruit. I didn't do eggs though, not until 9-10months- that was before I read Nourishng Traditions. The most nutritious things that she loved were mashed bananas, mashed avocado, pureed lentils and veggies and broth, whole milk yogurt, beans(not until she was about 7-9months though) and homemade whole grain cereals. I would just mash the fruit with a fork and leave it somewhat lumpy. She didn't eat meat because I refused to give her commercial baby foods and I couldn't get the meat pureed fine enough. (she had a very strong gag reflex) I would puree a large batch of food and then freeze it in ice cube trays. When frozen I popped the cubes into plastic baggies. Set them out early in the morning to defrost or microwave it for 5 seconds at a time. The second and third babies however, well, let's just say at least it was mostly organic baby food :) Well, they are pretty close together. (first two were both born in 2003, not twins!!!!)
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JenFer
10 post s
27-Mar-2008
1:56 PM
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I just wanted to say that I can relate to the "organic baby food" remark, too...two of my sons (now 7 & 8) are not even one year apart. I have two years of my life that are a total fog. I had three under three and we all managed to live on less than ideal food for a time. God took care of us...
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anneatheart
6 post s
28-Mar-2008
6:08 AM
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That's exactly how it was for me! My first two are 11 months apart and my second daughter's first year of life is a fog! We had our three girls in three years also...not sure I recommend it :)
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JenG
3 post s
2-Jun-2008
6:20 PM
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My doctor told me to put my daughter on Vitamin D drops since she was being breastfed. What do you think and where would you get them? :)
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JenFer
14 post s
4-Jun-2008
4:54 PM
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If you had your baby in the middle of winter, you might need to consider this...but, let me suggest a remedy that was used by previous generations. Sun baths. Babies used to have playpens or cradles placed out on the porch and were placed in them for a "bath" each day. You only need 10-15 minutes and you don't need to place the baby in direct sunlight for this to be of benefit. In fact, I wouldn't recommend direct sunlight for a very young baby. It is healthy and good for babies to spend time outdoors. I believe this strongly. If you have a shade tree, put a blanket down and let your baby rest or nap there. My summertime babies all spent time on the porch in swings or on a blanket in a shady spot in the yard. If your baby is getting adequate sunlight, then a vitamin D supplement is probably not needed.
If you do decide to go with the vitamin supplement, I would check your health food store first and ask for a liquid infant vitamin supplement.
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