Baby Help?

Question

What brand baby food is best to feed a baby just starting solid foods?
what kind of food is the best to help the body, like heathiest foods, best for the immune system.

Answer 1

Seriously the BEST baby food for an infant is anything you can make at home, fresh. Its also cheaper.

Jarred food has been cooked and proccessed so that it won't go bad. All the cookign/high heats kill of most of the nutrients in jarred baby food. Its basically like serving your child a microwaved meal instead of one you prepared at home. And some (like infant rice cereal) have preservatives in them.

The best first foods for infants are mashed ripe bananas-these have Protein, Vitamin A, Beta Carotene, Vitamin K, Folate, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium (compared to jarred bananas which you are lucky if you get one or 2 vitamins from)

or mashed ripe avacdos-healthy omega 2 and omega 3 fatty acids needed for brain development. Protein, Methionine, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Folate, Calcium, Potassium, and Magnesium.

Also try steaming carrots or other veggies and putting them in the food processor. Or throwing fruits in a food proccessor or blender (like a smoothie without ice) If you want to try foods with iron because you are worried your baby is not getting enough try these in the food processor: Broccoli, spinach, prunes, raisins, potatoes, peas, or Tomato juice.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I always made my own. It is really simple actually.... Just steam veggies or fruit until soft, then puree.... It is the healthiest and most natural way; because you KNOW what is in it for sure. I would make up quite a bit at a time, then store it in mini Gladd containers and freeze them. When it was time to eat, just thaw and serve.
However, if you don't have time, rest assured that the USDA has rigid standards for ALL baby food manufacturers.

Answer 4

I started all my kids on Gerber Rice cereal, at about 4 months. Just add 1 new food type at a time, to make sure they aren't allergic. After awhile (6 mos) , I moved to Stage 1 veggies, then fruit, then meat. Just remember to "feed them the rainbow" meaning different colored foods have different nutrients.

Answer 5

when just starting solids you should only introduce cereals. First start with rice cereal at about 6 months old, once a day for the first week, then twice a day for the second week, moving to 3 times a week once his system will handle it. Then introduce a different grain of cereal. Stick with the single grains until you can be sure your baby isn't allergic to any of them. Then move to multi grain cereals. Once your baby's digestive system will handle these multigrains you can start to introduce vegitalbles (by 8 months or so). Introduce single vegtible jars only at first to be sure your baby isn't allergic to any of them. Watch for changes in temperment, rash and changes to his stools. By 12 months you can introduce fruits. Fruits show the most signs of allergies in children which is why they ask that you wait so long to introduce them. Too early of introduction can cause serious reactions. Never introduce juice before 12 months of age, its bad for their developing teeth.

Answer 6

I used Gerber jar foods and Beech-Nut cereal. Lots of fruits and veggies.

Answer 7

one brand might not work for your baby try different one and stick with the ones you and your baby likes. i used gerber and beechnut

Answer 8

Don't feed your baby commercial jarred food, would you eat jarred food ever meal, every day?

Feed your baby the way nature intended REAL FOOD!

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html
Ensuring good nutrition

Babies who are allowed to feed themselves tend to accept a wide range of food. This is probably because they have more than just the flavour of the food to focus on – they are experiencing texture, colour, size and shape as well. In addition, giving babies food separately, or in a way which enables them to separate them for themselves, enables them to learn about a range of different flavours and textures. And allowing them to leave anything they appear not to like will encourage them to be prepared to try new things.

The opposite appears to be true for a baby who is spoon fed, especially if food are presented as purees containing more than one flavour. In this situation the baby has no way of isolating any flavour he doesn’t like and will tend to reject the whole meal. Since his parents can only guess which food is causing the problem, they risk more food rejection until they track it down. In the meantime, the baby learns not to trust food and the range of food he will accept can become severely limited. This can lead to his overall nutrition being compromised. Offering food separately, but together on the same plate, allows the baby to make his own decisions about mixing flavours.

General principles of good nutrition for children apply equally to young babies who are managing their own introduction to solid food. Thus, 'fast food' and food with added sugar and salt should be avoided. However, once a baby is over six months old there is no need, unless there is a family history of allergy or a known or suspected digestive disorder, to otherwise restrict the food that the baby can be offered. Fruit and vegetables are ideal, with harder food cooked lightly so that they are soft enough to be chewed. At first, meat is best offered as a large piece, to be explored and sucked. Once the baby can manage to pick up and release fistfuls of food, minced meat works well. Note: babies do not need teeth to bite and chew – gums do very well!

There is no need to cut food into mouth-sized pieces. Indeed, this will make it difficult for a young baby to handle. A good guide to the size and shape needed is the size of the babies fist, with one important extra factor to bear in mind: Young babies cannot open their fist on purpose to release things. This means that they do best with food that is chip-shaped or has a built-in 'handle' (like the stalk of a piece of broccoli). They can then chew the bit that is sticking out of their fist and drop the rest later – usually while reaching for the next interesting-looking piece. As their skills improve, less food will be dropped.

Understanding the babies motivation

This approach to introducing solids offers a baby the opportunity to discover what other food has to offer as part of finding out about the world around him. It utilises his desire to explore and experiment, and to mimic the activities of others. Allowing the baby to set the pace of each meal, and maintaining an emphasis on play and exploration rather than on eating, enables the transition to solid food to take place as naturally as possible. This is because it appears that what motivates babies to make this transition is curiosity, not hunger.

There is no reason for mealtimes to coincide with the babies milk feeds. Indeed, thinking of (milk) feeding and the introduction to solid food as two separate activities will allow a more relaxed approach and make the experience more enjoyable for both parents and child.
Won't he choke?

Many parents worry about babies choking. However, there is good reason to believe that babies are at less risk of choking if they are in control of what goes into their mouth than if they are spoon fed. This is because babies are not capable of intentionally moving food to the back of their throats until after they have learnt to chew. And they do not develop the ability to chew until after they have developed the ability to reach out and grab things. Thus, a very young baby cannot easily put himself at risk because he cannot get the food into his mouth in the first place. On the other hand, the action used to suck food off a spoon tends to take the food straight to the back of the mouth, causing the baby to gag. This means that spoon feeding has its own potential to lead to choking – and makes the giving of lumpy food with a spoon especially dangerous.

It appears that a babies general development keeps pace with the development of his ability to manage food in his mouth, and to digest it. A baby who is struggling to get food into his mouth is probably not quite ready to eat it. It is important to resist the temptation to 'help' the baby in these circumstances since his own developmental abilities are what ensure that the transition to solid feeding takes place at the right pace for him. This process is also what keeps him safe from choking on small pieces of food, since, if he is not yet able to pick up small objects using his finger and thumb, he will not be able to get, for example, a pea or a raisin into his mouth. Once he is able to do this, he will have developed the necessary oral skills to deal with it. Putting food into a babies mouth for him overrides this natural protection and increases the risk of choking.

Tipping a baby backwards or lying him down to feed him solid food is dangerous. A baby who is handling food should always be supported in an upright position. In this way, food which he is not yet able to swallow, or does not wish to swallow, will fall forward out of his mouth, not backwards into his throat.

Adopting a baby-led approach doesn't mean abandoning all the common sense rules of safety. While it is very unlikely that a young baby would succeed in picking up a peanut, for example, accidents can and will happen on rare occasions – however the baby is fed. Rules of safety which apply in other play situations should therefore be adhered to when eating is in progress.