A properly planned vegetarian diet can meet all your nutritional requirements. Research indicates it may also reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, obesity and other chronic diseases. However, embarking on a vegetarian lifestyle without adequate preparation may create nutritional problems. (more…)
Do not give your baby honey or anything with honey in it. A baby can catch botulism from honey.
Give your baby vegetables before fruit. When I began my studies to be a dietitian, we were told to tell mothers to go to fruit after cereal. We now know that this is wrong. Once a baby has the sweet taste of fruit, she doesn’t like to go to vegetables. (more…)
Other people (like myself) dread the time for solids. It means their child is growing up too fast. There are certain things to remember about the timing of feeding your son or daughter for the first time.
Each child is his/her own person. Everything suggests that you need to wait until 4-6 months before you begin feeding your baby. (more…)