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by: Parul | last updated: June 11, 2009
Category: Baby Care Essentials: Food & Formula | Tags: Baby Food

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10 Best-Odds Diet for Babies

Now, your baby is only dabbling in solids; he is still getting most nutritional requirements from breast milk or formula. But from the six months on, breast milk or formula alone won’t be enough to meet all your baby’s needs, and by the end of the year, most of baby nutrition will come from other sources. So, you can start introducing the infant daily dozen, gradually adding new foods and increasing quantities. I hope this guide will help you to find the best daily dozen for your baby.

Calories – you don’t need to count your baby’s daily calories to tell if he is getting enough or too many. Most of the calories that keep baby thriving come from breast milk or formula; gradually more and more of them will come from solid foods.

Protein – two or three tablespoons a day of egg yolk, meat, chicken, fish, cottage cheese or two of tofu will do while the greater share of protein is still received from formula or breast milk.

Calcium foods – breast milk or formula provides adequate calcium for an infant, but as these are decreased and solids increased, other calcium foods such as hard cheeses, yogurt whole milk should be added to the diet.

Whole grains and other concentrated complex carbohydrates – two to four servings of grain foods, legumes, or dried peas a day will add essential vitamins and minerals, as well as some proteins, to baby’s diet.

Green leafy and yellow vegetables and yellow fruits – two or three tablespoons of winter squash or sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, apricots, mango, or peach cubes when baby moves on to finger foods, will provide adequate vitamin A.

Vitamin C foods – just ¼ cup of a baby fruit juice fortified with vitamin C or orange or grapefruit juice will provide enough vitamin C.

Other fruit and vegetables – if your baby has room for more food in his diet, add one of the following daily: one or two tablespoons of applesauce, mashed banana, green beans or mashed potato.

Salty food – since a baby’s kidney can’t handle large quantities of sodium, and because developing a taste for salt early in life can lead to problems with hypertension later on, baby’s food should not have added salt.

Fluids – during the first four or five months of life virtually all of baby’s fluids come from bottle or breast. Now small amount will come from other sources, such as juices, milk from a cup and fruits and vegetables.

Vitamin supplement – as a simple nutrition insurance policy, give vitamin and mineral drops especially formulated for infants. These drops should contain iron, if your baby does not take an iron-fortified formula and no more than the recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals for babies.