Best Food for Your Baby

“What is the best food that I can feed my baby” is a common question every new parent have. Most of the new parents search the same to know what they can feed their kid. Breast milk is the best ever food and primary source of the nutrition for babies up to 6 months. Older infants can also continue breastfeeding. Mother’s milk is the best medicine for prevention and protection as well as curing of illness.

Moving your baby from milk to solid food is the first feeding milestones, followed by three baby food stages. After 6 months you can feed soft solid foods for your kid if she/he is ready to have solid foods and it is the first baby food stage. At this stage, you can feed them baby cerelac and fruit purees recipes. Most common cereals parent use at this stage is rice cereal, ragi cereal, banana, oatmeal or barley cereals. And you can feed them apple puree and banana puree and apricot purees etc. You can also feed them fruits like mango, papaya, and vegetables like pumpkin, sweet potato, and carrot.

Most babies show signs of readiness for thicker solid foods in their 8+ months. Ie, they are mastered in cereal, veggies and fruit purees. They are ready to have stage 2 foods, and it is the time to try new textures and flavors. In this stage, you can feed them cooked vegetables, raw fruits and a bit of texture mashed or pulsed. And they can have cereals, grains, and fruits like grapes and vegetables like onion and potato.

At stage 3(after 10 months), all of your baby’s should come from solid foods, and they will start to feed themselves and drink water themselves. You can feed them egg, whole milk, and mashed boiled rice or other meals. And if they are like to have porridge at this stage, you can feed them rice, wheat and ground porridge mix or rice and moong dal porridge etc. And they will be ready to eat vegetables like tomato, cucumber, and corn etc. And after 1 ½ years, babies can have all the foods that their parents eat.  

Now there are many readymade baby food packs are available off the shelf rack in the supermarket. You should aware of the ingredients of these readymade baby foods. Homemade baby food is always good for baby health, and it is the only preservative-free food that we can trustly feed them.