Feeding Infants: Homemade baby food
Want to insure your baby is getting nutritious food without preservatives and other additives? Why not prepare it yourself?
Some parents prepare and freeze baby food meals weekly. Others puree food items from the family meal for their babies. Either way, many parents appreciate the opportunity to provide their babies with healthy, tasty food.
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Feeding Infants: Make your own baby food
Making your own baby food is a wholesome alternative to purchasing processed foods. While processed baby foods are not necessarily unhealthy for your baby, homemade foods eliminate additives and preservatives, as well as added sugar and salt, found in processed foods.
You can easily prepare meals that are nutritious and customized to baby’s needs and desires, providing an enjoyable experience...
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Feeding Infants: Study shows breastfeeding an at all-time high
The number of new mothers breastfeeding their infants is at the highest rate nationally in more than a decade.
Survey results published in April by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show about 77 percent of new mothers breastfeed their infants, at least briefly. However, the percentage of infants breastfeeding at 6 months of age has remained unchanged and is significantly lower than...
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Feeding Infants: Do infants need water?
Infants should not be given water until after they are nine months old. Breastmilk is 85% water, so a mom needn’t worry that her baby is not getting enough liquids. Drinking water can cause a baby’s sodium level to drop. If a baby is throwing up and there is danger of dehydration, then the baby may have Pedialyte.
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Feeding Infants: Breastfeeding with confidence
In this era of Blackberries, iPods and advancing technology, it is becoming increasingly difficult to trust in the wisdom of nature. Reality TV focuses on the excitement of nature gone wrong and the medical moments of tragedy waiting to happen. How can you know and trust that, as a new mother, you can naturally provide just exactly what your baby needs through the ancient practice of...
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