Baby Foods?
21 November 2009
I’m looking for other baby foods. Right now my son is 5 months almost 6 months old. He eats normal baby foods. I usually just get whichever brand is on sale. But does anyone know of any websites that have different food options? i’m looking for something different but I don’t want to break the band either thanks.
Gerber Stage 1 carries
green beans
peas
carrots
squash
pumpkin
sweet potatoes
bananas
apple sauce
pears
peaches
The interesting stuff (mixed foods in one jar) doesn’t come into play until Stage 2. At 5 months, your baby may not be ready for Stage 2 yet.
honestly making your own is the easiest and cheapest.
it is not a lot of work. i buy one or two sweet potatoes, steam them and mash it up and mix with water to thin out and it makes like 6 meals!
i just buy a ripe banana or avocado and mash it up and that’s a meal.
buy some pears or apples, stew (boil water then put pieces of fruit in and simmer on low) them mix with water, breastmilk or formula and that’s several meals.
it’s really SO easy to make your own, you just steam veggies or stew fruits and mix with water, breastmilk or formula! simple as that!
just buy little snack cups and put a little of each and throw them in the freezer and it is good for 2 months!
making your own is the way to go and guess what, he has liked every single thing i have given him.
I used table food and strained it myself. I just didn’t put any salt and butter on it and I would mix it with baby fruit and that’s what my babies got fat off of. To me, baby food is a waste of money. I will get the fruits and juices but not the food. My kids are now 24, 21, 19,17, 14 and they are all big strong kids, 4 boys and 1 girl, the girl is 17.
With all 3 of mine (and with #4) by around 5-6 months I would just chop up everything I was eating and feed them that. Like blend fruits and vegetables to a ‘normal’ consistency for a little one and they will love it. And it doesn’t cost you anything extra! Good luck!
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Make your own. They didn’t have Gerber before the 20th Century.
make your own
Uh you mean like feeding your baby real food?http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintro…
It appears that a baby’s 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.
Pureed baby food is ‘unnatural’http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/676279…
She said children should be fed only with breast or formula milk for six months, then weaned onto solids to improve control over how much they ate.
This could prevent babies becoming picky about food.
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Solids best
After six months, Mrs Rapley said babies were capable of taking food into their mouths and chewing it.
Therefore, feeding them pureed food at this time could delay the development of chewing skills.
Instead, she said, they should be given milk and solid pieces of food which they could chew.
Mrs Rapley argued that babies fed pureed food had little control over how much food they ate, thus rendering them vulnerable to constipation, and running a risk that they would react by becoming fussy eaters later in life.
She blamed the food industry for convincing parents that they should give children pureed food.
She said: “Sound scientific research and government advice now agree that there is no longer any window of a baby’s development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids.”http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintro…
The babies who participated in the research were allowed to begin at four months. But they were not able to feed themselves before six months. Some of the younger babies picked food up and took it to their mouths; some even chewed it, but none swallowed it. Their own development decided for them when the time was right. Part of the reason for this study was to show (based on a theory of self-feeding) that babies are not ready for solid food before six months. It seems that we have spent all these years working out that six months is the right age and babies have known it all along!
It seems reasonable to predict that if parents choose to provide babies with the opportunity to pick up and eat solid food from birth they will still not be able to do it until around six months. The principle is the same as putting a newborn baby on the floor to play: he is being provided with the opportunity to walk but will not do so until about one year – because his own development stops him. But: everything depends on the baby being in control. Food must not be put into his mouth for him. Since it is very tempting to do this, it is probably safer to recommend that babies should not be given the opportunity to eat solid food before six months.http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintro…
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 one wonder about the safety of giving lumpy foods off a spoon.
Why not cereal?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449/page…
Take rice cereal, for example. Under conventional American wisdom, it’s the best first food. But Butte says iron-rich meat — often one of the last foods American parents introduce — would be a better choice.
Dr. David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital Boston, a specialist in pediatric nutrition, says some studies suggest rice and other highly processed grain cereals actually could be among the worst foods for infants.
“These foods are in a certain sense no different from adding sugar to formula. They digest very rapidly in the body into sugar, raising blood sugar and insulin levels” and could contribute to later health problems, including obesity, he says.
The lack of variety in the American approach also could be a problem. Exposing infants to more foods may help them adapt to different foods later, which Ludwig says may be key to getting older children to eat healthier.