Pureed food bad for babies
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Halt! If you are feeding your baby with that pureed apple or banana…as this is considered unnatural and unnecessary by Gill Rapley, deputy director of Unicef’s UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
All that he recommended for babies till the age of six months is breast milk or formula milk, followed with solids in later stages. Any other food given to a child during the first six months, except for milk dilutes the nutritional value of the milk and also makes it harmful for the child in some cases.
And even after six months pureed food is a big No-No. As, at this time, the baby is capable of chewing food, hence giving them pureed food can delay chewing habits.
Last but not the least, babies fed on pureed food loose control over the quantity of food they eat , thus exposing them to acute risk of constipation and rendering them a common victim of fussy eating habits.
So, make sure what you are giving to your baby is adding into his health rather than acting against him in long run. Via: BBC
