Blog categorized as Feeding & Weaning

Can you please give the complete feeding schedule for the infancy?

Diet from 6 months completion till 9 months

Kanjee- made of rice (par boiled rice- iddly rice) and roasted bengal gram (pottu kadalai in tamil) in the ratio of 3:1. Take it in the proprotion specifed, gently fry it, and make it a powder and store it in airtight container. Take 3 spoons of the prepara...

What are all the diet to be avoided in the first year of life?

Cow’s milk to be avoided absolutely till the end of 1 year.

Biscuits, juices, commercial preparations (tins) to be avoided till the end of 1 year. Many of them contain coloring agents and preservatives which may not be good for your baby.

Whenever I am trying to feed my baby anything other than breast milk, he is spitting it? What to do?

At around 6 months when you are going about weaning the baby, such a thing usually happens. And it is pretty normal, as long as he is gaining weight as expected. The technique of swallowing milk is different from swallowing solid or semi solid feed. So, when a baby is initially offered semi solid fo...

I am a working mother, when can I leave the baby and go to my office? How can I continue to breast feed my baby? What precautions should I take? Is there any harm in using bottle?

It is better for him, epescially for breast feeding and brain development. So try to postpone the date at which you will have to rejoin your work. Contemplate all possibilities of leave like extension of maternity leave, earned leave, medical leave, and loss of pay or even temporary break from your ...

My baby is refusing to drink milk with spoon and paladai, why cant I use a bottle?

Bottle is luxurious way of drinking milk. There is no waiting period, the moment the bottle is kept in the mouth, milk flows immediately by itself, and there is no effort involved on the part of the baby to get milk. The only work the baby has to do is, press the nipple once the mouth is full, therb...

My baby is not taking food at all and he is 9 months old, what should I do?

Most babies gain around 4-5 kgs in the 1st year of life. Most of the babies double their birth weight by the end of the 6th month and treble their birth weight by the end of the 1st year of life. From then on, the growth rate dramatically decreases, and most babies gain only somewhere between 1-2 kg...

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