Strawberry fun🍓
🍓Encouraging Self- feeding to babies
🍓Solid started for the baby
🍓7 months old baby
🍓Baby is relishing strawberries this season.
🍓Cutting it into halves , baby picks it up to eat 
🍓Pincer grasp is still not developed, but baby is learning to explore to eat it .
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FRUIT PUREES for weaning:

As you start weaning your baby you have to introduce fruits to his diet. Here iam posting fruit purees which you can give your 6+ month baby 👶 

APPLE PURÉE🍎 
Apple-1/2
Water-1/2 cup
Formula/breast milk-1 tbsp

Cut apple into pieces, cook that apple pieces until it becomes soft. It may take 5-10 minutes if cooked with lid closed.
When it comes to room temperature, mash it with a blender. Add water to adjust consistency according to your baby’s taste. You can add a teaspoon of formula milk or breast milk to enhance taste.

•Apples are rich in antioxidants and thus take good care of the heart of your little angel.These are also rich sources of vitamin C, that keeps his immune system in good health.

PEAR PURÉE 🍐 
Pear-1/2
Water-1/2 cup
Breast/formula milk- 1 tbsp

Cut the pear into small pieces (remove seeds and skin). Steam chopped pear pieces in a steamer for 5 minutes or until soft. Now blend it with little water to a smooth paste in a blender. You can add a teaspoon of formula milk or breast milk to enhance taste. Now it’s ready to serve. 

•Pears are high in fiber, potassium and Vitamin C. 

BANANA PURÉE 
Banana-1

Mash the banana using a fork. Ready to serve

•Bananas boost a variety of other minerals, as well as certain vitamins, including vitamins A, B6, B12, folate.

PAPAYA PURÉE 
Mash the papaya with a fork.

•papaya contain high amounts of Vitamin C and even Vitamin E. Papayas are also a good source of fiber and folic acid.

Points to keep in mind while preparing purees:
•Always keep your utensils sterilised and hands clean while preparation 
•Use ripe fruits for preparing puree
• Try steaming or baking fruits and vegetables instead of boiling, which washes away the nutrients.
•Always cook in low-medium flame
•Avoid adding taste makers like sugar or salt to your baby’s food
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Why is Salt and Sugar a Big NO for Babies

One of the most difficult tasks that a mother faces in her early days of motherhood is to feed her baby. Babies are usually ready to start solids when they are around six months old. This is the time to gradually introduce non-milk foods, a process called 'weaning'. It’s a good idea to try to introduce your baby to a variety of tastes during weaning. However, it is very important to avoid sugar and salt during this phase at least until the child’s first birthday.

A lot of time people think that the reason their baby is not accepting food is that it is bland. This is where most of us are mistaken, the actual reason that your baby is not showing interest in the food is that the baby is used to breastmilk and doesn’t like being fed with new unknown food. For someone who has tasted only breastmilk till 6 months of age and who does not know the taste of salt, what is the need to add salt to the food?

It’s a general opinion that a little bit of sugar and salt is not harmful to babies. Whenever they create a fuss eating food, we think that if we add a little bit of sugar or salt babies will enjoy their food. But the fact is that this is not true. Sugar and salt are not required for babies under 1 year. The truth is, adding salt to baby’s food may be dangerous. There can be many risk factors if we include sugar and salt in an infant’s diet.

A baby’s salt requirement per day is less than 1 g per day (0.4g of sodium) and this is mostly met by the breastmilk or formula. So, any extra salt (other than natural foods like veggies and fruits, breast milk and/or formula) may be a burden on the tiny kidneys and the kidneys will not be able to function properly due to the excessive load. This may lead to kidney disease and it has also been proven to cause hypertension in adult life. Excessive intake of salt in childhood has also been attributed to diseases as osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory illnesses.

In addition, we need to be really cautious about our little ones’ sugar intake as well, right from the moment they’re weaned. By sugar, I mean the “White Refined Sugar” not the natural sweetness of fruits and natural sweeteners.

The toddler years are really important because that’s when their future eating patterns are established. Adding sugar in baby food also increases the risk of tooth decay in babies. Oral bacteria rely on the leftover food in the mouth for their survival and sugar is perhaps the best food for them. Apart from tooth decay or ear infections, high sugar content in your baby’s diet can increase the risk of diabetes in the future years.

Without adding salt and sugar, we can still make baby food more interesting and tastier by adding spices appropriate to the age of the baby. They don’t need salt in their veggies, soups or lentils. As parents, we need to be cautious about the food that we give to our babies. Pay attention to the list of ingredients of baby food carefully and avoid adding sugar and salt, till 1 or 1½ years. By avoiding sugar and salt in the early years, we can make sure that your child does not develop salty cravings and sweet tooth. It also helps in reducing the risk of developing diseases like hypertension and diabetes. #BBCreatorsClub
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Weaning foods that help baby Weight gain!!

Weight gain in babies is one of the major concerns for some new parents. A consistent and healthy weight gain determines our babies good health and also help our infants achieve their milestones easily. Many babies are able to consistently gain weight as they grow but some are always on a lower side of the weight chart.

The reason for this is usually a babies not taking adequate amount of milk during first six months, breastfeed issues, only formula feeding and that too inadequate, colic in initial months etc..Also babies usually loose their appetite during teething or through episodes of illness like viral infections, urinary tract infections, diorrhea etc which leads to major weight loss in some of them. 

Though overweight or chubbiness in a baby is not an indication of good health and it's the inner immunity and good health which matters still it's important for babies to have age appropriate weight and diet. 
Hwre is a list of some foods which must be included in a babies diet at various steps of weaning and which can help in weight gain are:

1. Weaning usually starts with light fruit and vegetable purees but gradually one must include banana, sweet potatoes, chikoo, pear, peach, avocado, peas, carrots etc in babies diet to help the baby gain some weight. Adding them to their daliya, sooji upma, sheera and khichdi also helps.

2. Sathu maavu is one of the most recommend food by many experienced mother's as it has a mix of many kinds of cereals like ragi and sabut pulses etc and a complete nutrition for a baby. Its like a homemade cerelac minus preservatives and added colors or flavours. Its pure and homemade.


3. When we talk of the medium for cooking babies food, in my opinion home made Desi ghee, if used in optimum quantities is the best. It helps the baby develop strong bones, helps bowel movement and also is good for weight gain. Adding it to babies soup, daal, khichdi, daliya is very beneficial. Besides ghee another medium which is very good is olive oil. If possible one must also use it for it's nutrient value and lightness.


4. Weaning doesn't mean that the babies requirement and need for milk becomes very less. Till one year milk still is a major source of nutrtion for the baby so milk and other milk products like curd, home made paneer, white butter and even cheese for babies nearing a year is good.

5. Dry fruits or nuts are known for their good quality fats. So adding them in powder form to babies sheera, Kheer, daliya, khichdi and even Kheer, custard etc is a good way to add healthy fats to babies diet.

6. Last but not the least people who can eat eggs or non Vegetarian food can give it to babies too. A boiled egg, simple sunny side up or french toast for elder babies can be tried. Also a chicken clear soup with grated veggies, simple fish dish is good. Elder babies can be given shredded red meat too as it's difficult to digest for infants.

Thus new parents can try to include these foods in their babies diet for a healthy weight gain.