Introducing Your Baby to Solid Foods with Dr. Bob Sears

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Is your baby about to reach 6 months of age? Are you concerned about introducing solid food to your child? Is your 7 month old rejecting everything you give her?

Dr. Bob Sears shares some advice as well as a list of do's and don'ts for parents.

Dr. Sears' advice includes the following:
After 6 months, start to introduce foods to your child. Make foods available and invite them to taste, follow your baby's lead; allow them to reject foods as some babies might not show much interest.

Food to Introduce First:
banana
pears
avocado
unsweetened applesauce
rice cereal

Food to Avoid:
honey
cows milk
citrus fruits
shellfish
egg whites
peanut products

At this important time you can start to influence your baby's taste buds: give natural whole foods and limit sugar and sweets so that they seek out healthier options as their bodies grow.




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This video was made by Parent Earth with sponsorship from Happy Baby http://www.happybabyfood.com/ and Stonyfield Farms http://stonyfieldfarms.com/. Care2 http://www.care2.com is a media partner.
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Not all of the recent studies say to avoid peanut products the first year. One study I read says that leaving all peanuts till too late actually INCREASES the risk or the kids developing allergies, not decreases it, like previously thought. Corn and soy products might be good to avoid the first year though, because people that have sensitive digestive systems can be negatively affected by the pesticides that are grown into GMO corn and soy. Unmodified corn and soy are rare here in the US.

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when baby is 6+ months and ready for starting solid foods be sure to get the extra hand every parent needs. The Help Yourself Feeding Solution Baby Feeding Tray. It works with every baby food on the market including homemade baby foods as recommended by Dr. Bob Sears.