How Do You And When To Make The Transition From Breastmilk, Formula To Solid Baby Food?
After months of breast feeding and bottle feeding your baby the time has come to make the transition from breast milk, formula to solid baby food. This is an important and exciting stage in the development of your child and will help your child in learning how to chew and develop eating skills. Solids will provide most of your child’s nutritional needs. In most cases your doctor will advise you about when you should begin offering your baby cereals and strained baby foods and which food to introduce first. Solids should be started at 4 to 6 months. Before then your baby’s digestive system can’t handle anything besides baby formula. Consider introducing an iron-fortified infant cereal. Don’t put cereal in a bottle. Thickness formula can cause babies to gag or inhale the liquid into their lungs. Plus, it adds extra calories to the formula. Put the amount of solid food ( cereal) you plan to give the baby into a bowl or warming dish. After warming stir well, check the food temperature befo
