For Making Baby Food, This Works Like Crazy
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| Notes From Me |
Dear Friends,
There’s nothing more miserable than hearing about infant deaths. Looking at the tiny little creature God sends to make us happy lying there, died, really makes our heart break.
One of baby’s death causes is parents share sleep with babies. It’s not that you’re not allowed to sleep together with your babies, but it’s important to make sure how you can sleep with them safely. Placing baby to sleep on his back is one way of safe sleeping.
Below, read the report about 2 babies died in bed with parents.
In Food & Nutrition section, find out how you can make your own baby food. Low-cost and simple! Enjoy the cooking time.
Save your baby,
Adwina Jackson
Editor of InspiringParenting.com
| Parenting News |
2nd Baby Dies in Bed with Parents
Cole Finke, a 3-week-old baby boy, died while sleeping in a parent’s bed. It’s the next infant death in DeLand, Florida.
Find out the report here:
| Children’s Health |
Make Your Own Baby Food - The Easy Way!
by Carrie Lauth
Is your baby about to start solid foods? Are you thinking of making your own baby food?
When you make baby’s first foods, you can save money and reduce waste. You also can choose more nutritious options. Fresh foods are typically more nutritious than canned, and you can purchase organic food to prepare for baby if you wish. You can also avoid unwholesome ingredients that show up in commercial baby food.
Making baby food doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming. In fact, the easiest and cheapest way is the best way!
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” No matter what baby’s age, always offer one food at a time and wait several days to watch for signs of allergy before offering another. Take it slow.. “ |
The easy way to making your own baby food:
1) Don’t bother with buying one of those baby food grinders. They’re hard to clean and too much hassle.
2) If you wait until your baby is 6 months old to start solids, you can almost always just mash with a fork to the desired consistency.
If you’re breastfeeding, you can even wait until baby’s “pincer grasp” is developed and offer him small finger foods like peas, bits of grated apple, and the like. The pincer grasp is developed when baby can pinch small objects (like those bits of carpet fluff or food on the kitchen floor!)
inbetween his thumb and first finger. In fact, if you have a family tendency towards food allergy, waiting longer to start solids may be preferable. No matter what baby’s age, always offer one food at a time and wait several days to watch for signs of allergy before offering another. Take it slow.
3) Start with fresh single ingredient foods like:
Banana
Steamed carrot, turnip, potato, yam
Avocado
Ripe pear, peach, melon, plum
Cooked squash
Grated apple- raw or steamed
Peas
Well cooked beans
Hard cooked egg yolks (avoid the whites until 1 year)
Some of these foods could be served raw. Others are lightly steamed (steaming retains more nutrients than canning), to make them softer for baby.
4) It’s not necessary to make a big deal of preparing baby’s food.
If you want to take a lot of time blending food and freezing them in ice cube trays, you could certainly do that. But I’m all for the easy approach!
Although you do want to avoid giving baby salt and sugar (and spices that may upset the tummy), you can usually just take an ingredient from your own menu and “make” baby’s dinner.
For instance, if you’re steaming veggies to serve at dinner, take a tablespoon of them out of the pan before you add butter and salt. Put this in baby’s plate and mash away. Voila! Instant baby food with no extra work. Or take a bit of beef from your roast and mash mash mash until it’s very soft.
Even when you’re at a restaurant, you can either bring an apple with you and “grate” it finely with a spoon at your table, or bring along a banana or other portable food. Any restaurant with a salad bar would have cooked beans or avocado. Or give baby a bit of your baked potato (before you add the goodies on top).
Life with a new baby is challenging enough. Keep starting solids simple!
For more helpful tips on simplifying life with kids, visit: http://www.natural-moms.com/homekeeping_organization.html
Carrie Lauth publishes a free newsletter for Moms doing things the natural way. Get your copy plus free subscriber goodies at: http://www.natural-moms.com/natural_mom_newsletter.html
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Sleeping with your baby may deepen closeness between the two of you. But, beware with the accident that could happen. Sleeping with parents in the same bed is one of the causes of infant death.
