NUTRITION DURING INFANCY
Providing proper nutrition during infancy can have life-long effects on your baby, as well as yourself
. The very first step towards proper nutrition for your infant is to decide between breastfeed or bottle feed. It’s important to consider that a mother’s milk is the best milk for your baby.
There are some points to remember when considering to breast feed. First of all, always remember that nature conceived breast milk especially for human babies; therefore, it naturally contains just the right amount of nutrients. These nutrients are contained in a particular form which is gentle on your baby’s systems.
Nevertheless, if you decide to bottle feed, there are many iron-fortified formulas available that can provide an adequate nutrition. Infant formulas tend to contain protein, calories, fat, vitamins, and minerals for optimal growth and nutrition. If your infant gets enough of the iron-fortified formula, they might not require vitamin supplements.
When your infant reaches six months old, solid foods can be introduced. Be careful not to go onto solid foods unless your infant has shown signs of readiness. Signs of readiness include demonstrating good head control and loss of their natural tongue reflex. You may begin with rice cereal and mix in some formula or breast milk.
Once they get used to this mixture once or twice a day for some period of time, then oatmeal can be tried, followed in the end by fruits and vegetables to add optimal infant nutrition.
After your infant has started on solids, your may also add water or juice to your infant’s diet. Water is preferred by doctors, as juice contains sugar and calories that infants don’t need. The water will assist in digestion of the solids.
By creating good breastfeeding habits, bottle feeding, and eventually solids, your infant will receive proper nutrition during their formative first year. These habits of proper infant nutrition can create lifelong nutritional habits.
reaction:
As the article said, giving the proper nutrition to the infants is really important for them to have a good health. The mother should have to decide if she’s going to give the infant a breast feed process or bottle feed. Every one of us knew that the best way of giving good nutrition to infants is breast feed. Infants will have right amount nutrition during breast feeding and it’s not expensive. While in bottle feed you must have the money buying the best milk for infants. Those milks contain iron fortified formulas. If the infant gets enough iron fortified formulas, infants will not require vitamin supplements. During six month you can now give the infant solid foods if only the infants show the signs of readiness. If the infant is demonstrating the sign of readiness you can begin with rice cereal and mix in some formula or breast milk.
The infant should have to drink water rather than juices because it helps for the digestion of infants. We must remember in attaining a good health we should start giving good nutrition in infancy period.
NA:
Being a nurse we should have a health teaching to the parents. We should tell the do’s and don’ts in feeding the infants. And advice them to go on check up’s.
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