Healthy Food For 8 Months Baby

swetha

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Breastfeeding is exclusively recommended until the baby is one year old as it provides all the essential nutrients for healthy growth and development.
This is the stage where the baby will start to gain a lot of new strength for healthy weight gain and proper development. Babies at eight months need more nutrients as a baby's brain development is in rapid growth. This improves memory power as you see they might form a good attachment to the people he/she likes the most. An eight-month-old baby trying to crawl, and trying to stand on her own, clapping hands, they even figure out how to use their thumb and forefinger to pick up food.
This is the right time to start with solids like softly mashed or finely chopped pieces of fruits, vegetables, meats, and some dairy such as yogurt and cheeses. You can also feed them with porridge mix. Better don’t force the baby to eat and keep trying to your level best to encourage their healthy eating habits for proper physical and mental development.
Mealtime should involve an increasing variety of foods including fruits and vegetables. It is advisable to feed your baby with 3 meals and 2 snacks in between a day. Offer more finger foods to encourage self-feeding. Finger foods such as boiled carrots, thinly sliced fruits and veggies like apple, pears, avocados, mangos, bananas.
 
Babies need vitamins, minerals, calcium in a right quantity, give purees made up of fruits like apple, banana, mango, pear, and vegetables purees made up of spinach, sweet potato, tomato, pumpkin, tomato, green peas, beetroot it will help in the growth of your baby. fruits and vegetables purees can help in providing all the essential vitamins and minerals to your baby. also give porridges made up of ragi.
 
when baby reaches 8 months , she can be given stage 2 foods.Its very important that babies get all the essential nutrition which they need at early stage like the vitamins and minerals. Which they can get from fruits or vegetables like apples, mangoes, bananas, pears, sweet potato , spinach. ragi can also be given as that can provide for iron and protein which baby needs, protein help in muscle growth . ragi also keeps the baby full for a longer time.
 

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