| After perusing V2, I couldn't find it anywhere, and the markers are
gone, so here's the guidelines. They are lengthy but helpful.
Regards,
FEEDING BABIES:
GUIDELINES FOR INFANTS UP TO 1 YR. OLD
By the time your baby is one year old, s/he will probably
be able to eat table food and drink from a cup. But babies
need to learn how to eat. Their mouths need to learn how
to chew and swallow. Their bodies need to learn how to
digest food. Babies are ready to learn these tasks at certain
ages. Once they are ready, they need to practice and experiment.
These guidelines will help you to know when to let your baby
try out new foods.
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AGE: 0-4 months
FOODS: Breast milk or formula only.
REASON: Baby's body not ready for solid foods. Solid foods
at this age may cause allergies, choking, obesity.
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AGE: 4-5 months
FOODS: Mostly breast milk or formula (25-40 oz. per day).
Begin solid foods. Start with baby cereals plus iron
in this order: rice, then oatmeal, then barley. Try
one new food every 3-5 days.
To feed cereal, start with one tablespoon cereal plus 3-4
teaspoons breast milk or formula. Feed with a spoon, not
through a bottle. At first just have cereal in the morning. Work
up to morning and evening, feeding baby a total of 3-4 tablespoons
of cereal a day.
REASON: Baby begins to need extra calories and nutrients that breast
milk and formula do not have. Baby needs to start slowly,
one food at a time, to avoid allergies, and get used to
swallowing.
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AGE: 5-7 months
FOODS: Breast milk or formula (25-40 oz per day)
Baby cereal, morning and evening, total of 4-6 tablespoons
a day.
Begin to feed vegetables and fruits to baby. Remember, add one food
every 3-5 days. If your baby refuses a food, try another from the
same food group.
Add strained vegetables. Use single, unsalted vegetables (no mixtures).
Start with yellow: carrots, squash, sweet potatoes. Then try green:
peas, green beans. Do not feed corn to baby. Start with one tablespoon
at lunch, and work up to 2-3 tablespoons a day spread out over
lunch and dinner.
Add fruits: strained or cooked, mashed and cooled (no seeds or skin).
Try bananas first, then unsweetened applesauce, peaches, pears. Start
with one tablespoon at lunch, and work up to 2-3 tablespoons spread over
breakfast, lunch and dinner.
REASON: Baby is now used to spoon, and ready for more variety, nutrients,
and calories. Baby is not ready for meats yet. Single foods introduced
one at a time help baby adjust slowly, and are easy to swallow.
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AGE: 7-9 months
FOODS: Breast milk or formula, 25-32 oz. per day.
Baby cereal: 3-4 tablespoons at breakfast and again at dinner.
Vegetables: lunch and dinner, 2-3 tablespoons each meal.
Fruits: breakfast, lunch and dinner, 2-3 tablespoons
each meal.
Try fruit juices in a cup. Use baby juices or unsweetened apple juice; no
orange or tomato juice until baby is 11 months old. Four ounces of juice
a day can be offered between meals.
Begin feed meat to baby: cooked, and mashed (no skin or fat) or strained
baby meats. Try one meat for 3-5 days and then try another. Start with
one tablespoon at lunch and work up to 2-3 tablespoons at both lunch
and dinner. You may offer cooked egg yolk, but no egg whites, 2-4 times
per week.
REASON: Baby should continue breast milk or formula because baby's body
is not ready for cow's milk yet. Baby is ready to learn to
drink from a cup. Baby may form allergy to egg white.
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AGE: 9-12 months
FOODS: Breast milk or formula, 25-32 oz. per day
Baby cereal, other starchy foods: 3-4 tablespoons baby cereal
at breakfast. At lunch and dinner, offer 2-4 tablespoons of
rice, grits, noodles, macaroni, or mashed potato. Offer at
least once snack per day of unsweetened dry cereal (e.g.
Kix or cheerios), unsalted creackers, toast, graham crackers
or arrowroot biscuits.
Vegetables: Offer baby up to one jar of junior or 2 jars of
strained vegetables per day. Or try small, cut up pieces of
cooked vegetables that baby can eat with fingers.
Fruits: Offer up to 1 jar of junior or 2 jars of strained
fruits per day. Or cut fresh fruit into small pieces, no
seeds or skin or use 2-4 tablespoons of canned, unsweetened
fruit.
Protein foods: Offer baby up to one jar of junior or strained
meats per day. If baby has teeth, offer chopped meats instead.
Remove fat and skin. Baby may also eat cottage cheese, yogurt
cheese cubes and cooked egg yolk.
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FEEDING CHILDREN FROM 1-5 YEARS OLD
DAILY FOOD GUIDE
SIZE OF SERVINGS
FOOD # OF SERVINGS 1-3 YR OLD 3-5 YR OLD
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Milk: whole 2-3 cups Milk should be served in
low fat, evap- child size portions: 1/2 -
orated mixed with 3/4 cup.
equal parts of
water, plain
yogurt, cheese 1 oz cheese=1/2 cup
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Protein: lean 2 1/2-1 oz 1 1/2 -2 1/2
meat, fish, poultry or 1-2 TBSPs. oz. or 3-5 TBSPs
eggs, cheese, cottage or 1/4 cup
cheese, dried peas,
beans, nuts, peanut
butter
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Vegetables & fruit:
a) Dark green 1 serving at least 1-2 TBSPs 3-5 TBSPs
or deep yellow: every other day or 1/4 cup
greens, broccoli,
pumpkin, carrot,
cantalope, apricots
sweet potato
b) Vitamin C foods: 1 serving of a good 1/3-1/2 cup 1/3-1/2 cup
Good source: source or 2 svgs. of
citrus fruit or a fair source every day
juice, green pepper,
cantalope, strawberries,
broccoli, brussel sprouts
Fair source: melons,
greens, lemons, tomatoes,
cabbage, tangerines
c) Other fruits and 1-3 svgs 1-2 TBSPs 3-5 TBSPs or
vegetables One svg. of raw 1/4 cup
fruit/vegetable
should be eaten
daily.
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Bread and cereal: 4 1/2 slice bread 1 slice bread
whole grain or or 1/4 cup dry or 1/2 cup
enriched. cereal or dry cereal or
1-2 TBSPs 3-5 TBSPs
cooked cereal cooked cereal
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Fats and oils: To be used in limited quantities.
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