January 18, 2010
Many of our visitors have asked that we create a chart according to foods and food groups; so today I created a page as well as a download. I hope you find it helpful. Please do remember that charts on wholesomebabyfood.com are conservative compared to many other resources. I have always felt that when feeding [...]
September 1, 2009
Cori Beth sent us an email and asked the folowing: I am also wondering if anyone else has had avocado make their baby constipated. I believe that avocado has good nutrition but I’m not going to feed it to my baby anymore if it causes him this much discomfort. We don’t have any personal experience [...]
June 9, 2009
We received an email this evening regarding delaying the introduction of foods listed on our Forbidden Foods chart. Sandra wrote the following: Your list of “forbidden” foods is very poorly outdated. The AAP revised their very old policy about withholding peanuts and other “no nos” a very long time ago. The new recommendation is that [...]
August 22, 2008
We have received a few emails within the week asking us why we don’t list meat as baby’s first solid food. Some of these emails have come from our Canadian visitors and 1 came from a U.S. visitor. In Canada, meat is being recommended as one of baby’s first solid foods. Meat is not recommended [...]
July 15, 2008
Last week we received an email from a visitor asking about weaning their 6 month old baby to an all raw juice diet. The family lives on a raw juice diet and wondered if this would be safe for their little one. We thought we would share our answer and ask our visitors what their [...]
April 24, 2008
There is evidence that early nutrition can influence later mental performance, cognitive development and behaviour. The idea that the diet of mothers, infants and children could have an influence on long-term mental performance has major implications for public health practice and policy development, as well as for food product development and economic progress. As we [...]
February 21, 2008
As many worry that introducing sweet potatoes before green beans will make baby grow-up with a monsterous sweet tooth, we posted a snippet from a study that shows the order of solid foods that baby is introduced to really doesn’t matter (keeping in mind potential allergens and age appropriateness that is). Today we were looking [...]
February 12, 2008
There must be a lot of little 6 month old babies out there who will be getting some yummy homemade baby foods soon. We have had quite a few emails about the “proper” order to introduce solid foods in the last week. The truth is, there is no “proper” order at all. Some say introduce the [...]