Most mothers like to feed their babies. It is fun chore. However, babies really do not need anything more than breast milk or formula for the first year. This keeps babies from developing allergies. This might be my old wives belief, and what my baby doctor believed in. Yet the World Health Organization now recommends not introducing food to babies until at least 6 months.
It is very easy to get excited about giving babies food. Perhaps in hope of getting them to sleep longer or because it is a pretty entertaining process. But food should be introduced slowly and with care and with the understanding that they really need very little solid food until they are a year old and what food they do get should be food not known to produce allergies, recommended by your doctor and if possible made at home with simple ingredients.
Rice cereal is normally the first thing on the list of food to be introduced to the baby.
Baby rice cereal can be purchased or it can be made from grinding up rice to a fine powder in a coffee grinder. The ground rice can then be cook and diluted with breast mile or formula for baby's first meal. There are many recipes online for this simple, but nutritious cereal.In the actual feeding process it is good to make sure the baby is not too hungry or they will get very frustrated with the process and unless they are sitting up well they can be hard to manage. The important thing to remember when feeding solids food is to go slow, make your own food when you can, and realize for the baby this is an opportunity for play and fun and it should be the same for mother. Relax the baby will be feeding himself in less time than you know.
Feeding Your Child Solid Foods