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- From: xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)
- Subject: Re: Summary: Fine Art of Introducing Solids
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.154602.17159@trentu.ca>
- Keywords: infant feeding
- Organization: Trent University, Ontario
- References: <1992Dec28.212205.8663@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec28.223640.18299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:46:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.223640.18299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> lauraf@classy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Laura Floom) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.212205.8663@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> ashley@osc.edu (Ashley Burns) writes:
- >>rice and dry oatmeal cereal), but now he submits to canned rice cereal
- >>with fruit. That's a big no-no in some people's books because it may
- >>get him accustomed to sweet things. But that's what we're feeding him.
- >
- >I remember reading that in several books. They suggested that you offer a
- >veggie first. High on the list of veggies to offer were squash and sweet
- >potato. So I cooked a squash for Jeffrey as a first veggie and sweet potato
- >for his second veggie. Both were at least as sweet as the apple sauce I
- >made him for his first fruit! I wouldnt worry about it.
-
- My standard advice to people who worry that babies will get a sweet
- tooth if they get fruits before veggies is: taste your breastmilk! It
- is gagging sweet, and a little mushed apple is nothing in comparison.
- Squash, sweet potatoes, and other yellow veggies are high in Vitamin
- A. My doctor wanted me to introduce yellow veggies before green ones
- for just that reason.
-
- Kate
-