Feeding the baby for the first SIX months
Breastmilk is the BEST food for your baby for first six months of his life. But if the mother are unable to breastfeed your baby, the next best thing is to feed him iron fortified formula milk. If arent able to gain access to the formula, its best to give him cow's milk and iron supplements. All the pediatric associations all the over world recommend that the child should be exclusively breastfeed for 6 months. Introduce solids after at 6 months, but also continue to breastfeed till atleast your child is 1 year old. It is very important for the nursing mom to take a very healthy diet during the period she is breastfeeding. When the mother is nursing, she is making all the food baby needs in the form of breastmilk, So the body uses any and all the available nutrients from the body to make the breastmilk. So if the mother doesn't eat nutri...