Indian Baby Food Chart: 0-12 Months (With Feeding Tips)

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6 years ago

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Baby Food Chart
When is the Right Time to Start Solid Foods
Baby Food Checklist and Tips
Food Allergies in Babies
Symptoms of Food Allergy in Babies

Hi Mommie, This Baby Food Chart will help you to know When & What Baby Food you should start giving to our little one. You will find many Baby Food Chart online and must be wondering what is different in this Food Chart.

Mostly, you will find the same list of Fruits < Vegetables < Grains < Protein in every food chart posted by another website. And the reason behind this is because only a few items and limited options you have to start with babies in food options. You just can’t give anything to babies for eating purposes.

Below Baby Food Chart is for your reference, choose the Food from the below list which your family members eat and you suppose to bring it often in your house. Plus guess according to you What Food, Vegetable, Cereals, etc items your Baby will like in SOLIDS.

When is the Right Time to Start Solid Foods (Baby Food)?

Most of the Babies are ready to taste and have Solid Foods when they are 6 months old. Babies are ready to develop taste buds and ready to have taste solid foods.

Below are few Signs of Starting Solids If Your Baby:-

Completed or going to be 6 months old (Very few babies start having solids when they are 4 months old)
Show an interest in food.
Open their mouths to taste their parent’s food.
Feel Hungry after having Breastfeed

Note: Please note that whatever food you give to your baby, don’t forget to a lookout of any kind of allergy or infection.

Baby Food Checklist and Tips, before Starting Solid Foods to Babies

Always serve pureed food to babies and before serving it checks for any solid part left out in pureed food.
Serve the foods from a spoon and never push the food inside the baby’s mouth forcefully.
Use a good quality of spoon and buy soft and 0% BPA free plastic spoon.
Buy a beautiful dinner set for babies like one plate, one spoon, and a bowl. Try to serve the food to babies in the same dinner set, babies love good looking things. The presentation of food will attract them to pick and taste by their own hands.
Parents should always see that babies don’t swallow the food directly or suddenly in their mouths.
Keep the baby water bottle near the baby.
In case your baby refuses the food for the first time, then again try the same food after 2 to 3 days, maybe he now likes it.
After 8 months, when your baby can properly sit, buy him the High Chair. It’s very beneficial for babies to have a routine and good food time.
Try to use different utensils like a 1-liter cooker, plate, or khadi to cook Food.

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Food Allergies in Babies

Do you know that breastfeeding is the best protection from allergies? But when you start introducing solid food with breastfeeding, it’s important to keep yourself alert for certain food types that can cause allergy in your baby. Below are a few lists of items to be careful of:-

Eggs

Peanuts

Wheat

Cow’s Milk

Fish

Sesame

Symptoms of Food Allergy in Babies

Swelling of the Face, Eyes, or Lips

Vomiting

Diarrhoea

Rashes or redness of the skin

Red hot pimples