Recommended Feedings
First 2-3 months --7 feedings at 3 hours interval
with 6 hrs. night break.
3-5 months ---6 feedings at 3½ hours
interval with 6 hrs. night break.
5months-1 year --5 feedings with 4 hrs. intervals
and 8hrs night
break.
From 2nd month onwards introduce fruit juice
with little sugar added. Vegetable juice is
also recommended. (Tomato, apple, lemons carrot,
beetroot). The best time for giving juices is
in between feedings, beginning with ½
a tea spoon and gradually increasing to 3-4
table spoon full. Vitamins A & D are given
with fish liver oil commencing at the age of
2 ½ months in doses prescribed by a doctor.
After 5-5 ½ months, breast milk is not
enough for the baby and he should be started
on supplementary solids. The most common solid
food and stages of starting them in case of
artificial feeding are ;-
5%
cereal …………………………5
months
10% cereal …………5½
to 6 months
Potato starch, fruit juice, pudding, Sieved
vegetables,Toast, crackers, yolk of egg ………….6
months.
Meat broth
…………7 months.
Forced meat 8 ½ --9 months.
The solids should be introduced very cautiously,
beginning with
3-4 tea spoonfuls and gradually increasing the
quantity. |
Little Writers
Food for Infants 
