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Can we add salt to 6 month baby food?
1.Can we add salt to 6 month's baby food?
Like in rice porridge
2. What kind of solids i can start from 6th month?
3. How many times in a day i can give solid?
4. For sweet shall i add jaggery in ragi porridge?
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1.No salts & sugars to be added in baby food till 1 year of age.
2. Start giving food with dripping consistency to your baby. Fruit puree prefer seasonal fruits only, boiled & blended potato, curd potato blended, suji kheer, banana puree, powdered lotus seeds kheer
Ensure that blended food to be given during 6 & 7 mth of age.
3. Give 3-4 hrly alternating with feeds. Last feed at night around 7:00 pm.
4.Yes for sweetness in baby food u can add natural sweetners like jaggery powder, dates, dates syrup etc
Next Steps
continue breast feeding along with food.
slowly introduce milk in the preperations of baby food.
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1) better to not add any salt or sugar to preps.
2) purée food to strt off with
3) start with solids twice a day.
4) ragi porridge is better
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