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Cow milk for 6.5 month baby
My baby is 6.5 month old and my baby's doc suggested to start with cows milk as I am going to resume my office from next month. But I am really worried to give cow's milk to my baby bcoz of all the adulteration we hear about in cow's milk. Please suggest.
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Dr. Sreedhar RS
Pediatrician
21 yrs exp
Chennai
Hi Mam. Since the baby has crossed 6 months you can start complimentary feeding with rice porridge, ragi porridge, mashed potatoes, cerelac etc. 3 to 4 feeds till 8 months and 4 to 5 feeds from 9 months. Remaining feeds you can give breastfeeding. You can express breast milk in a clean tumbler and give it by spoon (if the baby needs milk when you go to work) . It should not be heated or given in bottle. At room temperature the expressed breast milk is safe upto 6 hours. Cow's milk and packet milk are to be avoided until baby is 1 year of age as they can induce cows milk allergy. If you still need to some other milk you can give formula milk like NanPro 2
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