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Drinks for your baby at 10-12 months
By Clare Firth on 29/11/2010 05:08:43
Your baby still needs around a pint of milk a day. We explain how to keep this in her diet and how much water she should be drinking
.Drinks with added sugars or sweeteners (often labelled as sugar-free) such as fruit squash or cordial and flavoured waters are unsuitable, as are fizzy drinks.Read more on:What foods are safe to give your baby right nowHow to help your baby start feeding himself
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Your fluids when breastfeeding
By Laura Lee Davies on 19/04/2007 02:51:05
We all need to make sure we are getting enough drink to hydrate us, but fluids are really important during breastfeeding months.
of breastfeeding you will be giving your child around 8floz of milk per feed.How much water should I drink when I am producing milkYou should drink about eight regular-sized tumblers' worth of fluids a day. Count fluids as water, milk, juice or watery soups but do
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Know-how: Preparing bottles for feeds
By Maria Muennich on 21/10/2007 01:52:07
Milk can breed nasty germs, so it's important you prepare bottles properly to minimise the risk of infection for your baby
dishwasher will doFor more information on sterilising options take a look at our buyer's guide to sterilisers. Making up bottles of formulaWhen making up feeds, first make sure that your work area and hands are clean. Using normal tap water, boil fresh water
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Weaning recipes for beginners
By Amaya Lopez on 05/12/2005 17:11:36
First foods needn't just be tasteless mush, here are some recipe ideas for introducing your baby to new flavours
Carrots with RicePeel, wash and chop three carrots. Try to use small, thin carrots as they have a sweeter flavour – better still, the organic variety that have far more taste. Cook them in water for around 20 minutes until tender. When cooked, drain and blend in a
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Apples for babies and children
By Laura Lee Davies on 29/10/2009 01:38:10
The banana may have become the most popular fruit snack in the UK, but the phrase 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' has a lot of truth in it...
of roughage, but they are also good for softening children's poo because soluble pectin found in the skin (and to a lesser extent in the flesh of apples) helps to add water to 'stools'.Strangely, pectin can also help halt diarrhoea when poo needs to be less
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Holding off juice for the first year
By ThinkBaby on 30/06/2009 00:16:24
It might seem like a healthy choice, but juice isn't the best drink for your baby
and the early foods he tries when he is weaned (at around six months). When he is thirsty and there is no need for another milk feed, or you want to help him wash down some food, you can offer cool, boiled water in a beginners’ drinking cup.Sources of vitamin
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Know-how: warming a baby bottle
By Sarah Lawson on 23/04/2007 11:15:04
Many parents like to microwave a baby's bottle for speed, but what's really safe?
Whether you are bottle feeding with expressed milk or formula milk, most babies will prefer to have their milk slightly warmed (especially if it has been prepared earlier and then stored in the fridge to be kept sterile). If you are new to bottle
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When to switch to cow's milk?
By Sarah Lawson on 25/01/2010 02:16:48
Whether you are giving breastmilk or formula (or a combination) in your child's first year, don't give cow's milk until your child is one
Whether you give your baby breast or formula milk, in your child's first year the only other liquid your child needs is cool, boiled water. Indeed, even on hot days, breast milk will quench a thirst as well as water.So when should you move on to cow
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Toxic baby bottles?
By Monica Stylli on 10/09/2007 01:04:13
Lab tests prove that bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol-A can cause harm to babies and young children.
Born Free Bisphenol-A free bottlesSan Francisco became the first state to ban the sale of baby feeding bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol-A after lab tests found that it could cause harm to babies and young children.Because of their body
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When baby's off his milk
By ThinkBaby on 06/02/2009 04:01:38
Breast or formula - there are often times when your baby will go off his feed.
-800ml) a day so think about giving the milk feeds at very separate times to the solids feeds and perhaps offer a little cooled, boiled water with the food, instead. Usually, when weaning, you would offer solids before the milk so that your child does
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