Hi to everyone especially raw moms and dads
I could really, really use your experience on this so here’s my question
How do you balance or how did you balance your baby’s diet, so that she get’s all the nutrition, or all the calories, proteins, carbs, fats she needs on a daily basis? (‘cause baby’s nutritional needs differ from adults.)
My son has just turned 7 months (but he looks like 1 year old, amazing baby), I’m breastfeeding him, and I’ve just started introducing apples, peachea, bamnansa, and carrots for his first non-milk foods
But what I’m especially interested in: is what are the nutritional needs for 7 month and older babies:
-how many calories per day they need? -how much what is the percentage of proteins that should be incorporated in daily diet – and what foods are rich with proteins?
-how much carbs – and what foods are richest with complex carbs?
-how much fats, amino acids etc – and what foods are richest with all this?
What are your favourite (due to its nutritional richness) daily fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains etc?
What foods are best to ensure that baby is getting all the nutrition she needs on a daily basis, and doesn’t suffer deficits in nutrition?
So basically I what I wanna know is: what kind of foods I have to incorporate in his daily diet to ensure that my son is getting enough of nutrition (enough of calories, proteins, complex carbs, fats etc, etc)?
Well you get the point, what I’m asking – and sorry for making this question so looong!
Thanks in advance
Comments
I have a 12month old and am still breastfeeding. I am guessing he is at 32lbs now. We do not give him anything else. At present I nurse on demand. Somedays he will nurse 5times others just 3. With my older son I introduced avocados at 16months then lightly steamed greens and veggies which I would puree.
I totally agree with Sueko’s comment. As long as they are thriving and happy thats what’s important, I wouldnt worry about protein etc. Nature knows best and provided you are nourishing yourself adequately baby will be just fine. I recall with my 1st son I had similar feelings and anxieties, becos my son started teething early (4teeth by 4 months) his ped kept telling me to start solids at 5months!!!! Becos of the constant pressure and me being a first time mum I caved in at 16months (still pumped for another few months). This time around I will be nursing for at least 2years. Then I plan on expressing and putting in a cup for as long as I can stand it :-)
Thanks everyone for your replies. I was on another parental forum, and when I answered the topic “What foods you avoid giving to your baby?” and said that I’m gona avoid giving cooked foods and meat ‘cause we weren’t designed for eating meat, and that I intend to feed my son only with raw foods and no meat at all, I was “attacked” by some moms, how I’m condemning my son on a strict diet, how I’m overburdening his digestive organs with raw foods, ‘cause babies digest cooked better(digest better?! with no enzymes left?!) and that humans are carnivores, and how babies live without protein from meat,and that I’m gona kill my baby with that kind of diet…...the wierdest was their logic or should I say ilogic, ‘cause they all agknowledge that raw foods are richest in nutrients, and that cooked foods suffer loses and have deficits in nutrients, but even though they admit that raw is richer in nutrient, they still stick with “cooked is healthier” philosophy and ask me “Why can’t you admit that you have to cook some percentage of foods”- well at the end I stoped answering to sarcastic and ironic remarks made by some moms and said that I’m gona start feeding my son with cooked foods the same day someone convinces me and proves to me that vitamins, minerals and enzymes aren’t good in rich amounts for babies, and that we should cook the foods to get rid off the “extra” (nutrients).
And the saddest is that I was told by my pediatrician the same nonsense about how cooked digest easier than raw (easier?! with no enzymes left?!) I mean I get that people stick to what they have been taught, and don’t question the “logic” or their “lack of” – I get that – but what I don’t get is, how blinded people can be, that when their stands on diets are subjected to a simple logic and even after admiting that the raw is richest in what body needs, they still advocate “cooked as healthier”