SuperBaby Foods, Feeding, & Tips!
How do you get your precious children to be and eat healthy from the start? Start with prayer even before conception, God focus as a couple to respect and love, and mom to be working on being her healthiest (diet, exercise, water, supplements – our well absorbed Thorne Prenatal. Our probiotic Ultraflora Plus or Orthobiotic, and Fish Oil). Expert nutritionist Jodi Smith explained the below guidelines in her Terrific Teaching Tuesday talk at Excell in July.
Once your baby is born, then Mom’s milk is the best, and Mom must keep up her healthy diet. If you note any problems that could be allergic (rash or unusual stools or activity in baby), then look at Mom’s diet. The most common allergies are dairy/milk/cheese, then eggs and wheat/gluten (then soy and corn), and Mom may need to eliminate some of these from her diet while she is nursing. If you are unable to nurse, then hydrolyzed protein formulas are the best or contact Jodi Smith to arrange an appointment with her help to make your own formula (nutritionquickandsimple.com, or 888-465-4582 or cell 317-892-4746).
Not Enough Milk? Make sure you are drinking at least 12oz water with each nursing, taking your supplements, getting some rest, and eating healthy. Other aids are organic Mother’s Milk tea by Traditional Medicinal or Fenugreek tea. Jodi’s never fail triple milk producing formula for Mom = pineapple juice, Mother’s Milk tea, and non-alcoholic beer. Drink 4-8 ounces alternating of each one about every 2 hours for usually just a couple days!
Yeast and sore nipple remedies: make sure you are taking your daily probiotic; put our Ultraflora Plus probiotic sprinkled on your nipple before and after each feeding (can open capsule and sprinkle, and good for baby too); apply cornstarch to help keep your nipples dry; garlic orally (pills or drops) are natural antifungals; air out your breasts/nipples and even use the hair dryer!
Allergic Child? Simplify your diet; eliminate and rotate (most common food allergies are dairy, wheat, eggs, corn, and soy); and yourself and baby take probiotics (baby can have ¼-1/2 capsule of our Ultraflora Plus) and vitamin C.
if baby has eczema – usually due to dairy or gluten
if baby has recurrent ear infections, it’s usually due to dairy (and even need avoid lactose free milk)
if baby has anemia (milk protein can decrease iron absorption) then good natural treatment is black strap molasses (from health food store) 1-2 tsp daily
Jodi’s Feeding Rules – and work to use this time to eat much healthier yourself and your whole family!
Start Feeding when – baby has stopped thrusting (tongue out), has teeth, close to sitting up by themselves, and actively seeking food
What to Feed and When
best to be organic (for more nutrients and less toxins!), and can begin with just 1 – 2 tablespoons at a time
introduce 1 food/veggies every 3 -4 days and watch for signs of food allergy (rashes, fussiness, sleeplessness, crying, colored stool = means not ready to digest it yet)
Vegetables are 1st! – gets your child’s tastebuds used to these for a healthy life!
Orange & Yellow Veggies (lots of vitamin A) – like carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, etc.
Green Veggies – broccoli, peas, green beans, avocado, kale, spinach, chard, etc … and if baby doesn’t want to eat them at 1st then can mix with some orange or yellow veggies
All Rest of Veggies – potatoes, beets, eggplant, etc
Fruits – add these once you have given all veggies
least allergic are apples, bananas, apricot, peaches, papaya, pears, plums, nectarines, but then try all the different fruits
Grains – add at age 1 year, and remember 1 tiny grain kernel has 40 vitamins and nutrients, but when you refine it (like white rice) it has NONE
start with ones like brown rice, oats, quinoa, millet, and if any signs of allergy, don’t introduce wheat until age 2
Legumes (beans, lentils) – can add after veggies and fruits
Meats – introduce at age 12months – 2 years, and try best to be organic and range free, and wild caught fish (NOT farm raised)
start with chicken, turkey, fish (salmon is great), eggs
add beef and pork after you make sure baby is tolerating meats well
What About Dairy/Milk?
cow milk is the most common food allergen and worst milk for calcium and common cause of kidney stones! (can be allergic to lactose or casein) and cause of ear infections and reflux , and 85% of people allergic to cow’s milk are also allergic to goat milk
get your baby/child used to different types of milk, like almond, rice, coconut, sunflower, hemp
do not use soy milk (more allergenic, and metabolizes to different hormones)
if you do drink cow’s milk, then raw milk is the best
No Sugar or Honey until well after a year of age!
Finger Foods – healthy ones are cooked peas, garbonzo beans, navy beans, Oatio’s or Nature O’s (organic Cheerios)
Teething – try Lundberg’s brown rice cakes, raw potatoes and long carrots
Reflux – get off any cow’s milk or cow’s milk protein, give daily probiotic (like ½ capsule of our Ultraflora
Plus), and George’s Aloe (infant ½ tsp twice daily and can advance as needed)
Natural treatment for ear pain – boil onion for 10minutes, and after cooled down to just warm, hold on ear
My and Jodi’s prayers for healthy babies, children, and adults!!!
Dr. Lisa
