How to make baby eat baby

Baby has already tasted a multitude of fruits and vegetables and you want to make him discover new foods. It's time to think about fish!

Fish is a food that promotes the brain and bone development of your toddlers. It is therefore a choice to offer to baby from the start of food diversification.

You can associate it with carrot, fennel, dumplings with potato or sweet potato. It also goes very well with spices such as: parsley, cumin or coriander.

How to eat fish to BLW baby?

Baby fish benefits:

Fish contains very good quality proteins, good fat, vitamin D and minerals! So many good nutrients that will make you want to offer baby fish.

There is generally less fat in fish than in meat. And those present are largely omega-3s which promote the development and functioning of the brain and the eyes of children.

  • Protein supply;
  • Unsaturated fatty acids;
  • Rich in minerals.

Fish in baby feeding:

From the start of the food diversification led by the child, it will be possible to introduce fish into baby's diet. It is advisable to offer baby lean fish with low mercury content such as cod, sole, salmon, colin and merlan. The tuna will have to be offered with Baby sparingly. Favor fresh and quality fish as much as possible.

The fish will be offered:

From 6 months :

  • tender fish slats;
  • in a spread to offer on a carrier;
  • in gourmet recipes.
From the start of the BLW , baby will taste the cod dumplings. This finger food recipe is without eggs and above all easy to make.

Attention points with baby fish:

Fish are allergenic foods. It will be important to introduce this food attentively in baby's diet. Allergens are to be introduced one at a time, and this for a period of three days in a row.

In addition, the fish are made up of protein . Small quantities will have to be offered on a daily basis so as not to tire baby's little kidneys. The recommended daily doses are as follows:

  • 10 grams up to 1 year;
  • 20 grams up to 2 years old;
  • 30 grams up to 3 years old.

How to cook baby fish?

The fish will always be well cooked when offered to baby. It is strongly advised to wait for baby's 4 years before offering him raw or little cooked fish. Discover the different ways of introducing baby to baby in all its textures:

Fondant texture : the fish introduced into dumplings with cheese or potato like tuna kibbles.

Soft texture : fish introduced into madeleine preparations, muffins, cake, etc.

Some recipes with baby fish:

Having started purees at 4 months and wanting to start BLW from 6 months is quite possible. Or you are wondering how breast / infantile milk and BLW combined.

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