Thursday, March 29, 2012

What Baby Parker eats

Parker is 9 months old. People have been asking me what Parker eats. I feel like my life is centered around feeding him. I made all Christian's baby food (even yogurt) using the book, "Super Baby Food" by Ruth Yaron. I would definetley recommend this book! I do make a lot of baby food for Parker too, but not all. I still use the principles from the book in planning his meals. I think that it is important to buy or make organic food for our babies. Their bodies are so little. I still nurse on demand so this is a loose schedule, he has 3 meals a day. He eats about 1/4 Cup of food at each meal, sometimes more, sometimes less. This is what I TRY to do.
Here is a day of food:
7-8 Wake up and nurse
10:30 nurse and eat breakfast plain yogurt, pureed fruit, water. Stonyfield Farm is a good brand of organic yogurt, I feed him plain with nothing in it but milk and cultures. For fruit I mash up a banana, or a pear, or I give him some organic store bought puree. One day I'll give him an egg yolk and the next I'll give him a little bit of kale powder.
1-2 nurse and lunch. I give him a vitamin A vegetable and a baby grain (think beta carotene, then think carrot, then think orange)Vitamin A veggies are carrots, sweet potatoes,pumpkin spinach, broccoli, kale, ect. The baby grains are millet, brown rice, barley, and oats. There is instructions for mixing them together in the book.
3-5 nurse again
5-7 nurse and dinner. Super green veggie and baby grain, water. For veggie I do peas, green beans, or sometimes a mixture of things that are put together in his store bought puree.
He was getting constipated, so I now make sure that I give him as much water as I can after every meal. (which is only about 2 ounces). He is doing better now.
9-10 I let him nurse as much as he wants and then he goes to bed. He still wakes up about every other night and I just nurse him and he goes right back to sleep.

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