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Introducing Food, Choking Hazards

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True or False:

You can start to introduce pureed baby foods once your baby can sit up and has good control of their head and neck, usually around 4-6 months old

 

Choose your answer below:

Smiling Baby

True

This is true!

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Click through the slides below to learn about how to start giving your baby pureed food.

Smiling Baby

False

This is true!

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Click through the slides below to learn about how to start giving your baby pureed food.

Use the arrows to click through the slides below:

Introducing pureed foods:

 

 

First, try giving your baby rice cereal. Mix a spoonful of rice cereal with breastmilk or formula and spoon-feed your child.

Don't put rice cereal in your baby's bottle.

True or False:

Before your child turns 1 years old, they should transition from pureed foods to "table foods", the type of foods adults eat.

 

Choose your answer below:

Healthy assortment of yellow foods

True

This is true!

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Click through the slides below to learn about how to start giving your baby solid table foods.

Healthy assortment of yellow foods

False

This is true!

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Click through the slides below to learn about how to start giving your baby solid table foods.

Introducing Solid foods:

 

 

Start by giving your child baby Puffs cereal. Place some in front of them and allow them to pick it up and play with it.

Click through below to learn more about choking hazards and foods to avoid:

Plum in Honey

Never give your baby honey if they are less than 1 year old.

It can cause food poisoning.

 

This website was created for patient and student educational purposes by a team of medical students at Boston University,

 led by Rebecca Matta (MS4) & Dr. Natalie Pierre-Joseph (Director of the Boston Medical Center Teen & Tot Clinic).
"Bright Futures Pocket Guide 2010", HealthyChildren.org, and AAP were used as the main sources of information.

Any questions or issues with the website, email becmatta@gmail.com

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