Frank Greer of the AAP’s Committee on Nutrition reports that rice cereal is a poor choice for introducing foods after breast feeding for the first 6 months of life. High protein and fiber foods should be included. Vegetables and fruits are also important to include not only directly to infants, but also indirectly by mother’s intake and then through breast milk. Babies exposed to a wide variety of foods either way are more likely to develop healthy eating patterns as they grow older.
See Family Practice News (click here), January, 2010, p. 70-1.
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