
What foods to offer your baby now to encourage healthy eating later?
What foods to offer your baby now to encourage healthy eating later?
Variety is key when you start complementary feeding. Help set them up for a future of healthy eating with these need-to-know numbers and food ideas.
Learn how to promote healthy eating when you start introducing solid foods.

Sources
Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization. Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child. Washington DC, Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization, 2002.
World Health Organization. Complementary feeding. Family foods for breastfed children. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2000.
World Health Organization. Infant and young child feeding: Model chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009.
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