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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