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Infant
Cereal and Juice
| Q.
I am on WIC and my baby is almost 6 months and though not quite
ready for food yet will be soon. I am wondering if it would even
be worth picking up the Iron Fortified Infant Cereal I am allowed
on her 6 months voucher? The vouchers provide both infant cereal
and juice. I plan to get the juice and put it away for when she
is older but what about the iron in the cereal? Would it deplete
her iron she gets from breastmilk? A.
Breastmilk is excellent (not just "adequate"
as some doctors say) nutrition for the first 12 months of life.
It's fun to feed
fruits and vegetables to babies over six months of age but far
from essential. Cereals are somewhat harder to digest, cause constipation
and should be organically derived whenever possible. Breastmilk
iron is optimally absorbed (and builds months of iron reserves)
when there are no other foods given.
No, I'm afraid
the iron-fortified WIC cereals probably aren't worth a trip to
the store.
Juices are another
traditional food that almost every baby learns to love. They are
mostly sugar and water because the best part of the apple or pear
gets left behind. Hard to argue with carrot juice, I guess, but
babies and others are still better off eating fruit and carrots
and drinking water.
Whatever you do,
don't let anyone convince you that your milk is "not enough"
for your baby in the second half of the first year.
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