Infant Food Chart



    Breast milk is the best food for your baby. It is easily digestible. We get all nutrients from the breast milk.




  • Children who were breastfeed have IQ score 7-10pts higher than formula-feed infants.

  • Enhance brain growth.

  • DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid is a vital nutrient for growth, development & maintenance of brain tissue.

  • DHA levels are high.

  • Contains a lot of cholesterol.

  • DHA, cholesterol and other breast milk fats – myelin acts as insulation.

  • Helps nerves to carry information.

  • Lactose is the main sugar in breast milk.

  • More intelligent species of mammals have greater amount of lactose in their milk.

  • Breast milk digests faster. So babies feed more often interacting more often. For every interaction, new connections are formed in brain.

  • More skin-to-skin contact. Enhance closeness between mother & baby.

  • Natural’s way of stimulation for optimal brain development.

  • Transfers mother’s antibodies to disease.

  • 80% of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi & viruses.

  •  Increase immunity.

  • Contains at least 100 ingredients not found in formula (colostrums).

  • Non-allergic

  • Last but not least, Only in human milk have the right amount of nutrients needed for a human body.


Sucking Promotes:

1.     Jaw development.
2.     Straight, healthy teeth.
3.     Luke warm.
4.     Early bonding.
5.     1 week olds prefer smell of their mother’s milk.
6.     Sense of security due to skin-to-skin contact.


Benefits for the mother:

1.     Lesser chance of breast cancer.
2.     Easy, clean & fresh.
3.     Sucking enhance hormone production & helps in faster contraction of uterus.
4.     90% birth control measure.
5.     Economical.
6.     Early start.
7.     You are feeding love & affection along with milk!


COMPETITIVE STATEMENT OF BREAST MILK WITH COWS AND POWDERED MILK

Nutrients      Breast Milk     Cow Milk     Powdered Milk (for every 100 Ml)

Water                     88                             87.5                             90
Calories                 65                               67                              176.4
Protein                   1.1                              3.2                             4.025
Carbohydrate         7.4                             4.4                            20.125(g)
Fat(g)                     3.4                            4.1                              8.82(g)
Calcium(mg)          28                              120                             168
Vitamin A              137                             174                              -




Infant Food


From 5th month:                                                                                              Qty/day

1.      Fruit juice – Orange/ tomato/carrot (with hot water) 1:1       -            1 to 2 spoon twice
2.      Soups – tomato/ carrot/ keerai/ dhal                                    -                       “
3.      Mashed banana/ steamed apple/ papaya/ pear/ mango         -                      “  

  6th month:

1.      Kanji  with rava (fried in ghee & boiled with milk) / ragi/           -                   “
rice flour/ health mix
2.      Full boiled & mashed veg/ potatoes/ carrot/ pumpkin/ peas       -                   “
3.      Fresh curd                                                                               - 1 to 2 spoons once a day

7th month:

1.      Full boiled & mashed rice, dhal, idly, kichudi

8th month:

1.      Egg yolk only & liver
2.      Egg white (after 1 yr)
3.      Mashed meat, chapatti (soaked in milk), goat liver/ fish/ wheat & ragi dosa.

After 10 months, mash & give our regular home food.


Method to Prepare Health Mix (sathu mavu)


Ingredients:

1. Rice            - 1/2 cup
2. Wheat         - 1 cup 
3. Kambu       - 1/4 cup
4. Ragi            - 1 1/2 cup
5. Flattened Rice(aval) - 1/2 cup
6. Yellow gram (pottu kadalai) - 1/2 cup
7. Green gram (pasi payaru)    - 1/2 cup
8. Pea nuts        - 3/4 cup
9. Peas (pattani) - 1/4 cup
10. Channa (sundal)   - 1/4 cup 
11. Kambu             - 1/4 cup
12. Maize (cholam) - 1/4 cup

      Add cashew, badam & cardamom as required.

 1. Soak all the ingredients except flattened rice & yellow gram in water over night.
2. Drain water. Tie the soaked items in a muslin cloth. Keep it aside for 48 hrs.
3. After it was sprouted, sun dry it & Fry it.
4. Powder it & use it as required.





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