Foods to offer your baby now to encourage healthy eating later
Foods to offer your baby now to encourage healthy eating later
Variety is key when you start complementary feeding. Help set her up for a future of healthy eating with these need-to-know numbers and food ideas.

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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