Baby's First Meal
Super Baby Food is an all-inclusive 460 page reference book containing everything you need to know about feeding super healthy baby food to your Super Baby, including information on:
- Extensive nutritional information and nutrient tables to help insure that your baby is getting the proper nutrition.
- How to save money by making homemade yogurt and fruit leather, as well as how to dry fruit snacks for your baby.
How to grow sprouts, fruit plants, and herbs in your kitchen.
- The secrets to baking healthy, delicious whole grain breads.
- Designed for busy parents who need to make a main meal in less than three minutes
- How to start you baby on solid foods, with detailed information on how to feed your baby.
- Month-to-month information on which foods to introduce to your baby and when, and the consistency, amount and temperature that the foods should be.
- How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age.
- Easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions on buying, cleaning, preparing, cooking, storing, freezing, and safely feeding super nutritious homemade baby foods to your Super Baby.
- Food allergies and important food warnings.
- Over 300 delicious, nutritious, and sometimes entertaining baby and toddler recipes, with ideas on how to make mealtime fun!
- The Super Baby Food Diet for your baby and toddler, with feeding schedules and worksheets to help you feed your baby a balanced diet.
Brief Table of Contents for the Super Baby Food Book
Even though this complete reference book contains 460 pages, you have to read only a small part of it each month as your baby grows. What new parent has time to read a large book?!!
PART I -- FEEDING YOUR SUPER BABY
Chapter 1. Solid Foods: What Age to Start? Which Food First? What Consistency? How Much Food?
Chapter 2. Baby's Very First Meal
Chapter 3. How to Prevent Food Allergies and the Four-Day Wait Rule
Chapter 4. Important Food Warnings (Choking Foods and Digestion Hazards)
Chapter 5. How Much Solid Food Should My Baby Eat? Is My Baby Eating Enough? Is My Baby Eating Too Much? Is My Baby Too Fat?
Chapter 6. How Much Breast Milk or Formula, Water, and Juice Should My Baby Drink? The Importance of Enough Breast Milk/Formula.
Chapter 7. Vitamin /Mineral Supplements: Which Ones Should Baby Take?
Chapter 8. Eating Milestones: Why Baby's Mealtimes are an Important Learning Time and So Crucial to Baby's Psychological, Emotional, and Intellectual Development. When and How to Introduce Finger Foods, the Cup, and Table Foods. When Baby Should Start Self-Feeding with a Spoon, Tips on Traveling Foods
Chapter 9. A Quick Page-at-a-Glance, Month-By-Month Summary Schedule Reference Table for the Introduction of Foods in Baby's First Year.
Chapter 10. Feeding Your Super Baby During the First Few Weeks.
Chapters 11 through 17 (see below) include this information for each age: Which foods to introduce at that age. The consistency to make the foods at that age. The amount of food, breast milk, and other liquids you can expect your baby to eat daily. The average size of a food serving for a baby at that age. A sample daily feeding schedule for each age with info on baby's digestive system at that age, much more.
Chapter 11. Feeding Your Super Baby at 6 Months
Chapter 12. Feeding Your Super Baby at 7 Months
Chapter 13. Feeding Your Super Baby at 8 Months
Chapter 14. Feeding Your Super Baby at 9 Months
Chapter 15. Feeding Your Super Baby at 10 Months
Chapter 16. Feeding Your Super Baby at 11 Months
Chapter 17. Feeding Your Super Toddler
Chapter 18. The Super Baby Food Diet
PART II -- HOW TO SAFELY PREPARE AND STORE THE SUPER BABY FOODS
You won't believe how quick and easy it is to make homemade Super Baby Food!
Chapter 19. Kitchen Equipment Needed to Make Super Baby Food: It's Probably Already in Your Kitchen
Chapter 20. Kitchen and Baby Food Hygiene: Keeping Baby Food Safe and Free from Dangerous Bacteria
Chapter 21. How to Safely Freeze and Thaw Super Baby Foods
Chapter 22. How to Make Vegetables and Fruits for Baby
Chapter 23. How to Make Homemade Super Baby Cereals
Chapter 24. Why Whole Grains are So Important for Baby's Health
Chapter 25. Legumes/Pulses: Dried Beans, Split Peas, and Lentils
Chapter 26. How to Feed Your Baby Nutritious Nuts and Seeds
Chapter 27. Egg Yolks and Other Miscellaneous Super Baby Foods
PART III -- NUTRITION AND YOUR BABY AND TODDLER
Chapter 28. Nutrition 101: A Crash Course in Nutrition
Chapter 29. Nutrient Tables with Baby-Sized Portions--It's easy to use these tables to make sure your baby or toddler is eating right.
PART IV -- QUICK, EASY, AND HEALTHY RECIPES
Chapter 30. This part includes over 300 super quick and easy recipes for babies and toddlers, which grown-ups will also like. Many suggestions for making decorative meals that toddlers will find funny and fun! Dozens of nutritious Super Snacks, and how to save time preparing them.
PART V -- APPENDICES
Chapter 31. The Dangers and Ill Health Effects of Eating Meat
Chapter 32. Details on Specific Fruits and Vegetables
Chapter 33. Your Kitchen Window is a Green Mine
Chapter 34. Buying and Home-Making Yogurt.
Chapter 35. Drying Foods In Your Oven
Chapter 36. How to bake light and delicious whole wheat bread, pizza crusts, muffins, buns, etc..
BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX, AND RECIPES INDEX
Extensive indexing makes it easy to find information in this large book.
Baby Bags - Categories
Baby Gifts - Categories
Helpful Resources - Looking out for our customers
- Height and Weight Chart
- Baby Shopping List
- Birth Announcements - Baby Bag® Online
- Our Boutique
- Super Baby Food Cookbook
Helpful Articles - For you and your baby
- Baby Food Recipes - Baby Bag® Online
- Feeding and Nutrition - Baby Bag® Online
- Quick Recipes
- Baby's Very First Meal
- FDA Food Pyramid
Medical Articles - to help you be prepared
- Emergency Consent Form to Print Out
- Taking Your Baby's Temperature from the Southwest Washington Medical Center
- Centers for Disease Control - Tetanus
- Food and Drug Interactions
- Mumps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Birth Stories
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Rubella (German Measles)
- Diptheria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention