Infant’s Nutritional Supplement for Healthy Growth
Mother’s milk is full of nutrients and no other food contains such healthy nutrients. Therefore, breast feed your baby for minimum six months and the best for one year if possible. Infants are growing very rapidly and therefore, they need more energy and nutrients for new tissue development. For any reason if mother cannot feed her baby, she should provide diet full of nutrients for healthy growth of baby.

Healthy Diet for 6-12 Months Baby
After six months you can give dal water, diluted rice water, mashed banana, fruit juice, butter, margarine, etc. You can also introduce milk products, yogurts, single grain cereal and a variety of fruits and vegetable can also include in diet of your baby. You can also give soy based infant formula for infant with milk prejudice.

For 6-7 months Baby

• You can mix iron-fortified rice cereal with formula milk or mother’s milk
• You can make puree of different vegetables like sweet potato, carrot, peas, potato, broccoli, etc.
• Stewing fruits such as apple, peaches, pears or apricots without sugar.
• A toast or biscuit to suck.

• You can mix wheat cereal with fruits and milk.
• You can give cottage cheese with fruit or cheese with mashed potato and broccoli.
• Fruits slice of banana, sapodilla [Chiku], mango, etc., remember you should give small pieces of fruit that your baby can easily swallow.
• Small pieces of cheese or butter sandwich
• Cooked food like dal, rice, pulp of beans, lentils
• Lemon Juice
• Cooked and mashed less spicy vegetables such as carrots, spinach, cauliflower and  pumpkin

For 10-12 months Baby
Mostly all babies can eat chopped food or mashed food during this period. You can give chopped cooked vegetables and fruits. In addition, food mention above, you can add

• Cooked pasta with tomato sauce
• Fruit bread slice
• Cottage cheese and steamed chopped spinach
• Cooked dal and rice or cooked rice with cooked vegetables
• Different vegetable soup such as tomato, sweet corn
• Lentil soup
• Eggs [ Not more than 3 -4/week]
• Khichri with curd or ghee.