Breast is best
Breast milk is the best milk for babies. Breast milk provides the ideal balanced nutrition and protection for your baby. Maternal nutritional requirements increase during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Therefore mothers’ diets should include a wide variety of nutritious food and healthy snacks.
If you are considering bottle feeding, always seek professional advice as once bottle feeding has commenced it can be difficult to revert to breast feeding. Partial bottle feeding may also adversely affect breastfeeding by reducing the supply of breast milk. Always use and prepare infant formula as directed by the manufacturer; unnecessary or improper use of infant formula can be hazardous to the health of your baby.
Before using infant formula, always consider the social and financial implications, such as issues of convenience and cost to the household of using infant formula for at least 12 months. If you are considering using infant formula, it is important to discuss this with a health professional.
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Rice cereal and iron
Iron is a really important building block for helping your baby grow and develop. At birth they’ll have a natural supply of iron, but by six months it starts to decrease, so they need
more. Remember if your baby was born prematurely talk to your health professional about your baby's iron needs.
Farex Rice Cereals are all fortified with iron and are specially developed to meet some of the nutritional needs of babies in their first 12 months. They can be made up with breast milk or formula for added nutrients and are an easy way to boost baby's iron levels.