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Can I feed this to my baby?
Can I give almond and dates paste to my 2 month old baby?
I am from India but I live in London
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It is too soon to be giving a infant solid foods. While each child is different as to when they will be able to handle solid food they will tell you simply by needing to be fed more often when milk alone is not holding them between feedings. When this happens you start with a very diluted mixture of cereal like pabulum mixed with the milk just enough for their stomachs and digestive systems to get use to solids. Then you slowly start adding more and more cereal until you need to spoon feed the baby. This should happen some time around the four month mark, give or take a week or so.
Then after the child is use to solid food you can start adding other solid food in strained or paste form. While Almonds and Dates may be a native food they may be too hard for an infant to digest at an early age so I would not recommend they be the first solids after cereal.
Check with your Child's' pediatrician. Most pediatrician have a list of foods to add to a child's diet and wen and in what order to add them.
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Yes, i agree you should wait, the baby's digestive system isn't ready to handle any food other than milk until they are older. I've raised 3 kids. 6 mos is the time you find most kids able to handle mashed foods.
On occasion, a few babies are ready for cereal at 4 mos because milk alone is not satisfying them.
When foods are introduced, it should be one at a time for a week to judge whether the child is allergic to a particular food item.
But the best advice can be got from a pediatric advice page. they won't diagnos an illness on line but any questions regarding heath related, how to's they will answer.
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I think it's too early in the child's life to be giving them that. You might want to wait until they're 6 months or over.
Hope this helps~
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