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Use our Toddler Meal planning tool to ensure your 1-4 years old receives a balanced diet every day.
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Use our toddler food tracker to check that your 1-4 year olds are getting a good balance of foods and activity
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This educational programme for frontline professionals contains a range of practical resources on infant feeding.
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1. Breastfeeding helps protect your baby from illness
it may take time for you both to learn how it works best for you – ask for help if you need it
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2. Give breast milk, the best option, or infant formula for at least 12 months
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3. Begin a vitamin D supplement from birth
as milk and foods do not necessarily provide enough
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4. Let your baby decide how much milk to drink
Offer a feed when your baby is hungry and remember babies cry for reasons other than hunger
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5. Begin to offer food alongside their milk feeds, by six months but not before four months
when you think your baby is ready for more
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6. Offer high iron foods from beginning of complementary feeding
(weaning) – meat, oily fish, eggs, pulses and nut butters
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7. Offer spoon-feeding soft finger foods and a cup of water
at all meals so that your baby develops all their feeding skills
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8. Stop feeding when your baby shows you he or she has had enough
by keeping his mouth closed or turning away from food or milk
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9. Introduce allergenic foods one at a time, from four to six months
dairy foods (cow’s milk, yogurt, cheese), egg, nut butters, fish, wheat-based foods and foods with soya or sesame
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10. Move onto thick mash with soft lumps between six and eight months
and onto minced and chopped family foods and firm finger foods between nine and 12 months