Suggest Balanced Nutritious Meal For A Baby

Posted on Wed, 5 Mar 2014

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Question : my baby is one year old. i want my baby to have balanced nutritious meals every day.uptill now, his health is nice. but as he is growing day by day, his body needs are increasing. i feed him milk and one chapati grinded together every alternate day. somedays i feed him sheera, daal palak once a week. in fruits i give him madhed banana, XXXXXXX milkshake and orranges. and rest he has plain milk whole day. he dtinks only half liter milk every day. which i think is very less. i dont breast feed him as he doesnot like my milk. my question is, 1) am i lacking somewhere in giving him good food? if yes, please tell me what all should i give him? 2) what should his daily milk intake be, according to his age? 3) what powder can i add to his milk for more nutrition?.... can i add bornvita? please help. thankyou very much. e

Answered by Dr. Uma Rajah Ananth (6 hours later)

Brief Answer: listed Detailed Answer: Hi, For your 1 year old child, You can give he following other than what you give. Dhal mixed with rice and little butter one a day. XXXXXXX and banana once a day are good. You can give egg white everyday start with an small quantity to look for allergy. Egg yolk twice a week. Vegetable soup once a day alternating with mashed vegetables. Raging if available in your place can bed given twice a week. Bournvita is only for flavour - plain milk is good enough. Naturally when you give solids the intake of milk will reduce Half a litre or so is OK when you give the above. You did not mention birth weight and present weight to assess whether he needs more! Good luck Dr Uma

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar