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Finger Foods- Breakfast, Lunch and Snack Ideas

Breakfast Bites Bagel with butter or jelly/jam or cream cheese. Pancakes Muffins Toast Toast with butter or jam/jelly English muffin Dry Cereal - Cheerios Eggs - scrambled, omelet, hard-boiled Oatmeal - instant or rolled waffles Little Lunches Sandwich - Cheese slice, deli meats Pasta - Plain, butter/olive oil, cheese, sauce Cooked Veggies -Baby carrots -Florets of cauliflower or Broccoli -Asparagus and Green Beans -Squash and Zucchini Gerber graduate meals Cooked cubes of Yam or sweet potatoBits of Chappati or wheat tortilla Ravioli Cheese cubes or String cheese Fun Fruits Melon - watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew Cooked and cubed or Ready to eat from the store -Apples, Pears, Plum, Peach Cubes of Kiwi, Mango, Banana Snacks - not too Sweet...not too Salty Cookies Arrowroot and Banana Yogurt - Gerber or Yo Baby Puffs Cheerios Crunchies Wagon wheels biter biscuits cheeze it Graham crackers animal crackers

Recipes for Toddlers

Try out some great recipes for your growing Toddler... Smashed Sweet potatoes with Cinnamon   Yummy and filling! Potato Pancakes    OMG! Who doesn't love pacakes, right... Serve with boiled baby carrots or florets of cauliflower/broccoli. Broccoli-Cheddar Cheese Nuggets   ooee..gooey..cheesy...Yum! Potato and Carrot mash with Salmon   Salmon is the best source of essential fatty acids.

Home Remedies to soothe your child's cold and flu

Great home remedies Please add your own remedies as comments to this post. Thanks.

Ideal Tips to follow.. Advice from a Doctor on IHM

Its up to you and your beliefs to follow it or not but these are the ideal things to follow. I followed them... 1. Babies till 5months don't need anything other than Breast milk. If you have enough milk to give its the best thing for baby. It gives baby nutrition and immunity . Formula doesn't give immunity. BREAST MILK IS PRECIOUS.     http://www.askdrsears.com/html/2/T020100.asp 2. You can start formula once a day to make baby aware of its taste by 4 months.  Also, if u have enough milk, introduce a bottle. You can use breast pump to increase your milk quantity. 3. Continue formula till 1 year. Start Whole milk only at Age 1. 4. Babies do not need water at all till you start babies on solids. Your supply of breast-milk alters itself to provide the required nourishment for your baby. Best indication of good hydration is 6-8 wet diapers or bowel movements per day. 5. For Gas ...The trouble resolves once baby becomes 4-5 months old. Nothing helps much till that t