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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
Giving baby canned tuna?
Iron deficiency anemia runs heavily in my family, myself included. DD is at risk for it b/c of genetics and her being small for gestational age. Pedi wont check DD until she hits 15 lbs and 12 months. Mainly bc shes breastfed. But they want me to give her foods high in iron like tuna.
I make all her baby food, but I cant stand the smell of fish, and being pregnant again, is a def no in the baking fish dept.... So I was wondering if I could give her canned tuna. The smell is not as bad so I think I can tolerate it.. Of course I would bake it with veggies, so she wouldnt be getting it straight from a can.
TIA
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Re: Giving baby canned tuna?
Here are options I found on webmd:
I'd like to find iron rich foods instead of supplementing too.
Red meat
Egg yolks
Dark, leafy greens spinach, collards
Dried fruit prunes, raisins
Ironenriched cereals and grains check the labels
Mollusks oysters, clams, scallops
Turkey or chicken giblets
Beans, lentils, chick peas and soybeans
Liver
Artichokes
My older kid always loved edamame :
As long as it's the 'right' kind of tuna that is lower in mercury, it's okay. I can't remember which is the good kind (I think light is good, white is bad, but double check on Dr. Google).
You can also give the baby minced meat if you are spoon feeding, like broken down meatballs. We do BLW, so I just give LO whole meatballs to munch on. In Canada, the new recommendations are to six purees entirely and go straight to minced meats as first foods. Babies need to learn to chew and move food around in their mouths for their development.