A Healthy Baby Is a Happy Baby

A Healthy Baby is a Happy Baby

As aspiring parents both Moms and Dads want to ensure their children get the best possible care and love that they have to offer. And it can begin sooner than you think by ensuring your child both born and unborn gets the right amount of macronutrients and micronutrients it needs in order to develop a healthy diet. Afterall no one wants their baby to get sick or develop a disease that could cripple their child for the rest of their lives like asthma. So to ensure the health of a baby the mom should eat nutrient rich foods, breastfeed their child, and feed their baby good solid foods.

Mothers should not be eating junk food or other foods that don’t provide nutrients or other benefits to themselves or their unborn babies. They should eat foods that provide both them and their child nutrients such as calcium,zinc,Iron,and Protein in order to have the baby grow at a good rate and develop them on the path of being physically healthy. Eating these macronutrients and micronutrients will help the baby even after their born by strengthening their immune system while in the womb and reducing the risks of birth defects like asthma or other debilitating diseases’. By consuming foods that are nutrient dense and with a lot of vitamins you are ensuring that both the mother and the baby get the best possible care and have a healthy diet that is one step closer to having a perfectly healthy child.

Breastfeeding is an extremely important part of raising a baby that has just been born and is far better then putting the baby on a formula diet for a multitude of reasons. When a baby is breastfed antibodies and other disease fighting pathogens are transferred from the mother to the child which will ensure the child's ability to fight off sickness and develop their immune system in order to defend against foreign contaminants. Not only does it develop the immune system it reduces the baby's chance of catching common illness’ such as a cold or the flu and will provide the baby with a very nutrient rich source of milk that it may or may not be getting when it is being bottle fed. Along with the baby a mother

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