Good nutrition is essential for the growth and development that occurs during an infant’s first year of life. When developing infants are fed the appropriate types and amounts of foods, their health is promoted. Positive and supportive feeding attitudes and techniques demonstrated by the caregiver help infants develop healthy attitudes toward foods, themselves, and others.

During the first 6 months, your baby’s diet should exclusively be milk until weaning begins. It is not safe to wean before 4 months and if possible breast milk remains the best choice when feeding a newborn baby. Formula milk should be used when breast feeding is not sufficient or possible.

Practical advice

The volume suggested for each feeding-bottle can be adapted more or less according to the appetite of your child, while remaining within reasonable limits (30 ml of water + 1 level scoop of  formula milk powder). Never force your child to finish his/her feeding-bottle.

Allow for pauses during a feed to wind your baby and especially at the end. The duration of a feed is variable, but should not exceed 45 min. Feeds are approximately 3 hours apart, however your baby may vary slightly so be guided by them, but do not allow a new born baby to go any longer than 6 hours without a feed.