Vegetarian Baby

[Guest guest]

While my children are waay past this age , this is a question that all

parents are concerned about. I can't remember how old your baby is (sorry).

Are you breastfeeding? I am very much a breastfeeding advocate! That is the

best thing you can do for young babies.

 

I had to go through this too about breastfeeding and attachment parenting.

Esp. with my daughter who was bf for 2 years. She also didn't care about

eating solids until around 9 months. No baby food for this girl, she didn't

like it at all! One day she was suddenly interested in what we were eating.

I remember her grabbing a handful of rice off my son's plate. So then

she started eating table food with no problems. I ended up giving away a

couple dozen jars of baby food so they wouldn't expire.

 

I was literally the first in my family to ever breastfeed. My sister started

her formula-fed kids on cereal at 5 or 6 weeks! (through a bottle with an

enlarged hole!) to " get them to sleep at night. "

 

Like the saying goes, other people all have opinions, especially

grandparents. Often people feel you are somehow implying they did something

wrong with their decisions. You'll get a lot of conflicting advice.

Sometimes you just have to smile, say OK, and go on doing what you are

doing! It's your decision, you shouldn't have to justify anything. Having a

happy, healthy baby is the best " argument. "

 

If after reading up and weighing all the information, you feel the need to

go with a non-vegan diet for your baby, then go with it. If you are into

attachment parenting, this is common advice. Go with your instincts.

 

Here's some links:

 

http://www.vegetarianbaby.com/

http://www.vegfamily.com/babies-and-toddlers/index.htm

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/children.html

http://www.pcrm.org/news/health030317.html

http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=100

 

All of these articles seem to quote Dr. Spock. If you have too much trouble,

you can say " Dr. Spock says..... "

 

Some books that were recommended. If you can't afford to buy a bunch of

books (I couldn't) try the library. Larger city libraries tend to carry more

books on this topic. Mine here in Memphis doesn't have much.

 

Sometimes people will share their books when their children are older and

they don't need them anymore. . If I still had my " Baby Book " I would send

it to you. Can anyone here do this?

 

Related Books

• The Compassionate Cook by PETA and Ingrid Newkirk (Warner, 1993)

• Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock and Steven J. Parker

(Pocket Books, 1998)

• Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet by Michael Klaper, M.D. (Gentle

World, Inc., 1994)

• Raising Vegetarian Children: A Guide to Good Health and Family Harmony by

Joanne Stepaniak and Vesanto Melina (McGraw-Hill, 2002)

• Vegetarian Baby by Sharon Yntema (McBooks Press, 1984)

• Vegetarian Children by Sharon Yntema (McBooks Press, 1987)

• The Vegetarian Mother and Baby Book by Rose Elliot (Pantheon Books, 1986)

 

 

HTH,

SavarnaRose

Mom to 3 healthy children who were breastfed!

 

 

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yani jeni

8/21/2007 9:27:24 AM

 

Re: Re: Flaxseed and hempseed for Baby

 

Dear All,

tks to all respon for this post

Actually I'm really worry about my decision to put my

baby on vegan diet will bring any bad impact on her in

her future life, cos my surronding all telling me that

she has to get all nutrition she need include from non

vegan source.

Again,

tks all

Cheers

jeni

[Guest guest]

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