Managing good nutrition in the infant stages

The food and fluids that are provided to an infant can be the cornerstone of their future health and wellbeing. Also the experience of different tastes and textures during the early years can enable a child to be more willing to eat a wide variety of foods.

This article aims to provide a general overview on nutrition for babies and infants for the first year of life.

Birth to six months
The optimum and natural way of feeding babies is breast milk and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all babies are exclusively breast fed for the first six months to achieve the best level of development and health.¹