Introducing Food to Baby – Transitioning Your Baby From Breast Milk to Food – Dr.Berg | DrEricBergDC

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hey guys I wanted to create this video

based on some questions about some

mothers that are breastfeeding and they

wanted to know how do we transition from

breast milk to actual food okay now the

ideal situation is that you breastfeed

for 18 years and I’m being totally

sarcastic okay but it would be ideal for

you to breastfeed at least for one year

but even longer would be better and what

I’m going to show you is in addition to

the breast milk but you might not even

need to do this right here if your child

is content with the breast milk

now let me just back up for a second

it’s really really really really really

important

um what a mother consumes two years

before they become pregnant

so always plan it out and I’m sure

that’s what happened to you right you

plan it out for at least five years and

you started to grow a healthy body so

that way when you’re growing this baby

that baby has everything that they need

okay some key foods for the mother are

plant-based trace minerals very very

important uh especially like iodine

selenium Cobalt manganese all these

minerals very important to prevent

issues like malformation of your jaw and

the teeth and even scoliosis or flat

feet just to prevent all that stuff

nutritional yeast for the B vitamins

very very important fat soluble vitamins

vital cod liver oil I like that the best

high Quality Meats so those are some

things that a mother should consume

and the other thing that’s really

important is eggs so some mothers during

the later part of pregnancy consume like

six or more eggs

per day and you might think wow that’s a

lot of cholesterol but all that

cholesterol is necessary to develop

hormones in the cellular membranes of

that fetus so it’s very very important

don’t don’t go low fat that’s for sure

and I don’t like the idea of a prenatal

that’s synthetic gives a food-based uh

nutrient okay that being said

the digestive system of this baby is not

developed yet so you have to go slowly

watch for any reactions we don’t have

the normal flora in the gut what’s

interesting is that infant produces a

good amount of lactase which is the

enzyme to break down lactose milk sugar

so babies were designed to consume

breast milk when we get a little older

that enzyme kind of goes away so that’s

why you have people that are lactose

intolerant they don’t have the enzyme to

break down the milk sugar all right

cholesterol I already talked about that

really important in growth and hormones

now you want to avoid cereals and Grains

for sure for these babies because you

see that all the time like you go to the

store and they sell baby cereal like you

don’t want to do that because that’s

going to block minerals to refined

carbohydrates not very good breast milk

doesn’t have a lot of vitamin D so

unless you’re getting Sun take some

additional vitamin D3 you can also get

it directly for the infant in these

little bottles and just give your infant

a small amount each day

unless you can get sun that would be

even better okay so right about four

months

um there’s two things that you want to

enhance the breast milk with and these

are just additional things it’s not a

food replacement it’s just an

enhancement

um the egg yolk not the white the white

you can have at year one so you boil the

eggs take the yolk out mash it with a

little sea salt and that’s one thing you

would want to feed your baby and cod

liver oil okay those two things right

here make sure you get the Virgin cod

liver oil it’s more expensive but it’s

high quality and you’d be surprised how

much your baby likes it you can get a

little dropper full and put about a

fourth of a teaspoon or even a little

spoon and give it to your baby and Lucy

who is my granddaughter just loves it

now what’s unique about cod liver oil

that’s not in fish oil is that not only

do we have an important essential fatty

acids omega-3 DHA and EPA which are

essential for brain development and

nervous system development and immune

development

but it has vitamin A and vitamin D

two really really key

um vitamins so then at the sixth month

you can give your child a little puree

meat of course you can also continue to

give egg yolk and cod liver oil

um but make sure it’s grass-fed

um the infant that’s developing doesn’t

need carbohydrate they need protein and

fat mostly and animal protein and fat is

going to be the best source a little

avocado would be fine at this point just

a little bit to see how they respond to

it start to feed the microbes at this

age all right so now that’s six to eight

months you can introduce like carrot

beet maybe even a little sweet potato I

would steam these or cook them add some

butter grass-fed and just a little bit

and introduce a little bit with the

breast milk of course and unsweetened

kefir just a little bit okay uh goats

milk kefir is going to be way better

than cow’s milk kefir then in eight

months you can add some vegetable soups

stews uh and cottage cheese make sure

this is organic make sure these are

homemade then at one year you can do a

little bit of nut or Nut Butter maybe a

little seeds uh vegetable and the whole

egg but make sure you germinate the

seeds in the nuts because they have

enzyme Inhibitors and other

anti-nutrients that could be a problem

so anyway I just wanted to create this

quick video and for those women that

absolutely cannot breastfeed there’s a

really good recipe from Western price

I’m going to put a link down below it

does take a little bit of work to make

it but I think it’s way way more

Superior than anything out there all

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