Vegetarian diet for baby

Humans are omnivores which is to say that we have evolved to live on a mixed diet of both vegetable and animal origin. Personally I don't think that the Vegan meat free diet is very healthy for adults let alone a baby because a diet that is totally meat free has no vitamin B12 in it which is an essential vitamin which is only available naturally in meat. Vegans generally get around this by taking a supplement which is hardly "natural". Also you have to very careful in mixing and matching vegetable protein sources to get the same amino acid balance and protein quality that you would get from meat. If you get the balance wrong, you will in the long run suffer from protein deficiency disease.

How could you! I know its not yet ratified by various medical research but I will not subscribe to putting a veggy diet for babies. I have four kids healthy and looking it so at least I know a bit about what I am saying. It will be better to give the the stipulated balanced diet and let them grow normally till they reach a certain age then one can decide or they take the decision to go veggy. Even if you have a dog you feed the puppy mormally as they grow they eat once or twice a day apart from the eat ins. So how much more a baby. keep cool.

Your husband may be right about it since a growing baby needs lot of nutrient from other solid food. Although teaching your baby to eat veggies is a good start since many babies are not used to eating that. Baby's eating habit can still be mold when they are young as they depend solely on what their parents feed them. But I guess there's nothing wrong giving them meat or fish from time to time to give them the right nutrition too.

Talk to a nutritionist, preferably one with a whole foods background. The pure and simple fact is that babies do not need any meat or animal products other than mother's milk until they are well over the age that most mothers wean their children. Millions of people raise healthy babies and children on a meatless diet because of their religious beliefs. The key is to make it a healthy vegetarian diet and to be aware of the nutrients in the foods that you're making. Here's a link to an interview with Christine Beard, author of the New Vegetarian Baby and one to an article with tips on choosing foods for vegetarian and vegan children. You might find them interesting. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=54278 http://www.babyzone.com/mom_dad/home_food/article/raising-vegetarian-children

First off talk to the pediatrician about everything. I think there is a vitamin for vegetarian children. Mention that to the doctor. I still think a baby is too young and maybe you'll should wait. I really don't know for sure about the facts though.

no! absolutely not! it is not safe for the baby, especially. if he/she is still one year old and less. it would be dangeroues you know because there are chemicals that might not be sufficient or ok with the baby. his/her system is still changing and evolving, if you will feed her/him with such kind of supplements, then your baby might be in danger, it would be not now but at the later age, he/she will might suffer so DON'T...

I would not recommend that you take a chance with your baby's health in this manner. Your baby's body and mind are still developing so nutrition is very important at this age. If you want to be a vegetarian, that's fine, but your baby needs a balanced diet as well as infant vitamins. It's too important.

everybody should intake a certain amount of vitamin an protein