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Best food for your baby

Best food for your baby

Exclusively breastfeeding for around the first 6 months of your baby’s life and then continuing once your baby starts solids until 12 months and beyond gives your baby the best start in life.

Breast milk is free, fresh and requires no preparation. It is easy for your baby to digest, changes with your baby’s needs, and contains the nutrients your baby needs for around the first 6 months of life.

It is the greatest gift you can give your baby.

Find out about breastfeeding while you are still pregnant.  Your midwife or other maternity carer or a breastfeeding support group can help you make an informed choice.

More detail (see the online version for links to more detailed content)

Eating for healthy babies and toddlers [1]

Food information for babies and toddlers from birth to 2 years old.Image of the cover of the booklet 'Eating for healthy babies and toddlers' [2]

Baby's health and nutrition [3]

Find out the facts, and remember – breast milk is always perfect for baby.

Breastfeeding information [4]

Breastfeeding gives a baby the best possible start in life – and it’s good for the health and wellbeing of mothers too.

Eating for healthy breastfeeding (HealthEd resource) [5]

Cover of pamphlet [6]Food information for breastfeeding women. Includes nutrition, healthy food for mother and baby, dietary variety, drinking plenty of fluids, foods low in fat, salt and sugar, healthy weight, losing weight gained during pregnancy, daily activity or exercise, taking time out, alcohol, and being smokefree. (PDF, 621KB).

This page last reviewed 30 May 2013.
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[1] https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/eating-healthy-babies-and-toddlers
[2] https://www.healthed.govt.nz/resource/eating-healthy-babies-and-toddlersng%C4%81-kai-t%C5%8Dtika-m%C5%8D-te-hunga-k%C5%8Dhungahunga
[3] https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/babys-health-and-nutrition-0
[4] https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/breastfeeding-information
[5] https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/node/2042
[6] https://www.healthed.govt.nz/system/files/resource-files/HE1806_Eating%20for%20healthy%20breastfeeding%20women_1.pdf
[7] https://www.childcancer.org.nz
[8] http://www.plunket.org.nz/what-we-do/what-we-offer/plunketline/
[9] http://www.health.govt.nz/yourhealth-topics/health-care-services/healthline
[10] http://www.healthline.govt.nz
[11] http://www.paediatrics.org.nz/
[12] https://www.health.govt.nz/
[13] http://www.starship.org.nz/foundation
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