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Feeding your child Don’t give two supplements at the same time. For example, don’t add cod liver oil as well as vitamin drops – one on its own is strong enough. Too much of some vitamins is as harmful as not enough. 74 V ITAMINS Parents sometimes get confused about whether or not to give vitamin drops. Your health visitor should be able to advise you. If you are still breastfeeding after your baby is six months old, he or she should have baby vitamin drops containing vitamins A, C and D. If your baby is having formula milk you may not need to give extra vitamins as they are added during manufacture. If your baby is drinking 500-600ml (about a pint) of formula milk per day, vitamin drops are not needed. However, if your baby is drinking less than 500ml of formula milk per day, then vitamin drops will be needed. It is sensible to give all babies vitamin drops from the age of one to five years old. Vitamin D is made naturally in the skin when it is exposed to gentle sunlight between April and September. As little as half an hour playing outdoors is sufficient to meet your child’s daily vitamin D requirements. Remember that children burn easily, especially those with fair skin, so don’t expose them to direct sunlight or let them stay out too long in the sun in hot weather (see page 111 for advice about safety in the sun). Children of mothers who wear concealing clothes that cover them throughout the year when outdoors will particularly benefit from starting vitamin drops at one month until they are five. SOURCES OF VITAMIN A Dairy products Fortified fat spreads • Liver Carrots and dark green vegetables (e.g. spinach, cabbage, broccoli) SOURCES OF VITAMIN C Oranges, pure orange juice • Kiwi fruit, blackcurrants, mangoes, nectarines, apples • Broccoli, peppers, peas, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes SOURCES OF VITAMIN D Summer sunshine Margarines/fat spreads Fortified breakfast cereals • Salmon, sardines, taramasalata, herring • Meat
Feeding your child FAMILY F OOD For adults and children over five, a healthy, balanced diet usually means eating food from the five food groups. The eatwell plate model shown below indicates the types of foods and the proportions you need to eat them in for a well-balanced, healthy diet. Children under the age of five need a diet that is higher in fat and lower in fibre than this, but by five should be eating a diet similar to that recommended for adults. The types of food you need to eat are bread, rice, potatoes, pasta; fruit and vegetables; meat, fish, eggs and beans; and milk and dairy foods. HEALTHY START If you receive Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or Child Tax Credit without Working Tax Credit and have a family income of £14,495 or less (2007/08 figures), you can get help from Healthy Start. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. • Healthy Start provides cows’ milk, fresh fruit and vegetables, or infant formula worth £2.80 per week (£5.60 for children under 1 year old). You can also get free vitamins. For further information see the Healthy Start leaflet A Healthy Start for Pregnant Women and Young Children (267679). Leaflets are available from your local health centre or the Token Distribution Unit on 0845 850 1032. Information on Healthy Start in England is also available at www.healthystart.nhs.uk 75
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Birth five to This book gives you a
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Birth five to Your complete guide t
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1 The first weeks There’s somethi
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The first weeks SCREENING AT A GLAN
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The first weeks B REASTFEEDING Brea
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The first weeks 2 Be patient… Sta
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The first weeks Allow your baby to
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The first weeks USING BREAST PUMPS
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The first weeks STERILISING All the
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The first weeks Follow the manufact
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The first weeks S LEEPING Some babi
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The first weeks room is too hot.
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Page 43 and 44: 3 Learning and playing What we call
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Page 53 and 54: 4 Habits and behaviour There are so
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Page 59 and 60: Habits and behaviour A NEW BABY IN
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Page 89 and 90: 6 Illness and accidents Every child
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Page 103 and 104: Illness and accidents ILLNESS INFEC
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Page 115 and 116: Illness and accidents IF YOUR CHILD
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Your own life Stress also comes fro
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Your own life • Suggest a regular
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Your services H OW TO CHANGE YOUR G
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make. The money cannot be taken out
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Your rights and benefits of childca
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USEFUL ORGANISATIONS Some of these
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