How can I teach my baby healthy eating habits?

How can I teach my baby healthy eating habits?

The first thing to do if you want to teach your baby healthy eating habits is to remember that there's a division of responsibility in feeding. You as the mother get to decide what kind of food is available, and how much of the food is offered. The baby gets to decide whether or not it eats that food and if it asks for more and is satisfied with the amount of food. So tips to you as a mother wanting to encourage healthy eating habits are to provide a wide variety of food so the baby can try all the different fruits and vegetables, all the different meats, and all the different kinds of things that you might want to feed them in the later years. Also, your responsibility in teaching healthy eating habits is not to force feed the infant or offer more food than it's able to handle. When you start feeding the baby its stomach is very small. That means the maximum amount of food that it can handle would be about a tablespoon, and it's much more likely to eat nearly a teaspoon of food. If you try to force it in, a 1/4 cup, 4 ounces, 6 ounces, you'll already be teaching your baby to short circuit its right to decide, "I don't want to eat". So remember a tablespoon is about the maximum you should offer to fit your baby's stomach.