This guide provides information on healthy eating for your baby from 6-12 months of age. It also offers guidance on helping babies develop healthy eating habits and answers many common questions parents and caregivers have when starting to introduce solid foods.

• Part One provides information on how you can help your baby develop healthy eating habits.  It also gives helpful tips on when and how to introduce solid foods.
• Part Two describes the types of foods to offer your baby.
• Part Three answers common questions.

If you have questions that are not answered in this guide, talk to a public health nurse or other health care provider.

Please note:

• This guide provides information about feeding healthy full-term babies.
• When “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk” are used throughout the guide, non-breastfed babies should receive store-bought cow milk-based infant formula unless the guide says differently.
• Throughout the guide “infant formula” means store-bought cow milk-based infant formula.
• When the term “cow milk” is used, breastfed babies should continue to breastfeed based on their cues and only receive cow milk when they do not wish to breastfeed.

We would like to acknowledge the work of the NL Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials (NL SUPPORT) Unit at Memorial University for completing a plain language review on this resource.