Clever Baby

by Anna

Now that I titled this post "Clever Baby" I realised we didn't really have an awful lot of foresight calling this blog the Veggie baby, baby blog given that we are almost approaching toddler age... Oh well. To us he will always be our baby. And the blog is our little project, so perhaps also our baby.

Anyhow, back to clever baby business.

No need to point out that babies' brains grow at a silly rate, particularly these first few years. So how can we make sure our veggie almost-toddler gets what he needs? Omega is a substantial support for growing brain cells. Read more about it here. And who doesn't want to have a clever baby? Luckily nowadays there is a whole wide range of vegetarian products out there which we can fall back on if our foods don't have quite enough of what we need.

Vegetarian DHA oil

We started using Nordic Naturals Baby DHA oil. It's easy to administer, simply by dropping it onto a spoonful of food, or emptying the dropper onto the prepared food and mix it under. Be sure to not have the food too hot before mixing the oil in, you don't want to kill the supplement (nor the vitamins in the actual prepared food).

Luckily our Monkey is fascinated by the dropper. He seems to almost enjoy his food more when we put a few drops onto the spoon, feed him (or let him feed himself) and repeat the process until we have given him the two recommended droppers.

Admittedly we often forget. It's definitely not a daily supplement in our house. However, we feel that he gets a fair amount of DHA with linseed. Giving him the oil only every other day seems to work fine for us.

Dropper in, dropper out, dropper in, dropper out....

And given that the Monkey has beenworking out how to put the dropper back into the little bottle and how to put lids on top of little cups for a while now, we think the DHA oil is indeed a clever little addition to his food.

Playing with lids, spoons and anything else within reach