day. Now my mum is always complaining that sugar is not good for babies. She wants me to force feed my girl because that’s how we were fed and according to her we always finished our food and slept off.
Is sugar really bad for babies? Should I feed her the ogi like that?
CAN I ADD SUGAR TO PAP FOR MY BABY?
Yes you can sweeten baby pap. I am one mum that used to advocate feeding babies bland food because sugar is not good for them. NO! Sugar is actually good for these growing babies. Their taste buds are formed already and they know when food is tasteless.
Even breastmilk is not bland so, why do parents feel like baby’s don’t deserve tasty/sweet food. You can add sugar to baby food but let it be added sparingly. Too much sugar is not good. Add just a little sugar to give taste to your baby’s food but don’t sweeten or over power the pap with sugar.
I always added a few drops of honey to my baby’s corn pap to make it taste nice and he really ate well, until I discovered that honey may not be good for babies. Some babies react really bad to honey even though mine didn’t.
I later came to understand that sugar is actually better for babies. Adding sugar in small quantities to bab’s pap isn’t poisonous neither is it going to purge the baby. Feeding them with tasty pap moderately sweetened by sugar won’t cause any ela or running stomach no. I and my kids are a living witness.
And please, never force feed any baby. Force Feeding your baby can be fatal. Make the food taste nice and they’ll enjoy it. Bland pap doesn’t taste nice at all and it’s hard to swallow. A little sugar in your baby’s pap won’t harm. Have you tasted kids drugs before?
Kid’s medications are sweetened to enable them take. If sweetening a baby’s food is bad, why then are their syrups sweetened and not bitter like adults? If you look at the ingredients in your baby’s syrups, you’ll see sweeteners like sugar in many of them.
It’s very Ok to add sugar to baby pap. The quantity you add is very important. Like I said earlier, very little, just enough to help the pap taste nice. All my baby’s had their pap sweetened. I have said it on this blog again and again that my children were all fed with corn pap from 3 months old. Except my first girl that enjoyed EBF for six months which I later regretted anyway. Reason the other four kids enjoyed pap and breast milk from 3 months.
Feel free to add a little sugar to your baby’s pap. They need the energy too to grow. If you can add glucose, maybe you try but I never gave my babies glucose. Never tried using it to sweeten their pap.
Too much sugar is what is not good for anyone, including babies. Too much sugar in your baby’s pap can affect her taste buds and make her prefer sweet foods later on. It’s not healthy and can lead to diabetes and other health problems but there is a recommended daily intake of sugar by babies. If you add just a little sugar to baby pap, you won’t even come near the recommended daily intake before it’s night and baby is off to bed.
According to yummytoddlerfood.com , The recommended sugar intake for babies from 2 to 18 months is not more than 6 teaspoons per day.
It was useful I appreciate because my 7 months old baby started stooling so I do put honey in his pap so I needed to know if the honey is good for him or not that he started stooling more than normal. I will make a change now from honey to sugar now and see what the body system will give now . Thanks
Thanks for this. I was wondering. Even when my baby was born, my breast milk didn’t flow immediately, she was given glucose with warm water. How would that same child now be banned from having a little bit of it.