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Many parents believe that baby cereals are the best first food for babies, but doctors are increasingly suggesting otherwise with more traditional foods that are easier to digest and less likely to trigger allergies gaining favor such as soft boiled egg yolk.
What is the best baby first food? This is a question all parents inevitably ask and the answer given by most pediatricians is rice cereal.
Unfortunately, any grain-based food is not a good idea for children only a few months old as a baby’s immature digestive system does not produce sufficient amylase, the enzyme required for digestion of carbohydrates. The fact that rice cereal is gluten-free makes no difference whatsoever – rice is still a carbohydrate and therefore very difficult for babies to handle digestively.
Incomplete digestion of rice cereal guarantees putrefaction in the gut leading to an imbalance of digestive flora and the potential for allergies and other autoimmune illnesses to develop down the road. In addition, much of today’s rice is contaminated with arsenic! This includes brown rice syrups used in powdered organic baby formula (best to always make homemade formula instead).
If rice cereal is not ideal for a baby as a first food, then what?
In this video lesson, I show you how to prepare the perfect first food for your baby around 4-6 months of age: egg yolk.
While egg white should not be given to babies under a year old, the egg yolk supplies critical brain-building cholesterol and fatty acids that will reward you with a child who speaks at an early age.
All 3 of my children were speaking short, yet complete sentences by a year old. I attribute this not only to extended breastfeeding but also to the brain-building nutrients supplied by their early first foods as practiced by Traditional Societies.
The video along with the recipe below shows you how to properly make a soft boiled egg to use the warm, liquid yolk as baby’s first food. Do not use the white as it is allergenic until a baby is over a year old.
Just give baby a taste or two at first. Even if they love it, eating the whole thing too fast (it’s very rich!) risks vomiting. Go slow!
Hint: Try making this recipe using quail eggs, as they are tiny and the perfect size for baby’s appetite.
Egg Yolk For Baby
The simple recipe below takes 3 minutes to prepare and is the ideal first food for your baby!
Note that egg yolk is recommended over cereal grains by Health Canada. It is unfortunate that the USA is still behind on this important baby weaning step.
Baby First Food Recipe
Recipe to make the best first food for baby as practiced by healthy, traditional cultures to boost intelligence and encourage early speaking.
Ingredients
- 1 egg preferably pastured or free range
- 1/2 tsp organic liver optional, grated
Instructions
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Boil the egg for 3 1/2 minutes. Crack the egg open (no need to peel) and carefully place the soft egg yolk into a bowl. Discard the shell and the egg white.
Stir in the optional liver (grated while still frozen is the easiest method).
Serve baby a taste or two building slowly over days and weeks as tolerated.
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Stir in the optional liver (grated while still frozen is the easiest method). Or use organic desiccated liver powder.
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Serve baby a taste or two building slowly over days and weeks as tolerated. Feeding to much too quickly risks vomiting as this is a very rich food!
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
The organic raw liver should be frozen for at least 14 days to ensure safety.
Alternatively, if a clean source for organ meats is not available, use desiccated liver pills and sprinkle 1/8 of a tsp into the warm yolk.
Sarah,
In the video, did you mention that when you introduced vegetables, you mixed in some butter? Could you tell me a little bit about that: what, why, and how-just mash it in?
Also, I read in an earlier comment of yours that you recommend mashed banana as a second food. Do you have any recommendations beyond that?
Ignorantly, we tried rice cereal with our first and right away discovered an intolerance (major vomiting a few hours after eating — even after eating baby food thickened with rice flour).
With our second, we skipped all rice and grains and went straight from nursing to avocado and banana (at about 7 mos.).
I want to get it right this time! 🙂 Baby 3 has been exclusively breast-fed, is almost 6 mos., and is ready for a bit more. I so appreciated this video and look forward to your response.
Thanks!
I don’t think we ever got an answer on what type of liver to use. Anyone?
Thanks,
Sara
Sarah-
Would you recommend the powder blend of liver if all that is available in my area is organic chilen liver that feed on organic corn and organic soy?
Hi Sarah,
I have almost 6 month old boy twins. I have been breastfeeding and I am going to start making the raw milk formula as I can’t keep up with production and going to stop for other personal reasons. I am guilty about this but hoping this homemade formula will make me feel better. I watched the video on both and I am curious if there is a video on how to make the whey from the yogurt. Also, do you suggest a book/website that I can follow on feeding them solids? I know egg is a good first food like you should but how much egg everyday and what food should I start after that? I feel like I’m lost and would love an outline on how to feed properly. How much bottle to food, etc. Thank you!
Hi. I hope someone reads this. My question is, how much desiccated liver should I put on the yolk? what is the requirement for 6 month olds?
thanks.
My son is 6.5 months old, I tried egg yolk today just a tiny bit. My son then got 3 red spots on his head/forehead. I am wondering if I should try again tomorrow and see if happens again? also, how do you make sure all of the egg white is off the yolk? there seemed to still have white slime on it?
Great advice!!
I fed my first baby egg yolks and liver as a first food. Once he was ready to eat banana I mixed egg yolk into the mashed banana which he loved. He is now 2 and a half and is a very bright boy! He loves his raw milk and drinks a ton of it as well as a very healthy diet.
My little girl just had her first egg yolk today (she is 5 months) and she loved it. I will be incorporating organic raw liver into the egg yolk next week.
Hi all, I have a 18 mo old who I breastfeed till she was a yr old, my body could not do it any longer. Since then she has had raw milk from a local farm. I was told by a lady there that I should be giving her the raw milk baby formula because I am no longer breastfeeding her. I would really appreciate your opinion. I want my baby to have all she needs and was thinking raw milk alone was doing this. As a side note she eat everything I give her like eggs meat veggies and cod liver oil. Thanks Sara
HI Sarah
Thank you so much for your blog. My little daughter is now 6 months old and I offered her three (baby size) spoons of egg yolk. She broke out in hives on her arms and back of her neck. This startled me quite a bit, is this a common response? Have any of your other subscribers encountered the same issue? And what would you recommend I do now as the yolk does not seem to be working as of yet?
Amita Luke
We have been trying baby led weaning and my LO keeps almost choking. I decided to quit that approach because my instincts told me it wasn’t the best thing. So I found a wonderful book called Super Nutrition for Babies which lead me to this blog. Thank you for creating this blog!
Question though, since my daughter is now 11 months old is it too late? Also, should I be adding fruits and veggies yet or should I give the egg yolk a try for a while longer?
She loves the egg by the way which sort of surprised me. And now I’ve taken to making a soft boiled one my self and eating with her. After she’s a year old can I give her the whole egg? 🙂