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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.
Hi Sarah, I was wondering how often should i feed my 5 month old egg yolk. Everyday, every other day or twice a day? So far he has one yolk a day and absolutely loves it. Seems to me that he could eat another one but i hesitate and just stick to one yolk a day. Also my mother has been giving me a hard time trying to convince me that i am damaging my babys health by feeding him yolk everyday and it should only be consumes two, three times a week. If you could please specify I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for the post.
I was a huge Western Price fan too but this is dangerous. We know better now. I gave my 8 month old organic grass fed egg yolk prepared like you said and he vomited five times after 2 bites and passed out. At 1 year of age I learned he now has a egg allergy. I cant imagine that the two events would not be connected.
Science is more advanced now and although I love WP and I believe he was very forward thinking I just don’t think this is safe. Please don’t try this. Learn from me.
I did it for my son, still do, and he is a thriving 19 month old. Just because there was a freak reaction does not mean it is dangerous. What if that reaction was after a first bite of rice cereal? Would that make rice cereal dangerous? Your comment is pretty suspicious.
Anyone can be allergic to anything, even very healthy things. That’s why it’s important to give baby new foods one at a time so you can see if baby has a reaction. If baby is allergic, then don’t give baby the food he is allergic to. My kids are very sensitive and we have had great improvement with food allergies using NAET. Two of my three babies did fine on egg yolk. One of them had a very slight reaction, we got him treating for it with NAET and now he is fine and also likes the egg yolk. I’ve also heard of babies throwing up on egg yolk after vaccines when before they handled it fine.
My kids have been very allergic to super healthy things that others don’t have a problem with. It doesn’t mean the foods are bad, my kids just didn’t handle them well. So, we do the NAET treatment to help their bodies process things better.
Your infant is not going to develop an egg allergy by eating egg yolks. They either have the allergy already or they do not. Now, they can certainly develop food allergies after vaccines though. Sometimes when we get older, we can eat certain foods that bothered us as infants because we produce more hormones. Sometimes the allergy is very severe and it will not go away with time on it’s own.
If you vaccinated it can be from that, there are some vaccinations that say in the pdf even if you look them up thatthey can cause a high sensitivity in eggs, perhaps because the vaccines are made with chick embrio or cells or something of the matter. Just something to consider.
Sarah,
I, like many others that have commented on this post have given our children the soft boiled egg and have had them vomiting every time it was introduced. Even though all guidelines were followed, many have had trouble with this approach. I would LOVE to give my daughter (9 mo) the soft boiled yolk, but she has vomited at least on two separate occasions after eating it at 6 mo. so I am hesitant. First I thought it might be because I didnt remove all the white, but I was very careful the next times and it still happened. Echoing another reader: Is the vomiting a sign of an allergy? Have I now induced an egg allergy? How long should a parent wait before reintroducing? Why not cooked yolks? At what age do you personally recommend cooked yolks? Where’s your evidence (other than anecdotal)?
Sarah can you comment on this please? You advise and influence so many readers. We would appreciate some feedback on these issues.
Thank you!!!
Karise, if your baby has thrown up after the egg yolk on multiple occasions, then your baby is allergic to egg yolk and I would recommend not giving it to her. Look into NAET, it works great for food allergies and has been very helpful for my family. Hard cooking the yolk denatures it. I do cook my egg yolk, just not to very hard boiled. I fill my pan with eggs, (it holds about 13 small eggs), top with cold water, put a lid on, when the lid starts to shake that means it’s boiling, I turn the fire off and let it sit with the lid on about 2 minutes in the boiling water before transferring to ice water to stop the cooking. Depending on the size of the eggs I will do it 1.5 minutes to 3 minutes.
Eating egg yolk doesn’t cause egg allergies. The allergy is there or it is not. Although vaccines can cause egg allergies.
Hi Sarah,
If I have had blood tests done and know I am allergic to eggs (they didn’t separate the white and yolk in testing) do you think it would be okay to give yolks to my son?
Hi! I was just wondering if you recommend liver from a chicken? Thanks!!
Thank you so much for this video! For the very first time she happy ate her egg yolks…all of it. She loves the taste of soft boiled eggs. Amazing. Very grateful 🙂
Hello, I have been giving my 4 month old baby homemade formula because I could not produce enough milk due to mastectomy on my right breast. I tried to give him the egg yolk twice (which he ate with delight and wanted more!), how ever both times he was severely constipated. I had to put molasses in his formula for the next 3 days in order for him to be relieved, but I don’t want to get him used to it. Is this a normal reaction? What should I do?
Hi, thanks for the great video. I’ve been “soft boiling” my eggs too long! It was helpful to see them done correctly.
I am curious as to where you get your liver. I’m trying to find a source for buying for our family. We are doing egg yolks and avocados, and CLO for our sixth month old boy, and loving it!
HI Sarah,
Thank you for this post. I have had a number of people telling me that I need to start feeding my 5 month old solids. She is most certainly interested but I was concerned with what to feed her! I knew I wanted to steer clear of rice cereal and jars. would you also suggest that avocado and banana would be okay as well as egg yolk?
I was wondering if this recipe (especially the liver) would still be recommended if the baby was being fed formula only instead of breast milk. Would that be too much iron?