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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.
Hello…how high of heat should I use on the stove top to get the water to boiling? It looks like the temp on the stove top was not changed after dropping the egg in.
I tried medium heat but the white was still very soft, runny, and sticking to the yolk.
Thanks,
Sean
Hi Sarah. My 8 months daughter is not taking the grated raw liver. I guess she does like the taste. I take as a supplement desiccated liver from Vital Proteins and I am wondering whether this could be an alternative to the raw liver but I am not sure how safe it is. Thanks in advance.
Yes, desiccated liver is an alternative to the raw liver.
How long does one egg yolk last? Or rather, how much should a 4 month old have the first time? Half of the yolk? If it’s only a few tastes, then that would take a few days to use all the yolk. Would the yolk go bad? How long is the liver good for (after the 14 days)?
You don’t save the yolk. Use it the same day or throw it out. What I always did is make a soft boiled egg for myself and give baby a few tastes. Eventually, he/she will eat the whole thing but not right away.
hello! just came across your blog! quick question.. what’s the nutritional difference between a soft boiled egg yolk & a hard boiled egg yolk?
I am curious where the grater is from as well?!
Hi Dear.
Where can I get the hand grater?
Hi Sarah, I love reading your blog. Thanks so much for all the helpful posts and videos!
Question: is there a risk of allergies or any other problems from too many egg yolks? My baby (8 mos) loves yolks prepared this way and has been consuming two a day (Every day. Started with tiny bites just before six months and worked up). Too much?
You can definitely overdo. Please exercise wise judgment here. By 8 months, pureed home made soups with veggies and meats should be mainstay and enzyme rich fruits like avocado and banana (again, not too much!).
Thanks so much, Sarah!
Dear Sarah,
We are changing from the formula with cow’s milk to the one with goat’s milk. Now our twin boys are 5 months old and I know that they could have egg yolk mixed with beef liver. Any advice on how to prepare it and how much to feed them?
Thanks again and again!!!
Marina and family
Hi Sarah. Can you tell me the best place to purchase liver or how to purchase it? I have never bought it before.
Thank you for this information. I wish I had known it before now.
Organic from a small, local grassbased farmer.
I give my baby a soft boiled egg yolk at six months and she loved it! She ate the whole thing though. I waited another couple weeks and I tried it againand everything was fine.(ate the whole thing again) I just tried this again today and this time I used eggs from my aunts farm. I boiled it on the stove and it wasn’t as soft as the other times, it was more chunky. and I fed her the whole thing she was fine for a couple hours but then she started throwing up about four times and then fell asleep. Could you possibly tell me why this happened? Was it because the eggs were straight from a chicken, or because it was cook too much, or do you think she’s allergic? If you could help me out that would be great
Not sure. Next time, try just a taste or two and see how she does. Maybe because it was more cooked she had more trouble digesting it as all the enzymes were destroyed? Just a guess.
I fed my son an egg yolk at 5.5 months… he hated it. The book I read suggested I thin it with breast milk. Could that be why? He was so excited to eat, since he’s been grabbing at my food, but I’m afraid I have turned him off food. He never vomited, but after a couple bites he would start shuddering like one would after eating lemon. He quickly decided he didn’t want more. We tried for 4 days in a row. My husband thinks I should just give him cereal mixed with fruit. Btw, the eggs were from a local farm, pastured and high omega content due to diet.
How many eggs a day for the child?
No more than one … and if just starting out, a taste of two and build up slowly.