Iron

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🎈The role of iron 🎈

🎗 Iron is used to make haemoglobin molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body.

🎗 So, when there’s not sufficient iron in the body, there’s not enough haemoglobin and therefore not enough oxygen.

🎗This makes the red blood cells pale and small, resulting in iron-deficiency anaemia.

🔬Research indicates that iron deficiency in infancy can result in long term issues. So, it’s a good idea to set infants up to maintain adequate iron stores throughout all stages of childhood.

🎈Iron at different stages 🎈

🔑 Babies are born with a reserve of iron, which comes from their mother’s blood while they are in the womb.

🔑 For the first six months of life, babies will get all of the iron they need from breastmilk or iron-fortified infant formula.

🔑 But that iron starts to run out or the stores tend to dissipate as we approach the six month Mark.

🔑 So the weaning foods that we're introducing as your baby's learning, how to eat, those are the foods that should contain iron.

🔑 Between breast milk, infant formula, and iron-rich foods, babies can continue to meet their iron needs as they begin to wean.

🩸A baby-led approach to complementary feeding does not appear to increase the risk of iron deficiency in infants when the babies are offered ‘high-iron’ foods at each meal.
 
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