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Natural  Healthy Frozen Baby Food  - Granny's Frozen Baby Food Products

Ansie Selier the ‘Granny of Granny’s’ was present at the show and told us the story behind Granny’s.  It in fact started 30 years ago when Ansie had her first daughter, her child was very allergic and after feeding her an off the shelf product one evening, she had to rush her daughter to hospital, she was admitted to intensive care for treatment of the reaction.  That was when Ansie started to make her own baby food with no preservatives. This was used for all her children. Friends, family and neighbours all asked her to make food for them, as babies loved the food.

In 2004 Ansie’s grandson was born, and while preparing food for him she decided it was time to realize her dream.  To make Granny’s frozen baby food’  available to all the babies in South Africa.

Two years of laying the foundations to the launching of the product took lots of research, testing and conforming to the necessary statutory requirements.  Granny’s was officially launched in January 2006.  The Spar Group, Northern and Southern Division have stores which stock the product and distribution is expanding as we speak.  Royal Setshaba Catering will be distributing to Westville and Crompton hospitals in Natal.

We are also proud to say that a number of Clinics and Pediatricians recommend our product to  mom’s. We are in fact also distributing to hospitals direct,  for them to use for pediatric patients as well as others e.g.  ICU soft foods, for the aged who can’t eat normally, for oncology patients for tubing at hospital and at home.  We have held product introduction meetings with several dieticians for two hospital groups, who have also expressed extreme interest and pleasure in the fact that such a product in now available for moms.

Granny’s Care for Children, and as a company we sow seed back into the community.  Granny’s sponsor ABBA House, a home for babies in need in Pretoria, they in turn pass on to homes in Shoshonguve and others.  We also support Ledsedi House in Melody, Hartbeesport Dam, which is a home for AIDS babies.

It is wonderful to see how the babies respond to eating Granny’s, not only do they clap hands when they see us dropping off food, but their development also has improved vastly. 

Granny’s would also be most beneficial for AIDS suffers especially those who have already developed problems with eating and mouth soars etc. 

Granny’s  is wonderful for the aged in frail care centres, there are many who cannot chew or swallow large bits of food anymore.

Notes for Moms

Before they are 3 to 4 months old, babies automatically push out their tongues when anything enters their mouths.  This reaction, call the extrusion reflex, is essential for breast-feeding and bottle-feeding, and indicates that infants can swallow only liquids.  Even after losing the extrusion reflex, babies may lack the coordination to move food from the front of their mouths to the back for swallowing.  They start to develop that ability between 4 to 6 months of age.  That is also when they start sitting with support and holding up their heads.

Is your baby ready?    If your 4 month old needs more frequent breast-feedings or gets hungry  between bottles of formula, it may be time to experiment with the first sold food.  Start with a teaspoon.  Signs that your baby is ready to go forward with solid food include:

• Watching the food on a spoon and opening his or her mouth to receive it.

• Closing his or her lips over the spoon

• Keeping most of the food in his or her mouth and then swallowing it.
   

Whether your baby is 4,5 or 6 months old when he or she first eats cereal, one thing you should not do is introduce it by mixing it in a bottle.  Even if the cereal barely thickens the milk or formula, swallowing it requires different reflexes from swallowing liquid.  A baby who has not had any practice swallowing solids may gag on clumps of cereal from the bottle and risk inhaling (aspirating) some of it.  A less frightening but still undesirable effect is overfeeding -  cereal adds unneeded calories to formula milk.

Six important “Start Healthy” tips

1. Breastfeeding:  Establish healthy eating habits from the very beginning.
2. Positive Parenting: Healthy eating starts with a positive parent-child partnership.
3. Patience:  If he rejects a new food ….. try, try and try again
4. Variety :  Build you baby’s taste buds.
5. 5-a-day:  Nutritionists recommend 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
6. Activity:  Jump! Run! Dance! An active lifestyle is a healthy one.

GOOD  LUCK  - 

ENJOY THE GRANNY’S EATING ADVENTURE WITH YOUR  BABY!

                  Ansie :  083 643 1812

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