• Avoid giving cow's milk until after your baby's first year.

• You can give your baby egg yolks, but not whites or whole eggs until after her first birthday.

• If your older baby has developed chewing and swallowing reflexes, feed her pureed or chunkier solids and small, soft bits of easily gummed table foods.

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Can Babies Taste the Difference Between Formulas?

Typically, babies adapt to the taste of their usual formula and will likely develop a preference to that taste. They may happily drink formula that would be distasteful to you, and refuse formula that would taste better to you. It would not be unusual for your baby to be able to tell the difference in taste among milk-based, soy-based, and hypoallergenic* formulas.

* Protein hydrolysate