dragonlady wrote:

I don't think I'd worry excessively about the iron, however; once the
baby starts eating table foods, just make sure you include the foods
that have lots of iron. I know a lot of vegetarians -- including folks
who are raising their kids vegetarian -- and none of them seem to have
had any real problems with iron.

Some reversible anemia I can cope with, but the developmental aspects
have me concerned.

Even the handful who have gone all
the way to vegan eating seem to do just fine, as long as they learn how
to do it properly.

Around here, everybody seems to be put on supplements..vit. and
iron...even the meat-eaters. (I was at a first birthday party last night
and two mothers told me baby is so constipated they have taken to
suppositories or oil enemas!!)
I was looking at the jars of baby food that FOB uses when I'm not home
to cook. Everything is either 0 or 2 or 4% (the latter on spinach only)
of MDR (I'm assuming of babies, not adults, but the jars don't say!).
He's been eating table food since 3 months (teeth and demanding), but
since I'm about to stop the formula with iron supplement and the cereal
with iron supplement, I'm trying to find out more. I have not seen a
nutritional table book that addresses children. I suppose I'll have to
get a regular one and try to tease out what he'll eat and what has what
in it and how this fits in his MDR and leave it all in block writing for
the SAHPapa whose only nutritional opinion is that edamame fixes
everything.
Thanks!
blacksalt