Article: Making baby food at home has regained its popularity

NEW YORK As with most things concerning child care, baby foods have followed cycles with each generation of parents.

The "all-natural" mothers of the 1960s and 1970s decided they would do a better job than their mothers by preparing baby food at home. In an earlier cycle, their grandmothers in the late 1920s probably thought they were doing the right thing and being very "modern" when they bought the new commercial baby foods at the corner grocery.

Now, the outlook has changed again. With most of the controversy over commercial baby foods behind them, most parents have regained enough confidence again to purchase ready-made foods. There still are some, however, who like the idea of ...

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