OHbaby! Forums : Solids how much and how often https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:33:28 +0000 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:05:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=24696 <![CDATA[OHbaby! Forums]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : Ok well so far so good then. We&#039;ll...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619564&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619564 Author: FionaO
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Posted: 21 February 2009 at 10:05am

Ok well so far so good then.

We'll stick with just a couple of teaspoons each day and just gradually increase it. ]]> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:05:52 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619564&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619564 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : Flutterby got it bang on. Even...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619278&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619278 Author: busyissy
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 6:20pm

Flutterby got it bang on. Even though he might be disappointed he really only needs a few teaspoons to start with, you don't want to constipate him.
Just give him the same amount of milk that you usually would, it is still his most important food source.]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:20:08 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619278&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619278 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : Is there a min amount of milk...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619236&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619236 Author: FionaO
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 5:08pm

Is there a min amount of milk they should have first before solids?

Well we have given rice so we know that is ok so now we will go with apple for a few days.

So one meal at a time. He is also starving around now so maybe we'll try a bit of apple now too.]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:08:57 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619236&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619236 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : I started Joel on Pears after...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619144&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619144 Author: LeahandJoel
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:26pm

I started Joel on Pears after his mid morning feed.....I do both within the hour. I satred him with 5 normal teaspoons, next feed he had 7 spoons, then half a tin then it was all on from there. He has solids now 3 times a day...after morning feed, after early afternoon feed and before his bedtime bottle. (trying to do breakfast, lunch and dinner times) he also has a crustit cut in half long ways with marmite after his mid morning feed. He eats both halves.

 He has been on solids a month now, has them quite thick, won't eat it if its too runny. I thicken stuff up with baby musli. he has both veges and fruit, I do musli with a bit of fruit for breakfast, fruit with a smaller amount of musli for lunch and veges for dinner. Sometimes I add half a jar or can of bought stuff to add in a different flavour to what I make at home.

I was told to feed him until he doesn't want it any more, not stop after what I feel is enough.

]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:26:20 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619144&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619144 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : After a milk feed until around...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619120&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619120 Author: FreeSpirit
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 2:52pm

After a milk feed until around 9 months.

Start with one feed of solids a day - 11.30 ish might be the best time for you. Unless you both wake up in a really good mood every day then 7.30ish would be do-able.

Start with simple foods, eg baby rice made with formula. Aim for a teaspoon or 2 on the 1st day, and gradually increase the amount by a spoon or so a day (any amount up to a quarter cup).

After being on 1 food for 4 days without problems, introduce a new flavour - only ever 1 new food at a time, always 4 days before a new one. Sounds a bit boring but if you went : day 1 baby rice, day 5 apples, day 9 kumara, day 13 pumpkin after day 13 you could have rice and apples, pumpkin and rice, pumpkin and kumara, apple and kumara, kumara and rice etc.

Once he's coping well with one feed a day, after 2 weeks I'd introduce a 2nd meal.

My daughter's just on 7 months, we have 3 meals a day - 7.30, 12.30, 5ish all rough times as it depends when she had milk feed. She eats 3 or 4 cubes at a time now, or half a jar.]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:52:45 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619120&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619120 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : YAY SOLIDS!!! There are lots...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619078&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619078 Author: LenaJudson
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 1:59pm

YAY SOLIDS!!!

There are lots of different ways to start with solids but my opinion:...

When they start on solids usually you offer it after a milk feed... from memory i started with one a day (breakfast (infant cereal) or lunch (apples) but pretty quickly I did lunch and dinner as it kept her more settled.

When I first put Arna on solids I put the food into ice cubes in the freezer and defrosted a few for each feed, means you aren't wasting a whole jar for the sake of a few spoonfuls!!

Personally i'd give him as much as he wants - usually start with a few ice cubes worth and go from there. It is a huge learning curve, in the fact that so many people will say do this and do that and you have to figure out what is best for you.

Hope this helps!! All the best!! ]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:59:55 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619078&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619078 <![CDATA[Solids how much and how often : Hi, I am so clueless on this...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619036&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619036 Author: FionaO
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 1:24pm

Hi,

I am so clueless on this subject - so bare with me.

I have been holding off with solids, offering lots more water etc... so now he takes lots of water and lots of milk and its just not enough for him.

So I bought a jar of organic apple babyfood today to see whether its worth starting to make my own and he loved it. I let him have a few spoons worth and then took it away which made him cry.

So when should I offer it, ie before or after milk and how often.

He currently is fed at 7ish, 11, 2.30, then he has a small feed before bath around 5.30 and a huge huge feed at 6.30 then bed, he now wakes for a supposed dream feed at just before 10, then nothing in the night.

Do you offer at every feed or just once a day and how many spoonfuls can he have, or is it as much as he wants.

Are there any good links on how to start?]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:24:06 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24696&PID=619036&title=solids-how-much-and-how-often#619036