Solids how much and how often

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?

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.

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.

Ok well so far so good then.

We'll stick with just a couple of teaspoons each day and just gradually increase it.