A Few Solids Questions.

Hey Ladies..

Just have a few questions regarding this whole solids thing.

1. When did you start doing the 3 meals, Kylah has lunch and dinner. 4 cubes each feed (I make my own baby food) When should i up her to breakfast as well? Shes been on 2 meals for about 2 weeks.

2. What do you give for breakfast? And how do i make it?

3. What age do they start finger food? I give Kylah things in her fresh feeder.

4. Can i give her potato? Do i just cook them and puree it?

5. You dont need to add anything to any of her food aye? No salt, sugar or marg aye? I had an old lady proceed to tell me i should beadding butter to her carrots and sugar to her apple and pear, but i dont want to.

Sorry about all the questions.

Edited by KylahsMum

Spencer went onto three meals a day about 3 weeks ago, up until then he had no interest in brekkie, so I would say try and if she isn't interested leave a week or 2 then try again.

For breakfast Spencer has a fruit (normally either apple of pears) mixed with rice cereal and now he is a bit older and has lumps he has porridge with fruit. (watties etc make muesli's etc for bubs that you could try)

I think they normally recommend 6 months before starting finger foods, Spencer couldn't have rusks so instead we started with pieces of apple (cut into sticks so he could hold them) the same with pears and cooked carrots and have just worked up from there. To start with he would chew them up and spit them out but now he demolished who crakers and strawberries and big bits of apple.

Yes you can give potato, I find the best thing to do is steam (or boil) and then add some of that water in with them when you blend them. Once she is eating lumps then you can just mush with a fork, still using a bit of the water to help make them creamy.

Don't listen to old people, they are mad!!!!

cuppatea wrote: Don't listen to old people, they are mad!!!!

Lol, that cracked me up.

Cool. I will try her on brekky tomorrow. See if she is interested.
She really loves food and i cant give it to her fast enough, if im too slow with the spoon she gets grumpy lol. She even has her mouth open when i sitting there mixing it!

When I was a Karitane nurse in the toddlers section we used to put a little apple with the veg .
Not all old people are mad lol
You can try potato ,
I used to make my kids potato, carrot, pumpkin, and kumara

Yeah, they say 6 months but I can't see a reason for it as the purees up nicely. Spencer really loves brocolli, is not so keen on cauliflower. Other veges I give are green beans, peas and sweetcorn but until she can cope with lumps you have to push the peas and sweetcorn through a sieve as the skins don't puree, so is up to you as to whether you can be asked doing that.

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you make up the cubes of vege purree, and how then do you prepare the cubes to give to your baby?

Do you reheat them on the stove or can you microwave them? And when do you start giving them this kind of food? Also, how many cubes do you generally feed them to start with?

Sorry if I hijacked the thread a little...

Thats ok janey.. jack away.

I use a magic bullet to puree my food, you can get them on trade me $1 reserve i won mine for $25 dollars and $15 postage brand new.

If you do buy one, make sure you check the containers that screw in first, didnt realiae mine was dodgy and the cup never screwed on properly and i was pureeing hot pears it popped and got really badly burnt!

Otherwise you could use a blender i guess, would be hard to get the food out tho.

I started kylah on a teaspoon for 2 days, 2 teaspoons on day 3 and after a week it was a cube, then 2 weeks was 2 cubes, now its 4 cubes twice a day!!

you can add baby's milk to their pureed food i couldnt be bothered expressing so i use to buy a sample packet's of formular and used that.

Plunket do a food guide but it is funny as some things that I can give Lily on her special anti -allergy intro diet aren't on the plunket list till a bit older. Crazy.

Janey - if there are any allergies in your families then it is a good idea to delay as long as possible to get close to 6 months.