Tips on Solids!

You can start her on some finger foods, I tend to make elizabeth dinner at 5, then we have ours around 5.30 so she gets a piece of steak, or ovenbaked chips (homemade kumara or potato), some cooked carrot or broccoli, just what ever she can hold out of whats being eaten. And my girl LOVES bread. Even if she's eaten a full lunch, she'll chow down a slice of bread after it. Bits of cheese, slices of avacado, mandarins, banana, are all great to snack on too.

I had the same problem finding inspiration for solids for Cian -- until I found "the baby healthy eating planner" at whitcoulls! I love it - the book is broken down into ages and has heaps of yummy recipies, including quick and easy snacks, things that are good to freeze, etc and even gives you an idea of how to set up a menu for bubs that covers all the nutritional bases... plus it was only $27

Babies have a really good gag reflex. She likely to gag a lot to start with, the trick is to not panic and give her a chance to gag. It's a bit freaky until you get used to it!

Hi,

Just as an aside as well, NOTHING we tried food wise helped put weight on DS2 faster so don't assume that giving more solids will solve that issue. In fact, it made the situation WORSE for us; the only thing we found that did anything substantial was avocado, Alex will eat these like they are going out of fashion. LOL Nothing wrong with DS2 either, he just doesn't stack on heaps of weight all the time, he only broke 10kg last month at 19 months. It took me 8 months of "battling" with my Plunket nurse for her to finally agree with me when I said he was just growing how he was genetically programmed to instead of how some chart said he should.

Contrary to what Plunket seems to think milk, be that bm or formula, has more fat and calories ounce for ounce than most solid food you can be giving her. This might make for interesting reading................