Hints and tips for weaning (merged)

andycarmi

roversbabe wrote:

Hipp organic orange, apple & banana cereal - just make it up with breastmilk or formula, DS (7.5 months) loves it. I've not tried any other cereals yet cos I've to watch out for added milk (makes his eczema worse).

Thanks that sounds great DD has a cows milk intolerance
so that sounds perfect.

roversbabe

andycarmi wrote:

Thanks that sounds great DD has a cows milk intolerance
so that sounds perfect.

I've only ever seen it in Boots and a box lasts ages.

Just out of interest, do you use breastmilk / formula on the weetabix or do you use an alternative milk, i.e. goats or soya milk?

I'm going to try DS on weetabix but I wasn't sure what to put on it - I can't use standard cows milk or soya milk as it seems to make his eczema worse, but we have nutramigen (hypo allergenic) formula, would that be suitable?

Thanks

andycarmi

roversbabe wrote:

I've only ever seen it in Boots and a box lasts ages.

Just out of interest, do you use breastmilk / formula on the weetabix or do you use an alternative milk, i.e. goats or soya milk?

I'm going to try DS on weetabix but I wasn't sure what to put on it - I can't use standard cows milk or soya milk as it seems to make his eczema worse, but we have nutramigen (hypo allergenic) formula, would that be suitable?

Thanks

I BF.

I used soya milk but DD wont drink it but thought I would try it to see if she would have it if it was mixed up with weetabix. She wasn't keen so now give it her with Breast milk, but still not keen but a bit better.

On the side of formula LF and the Soya milk it says suitable for cooking and using in food, maybe have a look on the side of the tin and see if it says that. Sorry not more use. AC.

roversbabe

andycarmi wrote:

I BF.

I used soya milk but DD wont drink it but thought I would try it to see if she would have it if it was mixed up with weetabix. She wasn't keen so now give it her with Breast milk, but still not keen but a bit better.

On the side of formula LF and the Soya milk it says suitable for cooking and using in food, maybe have a look on the side of the tin and see if it says that. Sorry not more use. AC.

I've used it in mashed potato and that went down well, I'll give it a go.

Thanks

purplepatch

heather38 wrote:

purple i think most babies spit out their food when they first start weaning. they need to get the hang of swallowing it. do you make it up with the same milk she is drinking? plus baby rice is disgusting i wouldn't eat it! why not try pureed carrot instead?
when you give her the last feed before bed why not give a bit more and see how she gets on. maybe try again next weekend. don't let yourself get stressed as baby will pick up on it and mess about.

I don't remember DD1 spitting it as much as this, although perhaps it's just my memory. I know DD1 didn't like babyrice though, so I might give the carrot a go. I do use the same milk she drinks - farleys 2nd milk. I've tried to give her extra milk at bedtime but she absolutely won't ever take more than 5oz at a time, no matter what I try. I've tried telling her that the tin says she should have 7oz at a time, but she just won't listen :rotfl:

Bernadette, I'm aware of the new recommendations re later weaning, but have decided after discussion with HV to go for it now. DD1 (now 4 years) was weaned at 17 weeks, as that was the recommendation then. She had slept through the night from 6 weeks and then suddenly starting waking again at around 4 months. There is no doubt in my mind that the weaning helped her to go through the night again and many of my friends found the same thing.

Exactly the same is happening with DD2, she started sleeping through at 8 weeks consistently until a couple of weeks ago and I can see she is ravenous. I can only go by my own experiences, but I definitely have found that there is a link between weaning and sleeping through - although of course like your own DD, there will always be exceptions.

The HV mentioned the obesity link being the main reason for the change from 4 to 6 months. As DD1 is a wiry little stringbean who is always on the move, must admit I'm not too concerned about that issue .

Juicy_Tube

roversbabe wrote:

Hipp organic orange, apple & banana cereal - just make it up with breastmilk or formula, DS (7.5 months) loves it. I've not tried any other cereals yet cos I've to watch out for added milk (makes his eczema worse).

I hope you take this is in the way it is meant:D

Be aware of the sugar content of a lot of these so-called 'baby' products. Check out the labels of carbohydrates as sugars and you will see they are very high. Somewhere I have the 'ideal' rate of sugar and salt per 100g and I will post back..

before weaning we had a nutrionist in our area and the items she said were a real no-no were farley's rusks(even low-sugar ones), breakfast cereals like sunshine orange etc due to very high sugar content and all the juices and biccies aimed at LO's.

I opted for healthy porridge with my own fresh fruit added, baby muesli which you can get at good health stores, plain rice krispies from health food stores. It is so easy to add your own fruit to these rather than buy the commercial type which are laden with awful sugar contents.

Weetabix- I think you need to be careful with this for the littlies as it is very harsh due to amount of wheat? Once a week.

HTH

JT x

Spendless

BernadetteN wrote:

there is no link between waking at night and weaning.

When did that change . When I had my 2 (7 and almost 4) that is one of the signs you were told to look for, a baby who had previously slept thru now waking up during night, and grabbing spoon off you when you were eating too, has that also been changed?

Glad I'm not having any more, I don't think I could cope with the almost daily advice change :rotfl:

purplepatch

Spendless wrote:

When did that change . When I had my 2 (7 and almost 4) that is one of the signs you were told to look for, a baby who had previously slept thru now waking up during night, and grabbing spoon off you when you were eating too, has that also been changed?

Glad I'm not having any more, I don't think I could cope with the almost daily advice change :rotfl:

Not sure whether Bernadette is stating no link between weaning and sleeping as her own opinion or whether it is a scientific finding

Had some success last night in that I changed to a faster teat yesterday and actually managed to get her to take 5 oz at 6pm and another 5oz at 7.30pm before going to bed. Bless her little cottons, she slept through again :A:T

I will have another try today with the rice - perhaps I was being too optimistic about the time it would take for her to get the hang of it.

Spendless

purplepatch wrote:

I will have another try today with the rice - perhaps I was being too optimistic about the time it would take for her to get the hang of it.

My two were never keen on rice either, and having once tasted it I could see their point . I had more success with a banana as a first food, but use a bib cos it makes a mess of clothes! Or is it feeding from a spoon she's struggling with? I put some milk onto a spoon first to get DD used to taking food from a spoon.

purplepatch

No she's fine with a spoon, it's just once it gets in her mouth she doesn't know what to do with it lol.

I was going to try banana as that was what DD1 had at first, but whilst googling for weaning advice, read something the other day that suggested going immediately onto fruit encourages them to have a sweet tooth and also to turn their nose up at veggies. DD1 is a bit of a picky eater and not hugely keen on veg, obsessed with sweet stuff :rolleyes:, so perhaps there's something in that theory...