Help! What to feed baby of 6/7months?

Bunnyinthelights

You may also want to consider cutting down on breast feeds as if they are having lots of millk, they won't be hungry for anything else. (Unless the feeds are just for a drink, not a full feed)
Speak to your health visitor as well as they can be quite helpful-I had a chart that helped me but found it really easy with number 2-I just let him have whatever we had and stopped worrying about it!
My daughter loved avacados and cheese (but I guess you can't feed little one that...)
Bunny

tanith

I remember my daughter just blending lots of vegetables then freezing in an icecube tray and at first using just one cube and gradually increasing, once they are frozen you can tap them out into a bag or box and reuse the tray again, she did all sorts of meat and veg like this just freezing a little blended meat or veg from a something she was cooking but before she added seasoning taking out the babies portion to freeze... My grandaughter is now 2 and she eats just about anything including curry which now a firm favourite
.....:T

andycarmi

Lo has had apple, pear, mango, blueberries, banana, melon, peach, avacordo, carrot, parsnip, cauliflower, spinish, sweet potato, potato, brocolli, butternut squash, cougette, peas, papaya, tomatos, leeks,

I feel I'm in a bit off a rush as I started her late on solids. I have some cod for her tea.

Thanks for the help.

Dumyat

give her own spoon to hold....even if she uses it to throw the food on the floor.

andycarmi

dogrose wrote: »

give her own spoon to hold....even if she uses it to throw the food on the floor.

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My Mum told me this yesterday as she keeps grapping the spoon.... I put the food on the sppon last night and she put it in her mouth (after a few goes of missing) and sucked it off.

Jo_R_2

andycarmi wrote: »

How much meat/fish should she have in a week?
How do you deicde what to make?
Where can I look for some inspiration? esp on the meat side of diet as I m veggi?

I think at this very early stage you don't need to worry so much about how much she's having of any particular foods. Really milk makes up such a big part of their nutrition until they're a year old that they will still be obtaining a lot of nutrition from there, particularly now.

However I think it's great you are thinking about what goes into her diet - I'm actually really neurotic and see a meal as a whole combination of different nutrients - as well as being really yummy to eat We are all veggie and I haven't worried too much about protein yet. DD2 is eight months and on the protein side of things (this is what I take it you mean when you are worrying about meat and fish?) she has had cheese, red lentils and a variety of beans but doesn't always have them every day as we've been taking it quite steady with weaning so far.

As we're doing baby-led weaning (I think I linked to this in a previous reply to you?) she has a bit of whatever we're having and feeds herself. She loves a pasta bake, grabbing the pieces of pasta and sucking them (whatever floats her boat I say!) She also likes mixtures of little vegetables, she loves grabbing handfuls of peas and sweetcorn and stuffing them into her mouth - she's a classy baby LOL! Other good things are chilli with brown rice or quinoa, DD1's like which is broccoli and cauliflower cheese (can be just one veg or you can use macaroni instead), a little curry and jacket potatoes (I slice them into wedges for her.)

I sympathise as I wouldn't have a clue what to make if she were eating meat! I have a stash of good books - "Super Foods for Children" by Michael van Straten and Barbara Grigg, "Optimum Nutrition for Babies and Children" by Lucy Burney and a Susannah Olivier one which I can't remember the title of. All great and really go into detail about nutrition, what are superfoods, and advantages and disadvantages of certain foods like meat/fish, dairy, and so on.

tanith

I used to give the baby a spoon so she could try it herself but inbetween her either dropping it down herself or up her sleeve or on the floor or throwing it either on the floor or in my eye:rotfl: I would have my own spoon and just feed her a mouthful while she was doing her 'thing' with her own spoon...:T

Jo_R_2

I should add that DD2 has dairy cheese but I use vegan cheese made from soya, you can use it in sauces, or you can make a nice white sauce at http://www.veganvillage.co.uk/recipes/whitesauce.htm which I use for veggie lasagne and it's REALLY nice and creamy. Use unsweetened soya instead of sweetened!

andycarmi

Ah thank-you guys, really helpful replys.:T :T :A

lisa_cee

after ds came along i remember thinking omg what do i feed him and how much etc, we also made things and froze them into ice cube trays. how about a homemade soup and blending it ! fish pie, calums now 10 months and eats everything even chunks of pasta

sounds like your doing well with her

what about making up a batch of pasta sauce can be added to mince for bolgnese or just pasta on its own i mix and match what i put in maybe onion tomato celery grated carrot red pepper even some basil and blitz it up !