baby advice feeding question..

Peanuckle

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

How does a baby realise she doen't want her mum to feed her but allow her big sis to ???

Simple to answer that one, she's a human being with her own mind, just because she's a baby doesn't mean she can't think for herself up to a point. Perhaps sis is more fun than mum or perhaps she fancied a change. Maybe she can tell you're stressed and isn't keen on that?

Either way don't fret about it, let big sis have the fun of feeding her (it's a great way for them to bond) and you get 5 minutes to chill out :T

pandora205

Trying to persuade a baby to eat commercially produced baby food seems like a waste of time anyway, as eventually you want her to eat your food. My advice would be to use 'real' foods, assuming you eat a healthy diet, mushing up stuff like banana, carrot and apple and letting her try suitably soft finger foods when she wants to. One way of this is to sit her next to you at meal times and see what she is interested in on your plate.

I used to puree most of our meals and give it to ours', freezing some for times when it wasn't suitable. We made sure the children were introduced to a broad range of foods early on, and represented foods that weren't liked first time around.

Finally, a thought is whether the baby is having too much milk to be hungry. I've come across quite a lot of older children (in my work) who are still having loads on bottles so aren't hungry.

mildred1978

pandora205 wrote: »

Trying to persuade a baby to eat commercially produced baby food seems like a waste of time anyway, as eventually you want her to eat your food. My advice would be to use 'real' foods, assuming you eat a healthy diet, mushing up stuff like banana, carrot and apple and letting her try suitably soft finger foods when she wants to. One way of this is to sit her next to you at meal times and see what she is interested in on your plate.

I used to puree most of our meals and give it to ours', freezing some for times when it wasn't suitable. We made sure the children were introduced to a broad range of foods early on, and represented foods that weren't liked first time around.

Finally, a thought is whether the baby is having too much milk to be hungry. I've come across quite a lot of older children (in my work) who are still having loads on bottles so aren't hungry.

I've never mashed or pureed anything for my son. Totally unnecessary. Their main source of nutrition until they are 1 should be breast or formula milk. I'd never recommend reducing milk feeds for a baby to make them eat more of anything.

mildred1978

OP - you could try lots of things easily Just try to think of things that can be made into fingers around 2 inches long. Cooked carrot, banana (quartered lengthwise), kiwi fruit, cucumber, mango, melon, peach and nectarine, soft pears, toast/fruit toast, finger sandwiches with cream cheese and ham, scotch pancakes, google "porridge fingers". I used to make risotto fingers, fish goujons, baked potato or parsnip wedges. Broccoli and cauliflower florets, baby leeks, strips of red and yellow pepper. Chipolata sausages. Breadsticks. Ricecakes. Hummous with dippy veg. Boiled eggs and soldiers. Strawberries. Even the odd fruit cake.

taxi36

My Grandson is 6.5 months (with 3 teeth)

At the minute he is eating basically whatever we are having for our family meals albeit we are mashing it up (not liquidising though) and feeding it to him from a spoon.

So far there isnt anything he has turned his nose up at.

He also has finger foods such as soft fruit , veg , toast soilders etc.

My Daughter seems very lucky in that he is a very easy baby to feed. Hopefully it stays that way.

mrcow

My eldest daugther was very independently minded and dexterous from a very early age. If I was trying to feed her something mushy, I just gave her the spoon and helped her dip it into the food. She then used to suck the food off the spoon herself.

It makes a mess at first, but so what. I miss those days!

Gigglepig

mildred1978 wrote: »

Why without breadcrumbs? Never heard of them being used for weightloss - not sure what would make you think that would work.

I did not realise you could get fish fingers without bread crumbs either. Sounds like a great idea for dieting to me. Cheap, easy to make fish without the deep fry grease - it should be an excellent filling weight loss food (lean protein)

mildred1978

Gigglepig wrote: »

I did not realise you could get fish fingers without bread crumbs either. Sounds like a great idea for dieting to me. Cheap, easy to make fish without the deep fry grease - it should be an excellent filling weight loss food (lean protein)

I think she meant she would de-bread the fish fingers for her child, not buy them that way. I get the impression she's eating them with the breadcrumbs.

Nicki

My DS suddenly decided one day, aged about 6 months that he wasn't having pur!ed food anymore as that was for babies. He looked around the table where everyone else was tucking into sausage mash and beans and made a grab, and never had another mushed up meal again. He had no teeth at that point but he managed very well and quickly moved on to things like homemade Thai green curry, and a restaurant meal in wagamama! (He had severe reflux and was weaned at 4 months rather than 6 on the advice of a consultant paediatrician before I get flamed and the thread derailed). We just made sure that homemade stuff didn't have too much salt and that he didn't have too many restaurant meals until he was a bit older, and cut things into manageable pieces for him to pick up, though to be honest he mastered the use of a fork and spoon quite quickly too.

emsywoo123

Nicki wrote: »

(He had severe reflux and was weaned at 4 months rather than 6 on the advice of a consultant paediatrician before I get flamed and the thread derailed).

I had exactly the same situation and advice with DS.