baby advice feeding question..

Ellejmorgan

mildred1978 wrote: »

Perhaps you need to calm down and rationalise this a bit. I have offered a lot of advice in this thread which you appear to be ignoring.

http://www.babyledweaning.com/features/gagging/the-gagging-thing/

http://www.babyledweaning.com/features/gagging/the-gagging-thing-v-the-choking-thing/

I am entitled to a different opinion to yours, if I don't agree with BLW then I don't have to..


My baby has been tried on solid self finger foods and is not capable at this time, every mouthful she willl gag or it will come back up...

I also wondered how a baby is able to choose who she prefers to provide her meal...

Although I am a very experienced parent, this baby is my 5th, I haven't had a baby do the same sort of things this one does,
hence asking for thoughts...

Would anyone be able to suggest some recipes for the baby please, apart from swede, mince & carrot, I can't think of much...
My older one were on jars/tins until 1 and I want to provide homemade...

Thank you....

Ellejmorgan

meritaten wrote: »

A sicky baby may be having too much milk? why not try putting some mushed up food and a spoon in front of her?
when i say mushed up I dont mean pureed - I mean mashed with a fork. That is the next stage if you dont use jar food. I never used jar food with my kids (Jars were for emergencies). they started on pureed then progressed to mashed with a fork and then cut up for them when teeth appeared. none of them choked but they did gag a few times. that is normal when learning to eat.
my kids ate what we ate - its only in the last fifty or so years that babies for some reason have to eat jar food!

This is what i've just done as my health visitor recommended, thank you..

Mashed food is right for her at this time, I really don't want to use jars any longer, I have access to really cheap fruit, veg & meat..

I am looking for recipe ideas if you have any please...

Gillyx

If you want to do purees things we've tried recently here he's loved

Carrot, Parsnip and Apple
Sweet Potato and Brocolli (yuk, he loves it though)
Carrot, Swede & Peach
Avocado
Apple & Pear
Apple & Blueberry

The veg I steam and then puree, the fruit I put in a pot with some pre boiled water and soften it that way

Nicki

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

I am looking for recipe ideas if you have any please...

http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

She also has numerous cookery books which you could probably get from the library aimed at children from 6 months to late toddlerhood. She is a TWer not a BLWer.

cutestkids

my little one used to love macaroni cheese at this age what I used to do was make the cheese sauce but instead of normal macaroni I would use the little pasta stars that you can get as they are very small and just right for introducing some texture.

Also the cheese sauce can be used for other things I used to mix a little with mashed potato for him and also make fish pie just a little bit of white fish mashed potato and some cheese sauce.

Chicken casserole which I would make with chicken breast onion, carrot and parsnip cook in chicken stock and the mash up as much as you want this is good as you can start off with a real puree then as the baby gets more used to it make it lumpier every time.

I would mash up spagetti bolognese for ours as well, if she can't cope yet with the texture of the mince then puree instead of mash.

Pretty much anything that I was making like Stew, mince spagetti I would just take some out and mash up for the little one.

Even a roast dinner which both of mine loved I would just mash everything up to the consistency that they could cope with.

cutestkids

Nicki wrote: »

http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

She also has numerous cookery books which you could probably get from the library aimed at children from 6 months to late toddlerhood. She is a TWer not a BLWer.

I had an Annable Karmel book and it was great in fact some of the recipies in it I still use today.

mildred1978

Nicki wrote: »

http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

She also has numerous cookery books which you could probably get from the library aimed at children from 6 months to late toddlerhood. She is a TWer not a BLWer.

With recipes full of salt and sugar.

mildred1978

cutestkids wrote: »

my little one used to love macaroni cheese at this age what I used to do was make the cheese sauce but instead of normal macaroni I would use the little pasta stars that you can get as they are very small and just right for introducing some texture.

Or you can buy normal twists and bash them up before cooking ( if you must). Much cheaper.

Gillyx

mildred1978 wrote: »

With recipes full of salt and sugar.

Really? My book, almost all of the recipes have no added salt or sugar at all :eek: I have a few of her books now, I'm going to check in case I'm wrong, but I've made quite a few and don't remembering adding any. Will double check now though!

Ellejmorgan

mildred1978 wrote: »

With recipes full of salt and sugar.

I'm confused didn't you say breadcrumbs on fish fingers are ok, don't they have lots of salt and sugar ???