Quick weaning question - porridge

rach_k

You can give pretty much anything you eat yourself, with a few exceptions like honey (not before a year), whole or big chunks of nuts (choking hazard), too much salt. You probably want to follow similar rules to during pregnancy regarding certain fish (can never remember which as I'm a veggie), undercooked eggs etc. I don't see the point in buying special baby foods, with the exception of baby stock cubes as even 'normal' reduced salt stock cubes are pretty salty.

The info on milk above is just daft. It doesn't even say not to give cow's milk, it says that breastfeeding/formula should be continued for the first year. I interpret that as saying you shouldn't give cow's milk as a drink for the first year, which I agree with but not for the reasons they give!

Keep breastfeeding LO as normal but any milk you use in/on food is fine to be cow's milk (whole), unless you have stored breastmilk you want to use up. I'd not go to the trouble of expressing milk especially.