Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?
thankyou so much everyone!!! love ur tips n suggestions!
Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?
So girls when did you start giving yogurt, cheese etcto the baby? My baby doesnt have an appr with his doc until August so I was wondering what you have to say?
I m thinking of sending her an email to check if I can give him chicken at 8 months..but I will like to know what you guys did!
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I started chicken in 9 th month,n dairy items after 1 year
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he can have chicken and dairy now. try ricotta cheese with fruit puree, or cottage cheese if you want to introduce soft textures to him. and remember to give him little bits of soft fruits and steamed veggies to hold himself. he'll play with it initially but he'll figure out pretty quickly its for eating. and do try to introduce some texture... even if its regular quaker oats oatmeal instead of the baby pureed oatmeal. otherwise, they get too used to complete purees and then gag at the slightest texture.
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^ yep. One of my cousin's kid who is almost 2 I believe, still cannot eat proper solid foods and gags when does so.
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sgc.. he really didnt have a puree stuff much actually..most of the time we mash it or give him very small pieces to eat.. like I will mash mango in his cereal but it will have texture.. we havent bought any jar food yet and hardly ever used the blender so I dont think he is getting used to puree!
My mom is going to make home made yogurt and probably I will make smoothie for him.. and definitely going to try the cheese and stuff inshaAllah!
Afshi.. eeeek that's no fun!
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my baby is 6.5months old now...i gave him mashed banana n avocado but he couldnt eat it properly....n was coughing...then i pureed it....
then i started to puree the fruits n oats cereal(homemade) everyday....but i do try mashed(not pureed)bananas n avocados....but again he starts coughing n cant swallow it....
does ur babies also took time for mashed foods?
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not really.. I never gave him puree so probably he never knew the difference.. these days we are giving him rice (mashed up ), potatoes, oatmeal cereal with mango, banana, or any other fruit again mashed up, and he takes that just fine at almost 9 months.
oh we also introduced roti few weeks ago.. for now he only gets "choori" (leftover paratha mashed with desi ghee that my MIL had sent for her son :D) and he eats that fine too... I tried giving him a piece of roti but I noticed that he was taking big bites so we stopped that for now.
you can keep giving him puree for now and introduced mashed food in a month or so?
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Ure kid isn't ready for texture... Go slow.
My son had a very strong gag relex and he couldn't handle texture until his first bday and didn't eat proper solids until he turned 15 ,oaths!!!!!
So keep tring but if he can't accept it... Purée to smoothness and add texture very slowly. :)
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thanx GTG n Khwa!!!
i had to give him puree coz he cant tolerate mashed banana or any other fruit.....
thankyou so much khwa!! i make ur porridges at home....n my baby loves to eat them.....i will start to saute the oats with butter in a week or two inshaAllah! :)
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It's ok akmoti every baby is different, go wth his needs , my baby took purees till 1 year as long as baby is eating its fine, eventually he will learn eat solid, go slowly, after a month reduce consistency, gradually gradually shift him from purres to solid
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thanx DA!!!
u r a great help!
he eats just 2-3 tablespoons n sumtimes he eats the whole cup…it depends on his mood…
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plus there is not a proper schedule for his eating.....
sometimes he eats once a day sometimes twice.....
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How old is he? For the first year milk should be the primary food, just go wth the flow, the way your baby likes, never force him
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He is stillin the learning period.... Move on so that by 8 months he is having 3 meals a day. However much he wants :)
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^oh i see....uptill now he likes avocado alot n he digests it really well....
lol yeah i should go easy on him he's 6.5 months old DA...
n i do feed him milk first n after that if he wants to eat solids he'll eat maximum 2tblsp (he threw it twice) n sometimes he doesnt eat at all.....
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no no... u have to find a time where he is semi hungry... if u try to feed him right after a feeding of milk.. no way will he eat much... say.. 9 am he takes his milk.. 11 he takes some food...1 he takes milk again... something like that...
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aww he is still in the beggining process dont worry as long as he is happy eating n drinking milk dont worry, as khawa said dont give food after milk make his schedule like this one milk one solid like alternate thing
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ahan ok i will make his schedule like that n will update u guys if he's doing good :)
thankyou!
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my little one is 3 month old.. when do i start giving him solids?