Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

[WendyDarling]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

@Nancy_Drew

my little one is 3 month old.. when do i start giving him solids?

Not earlier than 4 months. Preferably at 6 months.

[akmoti]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

@Gemini_the_Great

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?

how cute n wow he eats desi ghee too?
n i was worrying that he doesnt eat much in 6months+ age:smack:
u r making regular basmati rice for him?

[akmoti]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

@devilish_angel

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

@khawateen

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…

my progress so far!

its been three days that i m feeding solids when he is semi hungry n he takes almost 20 (small babysoft tip)spoons at a time Alhumdulillah!
n he is takin oatmeal cereal in morning n avocado/banana puree in evening…
and i m giving 1 or 2 teaspoons of water after meal too…
i’ve introduced sweet potato to him today n took 10 spoons n he liked it(thankgod)

thanx n jazakaAllah for ur suggestions!

[somegroovychick]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

^ how old is he? if he's over 6 months, you can likely give him more water than 1 or 2 teaspoons. water will also help if the introduction of solids makes him constipated.

[devilish_angel]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

Yeah I agree wth SGC, he is 6.5 months try introducing him sippy cup, n it's so hot in Dubai, give him lil bit more water

[khawateen]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

Definitely give more after from a proper cup... Slowly he will get the hang of it.... Or give him a sippy cup ...

[Gemini_the_Great]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

@akmoti

how cute n wow he eats desi ghee too?
n i was worrying that he doesnt eat much in 6months+ age:smack:
u r making regular basmati rice for him?

lol yeah my MIL sent desi ghee for my husband’s paratha from Pakistan.. my mom saved some for my son so just a tiny tiny bit.. its just a grandma thing.. when she leaves, I hope I can keep up with this choori stuff inshaAllah!

I give him the rice that we eat.. we actually have rice pretty much everyday for dinner and other than biryani I give him all kinds of rice… I just put a spoonfull of rice in one of our plates, make sure it’s not hot, and then put that plate in front of him on his high chair.. he can play with it,eat it whatever he wants to do until we finish the dinner.. usually some of it goes in his mouth, some in his hair and of course some on teh floor but I am okay with it.. he needs to learn to eat by himself.

we tried sippy cup for water that he refused, he drinks water from regular cup but I will keep trying the sippy cup because it’s messy with regular cup and once he starts day care, he will need to learn to learn to hold the sippycup etc.

[akmoti]

Re: Starting solids with fruits and veggies?

@somegroovychick

^ how old is he? if he's over 6 months, you can likely give him more water than 1 or 2 teaspoons. water will also help if the introduction of solids makes him constipated.

@devilish_angel

Yeah I agree wth SGC, he is 6.5 months try introducing him sippy cup, n it's so hot in Dubai, give him lil bit more water

@khawateen

Definitely give more after from a proper cup... Slowly he will get the hang of it.... Or give him a sippy cup ...

ok i will give him more water from now on inshaAllah!
thankyou! :)