Member Advice on Baby Food

'''Weaning''' is a very exciting milestone for parents and babies, but some parents find this time to be a little daunting too. Weaning is a gradual process that requires time and patience. The weaning experience is different with every child. It is always a good time to start when you and your baby are in good health, and are feeling relaxed. It is also best to delay the weaning process if your baby is adapting to anything else such as teething. ...
...baby has reached 6 months of age, to prevent your baby from getting allergies, and because a baby's digestive system is not ready until this age. However some parents wean their babies before this age. I think as a parent you know when your baby is ready for food; some babies need extra nourishment when milk alone does not satisfy them so parents decide to introduce food at an earlier age. When to wean is a personal decision, you as a parent will ...

Autarkis 16.02.2009 (28.03.2009) · Read full review
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With 'Baby Food' being such a huge topic and with much advice being available from health visitors and reference books, I thought in this review I would just take a look at one of my favourite readymade products and then just give some brief advice on foods to concentrate on as you wean your baby over the first 12 months. It is important to remember that breast or formula milk still has a huge part to play in your baby's diet over the first 12 months ...
...drinks can be given as cooled boiled water up until the age of 6 months and after that fresh cool tap water is fine. Any bottles and accessories used in feeding milk or dairy products should be sterilised for the first 12 months to avoid the risk of illness or stomach upset. I don't usually purchase too much ready-made, pureed, baby food as it is fairly easy to make at home. For quick snacks, fruits like bananas, ripe peaches and ripe melon can ...

inycon2 17.06.2004 · Read full review
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Every new mum will know how daunting it is just thinking about feeding your baby nutritious meals that you have prepared yourself! Finding out what they like and what they don't,they always let you know in the end either by crying or turning there little noses up at it or plain old projectile vomiting(yuck)! When I first started to wean my son he was great,not to fussy and loved things like pureed carrots and parsnips.These are great as they are ...
...try not to add sugar to anything as this will lead to a sweet tooth. I used to give pureed banana and cooked and pureed apple at breakfast,then on too lunch which consisted of carrot and parsnips,yum!! You can puree any vegetable and should wait to introduce meat at about 5 or 6 months!!by which time you can make loads of different meals for baby! One of my son fav's is spagetti bolognese!! Here's the recipe ----------------- Fry 1 tablespoon of ...

niclemamy 09.05.2001 (18.06.2001) · Read full review
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I found it easier to feed my daughter and my son before her from ice cube trays, these are a god send, I think I read it in a baby magazine first then someone else suggested it, maybe the health visitor, but if it makes life easier then its worth trying. So what to put in the miraculous objects?? Answer is anything (apart from Bananas as they don't freeze once mashed). This also depends on your babies age and what they have tried already. So starting ...
...give solids before this age, you can give apple, pear Banana and Papaya and the trick is to make up loads and freeze the separate fruits in the ice cube trays then as your baby grows you can mix and match as necessary. The vegetables from 4 months are Carrot, cauliflower, potato, courgette, squash, green beans, swede and sweet potato. You must remember not to add any sugar or salt to these whilst cooking and the fruit and veg need to be cooked just ...

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I've been lucky with my baby - he will eat almost anythnig, likes texture and lumps, rarely throws up or spits anything out. I found much of this out because I resent the idea of spending 50p a meal for someone of his tiny size. Making baby food isn't as hard as it sounds. One way of doing it is to buy a food processor and process anything and everything that you eat. Fine in theory, however, you will rapidly find that your food has a good deal ...
...to have. Little one cannot have nuts, so there's no puree-ing honey nut cornflakes for breakfast, no bread products for the first few months so you can forget watching that sandwhich getting mashed, and if you cook your own tea from scratch, you may find that salt free baby cooking is more than you can bear to eat. You won't be able to offer him a portion of any tinned, pre packed food as there's always more salt and sugar than a baby should have. ...

Bryn_Pearson 17.03.2003 · Read full review
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Or Mel’s (rough) guide to weaning. I have to say before I start that I have been extremely lucky with charlotte. She is a human dustbin and will eat anything that’s put in front of her. The only complaints I get are: (10 minutes after eating): Mummy I haven’t had anything to eat for AGES, I’m very HUNGRY. I realise it is so easy to have a picky child – listening to some of the mums down at school: He’ll only ...
...the rest of the week it’s pot noodles and flat coke!! I really do thank me lucky stars that I have one good eater and another one in the making. I do think though that what you feed them in the early days helps them on the road to being good eaters. So for your perusal my guide. It’s worked for Charlie and is working (so far – fingers crossed - for Ciaran) Starting Off Babies shouldn’t start to be given solids until around ...

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The big day came, my youngest child was ready to have more than just her milk, and it was time for some solid food I was ready; I had stacked my shelves with packets of dried food and tins of food. The packet food was easy to make up you just add a bit of water to some powder and it is good enough to eat. Well I am not so sure it is good enough to eat. As for the tins and jars all you have to do is open them and feed the child you can heat them ...
...maybe just a baby. Well I hadn't actually stacked the shelves but I did have some food ready. The packet food is easy enough but when I looked at it I thought would I want to eat this and on the whole the answer was NO!!! I did like the smell of cheesy food and one breakfast cereal well it is in fact seven cereals I could imagine would be quite flavoursome but on the whole I did not want to eat any of the dried gloopy food. May be the tins would ...

mjbarkley 12.09.2001 · Read full review
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Well we are told to introduce our offspring to finger foods from about 6 months onwards, thing is no one tells you what are suitable finger foods and you're kind of left to guess for yourself. Well never fear English Lady and her daughter are here! My Daughter is now 10 months old and loves her finger foods. She isn't a fussy eater so I reckon if it is holdable she's eaten it! Here are a list of baby friendly finger foods that I have discovered along ...
...Bread. Brown or white, toasted or not, bread is brilliant. Bethanny likes to pull it apart and then eat the tiny bits. Making little ham, cheese, cheese spread etc sandwiches for your child is an idea though they will probably be pulled apart and eaten in individual bits. Makes your little one feel all grown up having the same thing as mummy and daddy! Rusks I buy the plain sugar free, gluten free Farleys rusks (£1:79 per box of16) although you can ...

VickyVickster 08.09.2002 · Read full review
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When my son George first tried solids I let him have baby rice for a few days. When he got more used to eating 'real food' I would buy some fruit and vegtables i.e. apples, pears, parsnips, carrots etc and just cook or stew them before putting them in the blender. I would do them all seperately and then freeze them in an ice cube tray, then when he needed a meal I could mix and match them making several different meals. I found that this worked ...
...the jars are about 50p each where as you could make a whole batch, which would last a lot longer, for about the same price. By freezing them in ice cube trays I could warm up the right amount that George would eat so when his appetite grew I could just give an extra cube. This method is quite time consuming, so I used to make a lot of batches of foods one afternoon a week or every few weeks then I had it all stored ready to use. As he got older ...

kathchurchill 15.05.2001 (30.09.2001) · Read full review
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Just imagine that your diet had been restricted to one bland liquid for the whole of your life… how exciting would it be, to be about to embark on the greatest culinary adventure of your life, when you are finally introduced to solid food! Whilst your baby’s first foods will be, by adult standards, boringly bland and textureless, try to keep in mind how new and exciting – also unfamiliar and perhaps frightening – it is for ...
...your baby they are already accustomed to considerable variety in the flavour of their daily nourishment. From curry to cappuccino the trace aromas of everything you have consumed have been filtered, combined and passed to your baby in every meal – in fact this process begins before birth, with flavour and aroma compounds evident in the amniotic fluid that that surrounds the embryo, the organs for taste and smell develop well before full term ...

Cazz 06.01.2002 · Read full review
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My daughter was ready to be weaned at around 16 weeks old. I knew this because she was interested in our food and would reach for it or water at the mouth (this made us feel terrrible!!) She also started waking earlier in the morning which I felt was down to hunger. I wanted to make sure she ate a good diet with no hidden extra's like you sometimes get in the shop brought ones (ie: E No's etc.) so I decided to have a go at making my own and have ...
...I started her on organic baby rice at one meal which she took to immediately although some babies do take a while to get used to the different texture and the spoon. They have to practise using their tongue for something other than sucking which quite often means they push out food instead of eating it - much to their frustration! After a few days of this I took myself off to the library and stocked up on baby food books including the Annabel Karmel ...

Katie-Jane 08.08.2002 · Read full review
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I was just about to write my opinion on this subject however having just read princessoapy's opinion many of the tips I would give have been covered by her very comprehensive op which is much worth reading. My baby girl is 5 mnths old and I started giving her a spoon of baby rice (mixed with formula milk) at 13 weeks old. This is slightly earlier than recommended, usual weaning starts at around 16 weeks, however this really does depend on your babes ...
...when she was normally full up and satisfied, she would continue crying, another sign your babe needs solids is that they may start waking in the night due to hunger pains. It is important to notice the signs as if you start giving milk in the night again your baby will start to depend on a night feed and it may be a hard habit to break. After 1 week of a spoonful of baby rice each day (served at around 6pm) I gradually increased the quantity until ...

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I have a good friend who I love to pieces, but she really does my head in when it comes to her kids. Her problem is that she read so many books before, during and after her pregnancy, that she freaks out over the silliest little things always saying....'but Sarah this book said...' Ok she is an extreme case but it is such a good lead into what I have to say concerning baby food. Hands up all mums who start to panic when their baby wont eat......be ...
...is WHY???? Is it maybe something to do with the fact that we think they might be ill? And whys that? If we are honest most of the time its because you read somewhere or heard somewhere how another baby wasnt eating and it turned out they were ill. The truth is you would know when your baby really is ill-unless you are my friend who has a reserved seat by her doctors....Use your common sense-it really is your best friend. There are no rules to feeding ...

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I started weaning my 1st child at 8 weeks and my other 2 at 10 weeks. They all took to it straight away and were no longer satisfied with just milk. My health visitor thought this was far too early and gave me a telling off, but in my experience every baby is different and some show an interest in proper food a lot earlier than the reccomended 4 months. I started out with packet baby rice as it was easier and quicker to make than cooking your own ...
...of adding more variety of flavour, I cooked my own food and froze it in little pots. One way of doing it, is to by a few jars of baby food at the beginning, then sterilize the jars and reuse them. Here are my suggestions for the types of food that are quick and easy to cook. Soup. Lots of vegetables can be added to different flavoured soups and it`s a lot cheaper than jars of caserole. Smash. A packet of instant mash goes a long way, and again ...

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I have to admit, I was concerned about how my baby would cope with a spoon rammed into his mouth rather than the bottle he was used too. Thankfully he was fine, he could'nt get enough, in fact he actually prefers food to the milk he always acted like he couldn't live without. My main moan is that there does not seem to be a wide choice of dinners available. Puddings? think of a pudding and its there mashed down and in a jar especially for your ...
...to chicken and vegetables, turkey and vegetables, beef casserole, lamb stew and cheesy vegetables. If you're lucky there may be a variation of one of these gourmet meals. There is limited choice out there for parents who are bringing there child up vegetarian, you will be lucky to find one main dinner per brand available. If you want your child to grow up with a tooth sweeter than sugar then you will be fine. My son, bless him, is picky and decided ...

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