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Baby related questions
Topic Started: Oct 15 2007, 10:42:58 AM (68 Views)
Bridiej
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I thought I'd start this thread as I have LOADS of questions and didnt want to fill P&P up with them all.... :blushing:

If any mums feel up to giving me the benefit of their experience and wisdom it will be most appreciated :flowers:

First off: solids

I have been feeding Katie solids for the last couple of weeks, she is now 4 1/2 months old.

She has four bottles a day: 8am, noon, 4pm, 8pm 240ml each (rarely leaves any)

I usually give her solids after her noon and 4pm feeds - she has a small baby food jar (110g?) amount of whatever (bought food occasionally, usually Farex or veggies)

* When should I start to give her three meals a day?

* How long will this amount be OK, should I just offer her more after a couple of weeks?

* She currently has the pureed stuff - how long until I can start making it lumpy?

* Once she's been introduced to a new food is it OK to start combining foods e.g. potato and carrot?

Thanks in advance :flowers:
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Pootle
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Hi Bridie,
Firstly - you've done so well! She seems to be already in a brilliant routine with both feeding and sleeping, well done! If she's taking a reasonable amount of solids after 2 feeds, I should gradually increase these by small amounts, then aim to introduce a third solids feed after she's 5 months.

You can gradually start to make the food of a 'thicker' consistency (like mashed potatoes rather than yogurt consistency) around 6 months - aiming to make it lumpy by 7-9 months. These are just guidelines though and every baby is different! Try offering her something afew times, if she's not keen then just leave it for a few weeks. Yes you can mix foods together even now! Try carrot/parsnip, carrot/apple (it actually goes really well together and babies love it!), apple/pear.

As for the waking - had she had any different foods before? Is she pooing ok? Not constipated? Maybe wind, maybe teething - hard to tell! Would try not to feed her at that time as that may interfere with her already brilliant routine! She's obviously waking from discomfort/pain and not hunger. Maybe try rubbing something soothing on her gums then tuck her up again?

Hope this helps (a bit) :)

Keep up the good work!

Ruth
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
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We got Harry into a 4 hours feed routing, then a dream feed when we went to bed. full nights sleep for all of us :thumbsup:

I put H on sollids at 4 months. Started with baby rice, he hated it so i used rusks soften with his milk. After about 2 weeks I started to introduce veggies and spent an entire day pureeing everything. Carrots, spuds, swede, brussels, peas, cauliflower...everything. I also made up some combined mixtures lke carrots and spuds etc... I put everything into ice cube trays and froze the lot. It was also a good measure of how much he was eating. 1 cube at about 4-5 months, 2 cubes from 5-6 months and up etc... The mixtures got steadily lumpier as he got older (about 6 months) until it was just mashed with the back of a fork.

When we first started with solids he would have 1cube once a day, then about a week later the same thing twice a day and gradually and gradually increased the amount and frequency as time went on.

I think Harry was on 3 meals a day by about 5 months.

Breakfast - Yogurt or rusk
Lunch - Cubes of veggies
Dinner - Cubes of veggies with a cube of puree fruit for pud.

Hope that helps.



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Hevs
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Let her guide you Bridie. She'll let you know when shes full

Perhaps thats why shes a bit unsettled. Try making up some porridge for brekkie then blend it with a hand blender, also with a bit of fruit puree... Flynn used to love it!

A few tea spoons is all at first.

Flynn has brekkie, lunch (main and yog) dinner whatever we have and say rice pudding etc and three to four 150 ml bottles in the day.

Remember once she starts solids that the bottle amount usually reduces a bit.


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Snappy
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I must be a terrible mother as I can not for the life of me say how much or when my two started to eat or how much they drank :o

I agree with Hevs just go by whatever seems right. There is no hard or fast rules for this and in fact this is one point that used to bug the hell out of me. My old health visitor used to call in and weigh Mia as a baby and scared the crap out of me when she didn't put any weight on...in fact she was going off the line she had been following on her chart. I thought I was starving her and she made me panic like hell. My mother told me if she is weeing, crapping, crying, laughing and is active then she is normal and not to worry.

I spoke to the doctor at one of her check ups about it all and she said that would have been when Mia started to crawl and so she was using up more energy...needless to say she was right, so was my mother and as for that silly bitch that made me worry like hell I had very little to do with afterwards.

It is horrible being a first mum as you do worry about everything but you will know when something is wrong by instinct so listen to yourself and then act on it.

As for the rest of it just go with the flow as you won't have many days that are identical as they go through growth spurts that put all normal feeding patterns, start to get active and desire more.

You are doing a fab job Bridie as a mum :thumbsup:

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Tiredwithtwins
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i cant remember what ages either :no:
but as hevs and sasha say, just let her guide you - claires guide is good :thumbsup:
i too used to cook tons and then puree it and bung it in icecube trays ... makes life a lot easier :D

you are doing fine honey ... :flowers:
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Bridiej
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Thanks peeps, and thanks for the food info, I will certainly give those a try, I love porridge myself..!!

Yes Snappy, you hear a lot about the HCNs worrying people, luckily mine isreally good and pretty much says "these are the recomendations but go with the flow".

I will have to get something for her gums today as she is in for her jabs later.

:flowers:
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