REgarding about semi-solid.
I remember i did say i will scan for u all the guide for introducing solid food.
I was unable to scan so i type here it goes.
INTRODUCING SOLID FOODS
A GUIDE FOR PARENTS
When?
By four to six months, most babies are ready for solid foods. Eating solid food is a totally new experience for your baby , and it may be diffult at first. Just be patient. Do not force feed. Remember, feeding should be a happy experience!
Let your baby's appetite be your guide, so as to avoid over or under-feeding.
Do not give baby foods, such as cereal thinned with milk, from a bottle.
The First Feed
* Rice cereal is a good first food.
* Mix one teaspoon of ceral with 3-4 teaspoons of liquid. This can be expressed breast milk, his usual milk formula or warm water.
* Introduce food at breakfast or at lunch-time.
* Initially, you may give him a little breast milk or an ounce of two of this milk formula first before the first spoon feeding.
* Hold the baby on your lap, a little more upright than the usual breast or bottle feeding position.
* Start With just a little food on a baby-sized spoon. PUt the spoon between your baby's lips, so he can suck the food. Don't force the spoon down his throat.
*He only needs about 1-2 teaspoons befor you resume the rest of the milk feed.
*Be patient. some babies take to the spoon easily, while others may refuse or struggle with the spoon. Do not force. Try again the next day.
4 Months
* Food should be bland, smouth and easy to swallow.
* start with rice ceral. Make it Thin for the first few feeds.
* Once the baby gets used to spoon feeding, you may thicken the ceral and increase the amount gradually over the next two week until it replaces a milk feed.
* 3-4 tablespoon of ceral to 150ml milk is sufficient for most babies. You may use other cereals for variety.
* Next, introduce fruits and vegetables one at a time.
* Start with a tablespoon of soft scrapped fruits (papapya, apple or banana) or pureed vegetables (carrot, spinach, pimplin or potato). you may add them to the cereal or serve them separately.
* Introduce fruit juices 1-2 oz dilute with equal amount of water. Barley water can also be used.
* By the end of 4 mounths, your baby will be one ceral food, one fruit or vegetable dessert and 3-5 bottles of milk.
5 Months
* Your baby is ready for home-cooked porridge. This can be easily prepared with a slow cooker.
* The porridge must contain a vegetable and a protein food.
* never use only the chicken or beef broth to make the porridfe. double boilded chicken or dried scallop broth has very little nutritional value. They are only good for taste. The nutrient is in the meat itself!
* Vegetable such as carrot or pumpkin may be minced and cooked with the porridge. Green vegetables such as spinach have to be pre-cooked and pureed and added to the porridge.
* Steam a small piece of fish or 1 tablespoon of minced meat separatedly and mash or sieve into the porridge when ready to eat.
* DO not add the meat or fish into the porridge and cook it for a long time. Over cooked meat and fish are tough and tasteless.
* you may use ready-toeat baby food products as substitutes.
* By the end of 5 months, your baby wil have 1 ceral meal in the morning and 1 porridge meal in the evening. He will have 1-2 serving of fruits for dessert and 2-3 milk feeds.
6-8 months
* Increase solid meals gradually to three times a day by the time your baby is 6-8 months old. He may continue with 1-3 milk feeds.
* A greater variety of food can be introduced. Fully cooked egg yolk can be used. You may add them to cereal.
* Instead of pureed food, some soft foods may be given, either masshed or finely minced.
* It is not necessory to mix all foods into the cereal or rice porridge. Giving some foods individually helps the baby develop his taste for the different foods.
* Finger food, such as toasted bread or teething rusks should be given only after 8 months when teething comes on. keep an eye on them in case they choke.
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