hello mummies,
i was checking my archive mailbox and found this old email that i send to my gf abt introducing solid to my elder girl. so, for those who has yet to start solid, something to share with you
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The rule of thumb is introducing 1 food at a time to check for food allergy. I started with introducing organic rice cereal (think it’s Heinz) mixed with breast milk for 1 of her meal and do this for 1 week. After that, I introduce 1 vege at a time and add to cereal. Again I feed her for 1 week. My first vege is potato follow by broccoli , carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, beans, green pepper.. The sequence depends on you but try not to intro sweet vege first. I hold on to sweet potato and pumpkin because they’re very sweet. Don’t want Aria to develop sweet tooth.
I will boiled the vege first and then mash it and mixed it with cereal and BM. The first few times, she takes may be 2-3 spoon and slowly when she can swallon properly, you can slowly increase the amount. Aria was on cereal for 2 months and when she hit 9 months, I started to intro porridge. I will throw 1 or 2 vege inside the slow cooker to cook with the rice for abt 3-4 hours. 1 month later, I introduce fish. So, it will be 1 slice of fish, 2 veges. From then, I alternate the diff vege each day and even add red dates and wolfberries to make the porridge nicer.
When she’s 10 plus month, she’s on 2 solid which consist of porridge for lunch and cereal for dinner. Her typical feeding something like below:
When I first intro solid:
5am: latch 1 side
7am: latch 1 side with more milk
12pm: cereal
4pm: EMB (express breast milk)
7pm: EMB
10pm: EBM and/or latch
When I intro porrige:
5am: latch 1 side
7am: latch 1 side with more milk
12pm: cereal alternate with porridge
4pm: EMB (express breast milk)
7pm: EMB
10pm: EBM and/or latch
Abt 10 months till now:
3am and/or 5am: latch 1 side (bad habit, naughty girl)
6-7am: latch 1 side with more milk
12pm: porridge
4pm: EMB (express breast milk)
6.30pm: cereal
9pm: EBM and latch on off till KO