Leah,
I usually start with Healthy Times brow rice cereal with bm until they are 9mth old. After that if they are still ok with cereal i will con't to give them once a while till they reject. So far all my 3 dds reject it at different age.
I follow rather closely to the guide of this book call "super baby food" as i find their guide quite good, they have a month to month guide of what new food to give, but is more on US standard. Another other asia guide book that i find helpful in weaning is "feed your child right". If u want i can scan and email their guideline to u.
I dun usually cook porridge with meat/fish before they reach 1yo. But at 9mth old i do use meat stock and add to their cereal/porridge. By that age i usually cook homemade cereal/porridge, i use grain like brown rice, millet, oat etc that i grin in powder form. Like pinky, i'm fine with freezing so i steam, blend and freeze fruit/veg, then throw in the cereal/porridge when i cook daily. I dun usually add any seasoning till they r abt 18mths. Even now, with my 3 dds we usually use very minimum seasoning. That is why my mil cannot accept my food ;p.
I follow 4 days rule rather closely, am thankful for that, dd3 almost lost her life due to sweet potatoes, a rather unlikely food to cos allergic, she vomit more that 10 times and turn pale 2 hour after she took it, we rush her to the pd near my place and her heart is failing, thankfully the ambulance came fast and rush her to KKH, by that time her lip is already purple!!!! She was warded for 3-4days. Till now she is not taking it and we are waiting to c if she will outgrow it after she turn 4. Another food is bananas, her reaction was not that bad but bad enough to stop us from giving her till recently where KKH did a food challenge on her give the green light to let her have it. The thing is all the test run on her dun seem to show she have allergy to these 2 food. But her reaction is still a nightmare to me.
U might like to take note that b4 bbs reach 1yo their main source of food is still milk. Solid is more on food tasting and exposure. Like for dd3 case, we were told to hold back on solid till she reach 1yo, cos it is likely that her body is not ready.
So far, all my dds dun give much problem during teething too. Hope your boys remain that way too. [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]
Gera,
Noted and thanks. [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]
nann,
I know of bbs who are near to 2kg like 1.9+- kind of range who dun need nicu and get to go home too. I guess that is the smallest range.
For my case, with dd2, who is warded for abt 4 extra days i juz call the CL and delay her coming, she usually have a 2-3 wks allowance b4 she take the nxt job, so the delay was fine with her. U may wanna check with your CL the date of her nxt job.
