weaning- what is the fastet way to get them to eat?

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i heard to start with a very very very soft boiled spiral pasta?

I think with later weaning a lot of what you say there has less relevance, captain, and it certainly seems to be an approach less favoured these days than in years gone by.

where has she said the baby isn't breastfed?

"The recommendations are that by 1 year children should be able to eat meals cut up as the family would do and include all food groups"

why can they not do that as well as having their main calories from milk? what a bizarre comment

and from the piece you have copied and pasted... where does it say that solids are the main source of nutrition, or that milk is not?
it says they may want to drop a feed, or they may not.
it says you can still give around 20oz of milk- which would be a struggle if their food was the main source of nutrition wouldn't it?

i'd be really interested if you had any evidence-based research for ANY of the things in your last post

Captaincroc: a large percentage of what goes into even a mature human gut comes out the other end largely undigested.

Meat and fish, assuming you are offering a baby tiny amounts and fragments instead of slabs of, are very digestible when compared to complex carbohydrates.

Babies are more likely to suffer constipation if they are weaning is being mother led. as a random example: spoon feeding a whole Weetabix to help them to fill them up so that they can 'sleep better'. As an aside, hungry baby formula also is more likely to bung up a baby as casien, the milk protein which is dominant in it this type of formula is harder to digest.

Sorry, I'd like to see evidence behind this business of meat staying in the GI tract for too long and fermenting, causing stomach cramps. All foods ferment to some extent in the gut. That is the purpose of good bacteria which aid digestion. What doesn't get broken down and absorbed is passed through the other end.

The offering one food at a time may apply to foods with a high allergenic possibility especially if their is a family history of allergies but I can't see a reason to have a blanket policy like this for all mother and baby dyads with all foods. Too prescriptive.

"Without these, meat can lay for long periods in the gut decomposing and fermenting"

Evidence please? Food does not "lie in the gut" if it's not digested, it just passes through undigested. That's the gut's job - to move stuff along.

Oh, and the stuff about giving up bottles is questionable too - what's wrong with a bit of comfirt sucking?

Foxy it is the good bacteria that break down food in the gut, without being broken down it takes longer for food to travel through the gut. It causes trapped wind due to constipation. Constipation generally causes abdominal discomfort. The point is that feeding before 6 months means babies are less likely to have the 'good gut bacteria'.

The evidence is Birth to Five latest version. None of the advice in the book is without research base.

If you look at the nhs evidence website it will be on there.

Interestingly I watched a programme the other night that was discussing the hormone secreted once food reached the stomach to switch the hunger signals off. The experiment suggested that protein triggers this switch more easily than other food groups. Therefore, adding protein to meals means feeling fuller for longer.