Well away with weaning

[roweden]

Hello there,

This is my first post here :) mainly finding HV and GP's useless in giving me guidance with weaning. 2 main questions really:

1. How much to feed my exclusively breastfed nearly 7month/30week old baby girl....Eden is eating everything I put in front of her :) since we started about 4-5 weeks ago. Eden crys when the food is finished so I give her more until she shows subtle signs of being full. For example, breakfast 1hr after waking and breastfeed - baby porridge as directed by packet with 1/4 jar homemade apple puree but she has always eaten more like another half portion or and sometimes and given her a big table spoon of greek yogurt and then she is happy. Lunch and dinner is 2oz maybe more of savoury usually with express milk mixed in, 2oz of fruit, slither of cheese and a couple of puffs or finger foods and she would eat more.

Is there no guideline on roughly how many ounces of food to offer babies at certain ages?

2. do you have to reheat baby food all the way through frozen or from the fridge and leave to cool?

I tend to offer fruit straight from the fridge :-/

Apparently the HV had never heard of introducing new foods separately and never heard of the 4 day rule! I don't tend to worry/bother unless it is a new food group or a know allergen - wheat,dairy etc.

Many thanks in advance :-)
Row

You don't need to introduce food one at a time and wait 4 days if the baby is over 6 months. Afaik that advice applied in the past to earlier weaning i.e. when people weaned at 4 months.

If you are responding to your babies cues as to whether she wants more or not, then you won't be over feeding her. A portion for a baby is roughly the size of their fist, if that helps, as this is about the size of their stomach.