High Fibre Food for 9Months Old

[jellyjelly]

Need to give High Fibre food on Doctors advice to 9 month old mindee.

Apart from Beans, veg and fruit what can you suggest. As always no eggs or nuts. Have normal store cupbaord stuff.

Thanks will have a read and if necessary i will call the hv (with permission of course)

Jelly - are you on a network? We have access to a SENCO lady who we can ask for advice on this sort of thing. It can be totally anonymous and no children's names need to be mentioned.

Obviously, if parents give permission, you can ring health visitor (which is what I would want to do) - I think feeding your baby cow's milk and chicken nuggets is awful, and the health visitor ought to know about it!

But the rubbish food isn't cheap - it would be cheaper to feed him mashed potato than those frozen things for instance.

It sounds like they need help with budgeting and cooking skills.

another thing, don't they get milk on tokens or something ? Agree they must need help with budgeting because if they don't earn very much then must be getting benefits ?

JellyJelly, how often do you care for him ?

milk on tokens ?! meant to write milk tokens...

She isnt old enough to get milk on tokens or free formula. I have him 4 days per week. I am educating her in how to feed a baby properly but they dont teach it at schools and she doesnt have family. I know that she does speak to her HV.

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AM trying and thanks. I enjoy being her mentor but it is very hard.

Now that's ridiculous that she isn't old enough to get the milk tokens. Can't her HV sort her out with some emergency help. He really shouldn't be having normal milk, isn't there a prescription loop hole, given that he has problems digesting normal milk he could have some special formula prescribed - like a lactose free or something. I know it's ridiculous - but if she can't have the proper help this could be a better alternative.

I thought that as well but 15 years old cant and this was confirmed via her carer (who is employed byt the goverment) as well. I can do alot but i can take on the goverment about benefits for youngun's.

It also might not be the milk causing the problem. I can suggest that the child does not have cows milk and i can say how much of a benefit it is to the child to have formula but i cant make the parents buy it.

jellyjelly
tinned prunes are a wonder cure for babies with constipation, stew gently, puree, and add a little to some porridge or yogurt.
they are quite sweet amd a miracle cure.

too much wholemeal without adequate water just clogs up.

prune juice if baby will sip
but tinned prunes are cheap!

Do you think i can give porridge for pudding?

Porrige for pudding - yep with a drop of jam

don't give a 9mth old baby jam ! you can add puree fruit (prunes/apples/stewed apricots) if he won't eat it alone

You're doing a great job jellyjelly

Sorry for being such a dumbass here, but why did the readybrek kill the child?
Did it have salt in it or something?

Mummypumpkin, I thought they fed their child gravy with mashed potato and that was what caused the probs, not the ready brek.

Prunes! yes, lots of them, also raisins and dried apricots too.

If all else fails, glycerin suppository will work wonders (but I did not have my kids in British system and know how people in UK hate shoving things up their (or anyone else's) arse.

If he's eating nuggets and potato frozen things a bit of jam isn't going to make any difference! it's only fruit, sugar and pectin.

But a couple of stewed prunes on top may help.

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Yeah it was smash and instant gravy that was the problem for that child and he was younger than 9 months I think.

that underage mums can't get milk tokens for the baby. That is ridiculous. I think lots of dried fruit/dried fruit purees - prunes, apricots (I ate tons of these when I was pregnant), raisins (my kids both loved these at that age), figs etc. Add the fruit to everything you can think of and also give it as it is. I used to stew eating apples or pears and add raisins or sultanas and cinnamon and DD loved it. And sometimes I added a crumble topping and served it to all of us as a pudding.

I was shocked when she told me what she gets. She will get more when she turns 16.

Should we all write to our MPs? Surely it should be the baby that gets the milk tokens - not the mother (even if she is breastfeeding and she drinks the milk).

Would be good that all mothers regardless of age get all the benefit that other mothers get.