What do you feed your weaning baby?

[GemmaRuby]

Just that - what meals do you feed your weaning baby?

My DS has just turned 6 months. He has reflux and recently discovered cow’s milk allergy. He is on hypoallergenic milk now but it is causing explosive diarrhoea.

So, my aim is to get solids into him as much as possible and reduce the milk a little bit. I do give him finger foods, but mainly spoon feed.

At the moment he has baby rice once a day (he loves it) and a new fruit or vegetable to try (eats most of them).

I stuck to mashed vegetables rather than much fruit, thinking the sweet tooth was inevitable anyway. Something my two both really loved was red lentils boiled to a rough mush and a bit of finely chopped up spring onion stirred in

I have two kids with CMPA. Milk needs to be his main source of nutrition until he is 1. The NICE a guidelines says a child with CMPA should be on formula until they are 2 years old. If he has explosive poo then he is allergic to his new milk. Join the Facebook group CMPA and ask for advice there but it sounds like he needs a different formula.

When mine was 6 months she wasn’t interested much in food. She’d gum a bit of toast and I tried her on bits of baby rice and fruit purée which she wasn’t really interested in. Suddenly about seven months she was wolfing it down so quickly So I started making her baby food. Started with things like sweet potato and carrot mash, porridge with fruit purée breakfast but quickly she was on cottage pie, tomato and veg based sauce pasta, spaghetti, lamb cous cous, fish pie, chicken pie. Annabel Karmel had good adaptable recipes. I make big batches and freeze

@Fallagain

I have two kids with CMPA. Milk needs to be his main source of nutrition until he is 1. The NICE a guidelines says a child with CMPA should be on formula until they are 2 years old. If he has explosive poo then he is allergic to his new milk. Join the Facebook group CMPA and ask for advice there but it sounds like he needs a different formula.

Thank you, I’ll have a look on the fb group. His CPMA is very mild, when he was on cows milk he was very very windy and had a rash but no severe symptoms, so I wouldn’t expect him to be allergic to the hypoallergenic formula. He’s been on it for a few weeks and diarrhoea has only just started, so it could be a bug rather than the milk - will see if it improves and change formula if not.

Just to add to the above, his main symptom was bringing up a lot of milk, which has improved with the new formula

Just feed him what you eat. Honestly, at that age there is no need for single vegetables a day, and please don’t feed him baby rice - it has zero nutritional value. My DD is 7-months and loves her food. Don’t be afraid of strong flavours - my LO loves garlic, chilli, lots of herbs. They don’t need anything special and can feed themselves (although it does get messy). Just home cooked food. Just avoid salt. No honey or whole nuts. They’re the only rules. Have fun with it - I’ve loved weaning and have taken real joy from seeing my DD explore new tastes. Today for lunch we are having roasted vegetable cous cous with chilli, garlic and coriander - I stir in some creme freche in her portion to make it a bit wet so the cous cous binds together making it easier to eat. Honestly, when you accept they just need normal food, it takes all the pressure off.