Advice please!

[mollysmommy]

Hi
I’m a first time mom and my little girl is 5 months old. We started her on baby rice a couple of weeks ago, and have moved onto veg now. I’ve read lots but would really like to hear people’s experiences! I’m confused about a few things:

When should I introduce two/three meals a day?
How much formula should my baby have when she is weaning?
Should she have extra water?
When do I introduce a sippy cup?
When can foods be mixed together?

Sorry if these all seem like silly questions, but I feel like I have no clue what I’m doing 🙈😂

We started her on baby rice a couple of weeks ago, and have moved onto veg now.

Why are you weaning early? Guidance is not before 6 months.

Baby rice is nutritionally void - your baby is better off with formula than baby rice.

We did BLW so no purees and DD just ate what we did from 6 months.

We felt she was ready for it. We made her rice with formula, where does it say it is nutritionally void?

www.analyticalarmadillo.co.uk/2011/12/nine-good-reasons-not-to-use-baby-rice.html?m=1

Thanks, but I’m not going to read something from a website called analytical armadillo. I posted here for support, not to be mommy shamed. So thanks, but 🖕🏻

Shame. There’s lots of research based advice on there.

Is this website’s name more pleasing to you?

www.wellfedkids.com/blog/dont-start-your-child-on-baby-rice-cereal

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/arsenic-baby-food-health-worried-rice-cereal-inorganic-chemicals-childrens-brains-grains-a8105621.html

Or this one. (Watch out for the long words.)

Hi op ,
I can only speak from personal experience as I'm no expert but with my three I started with individual tastes of vegetable and made a note of likes , dislikes and reactions. After a month or so I started offering mixed foods with 2-3 ingredients, I added a breakfast at this stage too. So d's was having fruit for breakfast and say , chicken and carrot for his lunch. We stayed this way for a month. We then added an evening meal of yoghurt and started to offer our food to him , cheese , egg , avocado , bread etc.

Wrt milk I just give him what he wants , I start a feed with some milk , then alternate milk and food until he turns away.

We started offering water throughout the day from a cup at about 7 months as we suspected he was thirsty rather than hungry. We've not found the right cup for him though as he's still not adjusting the one we bought for him.

Thank you, it’s nice to hear someone’s experiences rather than being trolled! Hope you find a cup to suit your little one

TittyGolightly all you have shown me is your capability to use a search engine. Like how I used a long word?

Tittygolightly wasn't trolling. You increase the likelihood of allergies if you wean before six months as the gut isn't ready. Baby rice is kind of pointless pap, you're better off with actual food. Cucumber, boiled carrot, melon, that sort of thing. Nothing too hard to begin with.
After that - don't adjust formula as she won't eat much to begin with, then just see how it goes.

It’s a shame you weaned early, but you are where you are.

Her main food will still be coming from milk, so I would just keep giving her tastes of whatever you’re having- mashed or puréed if you like. As many different tastes as possible. Obviously no added salt or sugar or anything too spicy.

Start with 1 meal and then build up as your LO decides she is hungrier, I find breakfast is the best meal to start with, then move onto dinner and then tea. You can also give snacks now too, baby crisps, biscuits, soft veggie sticks, rice cakes or toast etc.

As for formula - just give her as much as she will still drink. And don't add extra water to a bottle of formula.

Offer water throughout the day. I wouldn't be too bothered about sippy cups this young, a normal bottle will do while she gets used to drinking plain water. Then at 6/7 Months introduce a sippy cup, try her out with different types of teats too as she may not get the hang of some of them straight away.

You have to give the same type of food for 3 days, and if she has no allergic reaction then it's safe to continue. Once you have 2 foods that she has had for 3 days each without having any signs of an allergy you can then mix the food together for her.

Hope this all helps, and try to ignore the mummy shamers, they tend to crawl from under their rock to prove how much better they are at parenting when these kind of threads come along

Thank you, that’s really helpful

Ignore tittygolightly you'll see she's a constant 'mum shamer' on here. She's perfect I expect 😉

😂😂 good to know!

I've noticed TittyGolightly is very unpleasant at times.

Titty, if you don't want people to call you out on your behaviour then maybe you should moderate your tone a bit as many of your responses are unwarranted, judgemental and sarcastic.

@Mumsnet

So, just to be clear, asking someone to clarify what they mean by a rude remark isn’t okay but

So thanks, but 🖕🏻 is?

Had she said she was feeding her 5 month old baby blended Big Macs, would it still not be okay to point out that that was less than ideal?

blended chicken nuggets are ok though aren’t they? 😂

titttygolightly wasn't trolling. You increase the likelihood of allergies if you wean before six months as the gut isn't ready.

Complete and utter nonsense, the latest research is looking at weaning earlier to prevent allergies. www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/eat-study-final-report-summary.pdf The EAT study was actually introducing allergens from 3 months.

(watch out for the long words)

Condescending and rude.

What bruffin said.

I wish people on this board would stop using the same tired, outdated old tropes. Literally repeated word for word on post after post.

Had she said she was feeding her 5 month old baby blended Big Macs, would it still not be okay to point out that that was less than ideal?

Are you looking for hypothetical situations in which it would be acceptable for you to be judgemental and condescending?

FartnisEverbeans
That is so true, yet there has never ever been evidence that you have to wait until "6 months for the gut to mature"
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