Weaning Guide
Feeding
0-4 months :
Breast milk or formula only.
4-6 months :
Rice cereal mixed with breast/formula milk.
Pureed fruit and vegetables, such as carrots, potatoes, cauliflower,
apples,
bananas, pears - introducing one taste at a time.
Breast/formula milk.
6-8 months :
Rice cereal mixed with breast/formula milk.
Mashed fruit and vegetables.
Pureed meat, chicken and fish.
Egg yolk, cottage cheese and yoghurt.
Finger foods: bread, biltong, banana and apple.
Breast/formula milk, boiled water and fruit juices served in a
spouted cup.
8-9 months
Start adding lumpier foods.
10 months
Bite-sized pieces of food.
12-18 months
Introduce full-cream cow's milk (no need to boil).
Most babies are on a normal mixed diet at this stage and can join in
on family meals.
Weaning Introducing a healthy solid start to life ! For the first four to six months of your baby's life, breast or
bottled milk will offer all the nutrition that is needed and will
remain the most important food, until around nine months. There are
no rules as to when exactly you should introduce your baby to
solids, but do bear in mind that under four months of age, a baby's
stomach is still far too immature to deal with different foods, and
by six months, milk alone won't supply enough of the nutrients
needed. Between four to five months, is probably the best time to
start, but that depends entirely on you as the mother to judge
whether you think your baby is still happy and thriving on just her
milk feeds.
Your baby should have doubled her birth mass by the fifth or six
month and should be consuming approximately a litre of milk in 24
hours, if you find that this is not satisfying her hunger, then it
is probably a good idea to start her off on a small amount of pureed
food, gradually increasing the amount as time goes by.
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