Feeding schedule for 6 month old

[SR35]

Hi I have been weaning lo for a few weeks now, she is almost 6 months. At the moment I am giving her solids after every milk feed but I just wondered what everyone else does and should I be doing breakfast, lunch and dinner with milk in between? Currently it's as follows...

7am formula followed by porridge or baby rice

11am formula followed by carrots or sweet potato or broccoli etc

3pm formula followed by banana or Apple

7pm formula before bed

Also when can she start having other purees that aren't just fruit/veg? Can she start having meat, eggs, yoghurt etc? Thanks in advance, am new to all of this!!

 

[BunnyN]

We Breastfed and did something like baby lead weaning so not exactly the same but I'll share how we did it. We did breakfast lunch and dinner with breastfeeding any time she wanted. We pretty much fed her everything from the start and she loved solids. You only have to be cautiious about introducing new foods if you are worried about allergies. Some babies dont take to solids very quickly but honestly it doesnt matter much at this stage its just for them to start getting used to the flavours and textures. I think its important to introduce finger foods or at least puree with some texture fairly early otherwise they get used to the totally smooth stuff and tend to reject 'real' food after.

 

[SR35]

Oh okay, thanks, well she seems to have taken to it quite well so far, especially banana! What sorts of things do you recommend as finger foods or purée with texture?

 

[juliekim0908]

I weaned my little boy at 12 weeks. Within 2 weeks he was on carrot puree, then straight onto whatever puree!

No issues what so ever. Then from around 6/7 months I started to give him what we ate for dinner etc..
Baby snack, organix, crisps, biscuits etc.. I gave from around 4/5 months old.

Go with the flow. =) x

 

[littlemonkey]

We were like Juliekim and weaned early at 4 months. By six months LO was pretty happy with fruit and veg purees and was on three meals a day. After six months we introduced more things and also did a mix of finger foods with purees. We gave LO things like chopped fruit and veg to get him used to picking things up and eating them himself.

From six months they can have most foods.

 

[SR35]

Does it matter if they don't have teeth yet when giving finger food? Will they just gnaw on it?

 

[littlemonkey]

Does it matter if they don't have teeth yet when giving finger food? Will they just gnaw on it?

My LO had his first front two teeth at five months so that helped! But yeah they will just gum at it. I gave my LO quite soft finger foods at first, like sliced banana and other soft fruit or well cooked carrots, broccoli etc. I wasn't too worried about the food still being quite soft, I was more trying to encourage him to get used to picking things up and putting them in his mouth himself. It's being able to play with their food themselves that encourages them to be better eaters in life apparently, and it hasn't hurt my LO!

 

[juliekim0908]

Doesn't matter about no teeth, they suck at it, and use their gums. I stuck to thing which I found melted in their mouth more. Usually by trying it myself see if I could suck and eat it =) Toast is a good one to start on I found, I cut the crust off and added butter or jam. x