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Today, I wanted to speak to you about the first stage of weaning your baby from four to six months.
Find out what are the best food processors for baby food.
I am a mom of two beautiful boys, Fraser, who's 3 1/2, and Caleb, who is nearly five months. It's funny how with your second one you forget what you did the first time. So I have just had to review everything that I did, and the correct way to wean, etc.
Actually just read all these books, so that you don't have to. So these are my top tips for weaning. - Disclaimer, my mommy's not a doctor, she's not an expert, and not a nutritionist. My mommy is a mommy. She has experience. -
First tip is make sure your baby is ready to be weaned. There's no point in doing it too soon. But also you don't want to leave it too late.
The Department of Health, they recommend that you wait until six months. But you are the mom, and you know best, and just go with your instincts, because you can wean your baby anywhere from four to six months.
And I personally started weaning both of my boys at the four-month mark. They're both big boys. Both over the 75th percentile, so quite beefy boys. They're exclusively breastfed, so I don't really feel like I was enough after the four-month mark.
They were waking up for extra night feeds, so that's a sign. Really watching when I eat. Was reaching out for things, and Caleb, a little bit crying as well. But doing things like this.
A bit young for those. (bag crinkles) (Emily laughs) Or this. (bell chiming) (thumping) Even this. Mm. Chances are they're ready to be weaned. And if your baby has strong head support, and can sit in a chair well, they are able to have their head up and swallow.
Or you go with a spoon, they open up like they're ready. You'll know as a mom, you'll know your instinct. But if you put the spoon to their mouth, they're really not interested, and they just suck on it (sucks mouth) like it's milk. (Fraser laughs)
Tip number two is, what are the best foods for weaning your baby? First food you wanna try-- - Carrots! - (gasps) That's right, carrots, and apple. - And pear! - And pear. - [Fraser] Ah. - And mango. - Oh, yeah. - So baby rice is the first one, or baby porridge.
Baby rice is the first thing you can try mixed with your baby normal milk. So either expressed breast milk or formula is fine. Try literally a table, no sorry, a teaspoon of that with enough liquid like two tablespoons to make it quite liquidy, and then see how they react to that.
And some books, they recommend that you should try one food for a whole week. Oh, jeez, but I disagree. I think a whole week of baby rice could be really boring, and cause constipation. And then a whole week of carrots, and a whole week of apples, I just think it will be a bit much.
So I did a two-day rule, so I did two days of baby rice, two days of apple, two days of carrot, two days of parsnip, and so on. And then after two weeks, then I started changing every day. Pear, mango, banana. It's a great one.
You don't have to cook it or anything, and just mash it up. (Fraser yelps) Avocado. - Can I come? - Peach. (feet stomping) Potato. (chuckles) Sweet potato. - Ah. - Swede. - Ah, ah. - Pumpkin. Butternut squash. - [Fraser] No. - And smooth. - And sweet potatoes, actually. - And smoothie! (Emily laughs) - So it's fine to mix, especially in the early days, it's fine to mix these foods with a bit of their normal milk. - Ah. - baby vegetable stock from the shop, which has lower salt level.
Or if you're a super mom, you can make it yourself, and you could mix potato and sweet potato with baby vegetable stock, because it's quite starchy. mix it with milk, or vegetable stock, so that it's thinner for your baby to have, especially if this is before six months. After six months, it's not as much of an issue. - Tip number three. -
How often and when? (Fraser babbles) My personally, for my boys, week one I fed them around lunchtime. So they'd had their morning nap. They'd had like a 10:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. feed. So about 11:30 or 12:00 is quite a good time, so I would do it then. So just lunchtime for a whole week. Learn More
Today, I wanted to speak to you about the first stage of weaning your baby from four to six months.
Find out what are the best food processors for baby food.
I am a mom of two beautiful boys, Fraser, who's 3 1/2, and Caleb, who is nearly five months. It's funny how with your second one you forget what you did the first time. So I have just had to review everything that I did, and the correct way to wean, etc.
Actually just read all these books, so that you don't have to. So these are my top tips for weaning. - Disclaimer, my mommy's not a doctor, she's not an expert, and not a nutritionist. My mommy is a mommy. She has experience. -
First tip is make sure your baby is ready to be weaned. There's no point in doing it too soon. But also you don't want to leave it too late.
The Department of Health, they recommend that you wait until six months. But you are the mom, and you know best, and just go with your instincts, because you can wean your baby anywhere from four to six months.
And I personally started weaning both of my boys at the four-month mark. They're both big boys. Both over the 75th percentile, so quite beefy boys. They're exclusively breastfed, so I don't really feel like I was enough after the four-month mark.
They were waking up for extra night feeds, so that's a sign. Really watching when I eat. Was reaching out for things, and Caleb, a little bit crying as well. But doing things like this.
A bit young for those. (bag crinkles) (Emily laughs) Or this. (bell chiming) (thumping) Even this. Mm. Chances are they're ready to be weaned. And if your baby has strong head support, and can sit in a chair well, they are able to have their head up and swallow.
Or you go with a spoon, they open up like they're ready. You'll know as a mom, you'll know your instinct. But if you put the spoon to their mouth, they're really not interested, and they just suck on it (sucks mouth) like it's milk. (Fraser laughs)
Tip number two is, what are the best foods for weaning your baby? First food you wanna try-- - Carrots! - (gasps) That's right, carrots, and apple. - And pear! - And pear. - [Fraser] Ah. - And mango. - Oh, yeah. - So baby rice is the first one, or baby porridge.
Baby rice is the first thing you can try mixed with your baby normal milk. So either expressed breast milk or formula is fine. Try literally a table, no sorry, a teaspoon of that with enough liquid like two tablespoons to make it quite liquidy, and then see how they react to that.
And some books, they recommend that you should try one food for a whole week. Oh, jeez, but I disagree. I think a whole week of baby rice could be really boring, and cause constipation. And then a whole week of carrots, and a whole week of apples, I just think it will be a bit much.
So I did a two-day rule, so I did two days of baby rice, two days of apple, two days of carrot, two days of parsnip, and so on. And then after two weeks, then I started changing every day. Pear, mango, banana. It's a great one.
You don't have to cook it or anything, and just mash it up. (Fraser yelps) Avocado. - Can I come? - Peach. (feet stomping) Potato. (chuckles) Sweet potato. - Ah. - Swede. - Ah, ah. - Pumpkin. Butternut squash. - [Fraser] No. - And smooth. - And sweet potatoes, actually. - And smoothie! (Emily laughs) - So it's fine to mix, especially in the early days, it's fine to mix these foods with a bit of their normal milk. - Ah. - baby vegetable stock from the shop, which has lower salt level.
Or if you're a super mom, you can make it yourself, and you could mix potato and sweet potato with baby vegetable stock, because it's quite starchy. mix it with milk, or vegetable stock, so that it's thinner for your baby to have, especially if this is before six months. After six months, it's not as much of an issue. - Tip number three. -
How often and when? (Fraser babbles) My personally, for my boys, week one I fed them around lunchtime. So they'd had their morning nap. They'd had like a 10:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. feed. So about 11:30 or 12:00 is quite a good time, so I would do it then. So just lunchtime for a whole week. Learn More
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