Wait 3 to 5 days between each new food. Before you know it, your child will be on his or her way to eating and enjoying lots of new foods. It can take time for your child to adjust to new food textures.
Your child might cough, gag, or spit up. Some foods are potential choking hazards , so it is important to feed your child foods that are the right texture for his or her development. To help prevent choking, prepare foods that can be easily dissolved with saliva and do not require chewing. Feed small portions and encourage your baby to eat slowly.
Always watch your child while he or she is eating. Learn more about potential choking hazards and how to prevent your child from choking. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Your baby will still be getting most of their energy and nutrients from breast milk or first infant formula. Breast milk or infant formula should be their main drink during the first year. Do not give them whole cows' or goats' or sheep's milk as a drink until they're 1 year old.
Introduce a cup from around 6 months and offer sips of water with meals. Using an open cup or a free-flow cup without a valve will help your baby learn to sip and is better for their teeth. Try mashed or soft cooked sticks of parsnip, broccoli, potato, yam, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear.
This will help your baby get used to a range of flavours rather than just the sweeter ones, like carrots and sweet potato and might help prevent them being fussy eaters as they grow up. Foods containing allergens such as peanuts, hens' eggs, gluten and fish can be introduced from around 6 months of age, 1 at a time and in small amounts so you can spot any reaction.
Cows' milk can be used in cooking or mixed with food from around 6 months of age, but should not be given as a drink until your baby is 1 year old. Full-fat dairy products, such as pasteurised cheese and plain yoghurt or fromage frais, can be given from around 6 months of age.
Choose products with no added sugar. As soon as your baby starts solid foods, encourage them to be involved in mealtimes and have fun touching, holding and exploring food. Let them feed themselves with their fingers when they want to. This helps develop fine motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination. Your baby can show you how much they want to eat, and it gets them familiar with different types and textures of food.
Finger food is food that's cut up into pieces big enough for your baby to hold in their fist with a bit sticking out. Start off with finger foods that break up easily in their mouth and are long enough for them to grip.
Avoid hard food, such as whole nuts or raw carrots and apples, to reduce the risk of choking. There's no right or wrong way. The most important thing is that your baby eats a wide variety of food and gets all the nutrients they need. There's no more risk of choking when a baby feeds themselves than when they're fed with a spoon. From about 7 months, your baby will gradually move towards eating 3 meals a day breakfast, lunch and tea , in addition to their usual milk feeds, which may be around 4 a day for example, on waking, after lunch, after tea and before bed.
As your baby eats more solid foods, they may want less milk at each feed or even drop a milk feed altogether. If you're breastfeeding, your baby will adapt their feeds according to how much food they're having. Gradually increase the amount and variety of food your baby is offered to ensure they get the energy and nutrients they need.
Try to include food that contains iron, such as meat, fish, fortified breakfast cereals, dark green vegetables, beans and lentils, at each meal. As your baby becomes a more confident eater, remember to offer them more mashed, lumpy and finger foods.
Providing finger foods as part of each meal helps encourage infants to feed themselves, develop hand and eye co-ordination, and learn to bite off, chew and swallow pieces of soft food.
From about 10 months, your baby should now be having 3 meals a day breakfast, lunch and tea , in addition to their usual milk feeds. Around this age, your baby may have about 3 milk feeds a day for instance, after breakfast, after lunch and before bed. Remember that formula-fed babies should take a vitamin D supplement if they're having less than ml of formula a day.
They should be able to manage a wider range of finger foods, and be able to pick up small pieces of food and move them to their mouth. They'll use a cup with more confidence. Lunches and teas can include a main course, and a fruit or unsweetened dairy-based dessert, to move eating patterns closer to those of children over 1 year.
From 12 months, your child will be eating 3 meals a day containing a variety of different foods , including:. The World Health Organization recommends that all babies are breastfed for up to 2 years or longer.
You can keep breastfeeding for as long as it suits you both, but your child will need less breast milk to make room for more foods. Once your child is 12 months old, infant formula is not needed and toddler milks, growing-up milks and goodnight milks are also unnecessary. The amount of breast milk or infant formula your baby drinks will depend on how much he weighs and the amount of foods eaten.
Around 6 months of age, you can expect your baby to eat 3 meals each day. Each meal may consist of about ounces of pureed baby foods. Some babies are ready for pureed foods at 4 months, but others are not ready until 6 months.
Do not push your child to eat if he's not ready or desiring to eat. What food do I start with to feed my baby? Babies prefer a smooth, semi-liquid texture. As he gets older and better at swallowing, he will like a thicker, lumpier texture. Use a baby size spoon to feed your baby.
You can offer food one to three times per day, depending on how much your baby enjoys it. Previously rice cereal was recommended as a first food, but in reality the order of foods does not make that much difference.
Try foods that have nutritional value, such as vegetables and meats, that your baby enjoys. It is no longer seen beneficial to wait 3 days between new foods.
You can start more than one food in a day, as long as it is not one of the highly allergenic foods egg, nuts, fish. It is now considered acceptable to give the more highly allergenic foods at earlier ages once babies are on most other foods. Do not give any textures that baby will choke on. Do not give honey before 1 year of age. To help prevent tooth decay , do not put your child to bed with a bottle. If you do, make sure it contains only water. Juice reduces the appetite for other, more nutritious, foods, including breast milk, formula, or both.
Too much juice can also cause diaper rash, diarrhea, or excessive weight gain. Healthy babies do not need extra water. Breast milk, formula, or both provide all the fluids they need. However, it is OK to offer a little water when you begin to give your baby solid foods. Use an open, sippy or strawed cup and limit water to no more than 1 cup 8 ounces each day. Also, a small amount of water may be needed in very hot weather.
If you live in an area where the water is fluoridated , drinking water will also help prevent future tooth decay.
It is important for your baby to get used to the process of eating—sitting up, taking food from a spoon, resting between bites, and stopping when full. These early experiences will help your child learn good eating habits throughout life. Encourage family meals from the first feeding. When you can, the whole family should eat together. Research suggests that having dinner together, as a family, on a regular basis has positive effects on the development of children.
Remember to offer a good variety of healthy foods that are rich in the nutrients your child needs. Watch your child for cues that he has had enough to eat. Do not overfeed! If you have any questions about your child's nutrition, including concerns about your child eating too much or too little, talk with your child's doctor. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.
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