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Feeding your child SOME MEALS AND SNACKS TO TRY Breakfast ● Porridge or unsweetened cereal mixed with full-fat cow’s milk or baby’s usual milk ● Wholewheat biscuit cereal and milk ● Mashed banana and toast fingers ● Boiled egg and toast fingers ● Stewed apple and yogurt Lunch or dinner ● Mashed cooked lentils with rice ● Cauliflower cheese ● Minced chicken and vegetable casserole with mashed potato ● Mashed pasta with broccoli and cheese ● Mashed canned salmon with couscous and peas ● Baked beans (reduced salt and sugar) with toast ● Scrambled egg with toast, chapatti or pitta bread ● Mashed boiled sweet potato with mashed carrot and broccoli ● Shepherd’s pie with green vegetables ● Cottage cheese dip with pitta bread and carrot sticks ● Rice and mashed peas. Snacks ● Pieces of fruit or vegetables ● Bread, toast, breadsticks, scones, pancakes ● Plain yoghurt, plain fromage frais ‘lumpy’ foods as they get older. Chewing also encourages development of speech muscles. Always stay near to your baby during feeding to give encouragement and to make sure he or she doesn’t choke. Drinks Keep to your baby’s usual breast milk or infant formula milk. Give milk at waking and bedtime. It’s a good idea to teach your baby to use a lidded feeding cup to give milk or water any time after six months. You can give water or diluted fruit juice in a cup with a meal. If you give fruit juice, use a cup and dilute it 1 part juice with 10 parts water. Then finish the meal with a milk feed. After six months, tap water need not be boiled. If you are using formula milk, continue to use boiled water when making up feeds. Remember that cow’s milk should not be given as a drink until your baby is one year old, but it can be used for mixing foods such as cereal or adding to potatoes. 9–12 MONTHS Babies are usually very happy to try new tastes and textures, so do give them a wide range of family foods at this stage. Just remember not to put salt in your cooking. You can begin to offer your child: • minced foods, rather than mashed; • harder finger foods such as raw fruit and vegetables. Make sure you give them full-fat dairy products, such as yoghurt, fromage frais and cheese. Cutting back on fat is 70
sensible for adults, but not for babies, who need energy for growth. Don’t encourage a sweet tooth by giving biscuits and cakes – they will fill your baby up without providing the right nutrients. Your baby should be having a good mixed diet by now with probably three or four meals a day. • Your baby’s diet should contain: - starchy foods at each meal – these are potatoes, rice, pasta, bread and plantain; - fruit or vegetables at each meal – use some as finger foods. Give your baby a wide range as this is the ideal age for babies to learn to like lots of different tastes; - one or two servings of meat, fish, eggs or pulses a day. • Start to offer two courses at each meal: - Give a savoury course of a starchy food, meat, fish or pulses, and some vegetables as the first course. - Give fruit or a milk pudding, or both, as the second course. • As you introduce a milk-based pudding such as yoghurt or rice pudding as the second course, you may find your baby no longer needs the milk feed after the meal. • Remember, red meat (pork, beef and lamb) is an excellent source of iron. Serving meat and vegetables together rather than at separate meals helps to absorb iron. • If you have decided not to give your baby meat or fish, make sure that you give two servings a day of split pulses (red lentils, split peas, chick peas), tofu, etc. The vitamin C in fruit and vegetables helps to absorb iron so give fruit and vegetables at mealtimes. • Offer a variety of foods. Why not go back to the foods that your baby didn’t like earlier and try them again? • If you or your family have a history of hay fever, eczema, asthma or other allergies, see page 69 for important information. USING CUPS RATHER THAN BOTTLES Offer some water from a cup with meals. Continue to breastfeed or give at least 500-600ml (16-20fl oz) of infant formula as your baby’s main drink until your baby is one year old. They contain important nutrients. You can go on breastfeeding your baby alongside giving solid food for as long as you want to. If both you and your baby enjoy it, there’s no reason to stop. A bedtime breastfeed can make a good end to the day. As you cut out breastfeeds, you can use a cup rather than a bottle. If you use a bottle or trainer cup, don’t put anything in it other than formula or breast milk or water. Comfort sucking on sweetened drinks is the major cause of painful tooth decay in young children. It’s a good idea anyway to wean from a bottle by the end of the first year as bottle-sucking can become a habit that is hard to break. Try cutting out a bottle feed at one meal in the day and using a cup instead. Feeding your child 71
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Birth five to Your complete guide t
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1 The first weeks There’s somethi
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The first weeks SCREENING AT A GLAN
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The first weeks B REASTFEEDING Brea
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The first weeks USING BREAST PUMPS
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The first weeks Follow the manufact
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Your own life • Suggest a regular
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Your services H OW TO CHANGE YOUR G
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make. The money cannot be taken out
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Your rights and benefits of childca
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USEFUL ORGANISATIONS Some of these
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