First Foods

Aadhusmom · Feb 24, 2010

Vishalini3 said: ↑

Ramya,
Rice kanji - fry rice till a nice aroma comes, powder it with little jeera (500g rice+1tsp Jeera). Add water, cook for sometimes, serve warm. To adjust consistency, you can add BM or formula. DD didnt like the plain rice kanji, but when we did rice+Jeera, she liked. After 7+ months, we started adding ghee to it.
Ragi kanji - initial 1month, we did this long process. Soak for 4hrs, grind it, extract milk from it, boil this milk on low heat, it wud become pasty, serve warm. Again adjust consistency with BM/FM as needed. After 1month, we used to sprout ragi, roast it, powder it with 1tsp ajwain (500g ragi+1tsp ajwain). Add water, cook and then serve warm. Later, after 7+ months, we added jaggery syrup, cardomom powder and ghee.
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Exactly what I did too (minus the jeera).

V.

manjulats · Feb 26, 2010

Pon,

When you say sweet potatoes and apples do you mean the stage 1 foods of gerber or anything similar or do you prepare at home.If it is homemade, is it boiled mashed apples?

Also can you share the menu you give for Vishal,just trying to find out what can I give now?

I started with formula and little bit of gerber cereal once a day.He will be completing 5 months in another 2 days.

Others,

When is it good to start ragi kanji,Idli ?

Vishalini3 said: ↑

Ramya, My plan too is close to what Vanathi has mentioned.
I started sweet potato last week(5months), just 1tsp, 1day.
Today, (5months, 1week+), started apples. Next week, Monday/Tue, would start ragi kanji/rice kanji.
After a week of kanjis, I would give Nestum/cerelac just for the sake of trying, for 1-2days. This is to check whether LO does well or not. All readymade cereals come handy when we travel/when we are too sick to cook. So trying one of the readymades would help. But for regular use, homemade kanji is better than Nestum/Cerelac
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Vishalini3 · Feb 28, 2010

Manju,
All home made, none of them are store brought, sweet potato - boiled mashed, with little BM. Apples - steamed, mashed, with little BM. He takes a couple of spoons of apple puree now. So far, its been 4days of all these purees ) First find if this tongue thrust reflex is gone, ie, he isnt pushing his solids out, with his tongue. If he is ready for solids, you can start purees if you really think your supply is low. Solids would make your supply to go down further, as the demand decreases. Do you pump, to maintain supply? I do pump everyday. Otherwise my supply dwindles!
Kanji, i am pushing it further and further from starting, until he hits 6months! Let me see

How are things otherwise, packing, coming down, etc? Take care Manju Call me once you reach here )

sumanr · Mar 3, 2010

Can I start water now? LO is 5 months and I somehow have a feeling that she is thirsty. She cries and when I feed, she just drinks little.

Can I give water after banana/apple etc? How many times do I give water and how much?

VidyaaJ · Mar 3, 2010

Hey Ramya,

I have started semisolids with Shibu now. I started it last wednesday when I gave her one spoon of smashed sweet potato. Then this week i am giving her apple, boiled and smashed. why I started writing this was, yes my paed asked me to give her some water after food. I gave her once and she didnt like it. So, I either B feed her or give her pumped milk.

you can try giving her water.

Vidyaa

Vishalini3 · Mar 3, 2010

Ramya, I do give little water (3-4spoons, less than 10ml) after solids, but he prefers to nurse after solids, for that sucking feel i guess. Once i start kanji, I would increase water. I didnt give water earlier, before solids.

manjulats · Mar 3, 2010

It's ok to give water say less than an oz or 3-4 teaspoon.

loonypooh · Mar 3, 2010

ramya wen i was zoey takes purees i make it a point to give 1 oz of water.... its so hot anyway and i want to keep up her fluid intake.....

also i mix her purees with 1 oz pumped milk.... so thats hydrating as well

even before we started solids(say a couple of weeks bck) with zoey i would either latch her on frequently for the foremilk or give her water a few teaspoons whenever i felt it was extremely hot here

at the moment i have stopped solids for her coz we are trying to put her on formula slowly, and at 6 months we are directly going to start BLW, no puree business

lee50 · Mar 9, 2010

Ramya,

I agree with Poonam. 1 oz is what my paed recommended to give after meals. Do maintain atleast 15 mins time after the meal is given, do not serve water immediately. Also for fruits its best not to serve water immediately after as the child gets prone to colds. I am going slow with bananas as Leno is prone to cold with bananas. You can try one fruit at a time and then on weekly basis to find out what is the best suited fruit for your LO.

Poonam,

What is BLW?