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Starting Your Baby's Weaning Journey

This document provides guidance on feeding babies from birth to 12 months. It recommends exclusively breastfeeding or formula feeding for the first 6 months. From 6 months, introducing pureed fruits and vegetables, then soft foods like meat and full-fat dairy. It warns against sweet drinks, cows' milk, salty and fatty foods before 1 year due to poor nutrition. Choking hazards are also identified. Weaning progresses to family foods and 3 meals by 12 months with continued breast or formula feeding.

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Starting Your Baby's Weaning Journey

This document provides guidance on feeding babies from birth to 12 months. It recommends exclusively breastfeeding or formula feeding for the first 6 months. From 6 months, introducing pureed fruits and vegetables, then soft foods like meat and full-fat dairy. It warns against sweet drinks, cows' milk, salty and fatty foods before 1 year due to poor nutrition. Choking hazards are also identified. Weaning progresses to family foods and 3 meals by 12 months with continued breast or formula feeding.

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What to give!!!

watch out for the following

From 0-6 months:- when starting to feed your baby


Mum’s milk or infant formula milk Sweet drinks :-like squash, fizzy drinks, milkshakes and
some fruit juices can have lots of added sugar so avoid
From 6 months:- these if you can and protect your baby’s teeth.

First foods: mashed or soft cooked sticks of fruit Cows’ milk as a drink:- shouldn’t be given before 1 year
and vegetables like potato, yam, sweet potato, as it doesn’t have the right balance of nutrients. Also
carrot, apple or pear, all cooled before eating. iron from cows’ milk is not absorbed as well as it is
from mum’s milk.
How to start
Next foods: soft cooked meat such as chicken,
mashed fish (check very carefully for any bones), Sweet foods:- like chocolate, sweets,pastries have lots your baby
pasta, noodles, toast, pieces of chapati, lentils, rice
and mashed hard boiled eggs. Also, full fat dairy
of added sugar and fat. Babies don’t need them.

Salt and salty food:- like chips with added salt, crisps,
weaning
products such as yoghurt, custard
takeaways, gravy and meals made with stock cubes are journey!!!!
Cups: introduce a cup from around 6 months and bad for babies, so limit these.
offer sips of water with meals. Using an open cup
Choking:- can happen with hard foods, bones, small
or a free-flow cup without a valve will help your
round foods like grapes and cherry tomatoes, and food
baby learn to sip and is better for your baby’s
with skin, like sausages. Peel the skin off fruit,
teeth.
vegetables and sausages and remove all bones from
meat or fish.
From 8-9 months:-
Your baby will move towards eating 3 meals a day.
Avoid whole nuts :- these shouldn’t be given until your Start
child is 5 years old.
It will be a mixture of finger foods, mashed and
chopped foods.
from 6th
Honey:- occasionally contains bacteria which can make

From 12 months:-
babies ill, so should not be given before they are 1 year month to
old.
Your baby will now be eating 3 meals a day,  
onward
chopped if required, plus mum’s milk or cows’ milk
and healthier snacks like fruit, vegetable sticks or  
toast and rice cakes.

 
Your baby is ready if they can:

Myth
Weaning is an about
exciting time when
babies stop being feeding
reliant on breast or
formula milk and your baby
begin their food
adventure Adding cereals to bottle
help them to sleep through
night

Baby led weaning Puree should be baby first


food
Trust your baby’s natural ability to
transition on solid foods
Diets such as rice, oats,
solid food breads should have added
in toddlers diet

Sugar drinks are safe form


of constipation relief

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