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Can LO have these foods?
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DD is 6 and a half months old. Just to check if I have the right info!!
She can have white toast? (not brown, too much fibre?)
She can have baby cereal. Can she have ready brek or wheatabix? And it has to be the blue top, full fat milk? (I need to save my expressed milk for babysitting!)
Baby rice cakes?
Pasta shapes? White or brown?
I'm just trying to think of some finger foods I can try her on beyond fruit or veg! She's not really keen on purees!
Thanks xx
She can have white toast? (not brown, too much fibre?)
She can have baby cereal. Can she have ready brek or wheatabix? And it has to be the blue top, full fat milk? (I need to save my expressed milk for babysitting!)
Baby rice cakes?
Pasta shapes? White or brown?
I'm just trying to think of some finger foods I can try her on beyond fruit or veg! She's not really keen on purees!
Thanks xx
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After 6 months, bubs can have pretty much anything you have. Advice is to avoid honey, raw shellfish, runny eggs, whole nuts (choking hazard) but peanut butter is fine. Keep things low salt and low sugar. And you're right re brown bread, avoid low fat and high fibre foods because babies need as many calories and nutrients as possible from the small portions they're eating. It wont harm them, same as semi milk and brown pasta, they just wont be getting as much from what they're taking.
For finger foods just cut anything into manageable sizes/shapes and off they go. Have fun.
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They can have weetbix but I was told to add formula or breastmilk rather than cow's milk until 12 months.
Not sure about rice cakes - I thought they were fine but here in NZ it says on the packet "from 9 months"? So will be interested to see what others back in the UK say.
I thought pasta was fine and just used the same as me and DH had...hope that's OK!!
C
she can eat basically anything past 6 months bar honey
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And thanks nikkiandneil for clarifying re cow's milk, that's going to make life easier in the morning
Sorry for hijacking!
Charlotte, Hugo used to love ricecakes but they're too bland for him now so unless they're smothered in cream cheese, he's not interested!
I started giving my ds whole milk on cereal (baby cereal's a rip off, just give weetabix or readybrek) at 6 months and also contrary to most people thoughts they can even have tap water (still boiled in bottles).xx