Weaning your Baby onto Solid food: Stage 1
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Stage 1

When you start giving your baby solid foods, mix a teaspoon of one of the following with your baby’s usual milk (breast or formula):

• smooth vegetable purée such as carrot, parsnip, potato or yam, or
• fruit purée such as banana, cooked apple, pear or mango, or
• cereal (not wheat-based) such as baby rice, sago, maize, cornmeal or millet.

Offer this to your baby before or after one of your usual milk feeds, or in the middle of a feed, if that works better. If the food is hot, make sure you stir and cool it and test it before giving it to your baby.

Most babies take time to learn how to take food from a spoon. So be patient and be prepared for some mess. Your baby may cry at first between mouthfuls - until now, food has come in one continuous stream, but now there are frustrating pauses.

Don’t press the food on your baby. If the food really doesn’t seem to be wanted, stop and wait until next time. The main aim at this stage is to get your baby used to the idea of taking food from a spoon. He or she will still be getting most of their nourishment from breast or formula milk (around 500-600ml a day).

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