Baby Solid Food Health Feed

From 6 months onwards he can be given homemade mashed foods and should never be given in bottle with nipple and should be fed with a spoon. In fcat ,f the milk is less, the semi solids can be started from 4th months onwards.

Hi. Baby should be given exclusive breast feed till 6 months after 6 months we should start complimentary feeds. Our aim should be that baby should take all the home based food by one year of age. Breast feeding should be continued till 2 years of age. The complimentary feeds at six months should be semiliquid and bland and gradually we should increase the consistency and introduce different tastes.

You should give your baby only breast milk or iron-fortified formula during the first 12 months of life, not cow's milk. Starting at age 6 months, you may add solid foods to your baby's diet. Cow milk is not suitable for human child and should not be given before 1years of life.

It is important to clean the spoon well with a good detergent every time before use. There is no need to sterilise it. It is necessary to wash your hands nicely before every feed.

Till 6 months not advisable to go towards semisolid feed. For working mother advisable to go for formula feeds or top milk in form of cow milk with added sugar. Word of caution here is, no feed is superior than breast feeds in first 6 months of age of an infant.

No you can give feed any time up to 11pm. But you should keep distance of two to three hrs between breast feed and soup.

After 6 month you can give semi solid but at this time You can give cow milk/ rice water/ dal soup/ vegetable soup, fruit puree.

If there is no difficulty in passing stools you need worry about infrequent stools. Increase the amount of fibre and give adequate water.

do not worry every baby has her own pattern. some pass motion once a week, just keep feeding her. if she is not passing hard stool do not worry
do some leg exercise - move legs of the baby as if peddling a cycle. massage her belly gently and little firmly specially on left lower side.

Exclusive breast feeding upto 6 month. But breast milk is not adequate and no adequate weight gaine for expected month you can start early weanining at this age like ragi and banana powder one or two times a day. Then gradually increase along with breast feeding continue.