This is from the Gina FORD - contented baby book, there is a weaning guie at the back. Her cook book is also supposed to be good. I have ordered the Gina Ford one and I also use the Annabel Karmel - baby and toddler meal planner (also tells you what you can freeze). I also had the puree one like Evelyn but sent it back as most of the receipes where in the b & t meal planner.
192 the new contented little baby book – Gina Ford
Weaning: Days 1-15
Days Time Food
1-3 11am Breast feed or 180-240m1 (6—Boz) of formula milk
1 tsp of pure organic baby rice mixed with breast milk, formula or cool boiled water
4-6 6pm Breast feed or 180-240m1 (6—8oz) of formula milk
1-2 tsp baby rice mixed with breast milk, formula or
cool boiled water
7-9 11am Breast feed or 180-240m1 (6-8oz) of formula milk I cube of carrot purée
6pm Breast feed or 180-2lOml (6—7oz) of formula milk
1-2 tsp baby rice mixed with breast milk, formula or
cool boiled water plus 1 cube of pear purée
10-12 11am Breast feed or 180-240m1 (6—8oz) of formula milk
1 cube of apple purée
6pm Breast feed or 210-240ml (7-8oz) of formula milk
2~3 tsp baby rice mixed with breast milk, formula or cool boiled water
13-15 11 am Breast feed or 1 80--240m1 (6--8oz) of formula rnilk
1 cube of sweet potato purée
6pm Breast feed or 21 O-240ml (7—8oz) of formula milk
2-3 tsp baby mice mixed with breast milk. formula or cool boiled water plus 1 cube of pear puree
Start to alternate the fruit at night time. From now on introduce a new vegetable every 3 days at lunch time. alternating with the ones he is already eating.
Note: To avoid problems with baby’s digestive system, new foods must only be introduced every 3 days. It is vital to reminder that mi1k is still the most important food at this stage. By replacing it too quickly with solid food you will deny your baby the perfect balance of vitamins and minerals that milk supplies. By using the above method during the first month of weaning you can he sure your baby will take exactly the amount of solids that he needs. without losing the nutritional value of the milk.
Once the baby is established on rice at lunchtime and shows no reaction I would transfer the rice to after tea-time feed. I then introduce a teaspoonful of puréed organic pear after the lunchtime feed. If, it is tolerated after three days I would mix the pear with the rice at the teatime feed. This makes the rice more palatable and avoids the baby becoming constipated. I now begin to introduce a small amount of various vegetables and fruit after the lunchtime feed. I am convinced that the reason very few of my babies develop a sweet tooth is because more vegetables than fruit in the early days vegetables favored by most babies at this sweet potato, green beans, courgettes and swede or turnip.
Other foods
Gillian Harris, a clinical psychologist researching weaning in babies, found that babies introduced to a wide variety of non-allergy-forming foods from the age of 4/6 months would accept a wider range of food than those weaned on a restricted diet.
Between the ages of five and six months babies who started weaning at four months should have taste variety of vegetables and fruit. Food still needs to be pureed smoothly. This will help prepare your baby for mashed food at six months.
Meat, chicken or fish should not be introduced until baby is capable of digesting reasonable amounts of other solids. Some nutritionists believe that protein on the young baby’s kidneys and digestive tract. A very large baby could start protein at five months but for most, six months is the best age.
Dairy products, wheat, eggs. nuts and citrus fruits still be avoided at this stage, as they are likely to trigger allergies. Salt should he avoided and sugar only used in small quantities when stewing introduced before one
Bridget I may not nessesatily agree ir have done everything in this plan. I started when DS was most hungry at tea time not lunch. I then introduced lunch then a breakfast. There are others on this site who do follow her guide very successfully, I have only posted the intial food part.
I have also attached Annabel Karmels meal planners, you so they are different from GF's, but it will give you a help if nothing else.
You can also have:
Papaya
Banana
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Butternut squash
Potato (sieve again)
What I did was make individual ice cubes then do mix and match every day.
HTH's
