what to feed my 6 month old?

Question

what should i feed my 6 month old?..and how often?..i still breastfeed tho..
thanks..

Answer 1

Well to start out you can start to feed your baby some rice or oatmeal cereal for babies. Then they say to start out with veggies first and to keep feeding them the same thing for a couple of days to see if they are allergic to them, then you can switch to another kind of veggie then after a while you can switch to fruits but you never to feed the same thing to the baby at least 2 days to see if your son or daughter is going to be allergic to it. Start out with stage one foods by the way! Just feed it to them for breakfast (feed them the oatmeal or rice cereal for breakfast), lunch and dinner and the in between that she or he still wants food that is when you breastfeed.

Answer 2

Well keep breastfeeding, but you can now introduce vegetables and fruits. Start off 1x a day and then increase to 2x as the baby gets used to the food. Start with one kind, and then after about 4 days you can introduce another once you're sure there was no reaction to the first type. Do this until all the foods have been introduced, and then you can start mixing them.

Answer 3

One way you could consider of feeding your baby is to use the Baby Led Weaning technique. This basically means giving your baby pieces of food instead of purees, and is great on many levels!

Initially your baby will perhaps just hold the piece of food, perhaps smell or lick it, and in his own time, perhaps over a couple of weeks of trying the food with him, he will start to eat it at his own pace.

Good foods to start with are steamed carrot, or broccoli. You leave the pieces of food bigger than his fist so he has a natural handle to hold, as young babies cannot pick up small pieces of food, and are more likely to choke on them.

The benefits of this approach are that he stays in control (as he is when he's breastfeeding) so he will not resist as much as some babies do to being spoonfed, he will learn so much more about the different tastes, textures and colours of food, how to hold things, the process of eating, how to get something successfully into the mouth and chew it and swallow it without gagging (a learned process)

As he progresses and learns more about eating, he can move on to different foods, and wonderfully, when he is old enough to use the pincer movement (picking things up between finger and thumb)to pick up small pieces of food such as raisins and cooked peas, it naturally co-incides with the time he is able to eat such small foods without choking!

Thi method will also benefit you as it means you don't have to keep boiling vegetables, pureeing them, freezing the mush into little icecube trays, defrosting them and spoonfeeding them to him while your own meal gets cold.

With baby led weaning, your baby will happily chew on a piece of bread or piece of cucumber from your plate as you eat, and feel so much more like part of the family. Plus it means you can eat in restaurants, where he can sample your food, with no carrying little pots of mush around with you!

Here are a couple of links to tell you more about it. Best of luck if you do try it, I am going to try it with my baby due in august, sounds so much nicer than serving him slop!

http://myblwexperiences.blogspot.com/

http://babyledweaning.blogware.com/

Answer 4

A double bacon cheeseburger washed down with a chocolate milkshake.

Or maybe you can just strain your own vegetables to offer it a healthy alternative.