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WEANING
From 6-9 months:
Remember:
1. Introduce lumpy foods by 6-7 months
2. Introduce feeding from the cup.
3. Encourage different textures and stronger tastes.
4. Food should not be salted or sweetened
5. Encourage a savoury preference to sweet
Some meals to try:
Breakfast: porridge of rice or suji (rava) or nachni or dahlia or
mashed banana
Lunch: minced chicken with vegetables and potato or khichri (gruel of rice and dal with vegetables and potato) or soft ripe peeled pear or apple.
Dinner: mashed boiled sweet potato with carrots with cauliflower.
From 9-12 months:
- Gradually increase amount of food you give either before or after milk feed.
- Continue 500-600ml breast or infant formula milk
- Dairy products: Cow's milk may be used to mix solids. Cheese may be given as finger foods.
- Starchy foods-2-3 servings daily: introduce wheat based cereals- khichri (gruel of rice and pulses) -sooji halwa/porridge -nachni mixed with milk (porridge).
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Vegetables: 2 servings
Raw soft fruits and vegetables may be given as finger foods e.g. -soft cooked strips of carrot, Cooked green beans, soft banana and pear, Apple stew, Spinach and tomato soup. Other cooked vegetables and fruits may now be coarser in texture. -
Meat and alternatives- 1 serving.
Meat, fish, pulses may be coarsely pureed. Chopped hard cooked egg may be used as finger foods.
Remember:
2. Introduce feeding from the cup.
3. Encourage different textures and stronger tastes.
4. Food should not be salted or sweetened
5. Encourage a savoury preference to sweet
Lunch: minced chicken with vegetables and potato or khichri (gruel of rice and dal with vegetables and potato) or soft ripe peeled pear or apple.
Dinner: mashed boiled sweet potato with carrots with cauliflower.
From 9-12 months:
- Continue 500-600ml-breast milk or infant milk formula daily.
- Dairy products: To continue to use cows milk to mix with solids. Hard cheese used as finger foods.
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Starchy foods: 3-4 servings daily
May be normal adult texture. -
Vegetables and fruits: 3-4 servings
Encourage lightly cooked or raw foods. Chopped or finger foods is suitable, e.g. pear, apple, chickoo, banana and melon. - Meat and alternatives: to try mixture of different vegetables and starchy foods, dal and rice or rice and chicken or rice cheese.
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