First baby foods - NT style

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

Our daughter is almost 4 months now and we want to start introducing solid

foods.

Can anyone with recent experience share some ideas?

Most people recommend starting with rice cereal - is that a good idea?

What about lentil soup?

Please share ideas and receipes for things we can make at home.

Thanks,

Pratick

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[Guest guest]

I started my son on egg yolk at 4 months.

Irene

At 03:40 PM 1/23/2005, you wrote:

>Greetings,

>

>Our daughter is almost 4 months now and we want to start introducing solid

>foods.

>Can anyone with recent experience share some ideas?

>

>Most people recommend starting with rice cereal - is that a good idea?

>What about lentil soup?

>

>Please share ideas and receipes for things we can make at home.

>

>Thanks,

>Pratick

>

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>

[Guest guest]

--- Irene Musiol <Irene.M@...> wrote:

> I started my son on egg yolk at 4 months.

> Irene

How did you prepare the egg - boiled, poached or raw?

How many egg yolks did you give per day?

Also, what were the next things you introduced after the eggs?

Thanks,

Pratick

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[Guest guest]

Pratick,

My third child just turned two, and I am finding it hard to remember

what I offered him in what order! With the oldest I followed whatever

the pediatrician said (formula, cereals), and she has had horrible

digestive problems her whole life. (Okay, other people on this list

have to live with worse, but to me they are horrible, and make her

miserable!) With my younger two, I decided to let my instincts guide

me, or rather the baby's instincts. I breastfed both of them an

extended time (I still nurse the youngest.) And I feed the baby

sitting on my lap off of the plate I am eating from. Whatever they

want to try. I did attempt to prepare special things for them, but I

never did actually stick to anything. I avoided grains (my oldest's

worse problem). And I didn't worry about meat until they wanted to try

it (although at first they usually chewed and spit it out.) They both

went to the veggies first, and still ask for them.

They are both wonderful, healthy, smart, strong, etc...all the things

you hope for.

I do agree that the egg yolk is a wonderful place to start, gently

warmed. feed as much as they want. To start they may only eat a

spoonful or two, and eat more as they need it. I hear that little bits

of raw liver is a good second step.

Just my jumbled two cents!

- running off to pack boxes, mumbling, " 6 days to go... "

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:07:54 -0800 (PST), Pratick Mukherjee

<pratickmukherjee@...> wrote:

> --- Irene Musiol <Irene.M@...> wrote:

>

> > I started my son on egg yolk at 4 months.

> > Irene

>

> How did you prepare the egg - boiled, poached or raw?

> How many egg yolks did you give per day?

>

> Also, what were the next things you introduced after the eggs?

>

>

> Thanks,

> Pratick

[Guest guest]

> Our daughter is almost 4 months now and we want to start

introducing solid foods.

> Can anyone with recent experience share some ideas?

####### My is almost 6 months and he's just getting into solids.

First, I'd recommend you see if she's interested. wasn't until

very recently.

>

> Most people recommend starting with rice cereal - is that a good

idea?

######## I've given some of my milk thickened with cooked rice

(not boxed) but I feel like it's just empty calories with few

benefits. Most experts now agree giving cereals and other solids

doesn't help infants sleep better like people used to think.

> What about lentil soup?

####### I'd hold off with lentils until past 1 year I think. Legumes

are hard to digest I believe.

>

> Please share ideas and receipes for things we can make at home.

######## I've done avocado, banana, peach, apple and sweet potato.

I've soft boiled eggs (3.5 minutes) and fed the yolk - 1 per day

is fine per NT directions but I'm not doing that much yet. I've also

made the custard someone mentioned here (2 c each of milk and cream

plus 12 egg yolks and some vanilla, cook in water bath at 310 degrees

for 1 hour - I made them small so they cooked in 30 minutes), pureed

some peaches over it and loved it (THANK YOU). I've been mixing

tiny bits of coconut oil and butter into his fruit too.

I must say one of the main reasons I started solids was because

was drinking up to 18 oz of expressed breast milk (EBM) while I was

at work and I wasn't able to keep up the pumping. So I switched him

to 8 to 10 oz of milk during the day and whatever solids he'll eat. I

breastfeed on demand in the evening, during the night and in the

morning. also became somewhat interested in food so I figured

I'd give it a try. He learned pretty quickly to take things from the

spoon. I've yet to try the fermented sweet potato recipe from NT but

I figure I have time.

HTH,

Magda

[Guest guest]

Magda Velecky wrote:

> ######## I've given some of my milk thickened with cooked rice

> (not boxed) but I feel like it's just empty calories with few

> benefits. Most experts now agree giving cereals and other solids

> doesn't help infants sleep better like people used to think.

How about kefir? They've had good results feeding kefir to preemies

even, and it gives them those good probiotics. Pureeing some fruit into

it might be nice too.

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

> > I started my son on egg yolk at 4 months.

> > Irene

>

>How did you prepare the egg - boiled, poached or raw?

>How many egg yolks did you give per day?

I'm not Irene but egg yolk, with the egg being boiled for 3 1/2 mins., one

yolk on most days, is one of the foods I've introduced to my nearly 8mth old

daughter. I introduced solids at 6 mths once she began showing great

interest in what we were eating and was trying to grab for it. She also

has yoghurt, small amounts of beef and chicken, fish, avocado and pumpkin.

I also use a bought jar of vegetables (certified) about once a week - I keep

one for occasions when I run out of anything appropriate. I usually try to

save an avocado for when we are going out as they are so easy to take out -

only need a teaspn and they're not very " messy " .

Beef is definately my daughter's favourite food. I give it in small

amounts from my own plate and it is usually from a curry, but I take the

inside piece of meat, with less of the spices etc on it.

I gave her freshly ground rice cooked in water, a few times, then read that

Enig and Fallon recommend not to because babies don't have the amino acid(s)

to digest grain until they are older.

[Guest guest]

I boiled the egg until it was still sort but the whites were firm enough to

remove About 3 minutes if I remember correctly. I gave him just the yolks.

He loved them starting at 4 months. Other than that I gave him small

amounts of commercial, organic baby food but he didn't have much interest

in other foods until he was about 9 months. He wanted nothing to do with

the usual first foods like avacado and banana. In fact he wouldn't eat

bananas at all until he was 2 years old.

Irene

At 04:07 AM 1/24/2005, you wrote:

>--- Irene Musiol <Irene.M@...> wrote:

>

> > I started my son on egg yolk at 4 months.

> > Irene

>

>How did you prepare the egg - boiled, poached or raw?

>How many egg yolks did you give per day?

>

>Also, what were the next things you introduced after the eggs?

>

>Thanks,

>Pratick

>

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>

[Guest guest]

Pratick Mukherjee wrote:

> Heidi --

>

> --- Heidi <heidis@...> wrote:

> > How about kefir? They've had good results feeding kefir to preemies

> > even, and it gives them those good probiotics. Pureeing some fruit into

> > it might be nice too.

>

> Is it ok to give kefir made from cow's milk - or did you mean an

> alternative milk?

> I am under the impression that [non-human] milk should not be introduced

> until at least a

> year old.

>

> Thanks,

> Pratick

From an allergy point of view, I don't know, it's a real good question.

Some evidence indicates that if foods are introduced at a certain

" window " in babyhood that the baby is LESS likely to be allergic to it,

if the baby is also breastfeeding. Other people say the opposite.

Kefirized milk seems to be safe though, from a food point of view, for

tiny infants, and it does great things for the digestive tract, and

since I'm casein-sensitive, I CAN say that it is a whole lot less

allergenic than regular milk is.

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

Pratick-

>Most people recommend starting with rice cereal - is that a good idea?

>What about lentil soup?

I think animal foods would be much better.

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