Tuesday 7 July 2015

Weaning Diaries // Week 8



We started offering Florence fingers foods at the start of Week 8. Before this, I was spoon feeding her both Breakfast and Lunch. A few days previous we started to give her little pieces of food that we were eating and she really, really took to it so we decided to start offering her Fingers Foods for lunch instead of a Purée. This means that Florence has gone from two meals a day to three meals a day, what a little piglet! Towards the end of the week we started giving Florence a couple of cubes of Fruit Purée for pudding after her Dinner.

Here is Florence's food diary for Week 8 -

Week 8
Breakfast - 9.00am
Lunch – 1.00pm
Dinner – 4.00pm
Bedtime - 7.00pm
Monday
Bottle

*Florence had an early Hospital appointment so we missed breakfast*
Bottle

Philadelphia Sandwich, Cucumber, Cheese, and Strawberries
Bottle

Butternut Squash, Pea, and Tomato Purée
Bottle
Tuesday
Bottle

Ready Brek with Apple and Blackberry Purée
Bottle

Rice Cakes
Bottle

  Jacket Potato with Cheese and Sweetcorn
Bottle
Wednesday
Bottle

Weetabix with Pear And Strawberry  Purée
Bottle

Jam Sandwich, Ham, Cheese, Strawberries
Bottle

One Pot Chicken
Bottle
Thursday
Bottle

Yoghurt with Raspberry and Peach Purée
Bottle

Tomato and Cheese Tortilla Pizza
Bottle

Sweet Potato and Spinach Mash
Bottle
Friday
Bottle

Ready Brek with Blueberry  Purée
Bottle

Cooked pasta with Steamed Mixed Vegetables
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Cheesy Fish Pie with Potato

Apricot and Apple Purée
Bottle
Saturday
Bottle

Weetbix with Strawberry and Peach  Purée
Bottle

Bread Sticks, Philadelphia, Ham, Cucumber, and Tomato

Bottle

Swede, Carrot, and Parsnip  Purée

Apple and Raspberry  Purée
Bottle
Sunday
Bottle

Yoghurt with Mango Purée  
Bottle

Philadelphia Sandwich, Cucumber, Organix Tomato Slices
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Cheesy Mashed Potato with Tomatoes

Strawberry and Blueberry
Purée
Bottle



2 comments:

  1. Hiya, this is a great blog! I've been weaning for 2 months now and am still hesitant to offer finger food because of the choking aspect. How did florence get on with gumming the harder foods such as cucumber, breadsticks and tomatoes? Any tips?

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    1. Thank you Gemma!

      With regards to finger foods, it can be scary but a baby has stronger gag reflexes than an adult. They have the ability to force food back up that's too big or going down the wrong way! Please remember that there is a difference between gagging and choking too, Florence has gagged on lumpy purees or finger food many a times but I pat her back and give her a little drink.

      I put different finger foods on Florence's plate most days and she goes at her own pace. She used to play with the food rather than eat it, but now she's had lots of practice she's much better and ate a whole piece of toast for breakfast this morning!

      Florence still doesn't have teeth but she is able to gum bits of food off. With Cucumber I cut the hard skin off at the moment. I used to do this with tomatoes too but I don't anymore. Breadsticks are a great finger food because they mush down really well!

      Good luck xxx

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