Stage 1: First Tastes - Philips AVENT SCF862 Recipe Booklet

Stage 1:
First tastes
taste and texture of milk, the trick here is to introduce new foods gradually.
eating his/her own food in no time.
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Up until now your baby will only be used to
suckling milk from the breast or drinking formula
from a bottle, by pushing the tongue forward to
drink. Therefore, when starting to spoon feed for
their tongue, meaning that any food going in will
be pushed back out the mouth with the tongue.
Learning to eat food involves developing a whole
Purées should be very smooth and still
quite runny, using very mild (bland even)
new set of oral motor skills. For example, your baby
will need to learn to use his/her lips to pull the food
back of the mouth and to swallow. Before this they
had only ever used their jaw and cheek muscles for
sucking – so it's a completely new experience. Once
your baby can swallow food, along with the other
two signs for weaning (sitting up, picking things up
and putting them in their mouths) they're well and
truly ready to embark on an exploration of food.
First foods can include puréed cereals, such as
baby rice, oats, millet, corn noodles or well mashed
cooked rice mixed with your baby's usual milk. You
can also purée fruit or vegetables. Purées should be
very smooth and still quite runny, using very mild
baby just a few teaspoons once a day, either during
or after the usual milk feed (breast or formula). It's
can see how they respond to individual foods. As
foods before their usual milk and gradually increase
the frequency of feeds and the amount given. You
by adding less milk or water (cooled boiled) to
types of food and gradually increase meals from
two to three times a day, so that baby can begin
to experience lots of new tastes. In terms of your
formula-fed babies cooled boiled water if you think
they are thirsty between feeds (breast fed babies
don't need any water).
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