Has anybody bookmarked the diet plan for a 5 or 6 month old. I don' t have it and it' s a pain to go thru a maze of messages.

TIA Manju replied. Hello all, My babies are 5 months old and I would like to know what solid food/fruits I can give them? HUS replied. ahve a 5 1/2 month old and I give her the following:
1. rice cereal, oatmeal or multi grain cereal,
2. boiled and mashed carrots, yellow squash, green peas.
3. boiled and mashed dal or moong. Sometimes this is mixedwith over cooked rice.
4. and boiled and/or mashed fruits- apple, banana and mangoes.

sometimes she will take a lot of quantity and sometimes she will not. But I do not force her. She takes if she wants and if she turns her face or spits out the food more than 3 times then I just give her BM or formula to fill her stomach. She is the judge. My doc said this is very important as she learns to understand her hunger needs and how to fulfil it. If we force then they loose this sense and in the long run this has been proved to be a cause of obesity.
Good luck with your baby. Try to be patient. gauri replied. i totally agree with x2..i hv read many msgs where mothers complain about eating habits...weight...go easy n its just not possible to make them eat in 1 day or week...u hv to understand them every baby is diff n their likes n dislikes are diff...no 2 babies are alike...
my baby has not changed but i hv changed myself..touchwood...she is doing fine no probs with her..
i hv learnt one thing from my daughter the more she plays ..properly she eats n sleep...sometimes she only sleeps more..soemtimes she jsut doesnt eat...i hv stoped forcing her n following timetable like b4..i just keep a track of what she eating n how much....thats it...i know now wht she likes... Swapna replied. Nikita,sachna and gauri
My daughter has completed 5 months and Ive started her on rice cereal,just once in the morning. She didn' t have any reactions to it except constipation.
I was thinking of slowly getting her used to eating with a spoon (coz she gets mad whenever she sees the bowl and spoon) and by the time she' s 6 months ,she needs to be predominantly on solids.
And btw, I can' t grind ragi here. I dunno if I can give her the ragi powder but Im a bit anal about using it.
I' ll dig up the old messages and see if our feeding sessions goes.
As of now, it' s a nightmare ,getting her strapped and sticking a spoon in her mouth.
nikita replied. i was looking for posts of 6months old plans and i found these.i am starting solids for my twins.
some of the posts are dated last year November, but awesome info.

message id 6593, feeding board.
id 6452 feeding.
7287,feeding
1866, healthissues
7329, feeding

some of the post might be repeated as i got some post links from different board but refering links with same ids. the only difference is some of posts above are for babies with constipation problem or with picky eater and one i saw was baby not eating well such type.

hope this helps.
gauri replied. first of all 5 motnhs 4get it...till baby completes 6 moths dont gv anything ohter than bm or formula...
from 6 months u can start with solids but something lite..like ragi kanji...see the reaction then inc quanttiy and thickenss....otherwise knaji..should be a little thick than milk...follwowin board has recipes too
i hv hetal' s msgs ....

6452 / 6976 / 6975 / 7287 / 6357 / 6452 / 6811 / 8918 / 9096 all of feeding board sac replied. ya.i am also worrying abt ho wshud i start giving indian home made food. he is 6.5 months old and i give him rice cereal/oatmeal one time in morning,one gerber veg/fruit in evening.
and, rest all feedings are of formula.
how shud i start indian food? sachna replied. hi,
Steamed and mashed apple, banana
Ragi porridge, Dal ka pani, u can give carrot in 6 th month. Thats all i know
Thank u