good receipes for weight gain

Does she like avocado? It is a high fat food but a *good* fat too, it was the first thing that popped into my head.

My DD2 is 10 months old too, I don't know exactly how much she weighs as we don't go to Plunket (or any other provider), but I'd imagine she's fairly similar to your girl - is only a wee thing compared to other babies her age.

I know it's easier said than done, but I would try not to worry too much and not go out of your way to "fatten her up" if she is otherwise happy and healthy - it sounds like you are doing a great job of meeting all her needs anyway. Not saying you can't try changing her diet a little or adding new things mind you, but some babies are just little

Lol we posted about avacado at the same time!

Te he - not keen on Avo but loves hummus. I might try hiding the Avo in the hummus!

I'm not too worried (neither are the paeds or nurse) but did wonder if few new things might make a difference.

Pasta? rice? high carb foods are great and yeah avo and banana too. Milla was hard to feed - she used to choke on everything so pureed root vege along with what I already mentioned and dairy food or custard for pudding
She was 8 kgs at 1 - but it took alot of work to get there - born at 2.72 kg and only just 5 at 6 months

Avocado is a great one, DS loves it on its own and if I put it on a cracker he just licks it off and wont eat the cracker LOL same with hommus too.

Another homemade snack idea is the Edmonds piklet recipe topped up with blueberries and banana, using formula instead of milk to add extra calories??

Can you get organic, full fat, no added sugar yogurt in NZ, we have a brand here in the UK called Little Yeo for the kids and its great.

Rice pudding with cream for pudding!

Peanut just reminded me - I used to add baby rice to yogurt too - but you could pretty much add it to anything with a bit of breastmilk to keep it from being too dry

So is she on the 3rd for height & Weight?

Thanks some great ideas. Once she gets teeth I can try a few more things I do like the idea of pasta, maybe with some olive oil. I mix formula with baby rice in the morning, she refuses to drink it otherwise (I imagine she'll end up a breastfeeding promotor one day). Might take it in custard too. DD not big on custard, or anything sweet but I should try it again, you never know.

A and C's Mum - she's tracking just below 3% for height and weight - last month put on only 40g - I was so surprised as she puts away her food.

Thanks Jane, though I don't know how much I will help as Ben is a heffalump in his own right,, without the added fat tehe!!

Cos of Ben's CF, he is automatically put on a high fat, high protein diet, though he eats everything in sight, so I'm pretty lucky really. And you just don't realise how 'low fat' everything is until you have a child that actually requires some extra calories! Go figure, eh?!

The biggest thing Ben's dietician has suggested with his diet is the addition of cream and sugar into his diet to amp his calories. So, for brekkie, he has 2x weetbix, except with full cream milk and a teaspoon of sugar. Full cream milk is our friend in our household That and actual cream. He also gets lashings of butter and/or margarine on anything you can put it on. Add a cream of teaspoon to normal yoghurt as it usually only has 1g fat per pottle, and with one teaspoon of cream you can get it up to 5g fat. Yoplait vigeur is the only high fat yoghurt I have found with about 4g of fat per pottle (though it can be expensive).

We cook everything in butter for Ben to increase the calories and give full cream milk like water for him (recommended of course). TBH, dairy is your friend if you want to add calories so just keep that in mind. That and sugar. Only thing is, there are consequences for such a diet, but Ben has a shortened lifespan anyway, so they don't place much emphasis on this for him, but for a 'normal' child, this could be problematic. Perhaps a referral to a diettician by your GP might be the go??

Anyway, hope my suggestions help a wee bit

The custard I make is not sweet at all so you can add whatever fruits he likes into it and you might have more luck.

The other thing that is a hit here is eggy toast. Mix a egg with milk or cream. Dip your toast in and fry.