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whitewave 
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Posted: 15 August 2009 at 10:05pm |
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How do you know when your baby is ready to move onto stage 2 foods?
Campbell has been on Stage 1 purees for just over a month now, and since he's just turned 6 months, I think he's ready but I'm curious to know if there are any behavioural signs to look for, to know for sure.
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crakars
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Posted: 15 August 2009 at 10:11pm |
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we use stage 2 - cant see much difference in them - just try it and see what you think
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Posted: 15 August 2009 at 10:13pm |
Nah just give it to him and find out. If he gags and/or power vomits then mush it up a bit more.
If you aren't already you can start giving finger foods and that will help with him learning how to chew and swallow lumps.
Don't worry about a little gagging they need to learn how to get over the gag reflux, and in my experience they don't choke they power vomit.
Kyle has started straight on finger foods cos he won't eat off a spoon or sit in his highchair  and yeah sometimes he gags a bit but he's normally shoving more in the second he stops.
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Posted: 15 August 2009 at 10:54pm |
whitewave, I just gave them a go  We've had a couple of gags, a power vomit (partly I think coz he gets over excited lol) and lots more mess! I also try to give C finger foods with every meal (or at least a couple of times a day) now and he has really improved with these over the past couple of weeks.
I've found, with the jarred stuff, there really isn't much difference in texture it's more just the ingredients (more than one, or more "interesting"). But I'm making C's food lumpier now too. He had (baby) pasta stars tonight and coped really well.
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 6:32pm |
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Cool that is really handy to know. I gave Eva zuchinni tonight and it wasn't a smooth puree and she didn't even notice.
Eva also had a piece of roti today, she loved it.
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 7:43pm |
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I just started giving Arianne stage 2 foods when she got to 6 months, she took then really well. I think it is just trial and error to see what they like.
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Posted: 17 August 2009 at 11:21am |
I started Taylah recently as well. I found the texture was similar, just had different foods. Taylah loves the meat ones etc
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Posted: 17 August 2009 at 11:33am |
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Yup as already said, most of them are just as pureed, just a bit more interesting flavours.
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whitewave
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Posted: 17 August 2009 at 9:58pm |
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Awesome, thanks for that!
Will try him out with some new flavours. He currently has a stick of toast for breakfast, which he mostly just sucks on and disintegrates, but is increasingly swallowing more of. I make sure I'm watching him, so that he doesn't try and swallow a bit that's too big. What are some other finger foods that are good to start off with?
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Posted: 18 August 2009 at 9:35am |
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I gave Ava a pit of roast potato yesterday and she happily sucked away on it. You could bake some kumara sticks etc.
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Posted: 18 August 2009 at 4:29pm |
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Callum is LOVING cruskits at the moment, I put a wee bit of marmite on them. He used to just suck the marmite off but now he gums the cruskit as well and actually eats it.
Grated cheese and fruit like watermelon, banana, papaya and rockmelon are favourites here, I usually put a bit of fruit in his mesh feeder and give him some sticks to try as well and he plows through it all!
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Stage 2 food
