Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

4 months

Introduce baby rice mixed with breast or formula milk into a soupy solution. Give this to you baby on a soft rubber tipped spoon once a day in the middle of a feed.

Drinks..Breast/ formula milk, cooled boiled water

4 to 5 months

Introduce pureed fruits; apple, soft peach, pear, banana, mango, berries. Pureed vegetables; potatoes carrots caulifower, cabbage, turnip, spinach, brocoli, swede, pumpkin, mixed with boiled cooled water or with breast or formula milk.

Drinks...Breast/ formula milk, cooled boiled water

 5 to 6 months

In small quantities; plain yogurt, cheese (except moldy such as brie, stilton)Pureed pulses (lentils, split pulses and dhal). Meat and poultry- liquidized or finely minced. Fish- poached, bakedor steamed. Start to introduce a few lumps

Drinks...Breast / formula milk, cooled bolied water

6 to 9 months

Introduce breakfast cereals; weetabix, shreddies, readybreak, porridge, oats, semolina, cornmeal porridge.

Drinks...Breast / formula. Very dilute unsweetened fruit juice, water. Introduce a cup or beaker

7 months..semi solid three times per day

8month..Finger foods such as sliced apple, banana, cooked carrot, wholemeal bread or toast cut into fingers, cooked pasta. Encourage chewing by giving lumpier foods, mash with a fork.

9 months...Well cooked eggs can be added, yolk first. Make sure baby doesn't show any signs of an allergy.

10 months

Family food cut into coarse consistences

1 year

Baby should be eating the same foods as the rest of the family, but cut up the food well and let the baby have a chance to feed themselves.

Drinks...Follow on formula. Very dilute fruit juice, water. Cup or beaker