Starting Solids
When offering a new type of food, always feed it for several days in a row before starting another new food. This makes it easier to detect food allergies, which can present with diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, hives or a rash.
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Cereal 2 oz. Vegetable 2 oz. Vegetable 2 oz.
Fruit 2 oz. Fruit 2 oz. Fruit 2 oz.
4 oz. ð 8 oz. 4 oz. ð 8 oz. 4 oz. ð 8 oz.
At 8 months add:
Meat Meat
Do not offer mixed ingredient foods until you are sure that the baby isn’t allergic to any of the individual ingredients.
It should be a gradual transition from a milk protein diet to three meals a day …
6 months 12 months
Formula Solids
Max. 40 oz./day ~ 6 jars/day
Solids Formula
No less than 16 oz./day
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