August 20th, 2004
porridge and big business
» motherhood
Sixth month! Time to make real food for the baby. I have the menu ready. She will have porridge. The greens will be sweat pea, spinach or broccoli. Yellow vege will consist of pumpkin, carrot or sweat potato. For meat, she will have fish, chicken or pork. Plus apple, pear or banana for dessert. Looks like very complete and nutritious. I am really excited to let her try home cook food, not just instant cereal anymore.
I even bought the more expensive snow fish for her. Howver, things turned out to be quite unexpected. After her meal, she has that fishy smell all over her mouth. Yeah, I got fishy kisses from her. The worse thing is, she started to constipate. She didn’t had her big business done for two days, then on the third day, after some hard work of “nggghh nggghh nggghhhh” (she really made that sound), out came a pellet. Worriedly, I fed her more water. I continued with the porridge the next day. It happened again, hard stool. Porridge caused constipation? I was not sure, but wanted to play safe before it become worse. So, no more porridge from yesterday onwards. And really, the situation is back to normal by this afternoon. Hmm…how should I go about solving this problem? Should I feed her more water and fruits?
August 21st, 2004 at 12:53 pm
This webby might help you on baby food matters:
http://freshbaby.com/ I freeze my baby food. That way, i only cook once every week. Tim hasnt really started solids - i have given him banana, apple, sweet potato, rice congee and brown rice congee, thats all. I am not keen on starting him on any animal protein yet, till perhaps around 9 months… although many people were telling me that its ok to start a variety now. I’ll rather not take the chance of putting him in risk of any food allergies. Other than that, he is solely on BM, no water even :/
Your little one is taking real food now, that explains the hard stools. You may consider making more watery porridge or give more water at the end of feeding session. Its always good to have them well hydrated. btw, its actually quite normal to have babies being ‘constipated’ for a week ( thats what the ped says
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August 23rd, 2004 at 11:39 am
I am taking out the porridge and back with the cereal again, together with the vege and fish. Need to try and eliminate items slowly to find out why. Anyway, her “real solid food” are still the mushy mushy stuff, not like those we eat….hehe. She got no teeth!