Introducing solids in the evening

Within a couple of days of introducing baby rice at 11am, you should progress to introducing solids in the evening as well. For the first week I would advise that you give him the solids after he has taken most of his 6pm feed. This will encourage him to cut back on his 10pm feed, which will have a knock-on effect of him being hungrier for his first milk feed of the day. You should increase the amounts you give him, but do so on alternate days to the days on which you are increasing the lunchtime solids. Remember that the baby rice is far more filling than fruit, so increase that more rapidly than the fruit. Once your baby is taking nearer the quantities that I have mentioned in the feeding plan below, you should automatically see a decrease in his 10pm feed. If he does not cut back of his own accord, I would suggest that you reduce his 10pm feed gradually by 15g (½oz) every couple of nights provided, of course, that he continues to sleep through to 6/7am.

 

Introducing solid food

• When to wean
• Early weaning
• Which foods?
• Preparing and cooking food for your baby
• First stage weaning
• Weaning guidelines
• Early weaning at 4-5 months
• Introducing protein at 6 months
• Introducing solids at 6 months
• The 10pm feed
• Introducing solids at 11am
• Introducing solids in the evening
• Weaning plan at 4-5 months (Download PDF)
• Weaning plan at 5-6 months (Download PDF)
• Weaning plan at 6-7 months (Download PDF)

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