Is home-cooked organic food better than use organic jars and packets? When I first started weaning my daughter at 4 months, I cooked and pureed all of her organic fruit and vegetables myself. However, as she is now over 6 months old, my husband wants to feed her solely on jars/packets of organic baby food (whereas I would prefer to make the meals suggested in Gina’s book of weaning). My husband thinks that the organic jars are exactly the same as what you would make yourself with the advantage of being quicker to prepare. He does concede that the amount of meat and vegetables may be less than what you…

How do I wean a six-month-old? My baby boy, Tyler, will be six months old tomorrow. He was exclusively breast-fed until 24 weeks, at which point we started weaning, and my plan is to continue with breast-feeding. He has followed the contented baby routine from around 10 weeks, which suits him brilliantly, and he is a complete star. He falls asleep as soon as he is put into his cot, and feeds and sleeps when he is supposed to – he’s great! The only concerns I have at the moment are related to weaning. All the research and reading that I’ve seen, recommends exclusive breastfeeding until six months – which…

Is it best to steam food for pureeing? Just a quick question. When I’m preparing food for my baby, would it be better to steam the food to purée? If so, for how long? Should I use filtered water in the steamer or is it not necessary? Thank you Michelle Steaming your baby’s food is an ideal way to prepare it as this helps to retain more of the vitamins which can be lost during the boiling process. As you often need to add a little liquid to the vegetables to purée them after steaming, you should use filtered water, but you don’t need to put it in the bottom…

How do I adapt the routine for giving solids at 6pm to 6 month twins? My twins are nearly 23 weeks so I am aware that I will need to introduce solids soon, despite them showing no real signs of being ready. How do I adapt the evening routine in the evening to accommodate two babies? At present I am feeding them alone and have to start feeding them their bottle about 5.45pm. It can become difficult if I leave it any later. Do you think I need to bring the feed time forward even further to accommodate the solids? I do not bath them in the evening as this…

What is the proper balance of milk and solids for my 6 month twins? I am just a little confused about what the balance of my twins boys’ milk/ solids should be, as they are being introduced to solids later. In the weaning book it starts at 4 months i.e. still offering the milk first followed by 1tsb of baby rice etc. Should I be offering more solids to my boys than the book suggests for 4-5 months, as they will be 6 months next week. In the book it says they should be on 3 meals a day by 6 months and cutting down on their milk intake. I…

At 6 months I can’t seem to get my son interested in solids or taking formula I started to wean my son at 18 weeks and followed the CLB guidelines to the letter. By 20 weeks he just wasn’t bothered with solids at all. By 21 weeks he wouldn’t take them from me at all. We were travelling a lot and I have to admit that I ended up giving in and most of his feeds went back to breastfeeding with only one feed of solids every day; even that was a struggle. I was back to totally feeding on demand. Now he is 6-months-old I really want to do…

Why has my 6-month-old started waking at 10pm? I was hoping you could help, my daughter Keira is 6 months old and I have been following Gina’s routines since she was 4 weeks old. All of a sudden Keira has been waking up at around 10 to 11.30pm. Below you will find her daily routine. If you could help me with this I would be very grateful. I look forward to your advice. DAILY ROUTINE 7am Breast feed 15 min on each side plus two teaspoonfuls of baby porridge and two tablespoons of fruit purée. She doesn’t always want much of her breakfast. She is happy until nap time at…

My 7-month-old has suddenly become a fussy eater and won’t open her mouth I am an older mother (nearing 40) of a seven-month-old baby girl, and pregnant with our second child (in the first trimester). Our daughter, Cassidy, is generally a very happy baby, and has been a Gina baby all her life. Her sleep patterns, her feeding, weaning etc have all been according to Gina, and this has worked incredibly well for us – if we had a wobble, going back to Gina has always sorted it out. All Gina’s advice has worked really well for us until the last fortnight, when we were suddenly confronted with an apparently…

Henry of 6.5 months refuses any savoury food unless it’s sweetened with apple puree Help. My son is 6 ½ months old, he weighs 18lb and is extremely happy and contented. My problem, I think, has been self inflicted, but I am desperate to get him back on track. I recently weaned Henry from breast to bottle. He wakes around 6.30-7am and I give him a bottle of formula; sometimes he will take 8oz and others 4-5 oz. He then has a little play for a couple of hours and I feed him his breakfast around 8.30am which typically would be fruit puree with yoghurt or baby cereal mixed with…

My 8-month-old is refusing solids Please help, I’m desperate! I’ve followed the routines since Ben was around one month old and we’ve not been doing too badly but for the last month, things have been going from bad to worse with feeding solids. He is now eight months old and has started to clamp his mouth shut when I try to feed him solid food. As soon as I put the spoon near his mouth, he starts getting very angry. As a result, he wants more milk feeds and is waking earlier. If I put the TV on, I can sometimes get a few spoonfuls down him but he is…