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The third stage of weaning (from 9-12 months) is about widening your baby’s
chopped, mashed or minced rather than puréed. In terms of their development,
your baby should be starting to recognize foods by sight and beginning to
associate them with their taste.
Stage 3:
Chunkier chews
Because it’s quite common for older children to
reject new or previously accepted foods, typically
foods at this stage will help them later. You should
also start to include your baby in family meal times.
This is because children learn to eat foods if they
see other people eating them. Therefore, make sure
they sit with the rest of the family whilst eating and
organize meal times around other people, especially
other children. Wherever possible encourage them
to feed themselves, even if it’s messy. Mealtimes
are a time for learning and should be fun for your
baby. Learning to self-feed will help to establis
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a healthy relationship with food in which they are
actively involved in the process. In terms of the food
consistency, such as raw fruit and vegetable sticks.
Continue to give breast or formula milk, but reduce it
to two or three times a day. You can also give cooled
boiled water if necessary. This is also the right time
to try to phase out the use of bottles and introduce a
training cup.
Because baby’s tummies are quite small they can
no room for other more nutritious foods that will
give them the energy they need to grow. Fat is
also important for energy production and contains
valuable vitamins such as Vitamin A. For this reason,
you should not give low fat milk, cheese or yogurt to
babies under the age of 2 years.
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