From 7-8 months

• From 7-8 months your baby will be ready to try a range of foods.
• Don’t purée all the food now. It is important that your baby becomes familiar with lumps. Offer soft lumpy foods – mashing all cooked food with a fork.
• Move onto a cup. Offer a small amount of water at mealtimes. There are some excellent feeding cups available or try a small plastic cup

At 12 months

• By 12 months your baby will probably have some teeth and will be able to eat a range of family foods.
• Food is now the main source of nutrition but baby will still need about 600ml of breast milk or infant formula a day.
• Other milk-based foods such as cheese and yoghurts should be regular menu items.
• If baby is bottle fed, now is the time to try moving on to a cup, although some babies still like a bottle before going to bed.
• Avoid too much milk as milk is a food and is very filling. Offer food first and milk or water between meals.
• Include organic chicken or lamb. Little pieces to suck or bite on, or well chopped and mixed with a little cool boiled water to keep moist.

Toddlers

• Toddlers grow taller but only put on a small amount of weight.
• Their appetite is much smaller so they only need a small amount of nutritious food throughout the day.
• Snacks need to be as nourishing as mealtime foods.
• Avoid mealtime battles. Offer delicious and nutritious food and let the toddler decide if he will eat it.
• If your toddler won’t eat, remove the food but don’t offer anything else. If he wants to eat a bit later, offer the same food.
• Some days toddlers eat lots of everything and other days hardly anything. This is very normal so don’t worry.
• Bellamy’s Organic Toddler milk can be used instead of cow’s milk as a drink and to make custards and sauces. It has added vitamins and minerals that the toddler may require. Restrict the total amount to 600mls a day