A Guide to Feeding Your 6 - Month - Old baby - Dr. catherine palmier - Uhc tv

Here's a question from a viewer who writes, "How much should I feed my six-month old baby?" Boy that's a question we get quite often from parents who are faced with a six-month-old baby and variety of sizes of prepared baby foods or maybe they're making their own and really don't have an idea about how much to expect the baby to eat and how much to actually make when you're gonna feed your baby. Well, here's some ideas for answering that question. First of all, a really good guideline for a child that's about any age is to feed a serving that's equivalent to the size of the child's palm. Obviously my palm is much larger than an infant, so that gives you a good guide. So it's really the child's palm that should guide the serving. And the serving really is looked at by what's in on a dinner plate. Now, I know you don't feed your baby on a dinner plate, but you'll get the idea. It's also equivalent to about the third of a jar of the smaller jar of baby food. Now, I know not every baby food now comes in a jar, but that's a good general idea initially. Your first few experiences at feeding a baby they won't eat nearly that much. They may have just a couple of spoonfuls, and they'll make make faces. That doesn't mean they don't like it. It's really hard to judge liking of food in an infant. But it's really experiencing different textures and flavors as well in contrast to either mother's milk or formula they've been experiencing. But, hopefully that answers some of your questions and enjoy the adventure in introducing your baby to solid foods. Thanks.