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hi you guys this is dr. Tahir from
family pediatrics and thank you so much
for joining us today today we have
Andrea here today with the cute little
baby Aubree here today Aubree is 4 month
old and one of the cutest little babies
we have here today now we are going to
talk about feeding for her because at 4
months of age kids are usually ok to
start eating some solids and the way we
tell if she's ready is if she's holding
her head up fairly well so when you look
at our brie sitting eating she's sitting
with her head nice and straight holding
her head up and when she lays down on
her back and you pick her up from her
arms she keeps her head up it doesn't
fall back so if a baby's if a baby is
not strong enough yet to keep their head
up strong then they're not ready to eat
solids yet okay because that's it
becomes a choking hazard
so typically at 4 months of age babies
will do that some babies take a little
longer her case she's super strong
already at 4 months of age and she's
looking good now the first thing I want
you to do when you start solids is to
get some rice cereal just from the baby
food aisle okay you can get organic rice
cereal too if you want that's available
from the local Woodman here if you want
to get get it from there or just any
rice cereal is fine and then you want to
mix it with water or breast milk or
formula so it's not too thick and not
too runny just like how we would eat
oatmeal for example okay and you'd use a
couple teaspoons of that and mix it up
and then use a little baby spoon and
feed her three times a day morning lunch
and dinner time alright when you feed
her you want to have her sitting up or
inclined a little bit car seat works
fine and also a bouncy chair works fine
for that so she'll be inclined up a
little bit use a spoon and feed her with
a baby spoon when you first feed us you
want to know what to do with it she'll
spit it out with a tongue it'll look
like she doesn't like it but it's only
that she doesn't know how to eat it
okay you'll have to keep up with that
for at least a few days
even a week and you'll know eventually
that she's starting to eat well because
more of the cereal goes in then she
spits out okay so you'll know she is
starting to eat well after she starts
eating well with the rice cereal then
you can have lots of fun giving her
stage one baby foods okay
Stage one foods are basically fruits or
vegetables a single fruit or vegetable
which is put in a blender and bit into a
paste so you can buy the stage one food
so you could make your own if you want
the main trick is going to be to use
only one food at a time for a few days
to make sure that Audrey doesn't have
any reaction she's not having any
problems and if she likes it or not and
after that then you give her another
food and you can try all sorts of
different things and have lots of fun
and see what she likes and what she
doesn't like now if you find a food that
she doesn't like just don't use it for
like a week or so she'll have forgotten
completely about it okay and then try it
again it'll be a brand new food for buy
that ok so you can keep trying that some
babies like certain foods and some
babies just hate certain foods okay
sounds good
yeah that's great we're gonna keep her
on the stage one type foods the paste
you like foods for until about six
months of age okay and that that was it
when I see you then we'll increase her
foods and give her more texture at that
time okay great
sounds good yeah one question so we
would do the breakfast lunch and dinner
would i breastfeed her first and then
okay yeah go ahead and do the good and
breastfeed her first and then give us
some salads the either breast milk if
you're breastfeeding or formula is still
going to be a primary nutrition and the
solids are going to just start adding a
little variety okay and also when you
start feeding her solids it'll change
your schedule quite a bit for
breastfeeding and also for her pooping
schedule okay it's impossible to predict
you have to play by ear a little bit but
you may notice some changes with their
stool patterns and also with how often
she wants to breastfeed or how much she
wants to breastfeed
okay sounds good excellent also another
side note is that breastfeeding just by
itself is also perfectly fine too
kids don't have to start eating solids
if they're here if the drinking breast
milk okay so some parents do elect not
to start solids that most do most still
start some solids at this time it's okay
okay all right well thank you so much
for being a cute little model she did a
fabulous job and thank you so much for
coming in to I am helping us with this
