Category Archive: Feeding baby solids

When Baby C kept rejecting baby cereals, my mum cooked her some porridge. To our surprise, she loves porridge to bits. She has been eating homemade porridge for the past 2 weeks and I am really glad and relieved that I’ve found something that she really likes to eat. So what am I going to do with all the cereals that I’ve bought? I guess I will have to give them away to my friends with babies. Baby C hates most food that are sweet and creamy. I think she associates them with her daily antibiotics.

The crockpot of porridge that my mum made for Baby C. The porridge has purple sweet potato, grated carrot, red beans, grated green veggie and some ‘mei tau’, a kind of beans that are supposedly good for the eyes, a chunk of chicken breast (to make the porridge sweet) and a small chunk of fish fillet (which Baby C eats).  My mum planted the beans in her veggie patch in her garden.

Alycia was also a porridge lover when she was a baby.  She hated cereals too.  Sherilyn is a tad different from her 2 sisters.  She hated porridge and I rarely cooked them for her when she was a baby. Sherilyn was a cereal lover and she ate them until she was 3.5 years old! 

Last week, my friend gave me a sachet of Nutrifresh from E.Excel as sample. I poured a little of the powder and mixed it with water and let Baby C try it. I was surprised that she did not reject it. Ever since her most recent hospitalization for UTI, Baby C has developed a phobia and dislike for any liquid that is sweet, including ice cream and yoghurt. I thought she would reject the Nutrifresh but she liked it.  So I bought a box of Nutrifresh and have been feeding it to her twice a day for the past 1 week. She likes it more if the consistency is not too thick coz when it’s thick, it’s sweet and tastes pretty much like her antibiotics. I normally mix it with soup as she loves soup a lot.  She can drink half a bowl of soup in one sitting.

Baby C’s Nutrifresh mixed with ABC soup and on the right is mashed carrots and potatoes.

This sachet of Nutrifresh can last Baby C for 2-3 days as she can’t eat a lot. Nutrifresh consists of a wide variety of fruits and veggie, all blended into powder and can be fed to babies above 6 months of age. It costs over RM3+ per sachet.

That was Baby C’s dinner 2 nights ago – 1/3 of a fish and organic brown rice + organic banana porridge + 1 teaspoon of Isomil formula.  Whilst she liked the fish, Baby C didn’t quite like the cereal.  I guess that’s because she’s having a slight runny nose, slight cough and some phelgm.  Poor baby, everyone in the family took turns to have the cold and she wasn’t spared too.   I guess the cereal must have irritated her throat coz she kept coughing when I fed her the cereal. 

So last night, I ditched the cereal.  I gave her some winter melon + pork ribs + barley soup with some mashed up fish and voila, she loved the soup… and the fish too but too bad, she can’t even finish the fish (1/3 again).  Her appetite is really small and she still likes breast milk best.  Oh well, it may be a blessing in disguise as breast milk has all the nutrients and is still the best whilst processed baby food may cause her allergies.  Will try cooking some rice porridge with fish / chicken /pork / veggie for her soon.