Follow-on foods

When your baby is around 8 months, eating confidently and enjoying savoury food:

✓ Offer a wider range of finger foods

✓ Introduce fruit – can be mashed or offered as a soft finger foods, cutting round fruit into quarters

✓ Gradually move towards 3 meals a day

✓ Roughly mash or chop food – but avoid large lumps

✓ Decrease the amount of milk as your baby eats more solid food

✓ No need for follow-on formula

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How big is a portion?

While your baby is getting used to solid food, don’t worry too much about how much they are eating. The most important thing is to be guided by them – they will let you know when they are hungry and when they are full. Your baby will eat more on some days than others.

Putting a baby-sized portion on the plate can help us have realistic expectations of how much they can eat – remembering that their tummy is the size of their clenched fist. These pictures give an idea of how the same meal might look for adults, young children and babies.   

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