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hi

my son is 7 months old, i wud like to know what r the external foods i cpuld give him. He is been takin only breast feed n cerelac for the past one month.

also, he gets a very disturbed sleep. Any tips to improve his sleep.

Hi Marzook,

You can start giving boiled and mashed vegetables like potatoes,peas & carrot, rice. Pureed fresh fruits. Infact you can start giving him finger food as the babies show signs of readiness to feed themselves at around 7 months. Give a very small piece of banana, cereal, sweet potato, well cooked carrot etc. But if you haven't started on any of these food, you shd first try giving only a teaspoon of such food to see whether his digestive system is able to accept them and also to see whether the baby likes it. But even if the baby doesn't like it, you can keep trying every 5 days the same food. Once you know the baby is fine with them, you can start giving them regularly and can increase the quantity.

In the night my be he is feeling too cold or too hot. So check him by touching his abdomen and feet. Put on appropriate clothes accordingly. try to reduce the no of daytime sleep so that he will have better sleep in the night. Good luck.

You can try the following:

• Fruit milk shakes - apple, banana, mango, chikoo, nendram banana etc. Introduce one fruit a week;
• Dhal mixed with vegetables - Cook 1-2 tsp of toor dal with 1/2 carrot, 2-3 beans, handful of cabbage, 1/2 potato, 1/2 tomato in a pressure cooker, mash it (if reqd, in a blender), add salt and give it with spoon. Later on, you can even add vegetables like ladies finger, green peas etc.;
• Porridge - Take 100 gms each of Wheat, ragi, greengram, boiled rice, sago, badam, pista, cashew nut, chickpeas(brown), fry it separately, add 2-3 cardomoms, grind it  and keep it in a sealed container; whenever reqd, take 1-2 tsp, add 1 glass of milk, sugar, little water, keep it on the stove, keep mixing it, bring it to a boil and remove it from the stove, when it comes to a porridge consistency, cool it and give it with spoon;