Weetabix & Ready Brek/Porridge for a 7mo?

[jenny260906]

I started weaning my ds when he was almost 5 months old - he is now 7 months.

Just got a couple of questions...
Am i ok to give him weetabix for breakfast with whole cows milk?

Also is Ready Brek ok for him?

And one final question...
DS is breast fed still (refuses a bottle completely). How do i get him used to taking fluid (water, etc) from a cup? I have bought one of those Doidy cups but it's so messy! Also have a tommee tippee cup (taken the valve thing out) and again ds just doesn't understand what to do, he just chews the end! I have been trying for the last 6 weeks atleast once a day and it's just not happening! Any tips?

Thanks in advance!

[Aloha]

Yes, all fine to eat. Some babies aren't ready for a cup that young. Drives you mad. Keep persevering.

[CorrieDale]

Ready Brek is fine though ordinary porridge oats are miles cheaper.

Weetabix is OK but has salt & sugar in it. Depends on how you feel about sugar, I guess! Bear in mind he shouldn't have more than 0.6gm of salt a day. That isn't very much, so you need to keep an eye on it.

The cheapest tommee tippee cups were what we used in the early days - still do, actually. No valves, just a spout. Leave it lying around - he'll work it out for himself. DS was a good 8 months before he started drinking water from it. And I'd steer clear of the 'etc' btw! Water is fine - if it's all he's offered, he'll drink it. Once you go down the squash or juice route, it's not so easy to get them onto water again. As long as he's bfing freely, then he's getting good fluids so you can look on this as just experimentation - deffo not worth getting anxious about IMO&E!

[munz]

J can't manage the weetabix - don't ask me why seems to give him terrible wind esp during the night.

re the cups - j had one around 9 months I think and I tried just about everyone going before we found one he liked, but even now at 14 monhts he won't drink his milk from it.

[maxbear]

My dd is just over 2 and has drank from a normal cup for ages, I always supervise her if it is milk but leave her to it if it is water. With the summer coming keep trying with a normal cup with water in the garden then it doesn't matter if he spills it, and also when he is older and good at a real cup it is useful to not have to take a baby cup with you everywhere you go.