Should solid food come before, or immediately follow bottle-feeding, or should they be separate?
It depends where your baby is in his or her stage of development with eating solids. For a baby just beginning to learn, who is not yet experienced in eating from a spoon or satisfying hunger with solids, its best to first take the edge off his hunger by allowing part of his liquid feeding. Then, while he is still pleasantly hungry, try offering the solids. He will be motivated yet patient enough to try them. Also, for a baby whose main source of nutrition is still formula or breast, its best not to fill them up on solids but to first make sure they are getting the nutrients they need. Then once eating solids is no longer just for practice, allowing solids before the bottle at mealtime is a good idea. It will encourage the transition to solids but will still be making a nutritional contribution to his diet. A good time to serve a separate bottle-feeding is snack time or bedtime for the baby who is already well established on solids, but who still needs the additional nourishment provid
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