The sample menus shown above are intended as a guide to your baby’s main meals. Remember, a baby’s stomach can’t hold very much, and she will need to eat more often than an adult, so don’t insist she finish her meals, and be prepared to give snacks in between times. Of course you should encourage your baby to have regular feeding times, but if you try to make her eat only at mealtimes, they’ll become battlefields and she may end up not getting the food she needs when she needs it. If she shows that she’s had enough, don’t try to make her eat more.
Of course it is frustrating if you have spent a lot of time preparing a meal and your baby refuses it, or eats ends up on the floor. The answer is to make feeding times as easy on yourself as possible: don’t spend a lot of time preparing complicated dishes, and take precautions to protect the walls and the floor from thrown food.
