babyfood and scandishake questions

November 1, 2002

Hi everyone,

I have an 8 month old daughter that I am trying to make gain weight. She

drinks mostly breastmilk and I also give her babyfood mixed with cereal. I

asked her dietician and the only thing she recomended doing was adding

formula to the breastmilk and to continue to add cereal to her babyfood. I

think Kennedy is actually losing out on fat and calories by eating babyfood.

A jar of babyfood has about 25 calories and 0 or 1 grams of fat. 1/2 serving

of baby cereal has 30 calories and 1/4 of a gram of fat. She eats this in

place of one breastfeeding session. I am assuming she drinks ATLEAST 5

ounces of breatmilk, which would be 100 calories. Do you see what I am

saying? Is she to young for me to be adding other things to her

babyfood....like butter?? Can someone give me some ideas of things to add to

babyfood either now or in the next few months to add fat and calories?

Also, we just switched enzymes. She used to take plain ultrase, and would

get them for free along with ADEK's. Now she is taking ultrase MT12's and

they sent us free scandishakes. I am assuming that she is too young to drink

these as they are suppose to be mixed with milk. Is there something else I

can mix the scandishakes with or should I wait until she starts drinking

regular milk?

Thank you in advance for any replies......

Holly (mother of Cheyenne, 4 1/2 years w/o CF and Kennedy, 8 months w/ CF)

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