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3. Vegetable and potato additions – Milk can be easily added to mashed
vegetables and potatoes during weaning or used to make a creamy sauce
or gratin.
4. Baking – Milk is a main ingredient in many baby-friendly baking
options, such as pancakes, Yorkshire pudding, sugar-free muffins,
and fritters.
5. Cheese and béchamel sauce – Milk is a key ingredient in white or cheese
sauce, which can be used in various dishes, from pasta to pies.
Spoon-fed options Porridge or overnight oats
Milk on cereal, e.g. wheat biscuits, shredded
wheat Baby-friendly sugar-free rice pudding or
Carrot Halwa Milky mashed potato or root
vegetable mash
Sugar-free custard
Creamed spinach or leeks
Rice pudding
Finger foods
Pancakes or sheet pancakes
Muffins
Baked porridge fingers
Eggless French toast
Soft pasta pieces with white
sauce
Mixed meals
and family
foods
Macaroni cheese
Fish pie
White/ Bechamel sauce for pasta, lasagne, pies, coated fish
or meat
Smoothie bowl or lollies
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire pudding
What about sensitivities to cow's milk?
It is common for parents to worry about whether their baby will be sensitive to
cow's milk and dairy products once their baby starts weaning. The good news is that
cow's milk presents no issues for most babies, but here's a little more about some
milk-related worries parents often ask about.
Lactose intolerance – Lactose is the naturally occurring sugar in milk, and lactose
intolerance happens when there isn't enough of the enzyme lactase (think of
enzymes like mini scissors) in the gut to digest lactose properly. This can lead to
symptoms like bloating, excessive wind and very loose, watery poo (diarrhoea).
Lactose intolerance in babies is very uncommon and most typically presents as
what's known as 'secondary' or transient lactose, which occurs when some or all of
the lactase enzyme is wiped from the gut following an illness like gastroenteritis,
aka 'a tummy bug'. This group of babies or children will need cow's milk and
