DD had the iron liquid stuff too - but I didn't have any troubles getting her to take it. We put the dosage in a large syringe, then added juice into the syringe - then she took it no worries.
Hmmm, iron - anything green could be worth a try - whatever you can puree.
It must be very worrying for you. I was wondering if you had started giving your baby meat. Meat should be an important part of a baby's diet at this age. It provides the most easily accessible form of iron - and babies love it. Mince (ie spag bol) mixed through their vegies. Fingers of steak to suck and chew on and chop bones - they love it. Most of a baby's iron supplies are laid down during pregnancy. Breastmilk is low in iron (that's the design) but what there is in breastmilk is very easily digestable. Often formula is recommended - bad idea! It's high in iron - but almost entirely indigestable for your baby.
Puree spinach or silverbeet and you can mix it into anything. I usually mix some into mince meat with other vegies as a pasta sauce or when DD was little she liked spinach and pumpkin pureed together.
I remember one of my boys being low in Iron...gave him broccoli, spinach and also liver or lambs fry..both high in iron. I would puree it or mix it with something to disguise the taste like liver with apples. Robyn barker has great liver recipes. Iron is best absorbed with Vitamin C.
Other foods high in iron are kidney beans, peas and lentils, dried apricots, dates and wholegrain cereals and pasta.
My DD likes eggy bread made with chopped spinach - so I just mix an egg with some milk and then add some defrosted chopped spinach (woolworths own brand works best) soak the bread in it and then grill it and cut into fingers. DD loves it.
DS's a funny one - takes the liquid iron stuff down easily, holds the syringe that we use while taking it doesn't like giving it up though, although will happily settle for being distracted by a BF
DH bought some Rafferty's iron boosted cereal (and it's his job to feed it in the morning) DS's not quite so keen on it yet - need to try and have a bit of EBM for it to mix with which can be a struggle to have some left over once his bottles for the day are done.
And we've been getting a bit more into the meat (been trying but DS is often asleep when we're trying to eat tea naps about 5 / 5:30 pm when he gets home from CC and sleeps for at least an hour then).
Been a little concerned with regard to meat as lately we seem to have had crumbed meat for tea so wasn't too sure about offering that to DS but he liked the curries I've been eating in the last week when he's had a taste.
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- whatever you can puree.
doesn't like giving it up though, although will happily settle for being distracted by a BF
when he's had a taste.
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