Fish and weaning

Can anyone confirm if this is OK to feed 7 month old?

Both me and baby's dad are not fish eaters at all, but don't want to push our preferences onto the baby especially when it can be good for them.

I can't stand the smell and the thought of fresh fish in my fridge absolutely disgusts me

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I'm not shaming anybody that does, but I wouldn't eat that personally and wouldn't give to a baby due to the added salt etc.

Your little one is only 7 months, there's amble time to try everything.

It is not just different types of frozen fish? Like chunks of...

Not sure but watch out for how many times you offer fish a week, shouldn’t be more than twice due to high potassium levels (not a fish eater myself and had no idea) !x

I mean it isn’t the end of the world to introduce, but wouldn’t be the most healthiest of choices - I personally would try fresh salmon and cod!

My girl loves a bit of salmon as well as fish fingers - she is a little older and will happily feed herself finger foods though so that may have influence to it x

It looks like it’s just frozen chunks of fish? I personally don’t see the problem with it and would give it to my kids xx

You can always start with a pouch for this. I am sure Ella's kitchen do fish ones. That way you don't have to cook the fish just yet. But I would opt for fresh over frozen personally.

It’s just frozen fish, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be okay. Just check ingredients that there isn’t anything added, especially salt.

Also if you guys don’t eat fish yourself, frozen is good as you can just take out small pieces and expose him to different kinds of fish/ flavours.

Tinned tuna or salmon might be an easier option too (in water not brine)

It’s absolutely fine to use plain frozen fish fillets or chunks. However you may want to start off with bags of one particular fish type frozen. Fish pie usually has some smoked fish in there as well which has a strong flavour, perhaps see if they do a bag of frozen cod or haddock for plain white fish and then frozen salmon for oily omega 3s x

Fish pie mix will most likely have smoked fish in which might be a bit intense for a baby and also may contain added salt from the process - I think frozen fish would be fine but I’d maybe try going for just one type of fish at a time eg cod or salmon rather than a mix as such and just make sure it’s purely raw fish that hasn’t gone through a process like smoking
(As I typed this just saw Beth had written the same!)

I made some salmon fishcakes for my boy and he loves them!
You could also do tuna 🙂

If you and your partner aren't fish eaters I wouldn't go to the effort of making a big fish pie!
Just buy a little portion of fish, or tinned fish even 😊

We introduced salmon with Hipp’s salmon puree 60 days after we started weaning - after introducing turkey, rabbit, chicken, and beef. Baby wasn’t too impressed with it 😅 I’ll ask the pediatrician about it because he needs the omegas from it. 🤷‍♀️

I've used this to make my 7 month old chowder from the what mummy makes book and she likes it. Been no issues.

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I understand not everybody can afford healthy ingredients all the time, but I’m seeing so many moms on social media giving they kids artificial cereals, coffee, frozen pancakes, velveetta Mac and cheese, hot Cheetos, kraft, the list goes on. I’m sorry but are yall not capable of cooking from scratch or ?? On top of that, if you still using canola and vegetable oil in 2026 you gotta stop. Am I the only one that notices this ???

Sahm .. the dad role .

Hi!! I’m 2 months pp. and I really would like your opinion on this situation if you have a moment.
So I have always had a job before the baby, and my bd .. not really. But 2 weeks before he was born he scored a really good job and I was able to be a sahm. Which is what I wanted , and I’m unsure if it’s still what I want or if the situation just isn’t right.
At first he was a great help in the hospital as I had an emergency c section. I was in the hospital for about a week and for most of that time I was in bed .
But after that.. I’m lucky if he will watch the baby while I shower .and I mean that seriously.
I am the only one who changes diapers, only one who bathes , feeds or watched him in general. And of course he may be tired after work but it’s like he completely avoids any responsibility. Like he will take a hour coming home and stop by his friends house otw . He will sit down stairs for hours knowing I won’t go down there bc I’m uncomfy . So I have the baby then.
We have been out maybe 2-3 times sense I had him & he refused to push the stroller c change or anything. In fact we got to the mall and said he needed to split up and I had the baby.
I feel he only wants the baby when it’s for … attention? Like to post the baby on social media or if his family is here he will take him .

I just feel like on days he doesn’t have work the next morning he should be helping , and if he is up early before work while I’m still sleeping he should get the baby instead of scrolling on reels for 3 hours .

Honestly he has really ruined my new born phase with my son. Within the first week of us being home I had to full on switch to survival mode I would call it. He would complain if dinner wasn’t done or if the room was a mess , he would complain if the diaper caddy had no diapers which really makes no sense bc he didn’t even changed the diapers . It was just everything.
I’m just wondering if there is anything I could say to get some type of help out of him.
I tried reaching out to his mother but honestly his hole family is oblivious to his behaviour.

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AITA?

This isn't a major issue, just wondering if I'm being a bit of an asshole.

• I do shift work, 5 out of 7 days, full-time.
• My partner works from home (mostly, sometimes he goes into the office) M-F, full-time.

Anyway, whenever I have a day off during the week he gets in his feelings when I make myself food (breakfast and lunch) but not him. His reason is he's working, I'm not - Which is fair but I've asked him how many times on a weekend has he gotten up, on his day off and made me breakfast and a lunch to take with me to work? You guessed it, 0.

So basically, just because I'm at home I don't think the responsibility to feed him should automatically fall on me when he manages to feed himself just fine while I'm at work.