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| I started my daughter at around 6 months, when doctors say it is the safest. Ava started with bananas, avacodo, mash potatoes and Tofu. Tofu was her favorite. Anything that is soft or mushy in texture is fine. Becareful, once you start solids they tend to not want baby food anymore (atleast my daughter didn't). She would see the baby food jar coming her way and turn her head...:)! Good luck...it is fun trying new things. |
| posted by Beth on 08/04/2007 09:58 PM
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6 months is recommeded, start with rice cereal first, then baby oatmeal, then baby barley, then proceed to veges, fruits, meats.....
I'd also suggest getting the book "what to expect the first year", it answers all of your questions and then some. :) |
| posted by lorena on 08/04/2007 10:36 PM
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| Ditto what the girls said--I started my daughter on solids at 6 months. We did very thin rice cereal to begin with, just to get her used to swallowing and eating from a spoon because in the beginning they spit more out than they take. I moved to oatmeal after that because rice bound her up. Then you can gradually start Stage 1 veggies, adding a new one every 5 days or so to check for allergies. After that you can do fruits, and then I started meat around 9 months. Just remember that this is all supplimental nutrition, kind of like a practice food. All of their nutrition should still be coming from breastmilk or formula, so make sure you are offering that before a meal so they aren't filling up on "fillers" and not the good stuff! Have fun!! |
| posted by Briana on 08/04/2007 10:48 PM
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| I started my son on rice cereal with fruits/veggies mixed in it at 3 months. He's no 6 months and on stage 2 foods. just make sure that when you start, you do the same food for 3-4 days in a row, to make sure she doesnt have a reaction to it. sometimes the reaction wont show up right away. Many people and pediatricians say not to start till 6ish months, but formula and breast milk just wasnt doin it for my son. he was wanting 8 oz of a bottle every hour, or every other hour. he went from sleepin 4 hours at a time at night to 2 maybe 3 if i was lucky. but when i started solids, he started sleeping the whole night through! Hope this helps!! |
| posted by Jennifer on 08/05/2007 01:10 AM
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| i started my daughter young but six months is the recommended age. but just do one thing at a time for a week at least stright, do not mix any fruits and vegetables when you start because she may have a reaction to something and you wont know which food did it. start the rice cereal, then the oatmeal then the mixed grains. once she is for sure good with all that, slowly add one fruit at a time because my daughter had a reaction to bananas but nothing else so its best to go slow. good luck |
| posted by MARYANNE on 08/05/2007 08:33 AM
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| Be careful cause rice cereal plugs baby's up. I did farina first. |
| posted by Esther on 08/05/2007 11:48 AM
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My doctor told me I could start my son on rice cereal at our 4 month checkup and then after two weeks of gradually increasing the thickness of the cereal, I could start mixing it with 1st stage foods. Actually, he said I could start with applesauce, bananas, and the yellow veggies (carrots, sweet potatoes, squash), but I introduced prunes as Ian's second food once the cereal starting binding him up. As of right now, my son has had applesauce, prunes, carrots, sweet potatoes, and bananas and he has been taking them fine.
The one thing I did notice was that he hasn't been nursing as frequently. The doctor told me to introduce the cereal about an hour after I nurse because it was not to take the place of a feeding, but it was meant to supplement it. When we first starting, this did interrupt his sleeping schedule as well.
Before starting solids, I would double check with your ped. You don't have too, but I always double check everything with my peds office. On a side note, my best friend started her son on cereal (in a bottle I believe) when he was only about 8 weeks old, but she never checked with her doctor first. |
| posted by Jaxon on 08/05/2007 03:59 PM
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| my daughter was on all table food at about 10 months. are you talking about baby food or table food?i wasnt sure from what the pthers were putting. |
| posted by Natasha on 08/05/2007 08:06 PM
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| Also I dont know if anyone said this but if you are going to make some of your own baby food you have to be careful not to give her/him any root vegatables, it is okay in baby food but there is something in the fresh root vegatables that young babies aren't supposed to have yet such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots etc.. double check with your pedi to see when they can have fresh |
| posted by amy on 08/07/2007 09:32 AM
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