|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Breastfeeding Mommies |
| Public online group |
|
|
| |
|
|
| My family has been giving me lot of advice and greif that I have not started my almost 5 month old son on solids. This week I did give him a little rice cereal to apease them. He does not really seem to be interested it in. He is very interested when he sees people eating or drinking. Opens his mouth always to a spoon, but fights when the spoon has anything on it. It seems likes he needs to be in the mood to eat. I know you have to keep trying with foods that it can take a while for them to take to something. When did everyone start their children on solids? I feel that between 5-6 months would be a good place to start. Did you start with rice cereal or straight into veggies? |
| Posted by cecilia on 11/30/2008 11:53 AM
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| Tell your family to shut up and butt out LOL. The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that babies be AT LEAST 6 months old before starting solids. Babies don't need any solids for their first year. It is basically a social thing up to that point. On my most recent baby (where I feel like I finally know what I'm doing LOL), I was planning on waiting until she was about 9 months old, but when I was eating a sandwich when she was 7 months old she got mad at me for not sharing, so I decided to start a bit earlier. I hunted down a banana and mashed it up a bit and started her on that. From there, I just gave her texture appropriate table foods. She figured it right out and has always been a very good eater. She's always been big into self feeding too, so I probably could count on one hand the number of times I've actually fed her. I just made sure I was close at hand if she ever had a problem, but she never did. Her little tummy has never been subjected to "baby food". My previous kids were started on rice cereal, but I always had to fight them more to get them going eating. I think the way I did it this time is the way I would do again if I had any more kids. |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 11/30/2008 01:19 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| My daughter did the same she rejected cereal but wanted table food and to feed herself. She loves avocados and bananas and now she eats it all but all in their own time she is 14 months but still nurses a couple of times a day mostly only at night but will eat it all. Good luck and your son will let you know when he is ready. |
| posted by Kristhal on 11/30/2008 02:47 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| It all depends on when a baby wants to eat solids. My son he started at two months, but that was only because he was always hungry and would cry when we were eating always looking at our food. We still give him formula, but when he has his cravings for solids we give him cereal. So it all depends on if your child thinks he is ready, but him showing interest in the spoon is a sign that he might want to try food soon. Just try cereal once every two weeks to see if what's it, if not don't push him he will eat solids when he is ready to. At first my son was the same way and on certain days he just doesn't want cereal, so I don't push him and let him decide when he wants to eat solids. |
| posted by Alisa on 11/30/2008 03:21 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| Oh and one more thing, my son hated breastmilk or formula mixed into his cereal. So we mix Gerber pear juice into the cereal and he sucks it down now. If you decide to try cereal again that might help. |
| posted by Alisa on 11/30/2008 03:25 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| I just started my son Luke last night with rice cereal (he is almost 6 months), and boy did he hate it! Lol. I hear that babies have to get used to the whole concept of solid foods & you should keep trying. The more you do it, the more he will get used to the texture. It is important to note, someone else mentioned this, that most of their calories come from breastmilk or formula for the first year anyway. Eating solids for nutrition isn't important until after their first birthday. Try new foods & make it fun for your baby. It will come... as for your family telling you your son should be started on solids, it is not recommended until 6 months old. Tell them the old wives tales of starting babies earlier makes them sleep better, etc is incorrect. Good luck, keep us updated |
| posted by Katie on 11/30/2008 05:07 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| Your son is fine not to have solids yet. We started my son on rice cereal about 5 months and he had the same reaction. We waited a while and tried again and he deals but doesn't care much for it so I started veggies (3-5 days apart) and he loves them.He is now almost 6 months old as well. I knew he was ready because he would chew with me and could sit up and swallow well. It could be that he doesn't like the rice cereal(it is not that great)--Noah won't eat it at all now. Like Indi said...its not recommended that you start your child on food until 6 months or later because of allergies and its not absolutely necessary. I did it because he was getting frustrated with me eating and him not. Also, never stick cereal in his bottle. Good luck! |
| posted by on 11/30/2008 09:13 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| With what Beth said, try other things, like oatmeal or Barley cereal. Even veggies will do. |
| posted by Alisa on 11/30/2008 11:21 PM
|
|
|
|
|
| I tried Lori at four mnths with baby food because her pedi. recommended it, however she didn't!! So i gave her a little bit of rice cereal with vegies or fruit mixed in with it. She would take it that way. At 6 months is when she wanted to have food, she's not interested in feeding herself, but she will shake her head no when she has had enough. Some babies just aren't big eaters, I know mine isn't. But maybe he would prefer table food ground up in a blender as oppose to baby food. It doesn't have any seasonings and is really bland, if you ate a lot of seasonings when prego, he may want tasty food! I know My daughter prefers table food to jar food. Or you may try oatmeal cereal for babies she liked that also. |
| posted by Mary on 12/02/2008 10:46 AM
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
| |  |
| |
|
|
|
