I made Lei's food last night. She has yellow squash, green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and apples. She should be set for the week. This kid loves her food.
We cover this in our weekly Formula Fridays and Mommy Milk Mondays check-ins but I'll play. My pedi only approved rice cereal (and I have an "older" Feb15 baby). All of you giving more than cereal: did your pedi okay it??
So far just a single grain baby oatmeal 2 times a day. She is loving it! Maybe start veggies next week. Once she gets a little older, we will do a mix of purees and BLW.
I am torn on when to introduce veggies. I wasn't expecting him to be on solids so soon so I want to make sure he sticks with milk as much and possible and doesn't start to favour solids yet. DD started solids late, about 6.5 or 7 months before she caught on so I am new to solids this early.
dreemkin our pedi said once she was okay with the single grain cereal, that it would be ok to slowly introduce other things. I also have an older (Feb 4th) Feb baby.
We just tried rice cereal tonight. dreemkin our pedi said once he has a week of the rice cereal under his belt without tongue thrusting we can move on to fruits and veggies. She still only wants us no matter what we're giving to be once a day.
Post by mommadozer on Jun 20, 2015 19:18:19 GMT -5
dreemkin pedi okayed solids at four months. He was a little shocked that I had not started cereal already. We do oatmeal and prunes for the most part. Might start veggies in a couple weeks.
We just started oat and prune cereal this weekend (with the docs ok) but this was more to help her with constipation than to actually start solids. That being said we have sat her in her high chair every night while we eat dinner since she was 3 months and she's now at the point where if we are eating and she has nothing she screams. I usually give her some bring like a red pepper "finger" to gum and she's happy enough to let us finish our meal. I can't say she has actually "eaten" anything though.
Post by seamonster on Jun 20, 2015 20:47:44 GMT -5
Even though both milk check-ins cover it, it's nice to see what the people in the other group are doing (I'm a combo-feeding lurker on the FF threads).
No solids here until 6 months. DS is very interested in what we're eating. I'm going to give him a plastic spoon to play with at meal times after this weekend since he's fascinated by utensils.
Rice cereal once or twice a day depending on his mood and my work schedule.
Today, I let him have a few extremely small bites of banana. I think he liked playing with it more than anything. I figured why not. It's a pretty mellow food and I wanted to eat one anyway.
I don't plan to start until 6 months, but it's interesting to read what other people are doing. On one hand, we don't really want to start around here. Nursing is easier, and (adorably) DH is terrified of what solid food poops will be like. I'm not psyched on that change either, honestly.
I do like the idea of someday not being DD's sole source of nourishment.
DD is becoming very interested in our eating. She watches intently and thinks it's funny when I chew things. Solid food is clearly on its way.
Not starting until 6 months. GI system may or may not be mature enough around 4 months but not risking it. Skipping rice cereal again and will start with purees.
STM warning; once they start solids, their poop SMELLS! It's dreadful. Don't want to rush into it.
I know right. It's so much more work, ugh. The exciting newness of it wears off after one LO. I wish she could stay on just formula for a year
Haha.... this is me too. With my DD, I was so excited to start solids. This time around, especially with 2 to feed, Im in no rush. Cant I just wait till they're 12 mths and switch to food?
We are pretty set on the 6 month official ntro in our house. Pedi said to try 1 week before 6 month appt so we could fill him in on how it went. I had to order a high chair this week, though, because dd sits on my lap and will pull on the placemat until the bowl or plate is close enough for her to reach. We will do a combo blw and puree when we start (doing cereal first).
dreemkin, pedi said rice cereal only if we really want to, and limited to 1Tbsp a day, as "play" food. Nothing else til 6mo. I too have one of the older F15 babies.
I was asked to list all my and DH's food allergies at our 4mo appt, I wonder if my list was the reason I was advised not to start solids til 6mo.
We cover this in our weekly Formula Fridays and Mommy Milk Mondays check-ins but I'll play. My pedi only approved rice cereal (and I have an "older" Feb15 baby). All of you giving more than cereal: did your pedi okay it??
As you know because we chat on F Friday's, my pedi and gi doctor shoved solids at us. Little guy Tries a new food every five days or so but usually now it's mostly avocado or oat cereal. We also have prunes because he's been straining harder to poop. Happily in the last month he's gone from 3% to 14!!! I sincerely doubt it's the solids though, we still mostly just mess around with them.
Post by WittyLittle on Jun 21, 2015 5:49:38 GMT -5
We are on rice cereal 1x per day and tried peas once. Will have the 2nd round of peas today! Mmmmm I bought a bsbycook 2nd hand because i already know id LIKE to make LOs food but ill run out of time almost every day.
Post by WittyLittle on Jun 21, 2015 5:55:18 GMT -5
These guidelines debating 4 or 6 minths to introduce solids are doing my head in... 4 months lowers chance of allergies... 6 months because GI might not be developed wnough. Whenever, look for this cues. No, not those, these! Reminds me of that article someone posted a while ago. Clean when baby cleans
I know right. It's so much more work, ugh. The exciting newness of it wears off after one LO. I wish she could stay on just formula for a year
Haha.... this is me too. With my DD, I was so excited to start solids. This time around, especially with 2 to feed, Im in no rush. Cant I just wait till they're 12 mths and switch to food?
Adding to this. more work, and grosser poop. We are waiting till LO seems like he wants/needs food, or hits the 6 month mark. Dr oked that plan. Also oked starting on cereals (she recommended not rice cereal interestingly) and veggies whenever we want. We are at 4.5 months now.
Although actually, we've joked that starting him on veggies won't need to be more work for us...we can just threaten my evangelically vegan FIL that we are going to start giving LO cow's milk because veggies are too much work, and we'll have a constant supply of organic veggie baby purees brought to our house, lol. We told the in laws that last night and they were cracking up. Its totally true. We just got the baby brezza, so we are ready whenever we want to start.
These guidelines debating 4 or 6 minths to introduce solids are doing my head in... 4 months lowers chance of allergies... 6 months because GI might not be developed wnough. Whenever, look for this cues. No, not those, these! Reminds me of that article someone posted a while ago. Clean when baby cleans
Hah!! My mom asked me about something yesterday.... I forget specifically what, but I told her "I promise you I can find an expert or book to back up pretty much whatever I feel like doing"
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