Solid food Saturday....?

[WittyLittle]

Jun 21, 2015 7:23:11 GMT -5 jensoprano82 said:

Jun 21, 2015 5:55:18 GMT -5 WittyLittle said:

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"

I work in statistics and have am pretty sure that anytime you get so much contradicting results from studies it means
a) the difference is tiny
or
b) it depends so much on the situation that there shouldnt be a guideline in the fiest place

[mmarie]

Jun 21, 2015 4:16:20 GMT -5 PikoPiko said:

I gotta ask... Do your LOs sleep better with solids? (Can you tell how desperate I am to get longer sleep than 2.5 hours at a time?)

DD has always been a great sleeper so she is STTN but I don't think it has anything to do with the solids.

[foxslaw]

For us (and from what I have read) food is just for fun for the first year! No rice cereal for us. Each to her own, but it doesn't have enough nutritional value to warranty giving it to PJ in my opinion. My baby is also on the younger side, 16 weeks, so she's still EBF. We plan on introducing a couple solids for fun around six months, and plan on baby led weaning.

GL!

[chickenhawke]

Our pedi did approve it once we felt comfortable and she was showing interest. We are going to try and hold off as long as possible and BLW. But I wanted to follow and see what others are introducing.

[hollydfromtn]

Our pedi told us we could start around 5-5.5 months with one veggie at a time for 3 days before introducing the next one. Giving it for 3 days at a time lets you watch for any allergic reaction. He also said to feed him twice a day about 30 mins before he's due to nurse again so that he's kind of hungry once we do start. We will probably start mid July once our garden really starts coming in.

[AppropriateChocolate]

LO started solids last week with drs OK. We did carrots first, then avocado and on sweet potatoes (although she may be allergic, got a mean diaper rash since I started then yesterday) peas will be next.
DD just turned 4 mths on the 19th. We were warned to stay away from any foods we may be allergic too.

[toadandbuggie]

Jun 20, 2015 19:03:33 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

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??

My pedi said to skip cereal and start off with stage 1 fruits and veggies. He said he wasn't ready at 4 month but LO is 5 month now and I thought he was ready so we started doing some purées.

[toadandbuggie]

So crazy how pediatricians can be so vastly different in their recommendations.

[mands1125]

toadandbuggie,- Oh I agree. I saw the "younger" woman Ped this past time and I thought for sure she would be more liberal (shame on me for making assumptions). She said 6 months and didn't even want to entertain the discussion of starting now.

[2sweetboys]

Jun 22, 2015 11:55:39 GMT -5 toadandbuggie said:

So crazy how pediatricians can be so vastly different in their recommendations.

i was thinking the same thing!  Especially the one(s) who mention having no nutritional value.  I'm pretty sure its like 45% of rec daily iron, and 25% of other vitamins. Not like they are getting fed a soda lol.  So yeah, i don't think anyone will hurt their child whatever they decide to feed or not feed? them. I think it's fun to feed them - but I have an eater so no amount of cereal is going to cause him to take less milk

[mels823]

Mine is really not liking the cereal and she is just over 5 months. She just pushes it all back out. I'm thinking I'll have to wait another week and try again! It was pretty comical to watch though!

[mels823]

badw0lf, LOL that is too funny! Love the picture!

[dacora]

We tried some apples the other day, but I think DD still has her newborn tongue-pushing reflex. She also didn't seem super enthused:

[Mom2Ms]

We haven't gotten the go ahead from pedi yet. However, I think that DS is ready. When we eat now, he is SO interested in what is going on. I have given him a few tastes of things- like a teeny tiny piece of banana (like the size of an apple seed) or a small taste of homemade jelly. He seems to dig it, but Im cautious only because we have not gotten the go ahead. His 4 month appointment isn't until the 14th.... DH bought me a new blender, so I am gearing up to make his baby food once we get cleared for some solids.

[xoxolicia]

I'm going to get a lot of flame for this, but I didn't ask my pedi. In my defense he told me to pull LO off the boob when I was bfing. Do, yeah... She's doing well with the purees. We're still having formula issues though. She keeps the food down with no trouble and enjoys it. When she gets a bottle, she throws up (not spits up) soooo much. We've switched her formula so much. We have an appointment this week, so we'll talk about what the next step is with that.

[dreemkin]

Jun 23, 2015 21:13:20 GMT -5 xoxolicia said:

I'm going to get a lot of flame for this, but I didn't ask my pedi. In my defense he told me to pull LO off the boob when I was bfing. Do, yeah... She's doing well with the purees. We're still having formula issues though. She keeps the food down with no trouble and enjoys it. When she gets a bottle, she throws up (not spits up) soooo much. We've switched her formula so much. We have an appointment this week, so we'll talk about what the next step is with that.

She may have a milk and soy intolerance. Have you gone as far as the hypoallergenic formula yet. This is my second baby with this issue and we always have to use alimentum (similac). We even just tried weaning her off of it to see if she could handle regular formula and we didn't even get to 50/50 without throw up, gas, and screaming.

As far as purees, just wait a few days in between introducing new foods and maybe look up the foods least likely to cause allergic reactions until you can discuss with your pedi. It's good she's doing so well with it!

[dreemkin]

Okay I'm questioning if Anna is ready. She did great a few days with the cereal. Now she does this weird head lowering thing and I end up putting cereal on/up her nose. And don't even get me started with her hands...

[xoxolicia]

Jun 23, 2015 22:26:21 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Jun 23, 2015 21:13:20 GMT -5 xoxolicia said:

I'm going to get a lot of flame for this, but I didn't ask my pedi. In my defense he told me to pull LO off the boob when I was bfing. Do, yeah... She's doing well with the purees. We're still having formula issues though. She keeps the food down with no trouble and enjoys it. When she gets a bottle, she throws up (not spits up) soooo much. We've switched her formula so much. We have an appointment this week, so we'll talk about what the next step is with that.

She may have a milk and soy intolerance. Have you gone as far as the hypoallergenic formula yet. This is my second baby with this issue and we always have to use alimentum (similac). We even just tried weaning her off of it to see if she could handle regular formula and we didn't even get to 50/50 without throw up, gas, and screaming.

As far as purees, just wait a few days in between introducing new foods and maybe look up the foods least likely to cause allergic reactions until you can discuss with your pedi. It's good she's doing so well with it!

Dr. Google said it may not be a milk intolerance. She's not hurting and doesn't look or act like she's uncomfortable. She just throws up and it doesn't phase her. I bought a can of soy, but I haven't given it to her yet. I wanted to check with the doc to see if soy is really our next step.I've been really diligent about making sure I do the food as best as I can. My whole parenting plan has been derailed. This is one thing I can control, so I want to do it right.

[jensoprano82]

Jun 23, 2015 22:29:15 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Okay I'm questioning if Anna is ready. She did great a few days with the cereal. Now she does this weird head lowering thing and I end up putting cereal on/up her nose. And don't even get me started with her hands...

Bex was really bad at holding himself up long enough at first and was doing the same thing. I think it's literally muscle fatigue. He's getting better though! The hands, though, good god. And he thinks my reaction to spills is hysterical so I'm hosed!

[nbad311]

Jun 22, 2015 11:55:39 GMT -5 toadandbuggie said:

So crazy how pediatricians can be so vastly different in their recommendations.

OMG IT'S SUCH A MINDF*CK right?  No matter what you do or are told you do, you'll read or hear something else that makes you start to doubt you're doing the right thing at all  

We got the ok to start foods at our appointment yesterday.  DS is 18w on Friday. 

She recommended oatmeal-base cereal to start, then one veggie at a time, then we can try some fruits down the road, then the common allergens closer to 6-7 months (peanut butter, eggs, fish) to rule them out. 

For the longest time, I wanted to do only BM until 6 months.   Now I waiver and go back and forth between staying with EBFing versus  BM+some solids.  A big part of me still thinks BM-only is best (because...I don't know...??  -things I've read?  -what people say online? etcetcetc) but another part of me has witnessed DS be a very ravenous eater from, like, day 3 of life and I don't think he will have any issues taking to new foods (the opposite - mommy intuition makes me think he'll love them!, but I don't know how much I should base my decisions on my "gut feeling"). 

Whatevz. We are probably  going to try our first bite of cereal mush tonight!

[nbad311]

@holachica, so much samesies here!
Our pedi sounds a little older than yours, maybe early 40s, but she eluded to the same thing and said - "even some of the newer books out there, only 2-3 years old, can have some outdated info in them regarding when to start feeding and allergies"

Being a FTM...... y u so difficult

[natsgirl]

It's not really worth stressing over. Food under 1 is just for fun. It's not for calories. It's not to fill them up. It's for practice. Just calm down, follow your baby's lead, and enjoy the fun of solid food when you and your baby are ready.

[dreemkin]

Jun 24, 2015 10:37:32 GMT -5 natsgirl said:

It's not really worth stressing over. Food under 1 is just for fun. It's not for calories. It's not to fill them up. It's for practice. Just calm down, follow your baby's lead, and enjoy the fun of solid food when you and your baby are ready.

I don't think anyone is worried about the calories as much as if it will be harmful to their LO in any way, i.e. bad for their digestive systems or allergic reactions.

And i agree with you all: It is CrAzY that pediatricians all recommend different things!