Post by hannahl201477 on Oct 30, 2015 14:01:19 GMT -5
I think I have the first baby ever (just kidding) to be allergic to rice cereal. He has excema anyway so sometimes it's hard to tell since normally by the end of the day he has drool all over his face and It causes one cheek to flare up. But I haven't given it to him in 2 days and his face is spot free so going to try tonight and see what happens. Waiting on a call back from ped
Post by tatersalad on Oct 30, 2015 14:17:12 GMT -5
We do Baby Led Weaning and usually start with sushi rice, then avocado around 5 months. But Texas Ranger has been way more interested in food than big brother so we have let him gnaw on a piece of banana a few times...call the parenting police for starting on sweets!
We've been doing rice cereal at dinner time with BM. Just kind of getting her used to the whole thing and she's doing great. I feel like I'm sitting alone on the rice cereal bench over here, though.
We waited until DS was 6 months before giving him even rice cereal, but DD has been sitting at the table with us and reaching for food so I think we're going to start giving her a little spoonful of oatmeal at mealtime and she what she does. I have a feeling we'll start her on some foods in a couple weeks then as she is just coming up 5 months in a few days.
tatersalad I think DS's first food was bananas too. I thought that theory was silly, but I'm not a baby food expert either I guess.
We started with rice cereal but gave her a banana a few days later so I'll take the hit with you for that one tatersalad! H was thoroughly unimpressed with the cereal the first day but now loves it. She eats real food twice a day and still pounds 4-5 oz of formula every 2.5 hours.
Post by ravinraven216 on Nov 2, 2015 21:16:56 GMT -5
We tried rice cereal at dinner last night and LO was not really feeling it. He likes the spoon well enough, but wasn't as good about keeping the food in his mouth. He probably had as much on him as in him, but it's so liquidy. I'm going to try feeding him some once or twice per week for the extra iron and work up gradually. Once he sits up better, we'll switch to thicker foods.
Post by baytosa2013 on Nov 2, 2015 21:50:54 GMT -5
We started some solids yesterday. I baked a sweet potato and mashed it up. She's awesome with the spoon and leans in to get it in her mouth. She keeps pushing it out with her tongue so I don't think she has the swallowing thing down. We will continue with that this week and next week try some green beans or peas.
We're starting spoon led weaning at five months and then will let her take the reins at six. Ped said we were fine to wait until six months if we want but LO is so interested in watching us eat so I take that as a queue.
I kind of have to giggle at this thread because it's just the beginning of all this food either ending up on the floor or around babies face. At least that's how it was with DS.
Just started rice cereal because of reflux(newly diagnosed) really wanted to wait to start BLW. Jules LOVED it and is always so interested in food. She is 4.5 months, I think I'm going to give her a price of my morning Avacado and see what she does with it(it'll end up in her mouth I know that for sure)
I gave DD oat cereal last night and I was trying to be all gentle and cute and like 'here's something new!' And she grabbed my hands around spoon from my hand as soon as she could reach me and pulled it right into her mouth and slurped it up and banged the spoon on the table until I filled it up again. Apparently she's been waiting for this moment for awhile ha!
ETA definitely just going to start BLW when she turns 6 months too. I was eating a piece of dried fruit today and holding her and she was mouth wide open leaning towards it haha. I swear I breastfeed her regularily, it's no wonder I'm starting to randomly lose weight again. She's a food hog!
Post by carolyngrace on Nov 5, 2015 20:00:41 GMT -5
We keep saying we're waiting until 6 months but I'm getting anxious! I've put *tiny* pieces of food in DB's mouth including a muffin, scrambled eggs, and spaghetti sauce. With each one he looks confused and promptly spits it out. Which is good, I don't really want him to eat them. But I think we better start real stuff soon so I stop doing that!
Also, if someone who is already doing food wants to start a cute "babies with food all over them" thread, I'd love to look at photos of our LOs eating all in one place
We keep saying we're waiting until 6 months but I'm getting anxious! I've put *tiny* pieces of food in DB's mouth including a muffin, scrambled eggs, and spaghetti sauce. With each one he looks confused and promptly spits it out. Which is good, I don't really want him to eat them. But I think we better start real stuff soon so I stop doing that!
Also, if someone who is already doing food wants to start a cute "babies with food all over them" thread, I'd love to look at photos of our LOs eating all in one place
I let j gnaw on some frozen banana in a mesh teether. He also sucked on some honeydew, until he decided he wanted a bottle.
Is it weird that I am excited about J's first birthday? Just so I can watch him smash his face into his cake. I'm hoping that he takes after me, since that's what I did.
We keep saying we're waiting until 6 months but I'm getting anxious! I've put *tiny* pieces of food in DB's mouth including a muffin, scrambled eggs, and spaghetti sauce. With each one he looks confused and promptly spits it out. Which is good, I don't really want him to eat them. But I think we better start real stuff soon so I stop doing that!
Also, if someone who is already doing food wants to start a cute "babies with food all over them" thread, I'd love to look at photos of our LOs eating all in one place
I let j gnaw on some frozen banana in a mesh teether. He also sucked on some honeydew, until he decided he wanted a bottle.
Is it weird that I am excited about J's first birthday? Just so I can watch him smash his face into his cake. I'm hoping that he takes after me, since that's what I did.
Post by wegrowsheep on Nov 6, 2015 15:18:47 GMT -5
A BTDT mom gave me one of these when I had my second baby, and we used it every.single.day. Easy to use, easy to clean. Just pulled it out of the box and thought I'd share! KidCo Food Grinder
Peas did not go nearly as well as sweet potatoes or carrots.
I've started doing 1oz of purée at lunch and 1oz at dinner time. So since peas were not a big hit when should I try again? Same day? Next day? Should I give her something else since she didn't finish peas? Her appetite for BM is out of control lately.
I found the same with peas! He devoured carrots, squash, and sweet potato, but hated peas. I just kept offering a bit every day and now he eats then as well as everything else.
Ha. This is probably why my ped told me to start with greens! Too bad I started with banana. Which he loved. Then beets, which he loved slightly less, but still quite a bit. I think I'm trying Avocado next, then maybe peas....
Also, I haven't been measuring amounts at all. I pretty much just let him eat until he doesn't act interested any longer!
We keep saying we're waiting until 6 months but I'm getting anxious! I've put *tiny* pieces of food in DB's mouth including a muffin, scrambled eggs, and spaghetti sauce. With each one he looks confused and promptly spits it out. Which is good, I don't really want him to eat them. But I think we better start real stuff soon so I stop doing that!
Also, if someone who is already doing food wants to start a cute "babies with food all over them" thread, I'd love to look at photos of our LOs eating all in one place
I let j gnaw on some frozen banana in a mesh teether. He also sucked on some honeydew, until he decided he wanted a bottle.
Is it weird that I am excited about J's first birthday? Just so I can watch him smash his face into his cake. I'm hoping that he takes after me, since that's what I did.
This might be a total FFC but I'm already looking at cakes to make for LOs first birthday but I totally intend to make a giant cupcake with a mountain of whipped cream as the frosting for him to smash. My cousin did this for her LO to get pictures and they were awesome. The whipped cream is so light that it flew every where.
I found the same with peas! He devoured carrots, squash, and sweet potato, but hated peas. I just kept offering a bit every day and now he eats then as well as everything else.
Ha. This is probably why my ped told me to start with greens! Too bad I started with banana. Which he loved. Then beets, which he loved slightly less, but still quite a bit. I think I'm trying Avocado next, then maybe peas....
Also, I haven't been measuring amounts at all. I pretty much just let him eat until he doesn't act interested any longer!
Ive never been a food measurer either, I find that babies are pretty good about letting you know they are done, ya know with screaming and whatnot
Post by threearrows on Nov 24, 2015 16:39:49 GMT -5
Our pedi recommended waiting until 6 months --so, that's our plan. We did puréed foods with out son and he's an insanely picky eater now. I know that correlation doesn't equal causation, but we are going to try BLW with this gal and see if that helps her have a broader food base.
C loved peas! He didn't really care for carrots though (but will still eat them) and I think the sweet potatoes gave him an upset tummy. I'll try sweet potatoes again in a week or two. We've only had the veggies and bananas (that was because he was having pretty loose BM's) I'll start introducing the rest of the fruits after we get back from vacation~ do not want to deal with a bad reaction while we are out of state. Right now we feed him jar food once a day. Now that he's had all the veggies,the time of day always changes to what we are doing. (My pedi suggested to feed him in the morning when first introducing so that if he had any reactions/upset tummy we had all day to get it out of his system and hopefully no one was up all night) I always start with half a container mixed with oatmeal, but lately he's been wanting to finish the container. He's a little piggy!
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