Gimme all the foods!!

[gilder40]

So, this may be jumping the gun a bit, but T will be six months old next week. I'm guessing we will get the okay to start solids with her, and I'm excited yet a little freaked out.

What are your plans for solids? Are y'all doing BLW, baby food, making your own? I know the doctor will give me some insight, but how often will they get bottles and milk when they start solids? Do they start getting water and stuff too??

Lol, I'm such a clueless blonde.

[wegrowsheep]

I was hoping this was a self-control sympathy thread. Because seriously, give me all the foods.

We are almost 5 months (21 wks today) and other than finger tastes of almost everything I eat (banana, guacamole, avocado, spaghetti sauce, etc) I'm still enjoying NOT doing solids.

[carolyngrace]

There was a thread about this a while back that I'm too lazy to dig up. But if someone can, there was some good info there.

We are starting solids in the next couple of weeks. We don't have a very rigid plan, other than starting with green foods first. The doctor was pretty adamant that you leave the sweeter foods until later, because once they have those they tend to like them more (obviously).

Will probably do purées the first couple of times to get him used to having food in his mouth. And then mix in baby led weaning by giving him whatever were eating at dinner time on his tray. Again, only green vegetables for the first few weeks. Which isn't technically BLW since I believe you just give them whatever you're eating with that method.

I've read that you're supposed to keep the same amount of bottles or breast milk. And you feed them after they've already had their milk. So that they keep getting most of the nutrients from milk. The food is just for fun and to develop their tastes!

I don't think you have to give water at all. But some people give a tiny bit to get them used to the taste. Oh, and we will mix breast milk with the purées.

[alayne926]

www.goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/67493/starting-solids

[gilder40]

Sorry y'all. I committed a cardinal sin. I didn't even think to check. My bad.

I'll chalk it up to my sickened state. Kiddo is on the mend, I'm getting worse.

[erbear]

I thought this thread was going to be about us eating all of the foods. Mmm.

[gilder40]

We can totally talk about delicious foods that I love to eat but shouldn't be eating. Like all this Halloween candy....

We had no trick or treaters because Louisiana decided to flood today. So I have this HUGE bowl of chocolate. Oh, and it has those flavored Tootsies in it. So good.

[erbear]

I bought candy in case we were home for ToT and we weren't. Crispy m&ms and butterfinger cups, watch out!

I also bought a Betty Crocker Smores bar mix Friday to make for h. Sooo good.

[gilder40]

Nov 1, 2015 6:16:57 GMT -5 budders said:

Oct 31, 2015 21:54:58 GMT -5 gilder40 said:

We can totally talk about delicious foods that I love to eat but shouldn't be eating. Like all this Halloween candy....

We had no trick or treaters because Louisiana decided to flood today. So I have this HUGE bowl of chocolate. Oh, and it has those flavored Tootsies in it. So good.

I love the flavored tootsies! I only handed out candy until we started V's bedtime routine because the dog barks EVERY TIME someone approaches, so I have some leftovers too.

Oh my gosh, the Kroger here had a GIANT bag of ONLY the flavored ones!! Not that random mix junk. And bonus, it had three extra flavors! Blue raspberry, grape, and green apple. I love them all, except the vanilla. Blech!!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Nov 2, 2015 11:15:20 GMT -5 gilder40 said:

Nov 1, 2015 6:16:57 GMT -5 budders said:

I love the flavored tootsies! I only handed out candy until we started V's bedtime routine because the dog barks EVERY TIME someone approaches, so I have some leftovers too.

Oh my gosh, the Kroger here had a GIANT bag of ONLY the flavored ones!! Not that random mix junk. And bonus, it had three extra flavors! Blue raspberry, grape, and green apple. I love them all, except the vanilla. Blech!!

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You girls should have saved this for UO- yuck!!

[gilder40]

Girl, I'll totally bring it over there for the next OU: opinion, unpopular lol