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Would you judge?
One of my friends from my Mums group has a DS about a week or 2 younger than E. She just posted on FB that she gave him carrots today for the first time.
Everything I've read and have been told is 6 months and they need to be able to sit before you start feeding them.
Re: Would you judge?
I'm by no means an expert not being a parent, but I DO have a nephew who is 6 months old this week. My sister (his mom) is a doctor and pays really close attention to what you are and are not "supposed" to do with kids -- but she also listens to her pediatrician, who told them about 6 weeks ago that she could start on some forms of real food (cooked and mushed up of course), one food at a time. Nephew can sit up on his own for a few minutes at a time, and has been able to sit up in a high chair with minimal support for a few weeks. He's also completely off the growth charts (his parents are both exceptionally tall), so he's been hitting some strength-related milestones a little bit bearly.
My guess is that it depends a lot on the baby and how they are progressing. But if the pediatrician says it's okay, it's probably okay.
I started James on solids at 17 weeks on the advise of my health visitor because he started dropping on the centiles and was showing signs of being ready. It all depends on the child.
Hipp and Alete, Babyvite, and the others all make first foods that say 4 months, so no. Would I give my child food that early? No, but that?s just me. My pedi said that most babies are really only ready to start around 5 or 6 months, but it used to be that people started as early as six weeks...I think it?s just a European thing.
Being a peds nurse, I would question the reasoning behind giving foods that early and also the foods being given. That being said I don't always follow certain guidelines that other parents do, and likewise. To each his own as long as it's not causing harm to the child...
I waited to start DD on purees until she was 6 months. When we went to the pedi for her 6 month check up, he asked which foods she had tried already and when I told him none, he gave me major side eye. He told me I could have started her at 4 months and that at 6 months I could give her anything except nuts and egg whites.
So while I think 4 months is a little young (and DD and I weren't ready), I suppose there are some babies who are, and it's apparently pedi-approved...at least here.
No, like others have said, each baby is different and ready at different times, if the pedi says it's ok.
I started M at 6 months, but I think he could have started earlier and so did our pedi. I don't think I was ready though.
I read my baby book during my last visit home and my mom was feeding me veggie, fruit and MEAT puree at 6 weeks per the doctor's suggestion and I was a preemie born at 32 weeks! I was shocked!
Now to the original question - no, I wouldn't judge that if they were pureed. 6 months is the general recommendation, but studies have shown that in terms of allergy development (one of the big reasons to wait until 6 months), there is no difference between 4 months and 6 months. If the tongue thrust reflex is gone and they're showing other signs, there's no reason you have to wait until the magic 6 month mark.
See this is the thing, I saw him just the other day and he just isn't any further along than E is and I could never picture trying to give her any solids!
I know! I FF as well, and that shiit was expensive! He still drinks around 24 oz a day (the minimum is 18 for his age), and he still eats tons of soy yogurt as well.
If it was well before 4 months - I would judge
but 4 months is fine. A lot of experts now say 4 months is fine, as long as they can sit up a bit. I wasn't going to start G on solids until 6 months, but around 4 1/2 months she just stopped sleeping!!! she'd wake 6-8 times a night, I thought I was going to lose my mind. I started her on a tiny bit of rice cereral (on the advice of our early childhood midwife) and she started sleeping again within 2 days!! I did only rice cereal for a few weeks, then started on basic fruit & veg purees - I think 4 months is just fine, I just wouldn't do it before then as they say the digestive system of a baby younger than that isn't ready for solids.
I would be curious why, and chomping at the bit, ready judge, but I'd see why.
(For what it's worth, we started weaning early at 5 months with M because she was dropping centiles. We were advised as a result to start with purees and focus on calorie-filled ones - carrots are not calorie filled, so that's what makes me curious.) We swapped to BLW once her centiles went up.
BUT, babies can be ready at 4 months. W was absolutely ready when we started him at 5 months, and I think I could have started him earlier. There is no right or wrong (well, there are, but the 4-6 months thing is sucha sliding scale - a few weeks wo'nt make a huge difference with regards to weaning, as they get very very little in teh early stages, as frcib said).
I kind of agree with this. While you may not think your baby is ready who knows if theirs is. There are lots of signs of readiness. And kids meet different milestones earlier than others. My dd is a couple weeks younger than some of our friends babies, and she is the only one properly crawling, pulling herself up, etc. The age is not a deciding factor on milestones.
We started both our kids with avocados, apples and pears. We never did cereal or anything, so starting with carrots doesn't seem that weird to me.