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Starting Solids
I know there have been a ton of posts in the past about this, but humor me if you will. We are getting ready to start solid foods with Baberino at the end of this month (he'll be 6 months on the 23rd), so I'm starting to do my research. I've gotten some good starting advice from others, but you all have such great advice I wanted to check in here as well. When did you start? What were your starting foods? Did you do rice cereal or just go right to something else (avacado, etc)? TIA!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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Re: Starting Solids
We started with rice cereal and she didn't really care for it. She also didn't care for the purees alone so I ended up mixing them. One new thing every few days, and after a while, I just started giving her whatever. We started with veggies and then moved to fruits.
We started with rice cereal for Owen, but oatmeal for Ellie (just because oatmeal seems a little more tasty/nutritious...no real basis for the change). We also started with purees within a couple of days of introducing the texture of solids. Our ped recommended starting with the dark oranges and greens (again, not sure of the scientific basis, but why the hell not), so we did sweet potatoes, carrots, and squash first, then peas and green beans, then pears, apples, etc. etc. Introduced a new food every 4-5 days.
We started around 5.5 months and quickly progressed to stage two foods once we'd exhausted all of the singular flavors. By 7 months we were doing avodaco and banana cut up and puffs/mum mums/yogurt melts, by eight months Ellie was munching on rolls in restaurants. Now she'll pretty much eat anything cut up (although she's off bananas! argh i can't handle another picky kid....)
Like Kristen, we started with breakfast, added dinner a couple months later, then lunch around 9.5 months.
This is almost exactly my experience with Colby. He seems to need to be in control, so handing him a slice of apple to gnaw on works much better than trying to spoon-feed him applesauce. (And my mom was SO excited about getting me the Baby Bullet so I could make my own purees; which I did, with veggies from my brother's garden, but C has no interest in them.
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Starting solids is my first real lesson in having to go with the flow as a mom. At 8 months, he's barely eating any variety of foods, but I keep reminding myself that its all just practice now. "Food before 1 is just for fun"
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I used wholesomebabyfood.com as a starting point with Jake, since it was all new to me. It has some great ideas for good starter foods other than rice cereal. I started both kids w/ bananas and then avocados...Jake hated both and Katie loved them. To this day, he's extremely picky and eats like a bird, and she has a better appetite and eats anything I give her. So really, they turned out completely opposite despite the fact that I did everything the same w/ them...it had no impact on Jake since he's still super picky.
One thing that I needed for both kids was a food mill - it's a little grinder you can buy in the baby feeding sections at BRU or Target. My kids both required WAY smoother consistencies than they described for Stage 1 foods on that website, or they would gag. If he has any gagging issues, don't hesitate to buy some stage 1 foods and see how he reacts to finely pureed foods, and then try to mimic that if you choose to make some at home.
Forgot to add that I started both kids at 5 1/2 months...both were EBF'd and Jake nursed so much he wouldn't have needed solids until 6 months, but I was excited and wanted to give him food. Katie, on the other hand, isn't as big of a nurser and was trying to steal our food so it was obvious she was ready!
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I have some info and recipes on my blog:
http://www.sweetcheeksinthekitchen.blogspot.com/search/label/Baby%20Food
We started at 6 months with banana and I milled oats that I mixed with BM.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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