How Old Should Baby Be When You Move From Stage 1 To Stage 2 Baby Foods?
9 January 2010
This is how Gerber breaks it down… but every baby is different.
1st Foods and Cereal – For Supported Sitters
2nd Foods and Juices – For Independent Sitters
3rd Foods – Crawlers
Graduates – Begining To Walk
It depends…
Stage 1-6 months
Stage 2-9 months
Stage 3-12 months
But you can always try and see if your child is ready for stage 2 if not then wait a little bit and try again.
As long as they are taking stage one with no problem you can change whenever…some of the jars say 6 months. I have read that if you wait 6 months to starts solids you can start stage 2 immediately.
I think it depends on when you started stage one. some people start their baby’s on food earlier than others. my daughter is 7 months right now and i didn’t start her on baby food until 6 months per doctors orders. i just started stage two now and i have noticed that with the single ingredient veggies and fruit there is no difference between stage one and two, only the size. however, they do have alot of mixed foods in stage two that are alittle thicker but she is doing fine with them. I felt that she only needed a month on the stage one before moving on….
every baby is different so its hard to say, my almost 7 month old is eating stage 3 already (he started on stage 1 at 4 months, stage 2 at like 5) once he started crawling and gumming everything in site i decided since he never seemed full to try some food that actually had substance to it…and in case anyone says it (people have said it to me) teeth are not an issue with babies(you wont have to worry about chewing until 3rd foods anyway) humans chew with their back teeth, babies get their front teeth first, so a baby with no teeth can eat just as well as a baby with 8.
my older children were probably like 6-7 months old when they went to second foods though, they were smaller than him and lighter eaters
I started my son on Stage 2 foods when he was 5 months because he was eating 2 containers of Stage 1 foods at one time. Then, of course, his doctor told me for his 6 month check up to start on Stage 2 and he said it was fine that I had already started.
Ok…I’ll tell you right now…it really doesn’t matter. The only real difference in stage 1 and stage 2 is the quantity and that stage 2s are not QUITE as pureed as stage 1. There are no chunks at all, so if your baby is going through 2 jars of #1 greenbeans at lunch, start getting #2s. Good luck!