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This article – nttp://www.canadianbreastfeedingfoundation.org/basics/starting_solids.html
Goes against a lot of the usual advice I’ve always heard about starting solids for baby,
- not starting with plain infant cereals
- not waiting a week between introduction of new foods
- feeding fruits first instead of veggies
- going by babies hunger instead of waiting 6 mths.
I’m wondering if others go by this method of introducing solids, cause it makes sence to me.
With my 2 yr old, I breastfed for 6 mths and then introduced cereal 1 week at a time, then veggies, then fruits.
My daughter is 5 mths, and really interested in food, and seems like breast milk is just not enough anymore.
So, thinking about starting solids, did any other mothers introduce food to their babies in ways similar to this article? ( As opposed to the regular guidelines.)
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Answer by wiXet
We are kind of doing this with our 7 month old breastfed son.
We have skipped rice cereal altogether, from the research i have done, it has no nutritional value whatsoever.
We are kind of doing fruits/veges at the same time. The first food he actually ’swallowed’ was banana.
We haven’t really waited in between foods…but i am still holding off on things like dairy, wheat etc until he’s a little older.
We did wait until he was 6 months before we started offering though, and as it turns out, he’s nt all that interested in solids yet anyway, so it’s all going very slowly, but i’m not worried as i know he’s still getting loads of nutrition from breastmilk.
If you google ‘baby led solids’ this is pretty much how we are doing it.
Answer by Cindy V’s due in 6 weeks!!
Thats pretty much the way I introduced my kids to solids. There was no set way and time to do certain foods. I took their cues and went by what they wanted. I did start with baby cereal but more to get them used to the texture of it and the idea of solids. I did try not to give them lots of sweet foods and preferred to stick to savoury/vegetable foods just because I’m not a big fan of giving sweet stuff all the time.
They started by 4mths and were eating regular table food with the rest of the family before they were 1. Neither of them has allergies of any sort and both eat nearly everything they are given.
I think this huge push for solids not to be even thought about before 6mths is a joke. My kids would’ve been half starved by then, lol!
I say go for it! Your daughter will let you know if she isn’t ready but you won’t know until you try!
Answer by Drixnot
I do know someone that did that.. and the kid turned out really fat. I mean seriously fat, the kind of fat that you want to slap the parents for and rush the kid to the doctor.
Now I’m not saying that doing this is what made her fat, all I’m saying is that is the only people I know that just feed a baby whatever it wanted whenever with no regards to a schedule.
thumbs down all you want, but the kid is 7 years old and 120 lbs
Answer by Sheila G
We did this with our now 13 month old. He is a healthy, tall boy in the 95 percentiles for weight and height.
Although we did purees for a short time, we quickly moved on to other non-pureed food and let him eat what he wanted. We pretty much let him eat whatever he wanted within reason (things he could chew and not choke on).
There is really no need for cereal (we skipped it altogether).
Have you ever tasted that stuff? It tastes like glue. YUCK!!!!
We also let him feed himself. He knows how much he wants to eat. When you spoonfeed a baby, he cannot regulate how much he wants.
Babies should be able to explore different foods without too many limits. Just stay away from highly allergenic foods like egg whites and strawberries, be careful of choking hazards, stic to healthy whole foods and let your baby eat!
Answer by carebear
Although I do not agree with the 3 month part of the article. I do think that a more free form of introducing food is good. 5 months id=s fine if a baby is showing intrest. I normally start with veggies because I eat a lot of them myself. And waiting at least 3 days for some foods is very important due to allergies. But not all. I tend to mash up whatever I eat and give it to the baby. My current baby eats like a charm. He is 17 months old and eats almost everything.
Answer by Über Poppins
The article is from Canadian breastfeeding expert Dr Jack Newman, and it’s great commonsense stuff.
You can read more from him here if you’re curious: nttp://kellymom.com/newman/index.html
That waiting a week, starting with rice cereal junk, etcetera, has absolutely no basis in research.
Some more good reading: nttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449/
http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast-voedsel/rapley-guidelines.html
We waited until about six months, and let baby self-feed — no pureed baby foods at all. It went beautifully; I can’t say enough good things about it. We never used anything rom the baby-food aisle, and at 9.5mo we have an unpicky eater of even relatively exotic table food, quite skilled at self-feeding. Google “baby-led weaning.” Which is not _quite_ the approach Newman discusses, but you may find it useful reading.
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Question–: When starting baby on solids (veggies and fruit) do you continue to feed cereal as well?
My daughter is almost 6mo. Shes been eating cereal (rice and oatmeal) for the past month. I was getting ready to introduce veggies/fruits to her. And was just curious if i continue to feed her cereal as well. (1st time mom) Thanks!
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Answer by Ashlie
Yes, you should continue to feed her cereal as well, and may even want to add the fruit or veggies to the cereal to start. Also, make sure you’re only introducing one fruit or one vegetable per week. If you introduce more than one fruit or vegetable and the baby has an allergic reaction, you won’t know which food caused it. But yes, I started my daughter on sweet potatoes and just added some to her cereal as a start.
Answer by Heady
Yes I keep my little girl on cereal and fruits and vegs she gets her cereal first thing in the morning normal and fruits and vegs the rest of the day sometimes I mix the cereal in the fruits and vegs to make it a little thicker because the fruits and vegs by theirself just slide right off those little baby spoons HAHA!
Answer by amy
My doctor had us add the veggies (starting with orange veggies, then other veggies, then fruit) TO the rice cereal. They eat it a lot easier as it is thicker too- less mess.
My dr. had him start eating veggies like a couple weeks after he started rice cereal at 4 months, so she should definitely be ready.
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