When Do You Start To Give Baby Food?and What Kinds Of Foods Do You Start With?
When your baby has doubled his/her birth weight and does not seem satisfied with milk only, may start waking more often, or have a growth spurt that does not seem to end (this is what happened with my babies) – normally between 4 and 6 months. Baby will sometimes look interested when you are eating.
I also used plain baby rice cereal first, only one or two spoonfuls in the beginning, if baby likes it slowly increase it according to intake. Your baby will probably push her tongue forward when you start feeding her the first time, this is normal and after a few attempts she will get the hang of it. If not, just wait another week or so then try again.
After rice cereal, you can start with some veggies, like butternut or sweet potato. Don’t introduce fruit first as you don’t want her to develop a sweet tooth. Once she is used to veggies you can try some fruit, like pureed pear, apple and later banana. Remember banana could make her constipated, so watch carefully after feeding banana the first few times. But banana is a great help in treatment of a runny tummy..
At four months you start with rice cereal and apple sauce. It should be a slow introduction of foods to see if the baby tolerates the new foods well. Cereals and fruits are usually first followed with vegetable and then meats. Follow your doctors advice,
It’s best to not start solids until 6 months in order to prevent allergies, and give the baby the optimum amount of time to be solely breastfed.
At 6 months, you can start with rice cereal. Take a small, small amount of the rice cereal and add breast milk to it. Make the mixture very watery, almost to the point where it will run off the spoon.
Sometime after 4 to 6 months. Baby cereal is what you start with.
You start with the baby cereal then mix a tiny bit each feeding of some fruit, I usually started cereal when there formula couldn’t keep them full, then after a month I started fruit, then gradually veggies.
I started my daughter on rice cereal at 4 months. From there we went with baby oatmeal cereal, sweet potatoes, peas, avocado, peaches, bananas, etc.