January 2014 Moms

starting solids... help!!

Ok so my little man is happily gaining and is a big boy as it is (6 months and 21 lbs!). He is EBF and has been since birth. I know I need to start introducing solids soon but need some advice. He is always happy and seems to get plenty from BM and sleeps through the night. He is interested now when we are eating and grabs for things more.

Do I HAVE to start with cereal? Can I just start with a veggie puree (I'm going to make my own baby food for him)?

There are so many different things out there on it I just need some opinions.

(in my opinion I don't want him starting solids because that means he's a big boy and not a baby anymore!

Re: starting solids... help!!

  • I think this article does a nice job of summarizing everything that I have read: https://www.lucieslist.com/year-1/starting-solids/

    This part answers your question and is what I did "

    Baby Food Purees

    Contrary to what most people think, you definitely do not have to start your baby off on cereal (I may have mentioned this already ;-)).

    "There is no good reason not to introduce meats, vegetables, and fruits as the first complementary foods"

    -- Dr. Frank R. Greer, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Nutrition.

    A plain puree of a single root vegetable mixed with your baby's normal milk/formula is an excellent first food. I recommend sweet potatoes because BABIES LOVE SWEET POTATOES, y'all. They just do.

    For the first couple of weeks, I suggest introducing some or all of the following foods (again, just for simplicity sake, there are MANY others you can feed them as well).

    • sweet potatoes or yams
    • ripe banana
    • squash
    • pear
    • avocado
    • peas

    Because they are sweet(ish) like breastmilk and formula (but not too sweet), these foods have a very high success rate as first foods. Once your baby decides that eating is cool, we can quickly move onto more challenging foods."

  • We also skipped rice cereal all together. We are just doing veggies for awhile. So far we have done carrots, squash, sweet potato, broccoli and avocado. I make it at home and started out pretty thick compared to the jar food. We actually were going to feed dd a jar of my nephews food and it was so watery, I was surprised.
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  • We skipped rice cereal. I mix it in the thinner foods to thicken it up a little bit. Make sure you wait a few days in between New food to check for allergies.
  • I didn't start with cereals either but my pedi said she needs to have it daily for the iron she know needs. He suggested mixing the fruit Purées in it to give it a taste she may like better. I didn't want to start either, she's growing up so fast, but she loved eating and I find the whole experience fun and laugh at her the whole time.

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  • I started by just giving her slices of fruit to gnaw on but once her teeth came in I got paranoid. So I give her fresh fruit in a mesh feeder and started purees. We started with fruit (since she loves fresh fruit) but she HATED pear puree. She LOVES sweet potato and we just started banana which she loves too.

    I give her a little rice cereal in the morning mostly because that is what I eat (I'm celiac) and she eats a few bites and that's it.

    She still only eats 1-2 table spoons of food a day and never finishes a jar of food over the course of 3 days, but she seems to be enjoying it.
  • We tried rice cereal and he didn't like the texture. We switched to oatmeal with a little fruit puree mixed in. He LOVES it!
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  • My guy sounds like your little one...he's really not that interested in food. He's also ebf and weighs 23 lbs. He's starting to get more aware and during meal times he's starting to watch us more and put good into his mouth.

    We're doing BLW so I just give him whatever we're having in stick like pieces so he can grab it and gnaw on it. Last night we had pizza and he chewed on breadsticks and pizza crust. He really just moves it around his mouth and ends up spitting it out.

    With my dd I did the introducing 1 food at a time and started with avacado, sweet potatoes, bananas, apples, green beans, etc. This being #3 I haven't even bothered with 1 food at a time, we have no food allergies so now I just give him some of whatever we're eating.


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  • bethughkneebethughknee member
    edited July 2014
    We are doing BLW so no rice cereal here, either. You can absolutely start with purees. Avocado is a great first food. If he doesn't seem to like it you can mix in a little breastmilk so it tastes familiar.

    If you're interested in BLW I got most of my info here: www.babyledweaning.com

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  • I did rice cereal twice ans moved on to vegetables. If I put it in adult terms I would rather give him a giant bowl of carrots than a giant bowl of white rice.
  • With DD1 and now with DD2 we've started with applesauce, pears, peas and carrots.  I do it as a snack.  She usually takes a bottle every 4 hours, right before her nap.  She naps for 2 hours, so once she wakes up we have a little solids.  She doesn't eat much, but it's ok.  She's getting used to new tastes.  Around supper time I'll often mix the applesauce/pears with a little oatmeal cereal to make it a little more filling, she seems to sleep better at night then.  Rice also makes her super constipated, so I try to aim for oatmeal instead.  
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