Baby's First Food Poll

Octoberlove

Miss D is almost to first solids!  So just for fun, what did you feed your baby first?[Poll]

Octoberlove

I should add, if your LO isn't there yet, what are you planning on feeding them first?

mishquiche

I marked sweet potato, although technically we did oatmeal first.  Sweet potato is my kid's crack, so it was a great choice.

iheartstuart

I put bananas because we just tried that with A.  With M we did peas.  I didn't have any reasoning and have no clue why I tried either of those first.  I don't like either of those, myself.

LauraLynneC

*getting in my Way Back machine*

My kids started eating off my plate around 6 months - nothing too exotic but they seemed interested so I would just sort of moosh up whatever we were eating (for my daughter, it was peas).  We skipped the obvious choking hazard stuff but didn't pay a whit of attention to what we were "supposed" to start with. 

Neither of my kids (so far) ate any jarred or boxed baby food, no rice cereal or oatmeal either - they just ate our food, sometimes blended if it needed to be (I had a hand crank puree baby food maker).  Both of them eat anything at this point!!  No pickiness what so ever.  And no allergies (my daughter's skin was allergic to strawberries and tomotoes - but as long as we wiped as she ate it wasn't a big deal)

sunmountain

Cheerios - but soaked in milk first and then just straight from the box. This was around 7 months. That was her first finger food. I started around 5 1/2 months with some purees but she wasn't into them. She's been straight finger food except for yogurt since 6/7 months - happily she got the whole pincher grip thing right away.

braveangel2

We skipped rice cereal all together, and she loved sweet potatoes, but they stopped her up pretty bad. Same with bananas. We did avocados and steamed apples.

Zista

We did the baby led weaning approach, so anything that could be cut into fry-shapes was fair game.  First week we did pear, cantalope, raw red pepper, avocado (with the skin on to allow gripping), banana, toast with avocado on it, sweet potato fries, and a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten. 

6 weeks into it he's now enjoying shrimp, steak, chicken, pork, hummus, pierogies, tortellinis, omelets, yogurt with berries, etc.  I agree that sweet potato is baby crack, but need to add steak and avocado to that assessment.    We have no family food allergies, so we didn't follow the four day rule... just watched a bit when we introduced common allergens like egg white, tomato, wheat, and shellfish.  We still haven't tried strawberries yet. 

It's great to watch him grab food and feed himself at 7 months!  He seems to love all sorts of food, and loves flavor.  Hopefully this approach will save us from the children's menu (fingers crossed).