For those who started solids at 6 months...

Jchirico

What/how much is LO eating now? I keep seeing posts where LO's are eating chunks of table food and worrying that we're behind. But then I thought if these babies started at 4 or 5 months with rice cereal/pur?es, then by now it makes sense that they're already eating those kinds of foods. Alex started rice cereal at 6 months, then pur?es but didn't really eat much of them until about 3 weeks later. Now he's 7.5 months and eats much more, cereal with a pur?e mixed in for breakfast and about a 1/3 jar of veggies and a 1/3 jar of fruits for dinner. And he's doing ok with puffs and MumMums. Does this sound about right? I know many think as long as they're drinking enough BM or formula, we shouldn't worry, but the doc is a little concerned as he dropped from 50th percentile to about 25th for weight in 2 months, and then to 20th the next month (although he's only 15th for height, so I'm not too worried). TIA

Shawnee11507

We started at 6 months. He is eating an average of 2-3oz of fruit/grain at breakfast and 3-4oz veggie at dinner. We just started the meat/veggie combo for dinner now on his 8 month birthday. I am doing banana in the mesh feeder now but we won't do puffs until 9 months.

My LO has always been long and lean.

runrinserepeat

We started solids at 6 months, but we do modified BLW so she's been eating "table food" since we started. She gets 1-2 tbsp of rice cereal for lunch with DH (mixed with breastmilk). Then she gets bites from my plate for dinner.

She doesn't eat much of the table food, and for most of it, she prefers it when I feed her with a fork. If it's on my fork, she'll open her mouth for it and at least try. A lot of the time she spits it back out. If she likes it (pasta or sweet corn), she gums on it until she swallows it. She gags occassionally, but she's very good at figuring out whether something is swallow-able.

She also does cheerios now, but she doesn't like those (even from my fork, which I've tried on a few occassions).

songstress503

We started solids at 6 months, but skipped cereals.  She now eats 2 ozs of fruit/veg for brunch and 2ish ozs of whatever we are eating for dinner.  We also give her chunks of table food to amuse her when we eat.  Her fav is squishy peas or carrots or stocks of anything.  We also rip up some meat as I am kind of pushing it for her iron, since she doesn't eat cereal.

ssimon621

We started at about 5 1/2 months with a few tastes of food before that.  I went straight to purees.  She eats food well, she eats chunks of food that we give her, including fruit, bread, puffs, waffles, chicken etc.  But she always tried to chew her food even when it was a puree, even when I give her fruit I mix it with lots of oatmeal to thicken it up because she will refuse otherwise.

She eats 2-3 oz of food twice a day and sometimes 2oz of yogurt.  On weekends we give her more table food because we are with her.  She has never choked or gagged on her food.  She is in 50th percentile for weight and always has been.  She recently dropped from 50th to 30th percentile on height, but it's expected since I'm pretty short.

poobear2015

I tried at 4 months with cereal but she was spitting up daily just a few hrs after (which is odd for her) so we stopped and tried again and again. Her system was ready at 6 months and we are right with you except we do lunch/dinner. And she will do meat/veggies for dinner sometimes - but about 1/3 a jar like you.

We thicken her stuff up more with cereal/oatmeal. I needed to for blowouts. Now she doesn't leak out her diaper as much.

kayladay

He eats fruit or fruit with cereal for breakfast, half of stage 2 jar, for Lunch he eats veggie, fruit and meat, he will eat the whole jar stage 2 of all of those, then Dinner he easts the same or either fruit, veggie and a stage 3 dinner. He eats the whole jars. Plus he does 5, 7 oz bottles throughout the day. He started at about 4 1/2 months eating cereal with banana. He doesn't really eat the chunks of food like off the table, he is just now getting used to the chunks that is in the dinners of the stage 3 baby food and the puffs.

mamatobe2012

Great ? - I was just thinking about this last night.

My LO started at 6 months w/ cereal for a week and then vegetables.

He currently eats: 

2 - 4 oz of fruit stage 2 (w/ some sort of grain) for breakfast

2 - 4 oz of vegetable and meat stage 2 for lunch

6 oz. of stage 3 dinner (grain, meat, veg)

I think he'll probably be doing 4 oz. for breakfast and 4 oz. for lunch really soon.  He's in the 80th percentile for weight and height, so very proportional.  My husband and I are both very tall.

heymommy

Mine eats...

Breakfast- oatmeal with half a container of Gerber seconds fruit with about 2tbsp of yogurt . Toast, and some fruit pieces but she does not swallow much of this.

Lunch / dinner is a veggie ( 1/2 a seconds container)  with cereal ( usually the Gerber whole wheat cereal. Given finger food options... What ever I can find or hat ever we are having for dinner that she can handle.

I have a hard time giving her three meals a day.  

She nurses on demand all day. 

CotterpinDoozer

We started rice cereal at one meal ad ay at 5.5 months and didn't do veggies or anything until 6th, so I coun't myself here.  This is our schedule:

6:45 - Wake up/nurse
8:00 - 3 ounces of fruit, plus cereal made with 1.5 ounces of milk, then 5 ounces of milk.
11:15 - 4 ounces of vegetables, 7 ounces of milk.
3:00 - 8 ounces of milk.
5:30/6:00 - 3 ounces of veggies, nurse.
7:30 - bedtime nurse
Plus one nursing at least over night. 

I'd be worried about the declining weight percentile, TBH.