Solids help!

MommaHen1984

So I have been letting LO try a few homemade solids. Applesauce, sweet potato and bananas. He had his 6 mo visit yesterday ane we are going to start really getting into solids. I will be making my own. The pedi we saw, which isnt our regular one, wasn't too informative on foods. She just told me to look at our 6 month packet which didnt help me either. What does your babys feeding schedule look like with the incorporation of solids? How much, how many times a day...what foods?

PixelPosy

Food is for practice over nutrition at this stage. Milk is still the primary food source. So just let baby guide you to when they have had enough. Relax and enjoy this stage.

We are doing just one pure a day, weekends 2 right now. She eats between 12 oz at a time, not a lot.

morrkim

Right now we are doing 1 solid a day in the evening.  I usually do this when she wakes up from her evening nap.  We have tried apples, bananas, peaches, sweet potato, and squash.  When I go on summer break, I plan on adding a session sometime in the morning.  I also plan on trying to make some of our own baby foods.

candaceleigh21

I make all mine and freeze them in ice cube trays. I also buy the organic pouches so he can have flavors that I cannot find locally like purple carrots and different squashes. I mix 2 cubes and half a pouch and he will eat it all. We do that 3 times a day.

pb_bride

DS does really well with solids. We do 3 meals a day - B,L,D. I make all his food.  For the first couple of weeks, we mostly did single-ingredient purees.  Now that he's been on solids for over a month now, we give him a very varied diet.

B is always fruit and a small spoonful of full fat yogurt. The fruit varies depending on what's in season.  It was pears for a while and now mostly mangoes.  Also tried papaya today.

L is regular oatmeal, about 2-3 oz I guess?  I add some BM to thin it and also add fruit.  I want to expose DS to tree nuts so I pound some almonds & walnuts into paste and add that in.

D depends on what I'm making that night. If it's something soft, he'll just eat what we eat (eg, fish, pasta, frittata, bulgur pilaf, rice porridge, baked potatoes/sweet potatoes). I gave him tofu and minced shrimp last night.

ETA: it's hard to judge how much I give him to eat esp if he's eating off our plates. If I give him frozen puree veggies, I usually give him 2-3oz plus 1" of banana.  I always nurse him before his meal time. 

Ken&Anna

I've found that LO won't take solids when she's tired and by the time we get home from daycare she's generally tired and cranky and just wants to nurse, play a little and go to sleep.  She gets 3 5-oz. bottles at daycare from 7:30-3:30 and I've been sending her with 2 "meals" of solids each day.  I usually make my own and freeze it, and send a cube to daycare with her or sometimes I send one of the organic pouches or some yogurt.  So far she's had sweet potatoes, avocadoes, bananas, pears, peas, and yogurt. She's also had both rice cereal and oatmeal cereal mixed in with the various foods.  Depending on the texture of the foods I make at home, sometimes we need to add cereal to thicken it up a little bit. 

Cynthia1207

We are on 3 times a day and 3-4 oz per feeding.  We started off at once a day and slowly increased it.  I give him a bottle first and maybe 15-30 minutes later, I feed him his solids.

Foods he's eating:  Sweet potato, oatmeal, mixed grains, peas, carrots, bananas, avocados, mangos, pears, apples, squash, kiwis, plums, eggs and chicken.

Follow your LO's lead.  Some days he'll eat more, others not so much. 

Wally3

Eventually you will want to get up to 3x a day but you can work up slowly.  The most important thing is to feed solids about 30 min to 1 hour after boob or bottle - so they are ready to "eat" milk or formula at the next feeding and not full of solids.

kmitch0303

Right now we are doing breakfast and dinner. I'll probably add lunch in a few weeks (after we return from vacation). Breakfast is Oatmeal and about 2 oz of fruit. So far she has had apples, pears, and bananas. I just rotate. I am making mango tonight. I freeze mine in ice cube trays or a silicone muffin pan and dump the cubes into freezer bags and suck out the air. I haven't frozen the banana because I am afraid it will turn. I just puree it as I want to feed it to her and generally don't do it as often for that reason.

Dinner is a yellow veggie and a green veggie. We've done green beans, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, and squash. She gets about 2 oz of each of those.

I've also done strawberries and bananas in the mesh feeder. Strawberries make a huge mess, but she loves it.

hilsy85

We do solids 2-3x a day, depending on when we're out of the house. I do them about 30-45 min after I nurse him. We've done purees (homemade so they're a bit chunky). We've done baby oatmeal with breastmilk, peaches, peas, carrots, squash, apples, pears, mango, yogurt, egg yolk, and sweet potato. Wholesomebabyfood.com has  TON of great info.