Solids

Jhontiel

Sooo, DS in almost 10 mo, no teeth, but doing well with solids like avacado, strawberries, and squash. We have not introduced dairy, eggs, or peanuts. My question is, I see a lot of people posting about yogurt as one of the solids they have introduced. Even the little yogurt puffs have dairy in them. Are these ok? Should these wait until after the 1 year mark? Just curious. 

Also, if your LO has no teeth, what foods are you introducing? I'd like to add some more variety.  

pitterpatter129

If you ate dairy while bfing, they've been exposed to dairy proteins right?  And formula is cow milk based.  I would think dairy would be okay based on that.  I know we did yogurt pretty early with DS1 and eggs before age 1.  We did peanuts at age 1 and eek! Peanut allergy!  So, I'm waiting on that one with DS2.

 

 

nanabanana06

They can have dairy before 1 year, your just not supposed to give them milk as a drink before 1 year. Since most people replace BFing or formula feeds with milk at that point. My daughter loved toast and cream cheese at 8 months. You can also give them eggs if there is no history of allergies.

Jhontiel

DS is EBF. I have avoided most dairy as he seems to get gassy when I consume a ton of dairy. I'll have the odd slice of cheese on my sandwich and yogurt snack so I am sure he get's some protiens through my breast milk, but it's very limited. 

amandadawson

There are many foods you should avoid giving here https://goodmomming.com are listed all the food you can give and which you can't according to each age.

boogerbearoriginal

The recommendation about no milk before 1 is regarding substituting BM/formula, not avoiding dairy altogether. So feel free to let LO try yogurt, cheese, butter or foods made with milk if you want, just avoid giving straight milk until LO is older. 

ETA - the pediatric allergy/asthma group no longer recommends waiting for any foods. Research on delaying doesn't show a link to decreased risk of allergic reaction, and in some cases it has been shown to increase reactions. So barring chock-risk foods like whole nuts, and honey (due to botulism <1) LO can have any foods.

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SarahinMD

When DD started solids, we introduced all the allergy risks fairly early, but I also made sure I'd eaten the, while EBF and ate same food DD had at meals (at the very least). I've seen some reports that this helps ease kids into these items. Of course, I would have been a bit more careful if we had a family history of allergies to a category, but there are none on either side. Good luck!

TaylersMommy

My guy just started solids at 5 months adjusted age, almost 8 months actual age. Like your LO, no teeth. He has already eaten: baked shredded chicken, salmon, bananas and mango cut lengthwise in fistfriendly strips, pita wedges, toast cut into strips, grated apple, uncooked grated carrot, brown rice which was a humongous mess BTW, ripe melons of all sorts ... Lots! Sometimes I find food pieces whole in his poop, he doesn't always "gum" his food well, but he seems to love eating and that's all that matters to me at this point!