January 2013 Moms

First solid question

I have read a lot of posts and I haven't seen anyone mention meat as the first food for breastfed babies. Our pediatrician and the APA recommend this. I want to start this week and was going to do turkey first Gerber brand . I was planning on making own food but not meat! Anyways, any recommendations on how to do this.... Do you warm it up? Mix with cereal?

Re: First solid question

  • I *think* meat as a first food is more often recommended as a first food in other countries (like Canada, Europe).  I think that may be due to it usually being mixed with vegetables in commercial baby food and the recommendation is to introduce things one at a time to watch for reaction.  Also, I would expect it might be hard to get it to a good texture and some babies are picky about that (but others aren't!).  And of course it could be a strong flavor.

    With that said, you can start off with meat.  Any food is fine, really.  I'm sure it's beneficial for the iron, which is something doctors are concerned about.  

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  • I havent fed any meat to LO yet. We started with veggies. IMO, to me the meat smells like tuna.. or cat food. So I think when we start feeding her meat, ill make it myself. Lol Hoping it tastes/smells better if I make it. We'll see!
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  • I won't do meat until she's doing finger foods.  I think pureed meat is gross and unnatural, I don't see how it's necessary at this age either.  I also never bought the baby food meat, I just cooked my own ground beef or chicken and cut it up tiny.  Her first food was bananas.
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  • I'm in Canada, my doctor wants her on meat by 6 months so we have started veggies and fruits first.
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    We haven't started meat yet but dd's pedi said we didn't have to wait.

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