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Starting Solids and Skipping Cereal?

Nic&SusieNic&Susie
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Has anyone skipped cereal when they started solids?  I think DS is ready and from what I read since we have waited till 6 months that he can go directly to bland veges mixed with a lot of BM.  Cereals are not supposed to have much nutritional value anyway. 

Thoughts / opinions?  TIA 

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Re: Starting Solids and Skipping Cereal?

  • AnnaBananaBelleAnnaBananaBelle
    We never did cereal!  We started with avacado and banana with BM.
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  • Temp76535187505890Temp76535187505890
    We skipped as well.  We started with avocado & sweet potato.
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  • Lotte134Lotte134
    We started with avocado, then sweet potato, then added in cereal.  I thought about skipping them entirely.  As PP said they don't add a ton of nutrition.  However they are iron fortified and if you BF your LO needs to get iron from somewhere so I figured it was best to do some cereal until DS is eating meat, at least.  I just mix the cereal with a veggie or fruit and DS eats it up!
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  • mrsticemrstice

    imageAnnaBananaBelle:
    We never did cereal!  We started with avacado and banana with BM.

    Exactly.

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  • Nic&SusieNic&Susie
    How did you prepare them?  And what consistency did you make them?  I would think they need to be really runny.  TIA
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  • Temp76535187505890Temp76535187505890
    imageLotte134:
    We started with avocado, then sweet potato, then added in cereal.  I thought about skipping them entirely.  As PP said they don't add a ton of nutrition.  However they are iron fortified and if you BF your LO needs to get iron from somewhere so I figured it was best to do some cereal until DS is eating meat, at least.  I just mix the cereal with a veggie or fruit and DS eats it up!
    Yeah I thought about the iron thing but decided that I'd just keep giving him his vitamins instead of doing the cereal.  Mostly because I'm too lazy and cheap to go out and buy cereal (the vitamins are free for us) :)
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  • Lotte134Lotte134
    For the avocado I made sure it was really ripe, then mashed it up well and added a little BM.  The sweet potato I roasted until it was nice and soft and then mashed it up with BM as well.  We did wait until 6 months to start so I moved from really runny to kind of chunky fairly quickly because DS was ready but it depends on your LO and how early you start.
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  • Temp76535187505890Temp76535187505890
    imageLotte134:
    For the avocado I made sure it was really ripe, then mashed it up well and added a little BM.  The sweet potato I roasted until it was nice and soft and then mashed it up with BM as well.  We did wait until 6 months to start so I moved from really runny to kind of chunky fairly quickly because DS was ready but it depends on your LO and how early you start.
    I did the same except for changing the texture quickly.  DS still isnt too on board with the solids thing and I'm not pushing it.  DS really didnt take to the avocado texture so I only did that a few days and moved on to sweet potato.  After he didnt take to that well either I gave up for a week and then went back to it and he's liking sweet potato so much better now.  Now I'm debating what to move on to next.  Maybe banana since we'll be traveling and that will be easy and wont require cooking.
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  • goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member
    I don't do anything. I put them on the tray in chunks and they can feed themselves. IMO, if a baby is ready for solids, they're ready for texture.
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  • Nic&SusieNic&Susie

    imagegoodheartedmommy:
    I don't do anything. I put them on the tray in chunks and they can feed themselves. IMO, if a baby is ready for solids, they're ready for texture.

     

    If you put it on the tray in chunks I am assuming that they are finger feeding themselves. Correct?  Or are you/they spoon feeding?  DS will put a spoon into his mouth but it does not have anything on it and it normally hits his forehead or eye first!  

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  • goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member
    They self-feed.
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