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Clicky poll about starting solids

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No worries, I'm not planning on starting tomorrow or anything, but Jones is really starting to be very interested in what we are eating.  He watches us, imitates chewing, and yesterday he started pouting and crying while watching me drinking something.  He calmed down as soon as I brought it close to him for him to look at. 

Just curious about when people started their children on solids.  (and any stories/advice about why you did what you did would be greatly appreciated!)

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  • mrsolsenk12mrsolsenk12
    I chose 4 months but I guess it depends on your definition of solids. He started rice cereal at 4 months old. He didn't start any fruit or veggie puree until 5 months.
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  • ladychicagoladychicago member
    Unless something drastically changes, we will start solids after DD's 6 month pedi appointment.   We discussed rice cereal and solids at the 4 month appointment, but I don't feel there is any good reason to start rice cereal now (since the only nutrition it offers is the breastmilk or formula you mix into it) - and I want to wait on other purees until 6 months.  
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  • CandTCandT

    Hi, just wanted to let you know I did this poll on 3-6 last week. Don't have time to search right now (fussy baby) but I will try later tonight if you can't find it.

    I'm still curious to see what the SAIF girls say though!!

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  • kme930kme930 member
    I'm curious to see what other people say also! (And to see what our pedi says at Will's 4 month appointment next week.) I can't believe that I'm getting to the point of thinking about this. I feel so unprepared! :)
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  • MouseygailMouseygail member
    imageCandT:

    Hi, just wanted to let you know I did this poll on 3-6 last week. Don't have time to search right now (fussy baby) but I will try later tonight if you can't find it.

    I'm still curious to see what the SAIF girls say though!!

      oh!!  good to know! I'll dig around later! :)  Thanks!
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  • GuitaristsGirlGuitaristsGirl

    We started at 5 1/2 months.  Although DS definitely seemed interested/ ready before then, I'm glad we waited because he hated any type of ceral (Can you blame him?  I mean, have you smelled/ tasted that stuff?!) so we we skipped it and went straight to veggies and fruits.

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  • ESTH2000ESTH2000 member

    I chose 6months but I have few friends who started at 4months at their pedi's suggestion..

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  • chocolatechip06chocolatechip06 member
    We are planning on starting solids at 6 months, although we are giving rice cereal in some of his bottles to help with reflux type symptoms.
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  • *Willis**Willis*

    We started at 4 months with rice cereal.  After a few weeks, we moved on to oatmeal.  At around 5 months, we started vegetables.  Once we finished veggies, we moved on to fruit (where we are now).

    C was very interested in food.  Like Jones, he liked to watch, imitate, etc.  He's been very interested in cups and drinking, so I imagine will start a sippy cup at 6 months.

    Sigh.  Where did my baby go?

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  • kme930kme930 member
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    imageCandT:

    Hi, just wanted to let you know I did this poll on 3-6 last week. Don't have time to search right now (fussy baby) but I will try later tonight if you can't find it.

    I'm still curious to see what the SAIF girls say though!!

      oh!!  good to know! I'll dig around later! :)  Thanks!

    CandT - I know you posted one on SAIF a while ago, it's here. Is that it?

    (I've been working on my bump searching skills (using google), but I didn't see anything on 3-6.)

     

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  • charmcitygirlcharmcitygirl member
    We tried rice cereal at 5 months and he pushed it out of his mouth.  We tried again about a month later and he lapped it up!
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  • GypsyEsqGypsyEsq member
    IMO being interested in what you are doing/looking at food and showing physical signs of readiness are different.  That said, we waited on all solids until 6 months and went straight to a combo of finger foods and minimal purees (essentially only pureed fruit and oatmeal for breakfast and/or pureed fruit/veg in yogurt).  Our pedi reinforced that but it was something I had researched before hand and knew I wanted to skip rice cereal and move onto real foods at 6 months.  Since solids are only for practice until 1 year I figured why not practice with food versus ground up rice?
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  • epphdepphd member

    I chose 6 months but it was really like 6.5 months.  And FWIW, Sam had been intensely watching us as well - it's not a good indicator they are ready though.  Sam had ALL signs of being ready, including the loss of tongue thrust, being able to sit unassisted, yada yada yada.  And he was still just not ready, because when we started, he vomited pretty much everything.  He didn't become a good eater until closer to 7.5 months. The "signs" just aren't all that predictive, IMO.

     

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  • SeaSoulSeaSoul member
    Cal was EBF and wasn't particularly interested in solids, so I was happy to maintain the EBF as long as possible.  It's a lot easier than preparing food!  Man, that added a whole new element to our day!  We finally started him on solids at 6.5 months and his first food was avocado. 
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  • MouseygailMouseygail member
    Thanks for all the input!!  Its so interesting to see where other stand and how they approach things! 
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  • RobynKRobynK member
    We waited until 7.5 months (they were 6.5 adjusted) -- they were showing no signs of being ready before that so I waited for them to be ready.
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  • CandTCandT
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    imageCandT:

    Hi, just wanted to let you know I did this poll on 3-6 last week. Don't have time to search right now (fussy baby) but I will try later tonight if you can't find it.

    I'm still curious to see what the SAIF girls say though!!

      oh!!  good to know! I'll dig around later! :)  Thanks!

    CandT - I know you posted one on SAIF a while ago, it's here. Is that it?

    (I've been working on my bump searching skills (using google), but I didn't see anything on 3-6.)

     

    Good to know, never thought about using google. That is it, guess I meant to post on 3-6 and did SAIF instead..... duh.

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  • shipoopiisformeshipoopiisforme

    imageladychicago:
    Unless something drastically changes, we will start solids after DD's 6 month pedi appointment.   We discussed rice cereal and solids at the 4 month appointment, but I don't feel there is any good reason to start rice cereal now (since the only nutrition it offers is the breastmilk or formula you mix into it) - and I want to wait on other purees until 6 months.  

    this exactly 

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