How soon after starting baby cereal did you....

~Flossie~ · April 2011

start giving LO baby food? Or did you do both at the same time?

We starting giving LO baby cereal 3 days ago and wondering how long (if at all) we should wait to give baby food. What kind did you start out with?

jesscullen · April 2011

I waited about 2 1/2 weeks....basically just because we had an appointment at the pedi and I wanted to talk to her. I'd say you can start whenever you feel comfortable. DD didn't really like the cereal...we did rice then oatmeal bc the rice made her constipated.

I started with avocados first. Then we did peas. Now we are on peaches. She loves peaches. I am mixing peaches and avocados together for her bfast.

rlyttle · April 2011

We started cereal at 4 months, but didn't start baby food till 5 months. We tried carrots at 4.5 months, but he was really gassy & fussy. We decided to put it off a couple more weeks after that.

LordValuemart · April 2011

As far as I can tell from looking around at different info, it's all basically up to you, just so long as you wait it out on one food to make sure there's no reaction before introducing a new one, then you should be fine as long as you're not mashing up donuts for your kiddo or something.

ETA: I'm going to make my own baby food, but wanted to feel out what he likes and doesn't like before I made entire batches, so I grabbed some jars of stuff for when he's ready for it so I can see, from looking at all the different kinds, you may wanna know that on beech nut single ingredient baby foods, the ONLY ingredients are that given fruit/vegetable and water.

SuperThat1006 · April 2011

Four-day increments ... but the pedi told me today that we only have to wait two days since we don't have a history of food allergies.

We started two weeks ago and she's had sweet potatoes, carrots, peas and bananas.

rg8482 · April 2011

I started with cereal alone for 2 weeks and then started her on veggies (carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, squash, and green beans). She liked all of the veggies but once I started apples and bananas, she hated both of them. I have since tried avocados and she liked those and I'm going to move onto pumpkin after that. Then I will attempt to try the sweet fruits again with peaches and then pears.

I have done both jar and fresh foods.

christinaeve · April 2011

About 2 weeks. It went really well. He's liked everything except for squash and apples that were homemade

aabreu32 · April 2011

My pedi said to do cereal for 1 month before starting other solids - so that is what we did. I started rice first and then oatmeal. First solid after cereals was sweet potatoes. Oh, and we started when DD was 4 months.

Kitiara5512 · April 2011

We started giving C avocadoes and bananas mashed up first. We only give him cereal once or sometimes twice a day because the peditrician wants to up his iron, and the second serving is mixed with pureed fruits or veggies. Cereals tend to be empty calories for babies if it wasnt for all the stuff they fortify it with, and its more affordable than jarred food.

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