When to introducing foods...?

mooncusp22 · June 2014

My baby is celebrating her 3month birthday this week! I believe it's still awhile, but when do you start feeding food? And what do you start with (rice cereal, oatmeal)??

cwm11985 · June 2014

You can technically start at 4 months, although we'll wait till 6ish. Your pedi should bring it up at her 4 month appt.

fourthnlast · June 2014

My other kids are 11,9 and 6. With the 11 and 9 year olds, we started with cereal at 4 months. With the 6 year old, they recommended no cereals and we ended up doing baby led weaning. We'll be doing the same with this one.

Here's the link for baby led weaning:

fourthnlast · June 2014

fourthnlast said:

My other kids are 11,9 and 6. With the 11 and 9 year olds, we started with cereal at 4 months. With the 6 year old, they recommended no cereals and we ended up doing baby led weaning. We'll be doing the same with this one.

Here's the link for baby led weaning:

babyledweaning.com

Mustardseed2007 · June 2014

We did 6 months with DS and started him on barley cereal. After that he was onto sweet potato purees.

pete0121 · June 2014

I'm probably going to do 6 months and start with sweet potatoes, avacado, banana, applesauce, squash. Not necessarily in that order.

J&NL · June 2014

We won't be doing rice or cereal but if he starts showing interest in foods at 6 months then I will probably introduce it to him then.

WifeofaComposer · June 2014

I started feeding Skippy pureed peas when he turned 6 months old and never gave him baby cereals (and now he won't eat cereal or oatmeal...). I don't want to start with fruit because babies naturally have a "sweet tooth", so introducing veggies first helps them get used to less sweet foods. Also, I'll start offering this LO kefir at 8 months. I avoided dairy products with Skippy, and I couldn't get him to drink regular milk until he was 4 - he drank vanilla soy, hemp, or rice milk from 12 months until he turned 3. That was a hassle.

Teresa1896 · June 2014

I started dd on occasional purées at 4 month and will do the same with this LO. I also started whole milk yogurt with her at 6 mo and plan to do the same again.
Try not to over think the food stuff. I spent so much time researching and worrying that it kind of took the fun out of it.

momofmanyinthemitten · June 2014

We started both of our older kids at 4 mos. For the least chance of food allergies, it's recommended to introduce a variety of foods between 4-6 mos. Our kids are amazing eaters-will eat anything and everything. I attribute a lot of that to early introduction of lots of foods. I will also say that by 7/8 months, they were eating the same dinners as DH and myself.

strawberrytree · June 2014

We will also be doing BLW at 6 months again. Worked great with DS1 and everyone comments on what a great eater he is. I think Health Canada actually recommends starting with meat as a first food as a natural source of iron instead of the cereal.