BFing moms...question about when you started solids.

How many of you were able to put off giving DC cereal and such for a few months?

With DD I was eager and started her around 4 months, just because.

But with DS I would like to wait, since we will be going down to Disney later this fall. I'd like to not have to worry about baby food while we're there.

How many of you waited and for how long?

I will obviously speak to the ped about it at his 4 month check up. But I was just curious.

TIA

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This is a great question. Immi is EBF and I started solids about two days before she turned six months old. I didn't see any need to start earlier as she was doing well on BM and honestly, I think if you can wait, they are physically more ready to have their solids, they don't have the same reflex where they spit foods out, and imo they are prepared for it.

I had to do some experimenting because she had gone on nursing strike when solids started, and I wasn't happy with that, so I started feeding her less, and she went back on the boob happily. The big downside was that a month after I started her on solids, my little friend came back to visit, and that was not nice. Not nice at all.

I hope that helps!!

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I just had DD's 2m appt. The doctor told me that I could wait until 6m to start - and he said I could totally skip cereal and go straight to fruit if I wanted.

I was so happy he said I could wait and he said that even if she is not interested at 6m its not a big deal and I could try later - that most of the time it is the moms who are begging to start feeding their DC's earlier.

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DD was EBF and we started cereal at 4 months, veggies at 5 and fruits at 6. She was so interested in what we were eating earlier than 4 months old and would hold her mouth open looking at us, so we knew she was ready. She took right to it at 4 months.

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There's no need to start at 4 months at all....even if the ped says you "can". Yes, you CAN, but you don't HAVE to. I BFed and we didn't start until 6 months. They're not missing out on any nutrition by starting at 6 months, it's all just for practice then anyway.

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I started DD on cereal at 4 months but want to wait next time. I really believe that my supply decreased because of all the solids she was eating. I will definitely wait until at least 5 months before starting solids for a 2nd baby.

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DS will be 4 months on Saturday and I have no intentions of starting him on solids yet. I have read a lot on the benefits of EBF for 6 months so I figured it would be best for him to wait AND a lot easier on me. We will see what the ped says but regardless we are not going to start solids YET.

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DS started tasting food around 6 months. He was not big on purees, and I do child led weaning so he is still not on 3 meals a day at 9 months.

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My ped has you hold off until 6 months - (he might just start cereal around 5 months) - but at 6 months he starts with fruits, 7 months vegetables, 8 months meats, 9 months yogurt - and by 10 months he allows eggs (whole scrambled) white fish etc. Then he says puffs, cheerios etc - are okay when they have a pincer grip (pick up the puff only with the thumb and index finger if they fist it he says it is a choking hazard).

If you are going to disney I would definitely hold off a bit there is no rush honestly. It would be really easy if he was on jarred foods or jarred foods and things like puffs or cheerios. You can get a delivery of food from Gardengrocer.com (if you don't have a car) - they are like peapod - I used them this past trip - they carry everything from jars, yobaby yogurt, and puffs and other baby and toddler things.

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I wanted to wait until 6 months but at 5 months my DD's sleep started to regress and my breast milk started to decline. So I started introducing purees and rice cereal. She never really ate it though. I was lucky if I got two spoonfuls in her mouth. Now just this week (she is now 6 months) is she showing some mild interest in eating so I am kind of glad that I started earlier.

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I started cereal with DS at 5.5 months. We started fruits/veggies at 6 months.

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We started cereal at 5 months. We were going to wait 6, but DD's GI said she was gaining poorly.

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My ped doesn't start solids until 6mo. I've read that there are some benefits to waiting especially if EBF.

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I agree with the above. We waited til DS turned 6 months and he still had a very hard time with constipation.

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i started at 6 months - there is a lower incidence of obesity in babies EBF till 6 months

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I started at around 5.5 months with both of them.

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We wanted to wait until 6 months for any food. The AAP recommends EBF for the first 6 months before introducing food. But at my son's 4 month well visit, he hadn't gained much weight, so the ped had him start on oatmeal at that point to make sure he wasn't having a problem gaining. He did fine, and we waited on fruits and veggies until 6 months.

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My ped recommends that BF babies start at 6 months so that is what we did.

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Thank you for sharing ladies!

My goal is 6 months!