When are you starting solids?

My older boys are 6 and 4 and I dont remember how I did it with them.

My ped said that they start with veggies now before cereal? anyone else hear this?

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I started at 6 months. I'm following Weston a price recommendations for solids feeding. So that means no grains for a little while (not until one year). I started with egg yolks, and will be trying avocado and banana soon.

Message edited 3/15/2013 9:53:39 PM.

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I'll be starting at 4 months. My ped said the same as yours, veggies first.

Orange veggies - 3 weeks
Green veggies - 3 weeks
Fruits - 3 weeks
Then grains. . .

She said it was easier to detect allergies to grains when they are given later.

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My ped suggested starting cereal at 6 or even 7 mo. We plan to wait til 6 mo and will do veg first. The ped says cereal, veg, sole meats, fruit.

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We started at 4 mos and did rice and oatmeal first then alternated veggies, fruits, veggies, fruits, etc.

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I guess every ped is different. At my LO's 4 month check up yesterday, the ped said to start with rice cereral. I told her me and Dh would like to start with veggies instead and skip the cereals. She said we could do what we wanted to but that the baby will spit out most of whatever we start with bc it will take some time for the baby to work up to keeping food in her mouth and then swallowing it. the ped basically said LO can "practice" the skill of eating solids with the cereals. I'm not starting anything yet, have to do more research and I haven't made up my mind yet. To me, 4 months seems so young to start veggies, maybe at 5 months?

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we will start at 4 with cereal then fruits then veg

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It's amazing how different peds are. Mine said 4, even 3 months and was really pushing it on me. He said star with rice them veggie.
I will be starting at 6with veggies

When are you starting solids?

We started carrots, then sweet potatoes a little after 4 months. She loves them!
Ped said start with oatmeal, then orange veggies then green veggies
I don't want to give her cereal or oatmeal yet so bypassed that and went to orange veg

Ped said 1 meal /day @4months
2/day at 5 months
3/day at 6 ( introduce meats here)

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Thank you for the responses. This is helpful. so much has changed from my frst child in 2007

it was alway start with rice....now I guess its oatmeal, veggies.. etc

When are you starting solids?

I'll be starting at 6 mos, probably skipping grains and going right to orange veggies.

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So I am going to ask a silly question. For the orange vegis 3wks and so on. How do you get your LO to eat the same things for a whole week and not boycott? I feel like DD if she gets the same thing 2 days in a row shes not enjoying it. And forget the Peas she wont eat.

My Ped really didnt give guidelines other than stay away from the berries and Milk products (until a yr and that includes yogurt).
Im confused though why if babies can be allergic to berries they make stage 1 and 2 with blueberries and Strawberries???
That doesnt make sense to me

Message edited 3/17/2013 11:35:07 PM.

When are you starting solids?

I tried oatmeal at 4mos, he didn't like it so I didn't give it to him til much later. Then at 4.5mos with banana, then avocado, then pear, sweet potato, and so on.

Next baby, I will not start til 6 mos and not give cereal.

When are you starting solids?

I was told orange veggies first and no cereal at all due to the alllergies. Also the nutritional benefit of veggies. The arsenic levels in rice are high as well. And once they start with veggies you can move on to fruit so you wont ever need to feed cereal.

Theres no actual need for cereal. And feeding it or adding it to a bottle too young when its not for any medical benefit leads to the increase in overweight babies.

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I gave cereal at 4.5 months for 2 days (my mom gave it to him bc I had to work and he won't take a bottle) but it didn't seem to agree with him.

I started again this weekend (he was just 5 months) and so far I have given him sweet potatoes and avocado. I think I will do carrots next. My ped said she didn't have a preference about what to give first, just to stay away from acidic foods bc he has reflux.

When are you starting solids?

Our ped said to start at 4 months with mixing rice cereal into fruits. But it made her so constipated so now I've just been giving her fruits or veggies. We usually give her something new to try every few days. So far she's been accepting all the new flavors with no problem.

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I started with cereals at four months. Then veggies. Then I will try fruits.

ETA: DD has been able to due all the cues of "when your baby is ready" so I wasn't worried starting her at 4 months.

Message edited 3/18/2013 10:33:29 AM.

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We started with rice cereal at a little over 6 months, followed by fruit and veggies. Now we just started oatmeal and next week we'll introduce yogurt. We'll start meats around 8-9 months.

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I started with rice cereal when DS was 5 months old, then oatmeal, then veggies (sweet potatos, carrots, squash...).

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