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cjik
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For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
The charts I have seen show that you give rice cereal at 4 months, then barley, oats, and some fruit and veggies at 6 months. I am not planning to start solids with DS until about 6 months, so would I then start the other foods around 8?
Sounds like a silly question, but I have no idea.
Thank you!
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Re: For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
Both girls i started at 6 months old.
This is how we did it
Oatmeal for 2 weeks-no other foods
Then introduced fruit or veggies after that with or without cereal. I only do 2 meals a day cause any more than that they dropped too much formula and doc would rather have them have formula under 1 year.
start Meat at 9 months old along with cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese.
Then in between i just gauged what DD's can handle with finger foods like puffs, cheerios, etc.
HTH's
ETA: I NEVEr did any of the other cereals, PED said it wasn't necessary. Rice constipates easily so we skipped that right off the bat.
Message edited 4/29/2008 9:09:46 AM.
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Re: For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
When i started cereal i did oatmeal first then had a reaction so stopped, then a week later i did rice and then a week later barley, then retried oatmeal. Again reaction. Then my peds had me go straight into fruits. So we did 3-4 days a fruit, then a new fruit. i never finished all the fuits, when we started vegs. So now i do a new veg, and then 3 days later a new fruit for 3 days, then a veg... etc. etc.
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Re: For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
I waited until 6 months and then kind of accelerated everything.
A couple days of rice, which he HATED, then we moved on to applesauce.
From there I would do the 3 day thing (try something new for three days before adding another new thing) and that worked out fine.
By 8 months he had had most of the fruits and veggies that Gerber offered and was starting on some of the meats.
I think you just have to feel out what your DC likes - we never went back to cereal at all once we moved to veggies and fruits.
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cjik
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Re: For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
Thank you! I'll talk to my doctor next month, but it sounds as if I'll start with a cereal, and add the fruits/veggies sooner than I would if we started with cereal at 4 mos.
DS has trouble pooing often now on formula, so I'll ask about oat cereal instead of rice to start.
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Re: For Those Delaying Solids Until 6 Months...
Posted by cjik
DS has trouble pooing often now on formula, so I'll ask about oat cereal instead of rice to start.
You don't "have" to do all of the cereals. We started with rice and DD was bound up within 2 days. We ditched the rice and switched to barley DD really liked it so we stuck with it for months just adding new fruits & veggies to the barley mixture.
If your DS is prone to having issues with his bowels, I would skip rice all together. Just choose oatmeal or barley and if it agrees with DS' system, I'd stick with it for a while. Why mess with a good thing!
ETA: Eventually we did some oatmeal and she loved that too but we NEVER went back to rice.
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