Can I Start My Daughter on Baby Food Veggies?

Have you talked to her pediatrician? She is two months old, which is too early for solid foods. She needs formula or breastmilk exclusively. I have not heard of babies this young given the ok to have other foods. 4-6 months seems to be what is recommended.

I put my daughter on cereal at 2 months because she wouldn't drink enough formula. I listened to other moms instead of the doctor. She did good with the cereal and the doctor put her on veggies at 5 months. My friends baby wasn't getting enough with formula so their doctor put him on cereal at 2 weeks. It was funny feeding a 2 week old with a spoon. He is now 28 years old and doing well.

If you think she's is not getting enough with the oatmeal I would first ask the doctor what to do because veggies may be a little harsh on her stomach at 3 months. Good luck.

consult with the child's dr. My child's dr said no solids till 6 months.

I would back off solids if it were me. We were told not to start until 4 months earliest and by the time I had my youngest, I think it was closer to 6 months. I think I was more 5-6 months with mine, and that was with the ok after their check up (head/neck control, etc.).

We did milk (breastmilk/formula/whatever you're doing) exclusively until then.

When you've cleared it with pediatrician and you do cereal for x amount of weeks (there's guidelines) then you do one veg at a time slowly - and you make sure there's no adverse reaction. We were given specific ones to try first - I can't remember now, but ask. These things probably have changed since mine were babies.

You really need to stop with the oatmeal in the formula, your baby’s digestive system is FAR too underdeveloped for that, we are talking about a 2 month old baby. If your child is hungry, you need to increase the amount of formula at each feeding, not add cereal to it. As far as other foods, not til 6 months. If you’re doing it so baby will be “more full to sleep through the night”, please understand that sleeping through the night is a developmental stage... some do it at 3 weeks, some at 12 months, but cereal at this age isn’t an appropriate remedy. Please go see your pediatrician, so they can help explain all of this to you. Good luck!

This is way too early to be introducing these types of foods. Your baby's digestive system is fragile and needs time to develop. I don't understand the rush. All your baby needs right now is breast/formula.

What’s your rush? Your baby is only weeks old. My girls went straight to table food at 1 year. Food during the first year is not for nutrition, only practice. Honestly, I ner Heard of anyone feeding a 2 month old like this. Check with her ped.

I wouldn't. What's the rush? I wouldn't give her additional solids until 6 months. Babies this young need calories to gain weight and grow. Veggie and fruit purees are very low in calories -- you'll see her weight percentile take a deep dive. Breastmilk/formula has all the nutrition your baby needs for the first 12 months. Wait a few months.

Welcome to mamapedia - C.

The best person to ask this would you be your pediatrician. I personally didn't start my kids on foods until they were 4 and 6 months old. My first son - I nursed exclusively for his first six months! (yeah - I could have fed Ethiopia - and I wet nursed 2 of my friends kids).

I would start SMALL. Start with ONE item and ONE item only. See how she tolerates it. Note any diaper changes - more liquid, harder, etc. and wetness.

But personally? I would talk with my pediatrician who has been watching my child grow.

My kids are older, but our ped told us not to introduce any foods (including cereal) until 6 months. Check with your ped, but I think you need to just stick with breast milk or formula until your daughter is 6 months old.

I wouldn't advise baby foods of any kind until you talk to your pediatrician. Baby cereal and fruits/veggies are not complete foods, but breast milk and formula are. Babies have immature digestive systems and unless the doctor feels there's some major reason for putting a 3 month old on solid foods, I think you may create some problems you aren't anticipating. Did the doctor advise this at this stage? If so, were there any particular recommendations made? It would help to know that before advising you of what we all did, usually at a later age.

Hi C.
I'd check with your pediatrician. Normally, babies start on solids somewhere around 5 or 6 months...with that said I'd still double check with the pedi

geez, she's awfully young to be eating ANY solids? what does your pediatrician say?
khairete
S.

"Almost 3 months old" is too young for solids of any kind unless required under medical care for a specific purpose. She is too young. In most cases, starting a first basic baby food happens closer to 6 months old. Baby food does not have the nutrition she needs for her growing body and brain function. Stick to formula, which is designed to meet those needs..

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"Almost 3 months old" is too young for solids of any kind unless required under medical care for a specific purpose. She is too young. In most cases, starting a first basic baby food happens closer to 6 months old. Baby food does not have the nutrition she needs for her growing body and brain function. Stick to formula, which is designed to meet those needs..

as a mother of 4 boys, I would advise you to please talk to your pediatrician.

If you insist on doing this without talking with your pediatrician. Don't overload her with more than one type of fruit or vegetable at a time. Let a week go by before you introduce another food.

look for allergic reactions.

PLEASE talk to your pediatrician first.

Way, way, way too young. In addition to your child not even needing it, and in addition to the fact that your child's digestive system is too young to handle it, AND in addition to the fact that starting your child on solids before 4 months increases their chance of childhood obesity 6 fold, your own pediatrician would never recommend something like this (and you should be checking with your pediatrician first, not a bunch of strangers on the internet).

Maybe check into some parenting classes and do some research on milestone and development issues in children under 1 years old. Sure, some moms will tell you "I put rice in my baby's bottle so they would sleep through the night at a month" and such other nonsense, but how do you know that same mom isn't using a car seat, smokes cigarettes around their child daily, and figures that they should give them juice or water in between bottles (these are all things that were acceptable at one point or another, but aren't any longer). My point is, you have NO idea what kind of parent you are getting information from on with a board like this, but you are willing to take a what amounts to medical advice for a TWO MONTH OLD BABY from strangers? Yikes.

Good luck . . .

Babies need nothing but breastmilk or formula until at least 6 months old. I know that feeding can seem like an exciting milestone, but baby food like oatmeal and rice cereal has very little nutritional value compared with the powerhouse nutrition of breastmilk and formula. Every spoonful of solids you give at this point is displacing that much-needed nutrition.

Go back to formula or breastmilk until your baby is 6 months old, then add in pureed veggies, fruit, mashed avocado, and other fresh, mashed foods. She'll have plenty of time (the rest of her life!) to eat solids - right now, that liquid nutrition is best and needed.

Wait - she's 'almost' 3 months old?
So she's 2 months old.
And you are trying her on solids - I think it's way too early.

I waited till our son was 6 months old before I started trying him on baby cereal
but he didn't really take to solid foods till right around his first birthday.
Talk to your doctor about it but I think breast milk and/or formula for 6 months to a year is best for her digestion, nutrition and development.

We're mammals.
The defining characteristic is we feed our young breast milk (or formula if breast feeding isn't possible) until they don't need it anymore.
And that's longer than 2 months.

In 3 months you can start her on veggies.