Solid Foods - Atlanta,GA

He'll take to it, I wouldn't start until 6 months - it isn't recommended until then and no baby fights solids that much. It's so exciting for them that they love to try new foods. Butternut squash is a great first food to start with, by the way :)

AAP recommends exclusive feeding of breastmilk or formula for the first six months. I don't understand why do many people rush this. What is the point, especially when waiting a little longer is better for their digestive systems and lessens the chances of reactions? It's not proven that it helps them sleep through the night, so what's the rush? Why can't he get used to the taste in a month?

We started DS at a little after 6 mos and it was smooth sailing. He was a great eater! No regrets.

I gave my son rice cereal at 3 months because he was just so hungry! I would nurse him for so long and he still acted hungry, I even got checked out to make sure I was producing enough. But I started giving him little bits of it after nursing or bottle and it really helped him.

Starting a little early is fine, you do what you feel is best. Your baby is going to be pretty happy to start tasting new foods! My son went nuts over squash he loves it. That and we recently realized he loves mangos too.

Is this L. G? aka Lola S? If so, that is pretty psychotic.

5 months with rice cereal, mixed with breastmilk. At 6 months we started vegetables, then fruit, then meat. Although, my son never did well with anything other than the fruit- he just wouldn't eat it. We ended up doing whole solid foods (baby led weaning) with him instead of baby food and he was a much better eater and still is. One of my friends said she was going to do it with her son a few months earlier, and I thought she was nuts after looking up information. I never told her as much because her child was her decision, and good thing because I ended up doing the same for my son since he wouldn't eat baby food.
Now, my son will try anything we put in front of him. People look at me like I have a strange child when he begs for broccoli, bananas, cottage cheese, and so on at the store and wants nothing to do with the cartoon character cereals, etc. I will probably use baby led weaning if we ever have a second because it was so successful with my son.

HI-I started at 6 months. This info really helped me.
http://www.happyhealthymom.com/pages/sample-feeding-schedule
Good Luck!

Sounds right to me. Usually you start with cereal, then cereal and fruit,
then vegies.

Recommendations are just that...recommendations. You will know if he's ready...does he hold his head up well, seem hungry, yell or grab for other people's food at the table, etc? If you try giving him a bite and he pushed it all back out (give him a few chances) then physically he isn't ready.

And so many people will tell you "oh, food is only for practice, not nutrition" for the first year, but I just don't believe that. That's what I did with my first one, and she's a terrible eater. Picky, and eats like a bird, but loves her milk (still) at age six.

However, I started with number two around 4 months, and by 6 months we were well onto fruits, veggies, and little finger foods...and she eats wonderfully. Also, she isn't overweight...however, my first, who got all her "nutrition" from milk, was.

You'll know...just follow your instincts!

Nutritionally they don't need it until 6 months. I waited with my first until then to start everything, but with my second he was just plain hungry. He had to be on soy formula so I think it was so thin it just ran right through him. We started him on cereal only at 4 months. 5 months is only 1 month early so it's not that big of an issue, but honestly, it's more of a hassle so I'm all for waiting!

I started my DD on rice cereal around 5 months. She got constipated pretty badly, so I switched her to oatmeal instead. She did much better on that. After she got used to the sensation of eating I started introducing veggies and fruits (about 6 months), then moved on to meats and finger foods (around 7 months) She is 11 months now, and is fully on table foods. (Of course, she is still nursed too...) She has always been a GREAT eater, and other than the glitch with constipation, she hasn't had ANY issues whatsoever.

I was told by my pediatrician that the best way to time solid feedings is to nurse/bottle like normal, then about an hour later try solids. That way they still get the full amount of milk/formula that they need, and still have the chance to get hungry enough to be willing to try the solids... Without replacing the 'liquid' meals.

The 6 month reccomendation is just that~ a generalized reccomendation. Every baby is different, some will be 'ready' for solid foods before others. Just like some will handle it better than others. If your baby is acting interested, give him a taste. If he handles it well and takes to it, great. If not, then you can wait a bit longer. Either way, it's your decision. :)

I introduced them at 4 months, starting with rice cereal, but she didn't get them every day...when she was closer to 6 months I fed them to her on a more consistent basis, including different grains, pureed fruits and veggies and baby yogurt, and they became a regular part of her diet. Her first food after the rice cereal was sweet potato and she loved it. She is now 3.5 years old and she still loves sweet potatoes!

I started at 4 months... I think? Just tiny tastes of pretty runny baby cereal. Boy, did my babies hate that spoon in their mouths the first time!!

We started ours out at 3 months old, but the doctor recommended it to us. Our baby is a puker. Everything came back up and with the heavier food more of it stayed down allowing our LO to gain weight.