Check with your pediatrician
before starting on solid foods before you get your baby started on solid food.
By the way, most pediatricians recommend waiting until your baby is sitting with minimal support
before starting him on solid foods.
Not exact matches
Even if you
start solids right at four months and take introducing things
on a faster track by doing veggies first followed by fruits, you won't have introduced all of the basic
foods before 6 months anyway.
Since your milk takes
on the various flavors you eat, your baby may acquire a taste to a wider variety of
foods before starting solids.
Start by offering your baby's first taste of
solid foods and then waiting at least 4 days
before you move
on to something else.
Contemporary research makes it clear that
starting healthy babies
on solid foods, like infant cereals,
before the age of 4 months is an unwise choice.
Before you get
started on feeding your baby
solid food, you need to know the recommendations.
Once our boys
started eating
solid food (
on the pediatrician's advice), we began offering them a small bowl of cereal just
before the bedtime bottle.
With that said, according to my doctor, the main reason it is recommended not to
start a baby
on solid food before 6 months, even if they are ready, is they want to prevent parents who would stop breastfeeding or bottle feeding because their baby was now eating
solids.
Many parents are encouraged by their doctors to feed their child pureed
foods before they can
start on solids, so it is important to not only follow your child's led, but their pediatricians as well.
Many parents will
start adding rice cereal to a baby's formula as a transition step
before starting the child
on solid foods.
Before you
start your baby
on solid foods, it's best to prepare yourself in advance for the fact that
starting solids will probably affect your baby's poop.
In this post, we'll review six things you need to think about
before starting your baby
on solid foods.
Your baby may be showing you that he or she is ready to
start weaning the week
before you're going
on vacation, but for the sake of convenience, you might want to wait to introduce
solid foods until you get back home and things have become settled once again.
It is commonly agreed upon in the medical community that the best time to
start your baby
on solid foods is around 6 months old, but check with your pediatrician
before you change your baby's diet.