My daughter's pediatrician recently told us at her 4 month Well - Baby checkup to
start her on solid foods by using it as a «treat» with just a few samples until she's a little older (about 6 months), when she'll be ready for actual meals.
Not exact matches
Start by breaking down your cacao
solids, you ca do this using a grating attachment with your
food processor or just simply place in a ziplock back, push all of the air out, cover with a tea towel and go to town
on it with a rolling pin — I mean really give it a
solid beating, don't be shy!
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.
Although mashed
food may seem similar to purees, there's a big difference in terms of texture, and your baby will get a head
start on learning to eat
solids by getting
started with mashed
foods.
«
Starting solids» with spoon feeding and purees means someone else putting
food into the baby's mouth
on a day decided
by them.
This was,
by the way, the only way I could get our youngest
started on solid foods; he absolutely refused to eat pure vegetables, even mixed with a lot of breast milk.
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.
Don't allow yourself to be pressured to
start solids by the practices of other parents (or even your own past practices with previous children),
by the marketing schemes of baby
food manufacturers, or
by the often inaccurate «old wives tales»
on baby nutrition.
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.
However, in general to
start a baby
on solid foods, begin
by introducing a single - grain baby cereal usually rice.
• Eczema (dry, flaking skin - usually
starting on the face but may spread) • Fussiness (NOT easily consoled
by picking baby up or offering the breast) • Spitting up • Very liquid stools, stools with mucus, or infrequent stools (< one per day in a baby who has NOT
started solid foods) • Respiratory congestion (usually just a stuffy nose, no mucus) • Blood visible in the stool (None of the above symptoms always mean there is a
food sensitivity!
By the way, most pediatricians recommend waiting until your baby is sitting with minimal support before
starting him
on solid foods.
By the time you're ready to
start your baby
on solid foods, it's likely that he's pooping pretty normally (as in once or twice a day).
They all get high end wet and dry
food supplemented
by farm fresh eggs to make sure they have all the calcium and protein needed to get a good
solid start on their life.