https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 14 May 2026 11:49:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-887162 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:42:04 +0000 Phillybaby2013 887162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone for the feedback!! Hopefully we will get to try out some of these soon. I'm pretty excited to see how B will react to foods! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886992 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:57:52 +0000 immabeetoo 886992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We skipped rice cereal and did homemade purees at 6 month; avocado first then the usual suspects. Even though he exhibited all readiness signs and interest, it wasn't until this past week (7 months) that he is eating more readily instead of just playing with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886964 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:40:20 +0000 mrsjyw 886964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5.5 mths swt potato<br /> We didn't do the 3 dat new food rule.<br /> In the first ten days he tried and ate: bananas, green beans, carrots, avocado, swt potato, pear, peas, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886950 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:32:34 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 886950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just started today at 5.5. He was not a fan of avocado! I'll do banana next then squash and sweet potato. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886933 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:18:36 +0000 SleepyMonkey 886933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we started at around 5.5 months with sweet potato. she didn't really show interest in solids until 6.5 months though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886905 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:02:18 +0000 dolphin 886905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started one week before she turned 6 months with bananas just for fun! I had wanted to skip cereal all together but at her 6 month check up her doc strongly recommended we start with rice or oatmeal cereal and thinks it's a bad idea to skip it. However, I read that there's a high level of arcenic in a lot of infant brand rice cereals and that freaked me out!! So I fed her mixed grain cereal instead. I gave that to her twice and she liked it, but now I'm moving on to other veggie and fruit purees. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886812 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:13:32 +0000 boiledpnut 886812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started a couple of weeks before 6 months. We've done bananas, sweet potato, peas, and now pears. We won't give him cereal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886797 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:06:58 +0000 yerpie110 886797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 5 months with bananas. We then moved on to sweet potato, avocado, and we're now on carrots. She's loved it all so far! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886728 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:46:14 +0000 megjay18 886728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started around 5.5 months as well with avocado. He hated it. But then we moved on to sweet potatoes, carrots and apples and he loves them all. We came back to avocado and he likes it better now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886700 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:30:51 +0000 oliviaoblivia 886700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 5.5 with roasted sweet potato. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886641 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:14:52 +0000 Weagle 886641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 5.5 months with sweet potatoes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886616 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:07:00 +0000 photojane 886616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi fellow Feb mama! We started rice cereal at 4+1 just to let her practice with the texture &amp; spoon. We give her a little bit every few days. I started with it SUPER thin, and I thicken it a little bit every time I give it to her. She's doing pretty well with the cereal, but depending on if she seems ready, I think we'll start jarred purees at 5 months. :happy:</p> <p>ETA: We're planning on starting with squash since we were given a bunch of it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886610 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:04:02 +0000 plantains 886610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 5ish months with pears, then sweet potato, then avocado. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886608 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:03:03 +0000 Sweet T 886608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started around 5 months with avocado. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886597 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:58:59 +0000 hilsy85 886597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 5 months and did sweet potato, followed by oatmeal, and then avocado. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886594 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:58:16 +0000 fancyfunction 886594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with rice cereal and then moved on to avocado. Now we're trying string beans (she loves them!) and I'm going to make sweet potato in a few days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886593 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:57:04 +0000 BeachMama 886593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with purees....I think sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and pears were among the firsts. We didn't do cereal until later when I used to to thicken up the purees. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886591 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:55:05 +0000 mediagirl 886591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went straight to smashed avocado and sweet potato (homemade) puree. I didn't give M jarred purees for a while. We never did cereal. I only did oatmeal around 8 months because I wanted to offer her some other options.</p> <p>ETA: We started a week or 2 before 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886590 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:55:02 +0000 DillonLion 886590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started rice cereal a week shy of 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886587 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:53:47 +0000 regberadaisy 886587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at a week shy of 6 months. I made roasted butternut squash (in season) puree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-started-solids-between-4-6-months#post-886581 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:51:49 +0000 Phillybaby2013 886581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What purees did you try out first and did you do rice cereal or go straight for the good stuff? </p>