https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:32:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-819274 Thu, 30 May 2013 18:12:23 +0000 hilsy85 819274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: Lo looooves avocado! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-819195 Thu, 30 May 2013 17:58:39 +0000 mediagirl 819195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Avocado! She has never had cereal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-819176 Thu, 30 May 2013 17:54:40 +0000 GrapeCrush 819176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with rice cereal with formula. Not sure yet if we'll start with rice cereal again when #2 gets here </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-819166 Thu, 30 May 2013 17:51:52 +0000 keiki_mama 819166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with avocados and he hated it! He much preferred bananas. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-819123 Thu, 30 May 2013 17:37:26 +0000 immabeetoo 819123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: we haven't had any gas issues with beans!</p> <p>We did avocado and are letting him feed himself. He was casually interested and has reActed similarly to everything else we've tried. My goal as to make food fun and encourage him to feed himself and be in control so I think we've been successful even if he's not actually swallowing much! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818973 Thu, 30 May 2013 16:34:06 +0000 tysonja 818973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we began with:</p> <p>banana, carrot, and sweet potato. </p> <p>soon after we did pear, prunes, and avocado :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818966 Thu, 30 May 2013 16:31:54 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 818966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm thinking avocado...do babies really like it? So many adults don't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818082 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:33:42 +0000 littlek 818082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with oatmeal and mashed bananas w/ breast milk mixed in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818070 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:30:15 +0000 wheres_c 818070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with puréed prunes and pears since he has constipation issues. We've since added fruits and veggies. Skipped cereals but might add in some oatmeal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818025 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:20:32 +0000 birdofafeather 818025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we haven't started yet, but i have a feeling we'll start with avocado. seems appropriate for our so cal baby. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-818012 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:18:35 +0000 BabyBruins 818012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did rice cereal with BM and then started adding purees to it. It wasn't a bad experience, but I wouldn't necessarily do it with the next one. I didn't have a set plan for solids when we first introduced them and once his nanny started, she made all of his purees.<br /> After seeing the cost savings of making his food vs buying jars or pouches, I will probably go down the homemade road next time from the start.<br /> Avocado, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas (all pureed) were early hits in our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817951 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:06:56 +0000 Running Elley 817951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with carrot purée. He loved it! He's loved anything we've fed him though lol. We skipped rice cereal just because it seemed pointless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817946 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:06:21 +0000 winniebee 817946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Started w/ rice cereal mixed with breastmilk and he liked it. He loved/loves solids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817941 Thu, 30 May 2013 12:05:06 +0000 kiddosc 817941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did cereal mixed with breastmilk as his first food, but had moved on to sweet potatoes and bananas by the end of the week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817910 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:58:05 +0000 DillonLion 817910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a couple of tiny pieces of avocado weeks ago, but started on cereal with formula for breakfast everyday a few weeks later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817906 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:56:43 +0000 tinyperson 817906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: beans, lentils, tofu, etc. I guess nuts are out. I'm scared to think of the gas that would come with beans though! I don't think we're going to start her on any of that for a while yet...blended meat...mmmmm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817896 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:54:05 +0000 lindseykaye 817896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted for sweet potato but it was actually a combination of brown rice cereal, sweet potato puree and breastmilk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817884 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:51:14 +0000 regberadaisy 817884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: haha what is "meat alternatives"? I know a lot of peds in the US still reco starting with rice cereal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817873 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:48:12 +0000 lovehoneybee 817873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Technically green beans. DH fed them to him before I could protest. If I could do it over I'd have started with avocado or butternut squash (or sweet potato). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817868 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:46:57 +0000 tinyperson 817868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: our Canadian guidelines now say to start with cereal, but introduce meat and meat alternatives in conjunction...there are so many conflicting guidelines out there, it's hard to know what to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817861 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:45:45 +0000 mrskc 817861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did roasted sticks of sweet potato. It was all very anti-climatic. He took a couple bites and spit it all out. I heard sweet food was a good first food for breastfed babies since BM is sweet so that's why I went with sweet potato. I also read meat is a good first food for the iron in it. And I've heard baby cereal is just empty calories with not much nutritional content so we skipped cereal all together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817852 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:41:53 +0000 tinyperson 817852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're starting with a whole grain rice cereal this weekend, but will start adding avocado and some other puréed shortly after. Just want to see how she does with a spoon first and make sure she starts getting the iron that she needs to start off with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817844 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:38:41 +0000 regberadaisy 817844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: I think fruits vs veggies are about the same. Though some say veggies bc fruits are "sweeter". But meats aren't recommended (necessary) till after 9 months which coincides nicely with when their iron stores start to deplete. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817778 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:24:33 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 817778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Yeah that makes sense that the exact food doesn't really matter. I guess I"m more curious about cereal v. meat v. fruits and veggies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817769 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:21:58 +0000 hilsy85 817769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did sweet potato and it was fine! He was kind of like " what is this stuff?" But he ate it. We did oatmeal next ad e loooved it. Honestly tho we quickly went to trying multiple foods so I don't think the first foo is actually that important... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817753 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:17:56 +0000 Mrs. Pen 817753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Avocado, banana and pears! (Separately) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817752 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:17:39 +0000 Bao 817752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with squash! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817744 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:16:20 +0000 2PeasinaPod 817744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with rice cereal mixed with formula. His first "real" food was squash! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817737 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:14:59 +0000 loveisstrange 817737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with applesauce. She ate it and liked it and it was fine. We got a lot of her baby food for free, so I never made any of hers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-food-solid-did-you-start-with#post-817736 Thu, 30 May 2013 11:14:51 +0000 pelikila 817736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started with rice cereal mixed with breastmilk. We used the Earth's Best with apples rice cereal. </p>