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For months 6 and 7, I followed the rule of trying new things every few days. We started with fruits and veggies, though, not cereal. When she was 8 months, I introduced chicken. About a month ago, she had a terrible allergic reaction and I think it's either a fish or milk allergy and because I don't know, I'm unable to give her any dairy (like cheese) until her appointment with the allergist, which isn't for another 2 weeks.

Other than the allergy thing, I've been giving her anything except nuts and citrus.

We followed the rules but if I had a #2, I probably wouldn't follow it as closely. I would just kind of assume that if #1 didn't have allergies then hopefully #2 doesn't either.

She had a bad bout of constipation so we ended up introducing new things to her really slowly. Now she pretty much has everything except nuts.

Our doctor told us we could start with anything that's not on the "do not eat until their one" list, his example of food to start with was meatloaf. And he said we can start with 3 meals a day, and we don't have to give the same thing for 3 days.

Of course I did that anyway at first because it made me feel better, and we started with rice cereal and fruits and veggies, but now that she's onto finger foods I don't follow it as much.

We just did one thing at a time until I was fairly certain we didn't have any allergies. I waited on acidic things, like tomatoes until much later, but started eggs earlier.