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We started with rice cereal but only for a few meals and then we quickly added in fruits and veg. I would mix the fruit and veg in with the cereal.

I plan to start with the veggies as well...skip the cereal for the same research reasons you've pointed out, and then later introduce the sweeter fruits.

I think we're going to go straight to fruit/veg as well. T-minus 4 days until 6 months ... but we may wait until getting back from holiday travels to start.

I'm going to stress starting at 5 months since starting at 6 months would be hell since we're travelling almost that whole month. We'll be starting with green vegi's and then moving to fruit after about a month or so. I see no point in the cereal.

We tried cereal (organic, brown rice since its healthier) and my baby ended up being one of the lucky ones that has some sort of allergy to it. Poor baby, it made him vomit like crazy!

He's 8 months now and I started with sweet potatoes, peas, etc. but he hates everything. I've tried fruit out of desperation and still no luck. I don't know why, but my LO really HATES food...he throws full on fits and spits everything out no matter how many different tricks we've tried. I hope you'll have better luck than we are!

@ohapostrophe: Would you be able to share more about your baby led weaning? Maybe that would work for us? Or have you written a blog post I may have missed? Btw, we LOVE the Bjorn bibs, so thanks for writing about them!

I'm going to make homemade rice cereal (cooked white and brown rice pureed then mixed with breastmilk). The recipe is from weelicious.

I'm not concerned that rice cereal can be seen as a filler. Nutrition from solids isn't a priority at this point. In the very early stages, I just want DD to get used to eating with (and through baby led weaning, without) a spoon and experimenting with different textures and flavors. Both white and brown rice will mix well with breastmilk as far as taste goes so I'm thinking it's a great first food. It's also, culturally, an important food in my family so i think it's a good food to start off with! Other foods can be first too, but my baby is definitely going to be eating rice at some point, so it works for us to start off with it