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I skipped cereal since my LO hated it! Went straight to veggies (sweet potato was her first solid).
Also, at 6 months you can feed your LO whole milk yogurt and so many other yummies. I personally don't think it's necessary to do cereal for an entire month! So many nutrient rich fruits and veggies that taste so much better than cereal..

Hmmm, my LO was BF and we actually skipped cereals entirely and went right topurees. Her milk to me was still the most important thing so we went really slow. I think we did 1 solids meal per day at 6 months, 2 at 7 months, then 3 at 8 months. It probably didnt need to be that slow.

When we started, i anxiously asked my ped for advice and his basic reply was: there's no real science to it. Feed her avariety of foods and try to give her what you eat when you can.

So i would say to do what you think is right to you. It helped me to remember the goal is getting her ready for table foods around one,, so its not worth stressing too much...

I was just going to say that cereal for a whole month straight sounds excessive! We started solids at 4.5 months and I did rice cereal for the first week, but then moved on to purees.

At 11 mos LO still has oatmeal almost every morning...but it's mixed with fruit.

What is the reasoning for feeding cereal at all? I hear a lot of folks say that you don't need to, but I still haven't grasped why doctors still recommend it.