Yet another solid question from me.
What meal did you first introduce solids?
I know that solids aren't suppose to replace any milk, so I am wondering when to do it. I would like to do at night so I can give it to her, verses day care. She usually has a bottle around 430 at day care, we get home around 530. Then I nurse at 630, right before bed. So should I do it at 530, right when we get home, before bath?
nectarine / 2667 posts
5:30 sounds like a good time. I think we first started solids at home on the weekends at lunch time. After a few weekends, we started doing purees at daycare and then trying for a "dinner" whenever we had time.
honeydew / 7283 posts
530 sounds good. I think we sort of mixed it up at first because she was really just learning and exploring rather than eating for calories. Do what is convenient for you.
grapefruit / 4717 posts
We started at home on the weekends when LO was in a good mood. Usually after a nap in the morning or afternoon. I wanted to be the one to introduce new foods since LO goes to daycare. Once we knew he wasn't allergic, we would send the same food to daycare for them to give after his first nap.
Dinner is the last meal we added, and we still don't always do a true "dinner" at 13 months. So hard to fit it in between daycare pickup and bedtime!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@pregnantbee: I want to be the one to introduce new foods as well. I am worried about not having enough time at night. But I also don't know when to tell day care to do solids. Since she isn't on any schedule. Heck she won't even take a nap every morning there. She is all over the place there. I guess I could always say just to do it between bottle 2 and 3, or something like that.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@Smurfette: That was when I started. About an hour after her last bottle. Right before bath. And then nurse to bed. It works out beautifully. 
ETA: "Started" meaning the 5:30 timeframe in case I was ambiguous!
nectarine / 2667 posts
@Smurfette: yeah, we didn't send anything to daycare that he hadn't eaten before with us. If she doesn't have a regular eating schedule, I think saying between bottle 2 & 3 is a good idea. Our daycare has mixed ages and a "lunch" time for the older ones, so he ended up eating around that time.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@MsLipGloss: Glad that worked for you. How long does it take? We get such little time together in the evening I hate to spend it all eating or nursing. I can always push bath back some since we usually walk around outside after bath before bed. She loves our night trips to get the mail.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@Smurfette: It takes a little longer now because she usually eats 2 containers of puree and plays a little while she's eating. Probably 15 minutes or so to start? Not very long.
pear / 1992 posts
We also started with dinner and do it right before bath time. This was good for convenience and our schedule but it is also intentional as she can get SUPER messy while eating
Added a daytime meal at daycare after a month and a half or so and also little snacks like puffs and yogurt melts to help with her pincer grasp.
grapefruit / 4442 posts
I gave her sweet potatoes. I believe i gave it to her around lunchtime just in case there was any type of tummy discomfort
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Thanks for asking this question, @Smurfette! I'm curious too, haha!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@MsLipGloss: Good then, we still have some play time.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@Adira: I am just glad that you will start before me. So I can see how Xander does first.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@Smurfette: hahaha! Maybe Xander will have to wait until 7 months so I can see how R does!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@Adira: You are already starving him, you can't wait that long.
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
We started at lunch time. She'd nurse first and then a little while after, I'd take her downstairs and just experiment with with a a mush of this or a mush of that.
But your plan sounds good! 5:30, before bath time!
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
I like your plan for 5:30. We started with dinner as soon as we got home from day care which was about an hour after last bottles then we play. Then do bath then nurse to sleep.
grapefruit / 4717 posts
@Smurfette: That's how we were, too. Truly no rhyme or reason. We just decided to send the "approved" food and then asked them to give whenever LO was happy or just up from whatever nap there was. I didn't worry too much about consistency, as most nutrition at that time was still from breastmilk.
ETA: I'd start with earlier in the day than 5:30 because LO will probably take some time to get used to digesting anything other than breastmilk or formula. They need time to work it out before going to sleep at night.
persimmon / 1223 posts
Thanks for asking this! I think we are going to be starting soon and we were planning on doing 'dinner' when we get home from daycare. Then maybe sending something for during the day after awhile. Daycare has started asking when we are starting rice cereal...
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