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We didn't start with table food and only did 1 meal a day then 2 then 3. I would think it's just harder to determine if there are any allergies present if you give them a whole bunch of different foods at once? Plus their tummies are still sensitive.

Our doctor said the same thing! He's like, "If you want, you can even give her meat." I was like, "Whaaaaaaaaaa?" He said as along as we're giving her iron-rich foods then it doesn't matter what we give her (but he did stick to the "no honey, eggs, milk" thing).

I'm totally iffy about the meat thing and going totally traditional. So far we've tried: butternut squash (loves), banana (loves), avocado (tolerates), rice cereal (loves), and pear (loves!).

Next on our list? Sweet potato.

We started with rice cereal for about 4 days just to get used to the idea of the spoon. We switched to oatmeal, with fruit, which he loves and eats almost every day.

At first I was pretty religiously following the list of what a baby should eat per month, but I kind just started giving him whatever since he didn't have any reactions. My ped suggested to begin with meat too, we started that when I introduced the second meal around dinner.

At 13 months, he's had almost everything, including eggs, which he loves. He doesn't like the traditional baby snacks like yogurt melts, puffs, etc, which is fine by me.

We gave LO meat at 6 months and she liked it. She gets mostly fruit and veggie with cereal though and at 8 months only 2x a day. She's not really a huge cereal fan so we mix it in with other things. She still gets a lot of purees but we also sometimes just mash what we're having with a fork and give some to her. The problem is I like food spicy so it's only the bland food she gets and anything with lots of ingredients I still hesitate to give her. She's starting to get more interested on having what's on our forks and plates now though.

@artbee- that's pretty much where most of our LO's cereal ended up too. I think she wanted to swallow it, she just had no idea what was going on. Haha. And then she turned her attention to anything but eating and we called it a day. We;re gonna try again tonight. I figure since we'll do it every other day for a little while.

@artbee: those kinds of snacks aren't available where I live, so we tried them out when visiting my parents over Christmas. I was so excited for him to try the yogurt melts, he picked it up, put it in his mouth and spit it out. He eats regular yogurt, so I'd rather him have that, to be honest. Puffs are great if you want them to practice their pincher grasp, since they are dry and don't slip around like bits of fruit or softly cooked vegetables. But, again, my son didn't like them, so instead he practiced with some small bits of toast.

So far, LO has had oatmeal cereal, butternut squash, pears, avocado, japanese pumpkin. Though she's liking everything she's eating and always opens her mouth for more, her digestive system doesn't seem to be agreeing. She's straining to poop now, so I'm cutting back on solids for a few days to see if that will help.

Fruits that start with P are supposed to help things move along, you can also introduce prunes, that always helped my son.