When did you start to give LO meat, i.e., chicken, beef, etc.? LO has been eating solids (mostly purees) for almost a month now. I'm fine with her just getting fruits and veggies for now. I was just wondering when most people introduced this into LO's diet. Also any suggestions as to how would be great! Thanks!
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We started around 10 months with chicken.
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We started pretty early - 7 months or so. Her first meat was chicken. I chopped it into teeny bits.
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I think around 7 months? His first was a piece of steak!
Then shredded chicken and sausage (like Jimmy Dean's breakfast sausage links).
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around 8 months we gave him little bits or big strips--he mostly spit out the little bits and sucked on the big strips. i think he had some turkey chili at daycare last week, and i'm pretty sure he ingested some because his poop was pretty stinky afterwards. yay.
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At 11 months he has only had salmon. But I'm a former vegetarian and we don't eat much meat so I'm a little hesitant to give it to him.
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We started at 6 months. I just gave him a slice of pork tenderloin and he liked to suck on it.
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I just tried giving Xander some chicken at 8 months, but he wasn't a fan. I'm going to try again this weekend.
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I think around 6.5 months? We started with shredded rotisserie chicken, and then did tiny pieces of steak.
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Somewhere between 7-8 months, I made a puree of turkey and plums. That was his first meat. Since then he's had other turkey purees, chicken (whole pieces and purees), and a few beef meatballs!
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@edelweiss: omg meat makes the poop SO SMELLY. Kind of makes we wish we were vegetarians
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@MamaJ: I'm a former pescetarian, so I'm definitely not in a rush for her to eat meat either.
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Wow! I guess we're behind on meats! I gave LO some fish this week and she just turned 8 months yesterday.
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9 months I think because that's when their iron store from birth starts to deplete.
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6 months. I'm vegetarian but we agreed to give him organic meat
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@shopaholic: I have only done puree meats.
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6.5 months! We do baby led weaning, so I just handed her a chunk of chicken one day. She loves it
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Steak at six months. Blw style. She loves meat. Pork is her favorite.
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He was just over 1yo when I gave him some fish. He got to chew on some turkey at Thanksgiving after he turned 1, too. I'm a most-of-the-time vegetarian, and am the full-time cook for our family. We have fish once a week or so. My husband eats turkey or steak less than once a month, so LO gets a bite when he does.
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We're doing BLW and she gets meat pretty frequently (last night I made mini-meat loaves in muffin tins). She's 6.5 months and has been eating solids for about a month now.
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@wheres_c: just curious, is your SO a vegetarian? I'm one and my DH is not, so I'm not sure what to do!
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Another ex-vegetarian here, so we waited until almost one year with my first. Baby Brother is more advanced in terms of food though, so I'm guessing he'll probably get some by 10 months? (I voted 11 as an average). They both got fish much earlier like 7 months because it requires much less chewing and we generally eat it more often.
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@cmomma17: nope. He works outside the house, and he eats meat for lunch. Dinner is 50/50 whether I cook meat or not. If I do, I use a meat substitute for me.
As far as LO goes, I purchase as much organic, free range meat as possible. As he gets older I plan on explaining where meat comes from and let him make his own choices.
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I think around 8 months with chicken.
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8 months... so far he's had beef, pork, chicken, and fish.
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6.5 months and we've had chicken and salmon so far that I pureed and chomped on some lamb and steak BLW style. She seems impressed so far.
When we saw the GP the other day they said it was important to start by 9 months because of the iron.
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We started giving it around 6 months. She's not really into it yet, though.
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Around 9 to 10 months
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@wheres_c: thanks for sharing
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We are going to wait until 9 months and give her turkey at Thanksgiving!
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Just gave her her first meat last night. We had tacos, so I cooked some ground beef without added salt for her. She liked it, but wasn't quite sure what to do with it.
DH refuses to give her pre-made pureed meat after smelling it at our baby shower. "I'm not feeding my baby anything that smells like death." It actually pretty funny how adamant he is about it.
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About 6.5 months. I puréed chicken and mix it in with his veggies. He hasn't tried any other meat yet and he doesn't have it every day.
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Around 7 months she loved little bits of roasted chicken. Around a year she loved crab and shrimp bit didn't like any other fish or red meat we gave her.
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