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We started baby-led weaning at six months. We skipped cereal entirely. She had been sitting up on her own, watching us eat, and making chewing motions for about a month, so we felt like she was ready. Every baby is so different!

5 months

LO was 5 months on the 8th, and we're starting this weekend. We're skipping cereals and going straight to fruits and veggies. I feel like we could have started a couple of weeks ago because she was showing signs of readiness, but I didn't want to start while we were on vacation.

We started around 5 mths with oatmeal and now she does veggies.

We just started today!! He is 4.5 months and I've been letting him lick the banana i'm eating every morning for the past few days. He seemed to like the taste. Just now before his nap I gave him a few baby spoonfuls of strained carrots to see what would happen. He ate it all up!

I think he got some in the wrong tube going down, too because I could feel/hear it rumbling a bit -- but he got it out with a few coughs.

I started him early mainly because he's big for his age and seemed interested. Also I was bored and was super eager to see what his reaction to food would be. I'll probably let him have a tastes of veggies/fruit every day from now on, but nowhere near the size of a real baby meal. Pretty much just for fun.

5 months! We went the purees route, though lately we'll give her something to gnaw on (i.e., squid, asparagus, etc.)

5.5 months roughly. She was sooo ready!!!
She absolutely loves it and does really great.
I felt a little guilty when someone here mentioned the link between diabetes and starting early. ESP since there's history on my husband's side. But I looked into it a little myself and feel better about. She's barely getting 1/2oz once a day.

We started with roasted butternut squash, now doing carrots. Not sure if we'll do peas or bananas next.

We'll wait until 6 months, she just seems way too small for solids yet!