Baby is 18 weeks and at her 4 month appt today her doctor said we should start solids. Basically pureed vegetables. I was planning on waiting until 6 months and am surprised she suggested this! I don't think lo is ready yet. She isn't interested in food or us eating, and she doesn't really reach for things. When did you guys start solids and how?
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Our pediatrician said at 4 months we COULD start solids. We waited until 6 months though and even then, Xander wasn't all that interested! He didn't start getting into it until 7 months.
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My ped said we could start at 5 months, but my LO didnt get interested until 7 months.
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6 months and she didn't start getting into it until 9.5-10 months.
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Our ped recommended 6 months, and around then we started giving her food to explore (we did BLW), but she didn't really start eating a lot until 8 monthish.
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Our ped said we could start at 4 months. He was actually ready by 4 months, but we waited til about 4.5 to try oatmeal cereal. He was watching us eat and reaching for our food. We started with the oatmeal cereal and moved on to stage 1 purees at 5 months.
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We started purées at 5.5 months. I don't think he was ready before then.
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I thought you were supposed to wait until 6 months too, but my friends with older babies all started at 4-5 months. I asked them why and they basically said to get baby used to different textures. I'm still undecided as to what I'm going to do.
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We started rice cereal at 4 months, but stopped because LO was having tummy troubles. So we started back up around 6 months.
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We are doing BLW and started putting LO at the table in her highchair at 4 months. She started reaching for food at 4.5 months so we started putting things on her tray and she immediately attempted to eat anything. It took a couple weeks for her to actually ingest anything; she mostly just moved it around in her mouth and spit it out. But now at just over 7 months she will eat anything. It's pretty impressive to see her put down an entire banana or 1/4 of a bagel.
I think it really just depends on if your baby is ready and showing it. I went more by the cues (sitting up unassisted and showing interest in food) than by age.
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Our pedi says wait till 6months. Or till you think LO is ready.
We started at 5.5 months with rice cereal.
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We waited until 5.5 months but she was ready a lot sooner. Started with purees and moved on quickly.
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We started at 6.5 months and did baby led solids... No cereal or baby oatmeal.
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@NeekieRose: @abbydabbydoodlebug: I think this is what we are going to do, put her in her high chair at the table when we eat and then give her a couple of weeks to get used to that. I wanted to try BLW too, so its good to know your lo did ok even at 4.5 months. That's good advice to watch her signs rather than age.
Thanks everyone for the advice! I will follow my mommy gut on this one!
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6 months.
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started haphazardly just before 6.5 months. i felt the pressure to start then but didn't think he was really ready and he didn't really show much interest until closer to 7-8 months. with the next baby, i am going to be much more relaxed about it.
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We started oatmeal when he was 5 months. He liked it, but preferred it thicker than runny. We started giving him purees at 6 months since he didn't seem interested in our food. He wasn't into solid food until about 7/8 months? Once he got a taste of solid food, purees went out the window.
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Our ped said at 4 months we were "free to" start solids. We watched for signs of interest- and then at 4.5 months we let her try a little of DH's applesauce (all natural, no sugar added, etc- ped OK'd it) so we wouldn't buy a whole bunch and not use it. She ended up loving it. We've built it up and made her "meals" bigger and daytime bottles smaller now at 8 months.
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my ped said same for both babies. first baby we waited til 6 months and started Baby Led Weaning (worked great for us, though I still did some puree's). baby #2, will be probably 6.5 months, waiting for him to sit up unsupported totally.
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We've just started at a week off 6 months. He has seemed ready for a while - sitting up, trying to swipe my food, growling if I eat in front of him and don't share - but I wanted to wait until he'd had his tongue tie revised. We're doing BLW and he is loving playing with food - but I don't think he's swallowed much yet. I have tried on occasion to feed him some purée but he refuses to be spoon fed - he just wants to grab the spoon and play with the purée!
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We waited until 6 months and did baby lead weaning in combination with purees.
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@californiadreams: yes all of a sudden I felt this pressure like oh no I have to get her to eat! But it sounds like 4 months is early so I'm going to try to be relaxed...
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@gotkimchi: good luck! one thing to note is that your baby's appetite for solids will not be consistent! I remember stressing every time he didn't want to eat, but then a week later he would be eating everything in sight, then back down again the week after! In the end, i learned that he grew, he ate, he used utensils....all at his own pace and he was never unhappy doing it his way.......and the outcome is pretty much the same for all babies no matter when you start or how you do it
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We started around 7m. We probably could've started a little earlier but not by much. Good part about waiting for us was that he really got into solids rather quickly (we did a mix of BLW and purees).
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One week shy of 6 months, started with some avocado mixed with BM. Did purees for a month before transitioned to solids and around 7 months was when they started to really eat.
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5.5 months and she was beyond ready. She loved solids.
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Our ped said we could start at 4 months, but we waited until a week before 6 months. I did 1 day of cereal before she turned her nose up at it, so then we went to solids and mostly do BLW.
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4 months we started with oatmeal and moved on to purées. He was ready and loved solids.
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We started DS around 4.5 months and he was ready. DD just turned 6 months and has only been eating solids for about a week. She definitely wasn't ready prior to that and is off to a veeeery slow start.
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Pedi said 4 months and we eased into it slowly
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With DD we started at 4 months.
DS#1 waited until 6 months (it really backed him up)
DS#2 ped said to start at 4 months because of a drop in weight percentiles, so we started at 5 months.There's no right answer, do it when you feel comfortable doing it
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We started a little past 6 months.
Our pedi brought it up at the 4 month appt, but I mentioned we would wait until 6 months and she was fine with that.
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I think just before 6 months.
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Our suggested it as an option at 4 months...she was showing interest when I would drink my green smoothies in the morning so I would spoon feed her some of that on the days we were home around a morning "snack" time. She was eating dinner "with" us nightly by 5.5 months, at 2 meals a day by 7 & now at 9 months I have discovered that 3 meals a day plus an afternoon snack totally cuts out almost all NOT feedings. I just used her as a gauge
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We were told 4 months was fine if she was ready. She was.
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5.5 months, and she wasn't a fan of them until probably 6.5-7 months. She's fiercely independent though and I have a hard time giving her purees, but I'm not quite ready to full on BLW.
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Our ped said at DD's 4-month appointment that we could start whenever DD seemed ready. We actually started on her 6-month birthday with oat cereal, then avocado mashed with breastmilk, and now we're onto puréed carrots (a huge hit). We could have started a couple weeks earlier but DD and I were traveling and I didn't want to mess with her tummy, and then she caught a cold so we waited until she was on the mend before starting solids.
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We started at 5.5 months because he was ready and incredibly interested in our food. He's been a good eater since then. I think I will start any future LOs when they seem ready and interested as opposed to what conventional guidelines say just because it can differ so much kid to kid!
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T is 4 months and no where near ready for solids. I'm planning on waiting until around 6 months...earlier if he seems interested, later if he doesn't. We will see!
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We started at 5.5 months with A.
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