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Waited until 3 days before 6 mos cuz 6 mos was recommended and the kids were ready...
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We waited until after 9 months. P's pedi really started pushing them at 6 months but she still wasn't fully sitting unassisted & was still growing fine on just breastmilk.
Waiting for us meant:
1. P was generally getting more calories a day because she'd drink more milk per sitting than eat food (4 oz of bm is ~ 80oz whereas 4 oz of many veggies have less calories, some equal the same)
2. Our breastfeeding relationship wasn't possibly compromised. Here & on other groups I've seen a lot of moms struggle with nursing strikes & even self-weaning in infancy after starting solids. Since the quality of breastmilk far outweighs any regular food I wasn't willing to risk it.
3. Other purely selfish perks were non stinky poo for longer & not having to clean the high chair. LolETA: We also started with meats & totally skipped baby cereals bc most have soy & are wheat contaminated, both being thing P was/is intolerant too.
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At 4 months old, we started with oat cereal. He kept on spitting it out. Since then, we've slowly introduced veggie and fruit purees. He likes fruit better than veggies which is pretty normal. I've been using a mesh feeder to feed him bananas which he likes. He's a little over 6 months old.
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We initially waited until he was 6 months because he was EBF and I wanted him to be on breastmilk for a solid 6 months. It was also per our doctors recommendation since he already had allergies to the proteins in my BM. However, on his 6 months birthday he took one bite of homemade rice cereal and had an allergies reaction (lead to our FPIES diagnosis). He was not given another solid until he was 9.5 months old.
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thanks for starting this thread @hilsy85:
I have been wondering the same thing - we left the Ped's office & said we could start with rice cereal - or meat puree's as we discussed (still grossed out by that but it makes sense!).... I am also worried that he'll stop wanting milk & only want food! I have one friend who's child got a taste of food and never went back to BFing or formula, it was pretty unusual, but that was what happened & she freaked me out! She didn't start solids until just after 6 months though.
J isn't sitting unassisted yet either, so maybe I'll wait for that - he is Definitely interested in food now though - he always is watching us eat & our food now!
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@Beehive: part of my thinking was to figure out a way to add calories to my skinny guy as well! I'll see if his pedi recommends it at our 5 month weight check.
@runsyellowlites: ha definitely NOT looking forward to stinky poo...and like I said previously, we're struggling a bit with breastfeeding (LO doesn't always seem very interested) so I definitely wouldn't want to compromise it further. @hellobeeboston: same here- re: watching us eat! I bet the sitting up thing isn't far off for our munchkins -
We started at 5.5 months with purees. Gradually, I added in some small pieces of food. She's almost 9 months now and she gets 3 meals a day. We do oatmeal for breakfast, a puree and a finger food for lunch (like stewed meat and carrots or hamburger meat or shredded chicken) then we will do the same for dinner. We will give her puffs now for snacks and at mealtimes, as well. We just followed her cues. She wasn't really interested in feeding herself until just recently (past month or so).
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We started at 4 months per our pediatricians recommendation. LO was still waking every 2-3 hours at night and had all the signs of being ready for food (reaching for our food, sitting up mostly unassisted, great head control) so we went ahead. We started with fruits and veggies. He's almost 7 months now and eats pretty much everything we do, just mashed up.
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We started shortly after LO turns 6 months. And I wish I had an option to wait longer!! It was such a messy, frustrating, confusing 6 months (between 6-12 months) when you constantly wonder is he eating enough, why is he not eating, or why is he eating but not drinking milk, why is he not eating and/or drinking as much as all the pamphlets says he should be (OH I HATE THOSE DAMN GUIDELINES), if you should give him water and when to give him water, and why is he not drinking water, or you spent all that effort to cook up some awesome stuff only that he didn't even want one bite of it.
Finally we are passed 12 months, switch to cow's milk, eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day pretty well, and he acts like a human being. I just wished we never had to do solids until at least 10 months so we could have skipped all those drama / trauma!
I also think solids was part of the reason why LO self weaned (from breastfeeding) at 8+ months. Then of course a huge reason was the bottles, and teething. Why settle laying down staring at a breast while there are all these different ways to eat?
But then again, he slept through the night (11-12 hours) starting 7 months, and I think it is definitely because of the solids.
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@runsyellowlites: I wish I knew you in person so I have the guts to wait until 9 months! It is the culture that pushes us to give solids at 4-6 months... and if it were up to me, I won't start solids until a lot later as well. Kudos to you!
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