101 - Guide to baby's first solid foods! - Page 3

[Blessed_Mom]

Originally Posted by tzs

muffin tins!!!
totally makes sense!

Don't muffin tins leech? Or is that leach?

[tzs]

i'm not sure what leech-ing is but maybe use silicone muffin tins?

[Blessed_Mom]

Originally Posted by Blessed_Mom

Any ideas on how to do bone broths? And green smoothies? What do you put in them and how do you prepare and store? TIA.

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[dislocator3972]

I'm currently wearing a good portion of my daughter's very first meal! After evaluating her development and talking about it with my pediatrician and lactation consultant (we're STILL having problems/pain breastfeeding but with help DD has been exclusively breastfed), DH and I decided to start DD on solids at a few days shy of 5 months.

I just wanted to mention that the book Super Baby Food has several cooking methods and instructions listed for each food and health considerations for introduction. For example it says carrots can be steamed, roasted, etc., tells you how to prepare it each way, and mentions that carrots are susceptible to nitrate absorption and that infants younger than 7 months may be harmed by those nitrates. It's kind of like having MDC in a book!

So it sounds like ppl start with one meal and eventually wind up feeding three times per day. Does anybody know approximately how long they waited before introducing another meal and then the third?

And when you make baby food, what do you store it in to take in the diaper bag? Are there BPA free tupperware type containers? Or do you just buy a few baby foods commercially and keep the jars?

[lach]

Originally Posted by dislocator3972

I'm currently wearing a good portion of my daughter's very first meal! After evaluating her development and talking about it with my pediatrician and lactation consultant (we're STILL having problems/pain breastfeeding but with help DD has been exclusively breastfed), DH and I decided to start DD on solids at a few days shy of 5 months.

I just wanted to mention that the book Super Baby Food has several cooking methods and instructions listed for each food and health considerations for introduction. For example it says carrots can be steamed, roasted, etc., tells you how to prepare it each way, and mentions that carrots are susceptible to nitrate absorption and that infants younger than 7 months may be harmed by those nitrates. It's kind of like having MDC in a book!

So it sounds like ppl start with one meal and eventually wind up feeding three times per day. Does anybody know approximately how long they waited before introducing another meal and then the third?

And when you make baby food, what do you store it in to take in the diaper bag? Are there BPA free tupperware type containers? Or do you just buy a few baby foods commercially and keep the jars?

I love that book! My daughter ate the super baby porridge until she was about 2, and my son still eats it every morning. I know I'm crazy, but the whole thing strikes me as genius, and I totally credit it with why my daughter is super tall while DH and I are both average. And super smart I'll admit we moved to instant oatmeal when she was a little over a year, and have already gone in that direction with my son, but we do all the veggies and eggs and supplements.

I have a little metal enamel container that I got as a gift, and I use that if we're going out someplace. When we travelled I just brought jarred food.

[sunshynbaby]

Okay, we are getting ready for DS's first attempt at solids. I'm going to try banana slices first and see how he does. I may or may not try purees depending on how it goes. I might just try a small spoonful just as an experiment. I don't know... I'm a big believer in following my LO's lead for these things.

I read that the slices should be at least the size of the baby's fist. How thick should they be???

[Blessed_Mom]

Still looking - Any ideas on how to do bone broths? And green smoothies? What do you put in them and how do you prepare and store? TIA.

Where do you get your bones? What bones? If I want to try Lamb...which bones should I use>

[marge234]

bump!!

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[MangoMommy]

Awesome thread...still working on solids with my nearly 9 mo old!

[blumooned]

Someone dug out this thread!!

We've made a slight change to DS's food since my last posts. We had been giving him pieces of food to take bites on (a la BLW), but have since changed to all bite-size pieces. He was shoving whole things in his mouth or ignoring the big pieces, so he gets everything diced now. He loves using his pincers to pick up everything.
He now eats meat - my advice here is to use ground meat (we've tried beef, chicken, & turkey with success) or meat that is cooked in soup/stew.

DS's current favorite foods are blueberries, ground beef in anything, pasta, peas, sweet potato, almond butter on bread, pancakes, ground chicken meatballs, yogurt, mango, & zucchini. I prepare his food pretty much exactly the same as we (adults) eat it, cut it up, and serve!

[blumooned]

Originally Posted by dislocator3972

So it sounds like ppl start with one meal and eventually wind up feeding three times per day. Does anybody know approximately how long they waited before introducing another meal and then the third?

DS started his first meal (dinner) around 6mos; we added the second (lunch) around 7mos; and added the third (breakfast) around 9mos. No real reasoning here - added lunch because he seemed interested, added breakfast because he wouldn't leave me alone while I tried to eat!

Originally Posted by dislocator3972

And when you make baby food, what do you store it in to take in the diaper bag? Are there BPA free tupperware type containers? Or do you just buy a few baby foods commercially and keep the jars?

When I was still making purees, I just stored them in regular plastic food storage containers. I'm pretty sure they're BPA free - they're recycling symbol #5 & I think BPA is #7. You can get all sizes & shapes.

[mommy212]

Well, I am finally looking into what I should feed my baby. I knew I wanted to make his own food before he was born, but I am the only person in my family (except for my sorta cousin-in-law, who is related by a rather odd Palauan family custom. She BFed her babies for 18 mores or more.) But as far as close family, they all bottle fed. My Grandma still thinks I'm crazy for still going! Anyways, I thought you pretty much had to feed them rice cereal first. I didn't know the only reason for this was the iron content, I just thought it was easy to digest or had fewer allergies or something. When i mentioned to my mom that I wanted to make his baby food, she laughed and gave me her patented "god-you-are-weird-and-overprotective" look. She had to add the overprotective factor after my baby was born. She and my MIL mixed rice cereal in with our bottles starting at three months. Well my son is now 4 months and hasn't had any solids yet, or a bottle since our trip (I pumped in the car and fed him to save time, when he was taking 45-60 minutes to eat). I know I am not offering much advice but it feels good to rant! I have read several books about feeding him. We are vegetarian, so I read on the special dietary needs and such.
I read one of the posts asking for nutrition boosters, and I have a couple. One is flax seed oil or ground flax seeds. They have Omega-3 content and are very mild flavored, so no one will even notice them. Also, when they are old enough, blackstrap molasses (buy organic- the process will concentrate any pesticides used. Also make sure it really is molasses and not corn syrup) as a sweetener instead of sugar. It has a bunch of calcium and iron, so it's not just empty calories. Almond butter is more nutritious than peanut butter, if you use.