What/how often 6 mo. eat?

[Bobbys]

My son is 6 months old and he's ready for food. We are feeding him some rice cereal, some pureed baby food and some table food. I'm just winging it.

I know he can't have honey, but can he have honey flavored graham crackers? He can't have dairy, but can he have yogurt? My husband and I don't have any food allergies and so far he seems fine with what we have given him. (Which is a little sampling of what we eat. He had a taste of spumoni on Fourth of July).

What do you feed your 6 month olds? How much and how often?

[cristeen]

Honey and anything with honey in it. Botulism is not killed by baking, so the fears of honey would still exist with any baked good that contains honey.

At 6 mos, my guy was eating maybe once a week. Maybe a bite or two. He was interested, but very little of the food would actually make it into his mouth. Now at 9 mos, he eats anything he can get his hands on, and he decides when he is done.

We don't do any cereals at all - there's no reason to (developmentally), it can cause constipation, and they can't even digest it yet. I just give him a small chunk of whatever I'm eating, or a larger piece if it's something he's going to gnaw on.