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post #1 of 27
6/10/08 at 12:41pm
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So Spencer is all healthy and happy at 2 months, but I have some questions about things the ped said (I will most likely x-post in bf).

I was planning on delaying solids until 7-9 mos. I have a lot of food sensitivities/allergies and DS has shown food sensitivities as well. Also, I read that delaying solids is good for a number of reasons.

Doc said really should feed solids at 6 mos b/c if not DS might not feel satisfied/full and would have aversions to solids b/c of the texture. Does that sound insane to anyone else. My MIL said the same thing (not feeling full) this weekend and it will kill me if she is right.
post #2 of 27
6/10/08 at 12:54pm
I've heard similar things from my doc. I just ignore the comments. We didn't start solids until 8 months, many babies wait even longer than that.

We have a family history of sensitivities/allergies as well. I suspect my DD may have a lot of sensitivities because she still barely eats solids at 18 months, even though we offer them to her all the time.
post #3 of 27
6/10/08 at 1:00pm
Thats silly - up until a year solids are JUST practice. Many baby's dont even show interest until 15 months. Go by your baby's cues - he'll let you know when he wants to eat solid food....and if he isnt getting enough to fill him up he will nurse more to increase your milk supply.
post #4 of 27
6/10/08 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by ErinsJuneBug View Post
Thats silly - up until a year solids are JUST practice. Many baby's dont even show interest until 15 months. Go by your baby's cues - he'll let you know when he wants to eat solid food....and if he isnt getting enough to fill him up he will nurse more to increase your milk supply.
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LP
post #5 of 27
6/10/08 at 1:08pm
We started solids at 6 months, but frankly, it was so messy and time-consuming that it was a month or two before DS was eating them on a regular basis. Now he's 14 months old and LOVES peas, bananas, mangos, corn, bread, you name it. So it certainly didn't cause an problems in our case.
post #6 of 27
6/10/08 at 1:23pm
My DS did have the occasional bite of fruit from us starting after 6 months. But didn't really start solids until 9 months.
post #7 of 27
6/12/08 at 1:31am
We started solids at around 6 months, but it was just once a week or so. I was too lazy to feed him solids more often. By the time he was 1 he was having more and now (16 months) he eats pretty much everything.
post #8 of 27
6/12/08 at 3:52am
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Originally Posted by New_Natural_Mom View Post
Doc said really should feed solids at 6 mos b/c if not DS might not feel satisfied/full and would have aversions to solids b/c of the texture. Does that sound insane to anyone else. My MIL said the same thing (not feeling full) this weekend and it will kill me if she is right.
Ask your doc/MIL how moms did it two hundred years ago, before those nifty little food processors that turn everything into purees.
post #9 of 27
6/12/08 at 7:44am
Sounds wrong to me :-)
My pretty mainstream pd even told me that solids for the first yr are only for experimentation and fun anyway but aren't important for much else
post #10 of 27
6/12/08 at 9:23am
That is a semi-old wives/doctors tale. It has probably been around as long as formula, and has no basis in reality.

Visit kellymom.com for good information on this issue.
post #11 of 27
6/12/08 at 9:44am
In My Child Won't Eat, there is an interesting look at how formula and the push for early solids warped people's notions about how young children should eat - at the beginning of the 20th century, for one year olds, pediatricians were recommending nursing, plus a little bit of gruel. By the mid to late 20th century, nursing was no longer recommended, but large amounts of a varied diet of solids were. Anyway, it is a good book to read so as to not worry about feeding solids. My son did not really start eating solids until about 9-10 months, and it took another nine months for him to work up to two meals and a snack each day. Given that he is now the size of children 2 years older than him, it is safe to say that delaying solids did not hurt a bit.
post #12 of 27
6/12/08 at 11:26am
well, the doctor is obviously wrong. but i think everyone needs to follow their child's cues and feed them solids as they indicate they are ready--be that at 6 months or 15 months.

despite the common occurrence of delaying solids here on MDC, some babies are ready at 6 months. and despite the claim that solids in the first year are just for the experience, some babies are really EATING up a storm by 10 or so months. by a year, DD was on 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. she just likes food :

so when i hear about people delaying for 9 months, or a year...not sure how you could've done that with my daughter. but if yours is amenable to holding off, then do so.

i just don't think it's good to go into the process with a clear "goal" of when your baby is going to be getting solids. your baby will tell you when it's solids time
post #13 of 27
6/12/08 at 1:03pm
Personally, I think that if you have a history of food allergies, delaying solids 'til a year is a good idea. I delayed both my DDs 'til a year. DD1 wasn't interested in solids 'til about 18 months; DD2 would have tried them sooner left to her own devices, but she still didn't eat more than a nibble at meals 'til 15-18 months. I've got a ton of food allergies, so I wanted to be safer.

And the mess, man, I just cringed at the mess when I saw friends feeding their LOs solids. That would not work for me.

So, trust your instincts, not your doc (who, however well meaning, probably had about 15 minutes of instruction in infant nutrition in med school).
post #14 of 27
6/12/08 at 1:32pm
I have four older children at home and not ONE has eaten solids at 6months. The twins were first, they wouldn't eat until they got teeth (11months-12months). The next baby was my hungry one. She started at 8 months. I waited until she showed interest and tried and unlike the others she actually ate from the get go. The first two spat at me until the above time frame mentioned. Then my next baby was a surviving twin preemie weighing 2lb 10oz at birth. We were told she would likely do everything a bit delayed. Well she didn't eat solids until 15 months old. All were exclusively breastfed until such time as they were ready to eat. All four (now ten, ten, four, and three) eat anything and everything and have not texture/aversion issues. My new baby is 3 months old and I have no intention of pushing solids at a certain age. She will start grabbing at my plate and we will try. If she goes for it, then she gets it. If she doesn't, then we wait.
post #15 of 27
6/12/08 at 1:54pm
I asked my doc once and he said the optimal time was anywhere between 6-9 months. And I would assume that window would be flexibley delayed had there been any concern at all about allergies!
post #16 of 27
6/12/08 at 2:19pm
If he isnt feeling full, he will nurse more. Thats all.
post #17 of 27
6/12/08 at 2:30pm
I don't take my babe to the Dr. because we don't get her vaccinated and she seems to be healthy so I don't see a point...so I've never had to deal with this. Anyway, she'll be 11 months old on the 26th of this month and breast milk is still a huge part of her food. I don't think I even really started giving her food until last month, and what I do give her is just a bite or two of what I'm having, a piece of an organic gram cracker, etc. I think at a year, I'll really start giving her more food. She's chubby as ever though so I think she's OK!
post #18 of 27
6/12/08 at 3:58pm
Our Ped said we should start before 6 months, so that he would still want to be spoonfed because spoonfeeding is good for speech development (we are not expecting problems). And after 6 months most babies want to self-feed. I ignored her, but that was the first that I heard this argument.

Carma
post #19 of 27
6/12/08 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by Carma View Post
Our Ped said we should start before 6 months, so that he would still want to be spoonfed because spoonfeeding is good for speech development (we are not expecting problems). And after 6 months most babies want to self-feed. I ignored her, but that was the first that I heard this argument.
Carma
Wow. I would ignore her too. I have never heard of a positive corralation between spoon feeding and speech development, and there are many benefits to self feeding.
post #20 of 27
6/13/08 at 12:28am
I really think the 'aversions to food' idea is a myth. My son had food allergies so we had to pull all solids from his diet when he was 6 months old and weren't allowed to reintroduce them until after his first birthday. He had some food texture issues initially, but by 2-3 months later, he was eating just as well as all the other kids his age. I think it's better to have to introduce solids more slowly than to deal with all the allergies we had to that were, in part, due to introducing solids at 4 months old to 'teach him how to eat'. At 19 months, he's just now outgrown the last of his food allergies, and not a single person has ever been able to tell that we did delayed solids since he was about 14 months old.
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