My son was 5.5 months. However we did not use "baby food". We are doing baby-led weaning. So he feeds himself whole foods. His first food was steamed, peeled apple wedges with cinnamon.
No baby food here. My children all eat what we do. I do cook carrots and other veggies and fruits for them to eat softer chunks of, since I'm not comfortable giving hard veggies and fruits to my children when very young, but still want them to eat them.
Usually, I just cook up a fresh batch of fruits and veggies once a week and store them for the little ones to eat with meals where we are having salad or older kids eating them raw. I still serve salad to the little ones and all my children are salad and veggie eaters now.
If you want to go the baby food route, that's fine too. Whatever works for you. You can cook your own or buy commercial. Most parents start between 4-6 months, but there is no rush..later is being found to be better, particularly if breastfeeding.
Best wishes..it's so fun with a little one trying new foods!
DS1 had baby food at 5 months, DS2 had mashed up whatever I was eating just after 4 months (he would try to grab stuff off my plate), DD1 has been getting mashed up veggies from last year's garden since age 6 months.
I'm waiting until six months and will start with avocados, because they're full of nutrients and are yummy! Lol She stared at my burrito last weekend. Good thing I don't have to share for a long time yet!
If you're nursing look up the recommendations from the Le Leche League. My daughter started eating solid foods at 6 months which is really the very earliest you should start due to digestion. We tried starting her on rice cereal (I don't recommend this babies can't digest grains) but she took the spoon and started feeding herself. She'd never let me feed her, so all the baby food my mother in law bought went to waste, lol. I gave her lots of avocado, banana, soft apples, maybe some steamed veggies stuff like that. I wish I'd given her a little bit of a wider variety because to this day she claims to hate mangos (who hates mangos?!) but I didn't know much about different kinds of fruits at the time like I do now.
6 months and 1 week. Millet was her first food, mixed with breastmilk. Since then she's had all sorts of veggies and really loves hardboiled egg yolk and chicken. I try to make most of her food but occassionally give her organic store bought stuff.
We wait until at least 6 months. Then its whatever the rest of us are eating. Just cut up really small or mashed up. And its really more like tasting than eating at first. Its a few months after that before they're really what I would call eating.
u should give the fruits(banana , pear , plum ),grains like ( white rice or brown rice),veggies like( sweet potato, pumpkins, carrot etc),yogurt,dark green leafy vegetables( it has the high amount of iron),blueberries(good for the baby eyes ,brain)
Same here. When our son could sit on his own, and get himself into a sitting position we gave solids a try. The first time more went on the floor than in his mouth, so we waited another week and tried again.
6 months and sitting on her own. It was the sitting on her own part I considered most important. We gave her some lightly steamed broccoli, she had about 2 of the tiny florets.
After that, she basically just had whatever she took off my plate. I was worried twice, once when she somehow bit off a HUGE piece of bagel and wasn't choking but definitely didn't know what to do with it. The other was a piece of a canned pear wedge, it was so soft and small that she was able to get too big of a bite. After that we stuck to fresh fruits so she could control getting her tiny baby bites.
Seriously though, after seeing how teensy tiny baby bites are when they can control it I'd never want to try to cut food small enough. So much better to let them sort out swallowing and such when the gag reflex is still forward in the mouth rather than try to deal with cutting grain of rice pieces for a 9 month old.
We're not really feeding her baby food, but at 4 months we let her have a nibble here and there. I don't think she is quite ready. We went to a Lebanese restaurant and I gave her some of my hummus. She was looking at me like "what do you want me to do with this gunk in my mouth?". She had the same reaction when I let her have a taste of my avocado a week later.
I'll probably wait a couple more months before fully incorporating real food, but I am skipping the rice/ grains and going straight to whatever we eat.
No baby food here too. I'm vegan, my husband isn't. Baby started some food around 1 yo. Most fruits and veggies. She has now that she is 2yo some fish and rarely meat. She picks what there is on the table, always had been like that and I always left around the house some food that she could easily take whenever she was hungry. She is not picky, she knows when she is hungry, she knows what she likes but also tries on new food. Ah and she is still bf.
I hope it helps.
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