Solid to Introduce to 6 months baby

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mavislohsp

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Hi Everyone,

My Baby is going to be 6 months soon, and I am thinking what kind of solid I should introduce to him. Is it must be puree? Can anyone suggest where can I attend the first-aid course for baby as well? Any suggestions are appreciated.
 
yes, it must be puree (or mashed, like bananas, sweet potatoes, potatoes etc)

most people start with a mouthful of rice cereal or oat cereal or something like that.

then you introduce one new food at a time.

if you are unsure, i would highly suggest you buy a baby cookbook (annabel karmel is great). she lays it all out for you and takes the thinking out about it.
 
I also think Annabel Karmel is good and she has a website with a lot of basic information on it. My daughter turned 6-months-old today and we fed her a bowl of rice cereal mixed with expressed breast milk. We found that it was easier to just let her drink the thin mixture rather than use a spoon. Honestly, I think she was overdue for starting on solids so we'll probably start introducing a new food every day along with the rice cereal from here on out. There is no history of allergies in our family on either side and my son did really well with all the foods we introduced to him when he was a baby too. So, my goal this time is to introduce all the non-sweet vegetables first before I introduce fruit and sweet vegetables as I'd like my daughter to have a taste for veggies. :)
 
We started with rice cereal, then other baby cereal, steamed and pur?e fruits and vege, e.g. Apple, pear, potato, carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato. Then some raw fruit like banana, papaya, avocado. Then we started to make congee at around 7-8mth and introduced meat and protein.
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It doesn't have to be pur?e. We weaned our son with finger food - google baby led weaning, and he hasn't had any purees and eats what we eat. It was easy, just offered him chunks he could hold himself for him to suck/play with and he was very quickly eating very well and now eats anything and everything. I wish we'd done the same with our older son as I spent a lot of time pureeing ridiculous amounts of carrots! We lived in the UK where baby led weaning is very popular. Remember that milk will continue to be the main source of nutrition for your child until a year so if a lot of food ends up on the floor it's not a problem, although very messy. This approach worked really well for our family and weaning was a breeze! Good luck
 
can't edit my last post.... wasn't being nasty, just curious. it goes against everything i've ever heard/read.... obviously your child is ok... but i dont understand how it works is all.
 
We are baby led weaning also and it's fantastic for us, and suits our baby. You just offer soft cooked sticks/wedges of food, fruit/veg to begin with but it's not long before you can offer anything really.We started with broccoli 'trees', pumpkin, sweet potato and went from there. My baby is not yet 7 months and eats pasta and veg, corn on the cob, wedges of watermelon, sticks of banana, cucumber, he takes a pre-loaded fork or spoon and gets it in his mouth more times than not. He's tried a huge variety of food already, now pretty much whatever we're having, just have to be aware of what you're cooking for dinner- being aware of salt, sugar but we just use more herbs, garlic etc. One website that is really useful is www.babyledweaning.com
Doesn't have to be purees!
 
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We bought the book by Gill Rapley. I will start my little one when he turns 6 months also. We did the traditional rice cereal and purees with my first, but I started hearing about Baby Led Weaning and it sounds great and much easier. Glad to hear that it's working for other people. I'm really excited!
 
Hmmm, baby led weaning sounds interesting! I am definitely will go through the website. Is there anyone else out there is using baby led weaning? Can share your experience here with us? Thanks!
 
Thanka - just because there's no family history of allergy and because your first one was ok doesn't mean your 2nd one will be too. My 2nd daughter is allergic to dairy and to goats milk as well, even though we have no family history of allergies on either side and my 1st was fine. I'm not saying don't add a new food every day - but for those ones which kids are commonly allergic to, it's probably wise still to be cautious, even though there are no red-flags.

And about baby-led weaning, it's not so much feeding your kids "chunky food" but giving them food that they can hold onto and suck on, then gnaw on etc. When I weaned my kids, I used a variety of pureed foods, along with the kind of foods that are suitable for baby led weaning. My personal favourites for that were sticks of toast, florets of broccoli, and softly cooked carrot sticks.
 
we started with purees but didnt last long. both kids dun like them. for my daughter, we gave strips, cubes of steamed veg, fruits, fish, meats, cheesy toasts, blue berries, peas, cheerios, bolied pastas, strings of spaghetti and rice noodles, ... sometimes, we make dips like pureed pumpkins, avocado and banana, cheese and yogurts, and dip steamed food for her to feed. seriously messy but she prefers it that way. it is also easier to plan and buy food as a family. no wastage, no hoarding of freezer space. we just boil/ steam whatever we r eating for the day for her.

both hates porridge!
 
I started by baby around 6 months on mashed up/pureed boiled rice (which he didn't really like) and then after a couple of days tried pureed fruit and veggies (apples - constipated him, bananas - ditto, pears - loved them, potato - indifferent, sweet potato - so so, spinach - not a fan). From what I read, the general advice was introduce a new food every four days, so if there's a allergic reaction, you know for sure what caused it. But since my son seemed to be taking to most things peacefully (with varying appetite), we shortened to a couple of days and finally just did a different one a day. We also bought a cereal that could be mixed with milk or water, which my son really liked - he liked the wheat one and the fish/carrot one. He's now 9 months and my helper has started adding some steamed fish/chicken to rice and the consistency is thicker.

I have on and off tried giving my son soft fruit to chew on but ends up taking big bites and then gagging. So I've decided to just wait till he has teeth.
 
have posted about Baby led weaning previously and echo all other comments that it is great; i also found out about it in the UK and used it for my second child, saves lots of work pureeing and they can basically eat versions of what the rest of the family is eating. Was very easy especially when going out- wish I had used it with the first. Previous websites recommended are great sources of info.
 
I did a mixture of both baby led weaning and purees for my daughter. I loved Anabel Karmel recipes and I still use some of them now, just more grown up versions.
 
nicolejoy said:
Thanka - just because there's no family history of allergy and because your first one was ok doesn't mean your 2nd one will be too. My 2nd daughter is allergic to dairy and to goats milk as well, even though we have no family history of allergies on either side and my 1st was fine. I'm not saying don't add a new food every day - but for those ones which kids are commonly allergic to, it's probably wise still to be cautious, even though there are no red-flags.

And about baby-led weaning, it's not so much feeding your kids "chunky food" but giving them food that they can hold onto and suck on, then gnaw on etc. When I weaned my kids, I used a variety of pureed foods, along with the kind of foods that are suitable for baby led weaning. My personal favourites for that were sticks of toast, florets of broccoli, and softly cooked carrot sticks.
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Yes, I get that but we're not starting our daughter off with dairy products and nuts. She should be okay with veggies, I think and if an allergy pops up we'll deal with it, I'm sure. That's why we're not going to do the "try it and wait 2-3 days" technique--just going to introduce new stuff every day--in the afternoon. I figure if she hasn't had a reaction by bedtime, things should be okay. ;) And to be really unorthodox, my mom was feeding my son peanut butter sandwiches when he was like 10-months-old. She didn't tell me and then was like, "Yeah, so I fed him a PB&J sandwich." I was like, "WHAT?!" But, he loved it and to this day has never been bothered by them. He also eats other nuts without any problem. But, I wouldn't say we consume these on a very constant basis.

We gave my daughter a couple of orange slices this past weekend and she really enjoyed gumming/chewing all the juice out of those. So far no problems.
 
My son started eating rice porridge once a day at 3 months and at 4 months was eating the jars of organix puree foods.
He started teething at 5 months, so we gave him pieces of beef big enough to suck and chew on but too big to swallow, and he absolutely loved it.
Since then everytime we make dinner we will also make some vegetables for him to eat himself, mainly carrots, cauliflower, brocolli, sweet potato. This makes things a lot easier for us at dinnertimes as it keeps him busy while we eat!
We try to feed him salmon at least 3 times a week, and have found he prefers it mashed together with the purple sweet potatoes.
We've been trying to feed him as many different things as we can, peanut butter, yoghurt etc.. There is a school of thought that many allergies are actually caused by a child not having any early contact with those things which they become allergic to... and if that fails we're luckily only 2 mins away from the hospital!
 
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