first solid foods for baby?

Answer 1

My baby has started them...some people say veggies first...sosme say fruits are okay first...some say it doesnt matter....what i did was veggie fruit veggie fruit....so far she has carrots, applesauce, sweet potatoes, bananas, and squash...next peaches

Answer 2

Start at 6 months with bananas, avocados and sweet potatoes. These are the first foods recommended by La Leche League.

Only introduce one new food at a time and wait about 5 days between new foods in order to watch for any potential allergic reactions.

Keep in mind that solids are mostly for fun and practice during the first year. Breastmilk or formula should continue to make up about 75% of baby's diet even once solid feedings are established.

Making your own baby foods isn't hard and is much cheaper than the store bought stuff. Plus, you know EXACTLY what your baby is getting that way. Mashing up a banana or an avocado and adding a little breastmilk to thin it is SIMPLE and then baby gets something FRESH!

Answer 3

Rice cereal at about 5 months is a good time to start solids. When they do ok with eating that, go ahead and move onto something else, we moved to vegetables at 5 1/2 months. One vegetable a week, try to stick with only using one new food for one week. That way you can monitor the baby for any signs of a food allergy. If you mix the foods up, say carrots for breakfast, bannas at lunch, sweet potatotes at dinner you are going to have no idea what food caused a food allergy unless you do it for a few days, see what im saying??

Answer 4

I think babyfood is a total rip off. It costs about ten times the price of adult food of the same quantity and most of it gets wasted.

You can steam some fresh or canned carrots yourself and mash them for the baby from the time they are 4 months old. Potatoes, apples, pumpkin, zuccini and even pureed meat can come next. Before you know it you can just put homemade vegetable soup in the blender. Save the leftovers in a ice cube tray in the freezer and heat up a few cubes for every meal.

Just be sure to introduce one food per week and watch out for allergies.

That said, I didn't give my babies anything but breast milk for the first six months and they were slower to eat than other babies, but now they are both healthy, fit and eat a variety of foods. I think forcing kids to eat on a timetable and portion size that suits the babyfood companies is part of the childhood obesity problem. Food is a perfectly natural part of life. It doens't have to come in a jar.

Answer 5

They say 4 to 6 months before they start on cereal. If you can hold them off until 6 months it is best. Babies get all the nutrients they need from formula or breastmilk. However so babies do require extra earlier. The reason they say to wait is because you want to make sure the babies digestive system is fully developed. Otherwise it can be too harsh on the babies tummy.

Answer 6

Any single grain cereal first, then vegetables, then fruits. Try the green vegetables first, otherwise, the baby might get a taste for the sweet stuff and not want to give the beans a chance.

Answer 7

*Don't give baby custard. It is empty food - very little in the way of nutrition and sweet so babies have a tendancy to love it and hold out on other solids - according to Child and Youth Health run by the Australian Government


The World Health Organisation recommends that infants don't start solids until after 6 months of age.

Child and Youth Health where i live recommend to give rice cereal to start with as this is a rare allergy causer. Only introduce new foods one at a time and space new foods a minimum of 4 days apart so if allergies occur you have more idea of what the cause is.

Some good vegetables to start with are:
Potato, Carrot, Pumpkin, Broccoli, Zucchini, mashed peas

Some good fruit to start with are:
Banana, stewed apple, tinned fruit (rinse off the juice with water first), pear, kiwi fruit

An alternative to traditional introduction to solids by spoon feeding is the Baby-led introduction to Solids. The idea is that infants don't eat things they are not digestively ready for until they are developmentally able to eat them. My 6 mo is very interested in food, so we give her cooked carrot sticks, long strips of steak, beans, slices of fruit, anything softish that she can grab herself.

She doesn't swallow them yet so i feel that it would be premature of me to spoon feed her and override her reflex to get the food out by putting it at the back of her mouth. For more info on Baby led introduction to solids visit: http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html

Answer 8

baby cereals
then introduce veggies when the time is right. if you do fruits first, your kid may not want to eat veggies.
it can take as many as 13 introductions of a food for a baby to take to it
start with things that are easy on the stomach like squash.
only introduce one food at a time, so you can watch for allergies.
talk to your doctor about what is best for your baby

Answer 9

Do veggies first. Get through all veggies before you start fruits. This will ensure your child will eat their veggies. Fruit is sweet and any baby will eat them. I have twin boys at the ripe age of 2 and we did just that. I can get them to eat all their veggies and not if I introduce new ones, they are more willing to eat them. Today I gave them collard greens for the first time and they loved them.

Answer 10

Gerber has a complete line of baby foods. The rice cereal mixed with peaches, bananas make the cereal less boring.

Answer 11

rice cereal very thin first, then add "p" veggies(they are the easiest for baby to digest, then "p"fruits . Plz remember to feed baby each new food for three consecutive days to rule out any allergy that he/she may have.