at what age do you start to feed baby solids?

Answer 1

"Matt's Mommy" is right. Babies do not need solid food until they are around six months old. Way too many mothers force solid food on babies that are just not ready for it. All it does is make the trip in one end and out the other. Baby's immature digestive system is just not ready for it yet.
Up until the age of six months a baby's diet should consist strictly of his mothers milk, and that is all.
A baby who is crying and seems hungry at less than six months just needs more of his mothers milk. It is a sign to nurse him more and your milk supply will quickly speed up to meet his needs. An infant should never be fed cereal.
Good luck
Lady Trinity~ **P.S. After reading more of the answers to this question I wanted to add that I think it may be another one of those things that partially depends on whether the baby is being nursed or being given a bottle. There are restrictions on how much formula you are supposed to feed a baby. There is no such restriction placed on mothers milk. If your baby still seems hungry after his feeding you just nurse him some more. Simple. A baby can never get too much of his mothers milk, there is no food created that is as good for him nor as nutritious. So, I guess that answer depends on how you are feeding your baby.**

Answer 2

I read two different opinions: some people said "at 4 months", others "at 6 months". So I asked the pediatrician "who's right?" And he said: "Both sets of people are right, you can start either at 4 months or 6, it depends on your baby".
My baby was drinking the most formula recommended for her age, at 4 months of age: 8 ounces every 4 hours. The doctor told me if she still acted hungry, give her some rice cereal. And she did, in fact, act very hungry all the time. So, I gave her some cereal. If I had waited til she was 6 months I'd gone nuts!

Answer 3

Used to be 4-6 months. Now they are changing the guidelines to start solids (baby cereals first) at 6 months. They are also changing starting milk from 9-12 months to 12 months and up.
Good Luck.

Answer 4

At 4 to 6 months. Waiting too late is as harmful as starting too early. Start with rice cereal, then wheat, then veggies, and then fruit. Wait 4-7 days to introduce a new food to your baby. That way you will know if the food you tried is an allergy concern.

A good way to ease your baby into eating food is to mix the food with breast or formula milk. Make it pasty.

Check out www.myhomeadebabyfood.com for more advice.

Answer 5

let your baby be your guide but do not rush and push your baby.

I wasn't going to start my baby until 6 months just like the paediatrician recommends. However, at 4 months, my previously content baby who only cried when hungry started to scream for constant feedings. My body couldn't seem to produce enough milk. This went on for 2 or 3 weeks! I had to pump to find out how much I was producing and then supplement formula to find out that she wanted 3 times of what I could produce!

She also was smacking her lips and seemed to want our food when we eat after she's fed. So, started off with cereal the at 5 months, just a tiny bit just to see if she knew to swallow it then breast fed her afterwards, after 2 days, she figured out how to swallow and loved it. We gradually increased to the maximum amount recommended and breastfeed her. She's now happy and content. She's now 7 months and she's on track on veggie and meat introductions.

Answer 6

Feeding baby with solid food usually starts around 4 months old.You have introduced food one food at a time to observe for any allergic reaction.

Answer 7

Now in the year 2007, it is about six months old. Discuss with your pediatrician. When my kids were tiny, it was about 1 month old. By solids I mean a little cereal, some baby jar fruit like peaches, then later a little vegetables like carrots and then finally meat. But I got the doctor's O.K. on each food that I introduced.

Answer 8

i'm a grandmother and "returned interior the day", women folk had a asserting..."IF the child has progressed tooth, it's time to stop nursing and time to start up good nutrition." The understanding at the back of it is the reality which you would be bitten whilst attempting to nurse and the child had progressed to a component the place good ingredients have been bodily possible for him because of the fact he had tooth. perchance it fairly is in basic terms previous undemanding experience even yet it labored. in spite of everything, that's what tooth are for....good? yet "tender ingredients" and formulation have been especially lots endured from 3 to 6 months on reckoning on how hungry the child became and how many energy he or she appeared to wish. A mom can consistently tell whilst in basic terms the formulation or breast milk in basic terms isn't adequate.

Answer 9

They usually let you know when they are ready. A classic sign is when they are crying as though they are hungry but refuse the bottle - then they are ready. My son started cereal at 6wks. I have heard it all - put it in the bottle, don't put it in the bottle, sheesh.

Follow your motherly instincts. I knwo that sounds cheap but it's true. I gave my son some rice cereal @ 6wks, and he almost overturned the stroller he was in to get more. I stopped for 2 weeks and then he cried all the time like he was hungry but wouldn't take the bottle. I tried everything, finally stuck him in his carseat and mixed up a bowl of rice cereal. He ate a bowl of that, 2 jars of bananas, and a 1/2 jar of peaches. To this day I still feel like a heel. He was hungry and couldn't tell me!

Answer 10

No earlier than 6 months.