parents-when did you begin feeding your baby solids & how much, how often? thanks?

Question

yeah i know obviously feed them when hungry & as much as they need to be filled up

Answer 1

6 months or older is a fine time to start - signs that they are ready include - being able to sit well with support and expressing an interest in what you are eating, i suggest starting with a tablespoon of cereal and gradually increasing it from there. after a few weeks when they are eating a couple tablespoons at one meal add a second meal and so on, babies should still get the same amount of breastmilk or formula until they are a year, solids are not a substitute, just an addition. remember to always wait 3-4 days between introducing new foods to watch for allergic reactions.
PS - some babies actually are sensitive to grains, i found with my daughter baby pears was a better first food than cereal as it made her spit up, go with your instincts.

Answer 2

With my first, I started too early. She probably would have been happy to subsist on my milk alone until she was 8 months or so. I just couldn't leave well enough alone. Live and learn. With my second, she made it clear that she wanted to be fed when she was about 6 months old. She's two now and she hasn't stopped eating since!

Feed them when you eat and teach them to sign "eat" by putting all of your fingers and thumb on your mouth and tapping a few times. Do that every time you sit down with food so baby will start to learn how to communicate that he wants to eat. You'll figure out the hungry cues. Another trick is to give your baby some finger food like toast, crackers, rice or really soft veggie pieces while you eat your own meal. When you finish eating, you can spoon feed baby. That worked out really well for my family.

Of course, many people believe that babies do not need to be spoon fed, and I think that's totally cool. What did our ancestors do before mini food processors and tiny spoons?

Answer 3

We started at 4.5mo. Reason: our son started asking for formula every 2 hrs, so we knew he needed more.
We started with dinner first. Rice cereal only. About 1 tbs of rice cereal mixed with formula. That lasted 3 weeks. We had to add in the 11AM lunch meal as well and increase to 2tbs.
3 weeks later, added a breakfast feeding. By 6 months he was eating solids 4 times a day.
We introduced new foods slowly. I cook all his meals.

You have to test your baby. He/she will spit it out at first. Pay close attention: it may look like the baby is rejecting, when in fact he/she may be trying to take it in. They just don't know what to do with it. That was the case with us. The first time most of the food ended up outside his mouth. By the 3rd day, he was happily eating all of it.

Answer 4

The American Academy of Pediatrics reccomends waiting until the child is 6 months old before starting solids. At that point it is just to teach them how to eat from a spoon and to introduce them to new tastes. They usually don't eat enough at that point to actually make a meal. The best way I found is to make 1 or 2 tablespoons of food and feed them as much of it as they want. You should try when they are hungry but not too hungry. After they eat all of the food they want you feed them the normal amount of formula or breastfeed as usual.

Answer 5

I know I am going to get alot of negatives on this but I am a mother of 3 boys, and started spoon feeding them rice cereal at 2 weeks old, i used only a baby spoon full of ceral with about 2 ounces of formula it was very thin, I also used a spoon whatever you do please dont put the food in a bottle they need to learn the difference between solids and liquids I would only feed them the cereal once a day, and never had any problems.

Answer 6

I did it at 4 mos for child #2. She was STARVING all the time.
Just cereal mixed w/ formula and just a tablespoon or two. Right before bed and she slept threw the night. She was a much happier baby..and I was a less tired mom. Most will tell you 6 mos though. Alot has to do with their muscles and tongue reflexes. Most babies just push it right back out. But #2.. Nope...she wanted that food.

Answer 7

We started at about 5 months which is a little earlier then generally recommended. Our doctor gave us the go ahead since my son was showing a strong interest in watching us eat and was opening his mouth for a bite everytime we'd eat. Start out with single grain baby cereal mixed with breastmilk/formula to a very thin consistancy...not much thicker then the original liquid and use very small amounts on the spoon to get them used to the idea of a spoon and also using their tongue to push food to the back of their mouths instead of sucking for food. Every few weeks you can add a different food after that. Most people recommend starting out with vegetables first since supposedly babies will refuse veggies if introduced to fruits first. I don't neccassarily agree with that since there was some veggies my son would refuse to touch even though I didn't give him any fruits at first. Even after introducing fruits he ate his veggies that he liked without any problems.

Answer 8

i does no longer propose conserving the toddler at the same time as feeding. it gets very messy speedy. use a bouncy chair, a carseat or a toddler walker in case you dont have a extreme chair in simple terms yet. you will desire one faster or later nevertheless. attempt toddler rice first mixed with a lot of breast milk. one teaspoon an afternoon for a pair of days and then develop it in basic terms a splash. flow onto pureed pear,apple, banana, carrot, potato, swede, butternut squash and in simple terms steadily develop the quantity you provide by using perhaps a spoon an afternoon. after according to week or so which you will commence giving the toddler foodstuff two times an afternoon and the subsequent week three times an afternoon. i understand what you advise nevertheless. while you're used to bf it fairly is not any longer exciting having to commence making waiting foodstuff yet you quickly get used to it. in early weaning you in basic terms could prepare dinner perhaps as quickly as according to week nevertheless by way of fact the quantities the toddler eats are so little. freeze the foodstuff in ice cube trays and while they're frozen pop them right into a re sealable plastic bag and save in the freezer for as much as a minimum of one month. additionally, get a weaning e book. they're rather sturdy once you do no longer in all danger understand what to do. they often permit you already know the way a lot to grant, what and while... annabel karmen does amazing books. you will get them on the library too. sturdy success!

Answer 9

We started around 6 months and just enough to try to get her used to the idea of eating solids, spoon feeding etc. Our Dr said it was more for that at that age than nutritional value. The most important thing is breast milk or formula.

Answer 10

my babies dr. recommends starting rice cereal at around 4 mo.