I've been toying with the idea of feeding minibeanie his first spoonful but after some thought, perhaps I'll revisit the issue in a month or so. Reasons being: he can't really sit upright yet & there's a higher risk of allergies. However, our midwife had said it was ok to feed solids by 4 months so I suppose like so many questions on childcare, there are as many opinions as there are issues :)
Thus, I'm conducting a poll on all of you mummies/daddies out there, when do you first stick a spoon of goob into your baby's mouth? What food do you start with? rice cereal, potato? And what are some of the mashy recipes up to a year old? potato & carrot? broccoli? Leave your comments by clicking on the "comment" link below, will love to hear what you say!
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6 comments:
Well, apple puree is another good food to start. Steam the apples (without the skin and core) for about 10 mins until soft. Then puree it with a blender. My boys love them. It
can be added to cereal or eaten as a dessert on its own. You can cook
a lot and then store them in the freezer to use over a period.
I think if baby starts to show interest in eating, that's a good indicator of when to start.
Good first foods are mashed avocado/ banana/ sweet potatoes.
We're starting with rice cereal. Starting this week, actually.
Our doctor told us to start with the cereal and add fruits in two weeks with vegetables two weeks after that.
The key that I have heard is to stick with one food for a couple of days then change to another. This allows you to track where allergies are popping up, if they are allergic to something. (hoping for all of us that there are no allergies to deal with!)
Good Luck with your feeding!
I'd highly recommend the book "super baby food" by ruth yaron. You can add all sorts of goodies (pumpkin, sweet potatoes, broccoli etc. to porridge, or ground flaxseed to homemade yoghurt).
Found the book to be a great resource and so glad my babe got to enjoy veggies as a baby. Even though he developed more typical interest like for fried chicken later, he always enjoyed a variety of fruits and would occasionally take celery or carrots as snacks and accepts raw veggie juice (when half awake) and lately we find he tries some leaves, capsicum or broccoli from my garden salad again.
Anyway, I still recall starting dylan on some ripe papaya and avocado (scrapped or pureed) at 4.5 mths, also steamed sweet potato and pumpkin or pureed spinach and I introduced each food using the 4 days rule, introducing 1 at a time.
Hi,I came back from 3weeks holiday in Japan 1week ago,and here what I find ??? mini papa !! He looks like father a lot, doesn't he ?
by the way, I started solid food around 5 month and half but I wanted to start much later if possible. She had to start Crecsh from 6 months, I wanted to her to be little bit used to it before the start. But in her case, I think she was ready as she was intrested in our food, no problem to eat it as well. I have little bit of allergy so, I was extremely cautious to give food. I followed Japanese allergy site. choose 5 least allergic vesitable(never fruit !)give every day different. according to them giving same food everyday have more risk to get allergy. I used courget, chinese cabbage, radish, etc. start with water that used to boil vesitable.
Rice, potato,fruits should be much later.(I gave them around 7 month)
Flour, 8 months, and meat was 9 month, I think..
But this is just my case and Japanese opinion ! you need to find minibeanie way ! you are the mother, you can do it !
Thanks everyone for your comments! This is a highly interesting discussion and it has opened a world of possibilities for me other than mash potato & rice cereal combos :) The other thing was the vastly different schools of thought on food allergy between the Japanese & western viewpoints... but if our grandparents thrived without such knowledge, perhaps we needn't be so dogmatic about it, need we? ;)
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