Our pediatrician recommends trying solids around four months. Between this and the motherly intuition that her belly was feeling a bit hollow, we gave her some rice cereal just after she turned four months. From the first feeding she was grabbing the spoon in hopes that this would speed along the process. And now, 3 weeks later and just shy of five months old, she's eating two substantial portions each day. She got stuck on apples for a while (pretty much all Lucas was ever interested in as an infant) but we've really branched out recently. She even goes for a bit of texture (peas ground in the food mill, bananas mashed with my fingers...) So far, we've tried:
-Apples
-Bananas
-Bananas/Avocados
-Peas/Apples/Rice
-Apples/Carrots (not a huge fan of carrots)
-Sweet Potatoes
Yay -- that is awesome, Natali!
ReplyDeleteHow FUN! I love the starting solids stage :-) It's so fun to see their reaction!
ReplyDeleteI also find it interesting to hear all the many schools of thought about when to start. Our ped recommends anywhere between 4-6months as well (whenever you think they're not getting enough from the milk) but i've heard some say that its not necessary until a year. A YEAR?! I'm thinking for chunkers like we have, they are probably happy that we have the ped's we do :-)