Solid Food for Babies

How old of a baby are you talking about? I have heard of people starting their child on cereal as young as 2-3 months. Most people do start their baby on rice cereal as they can mix it in the formula and feed it through the bottle. It will help fill you baby so that they sleep longer through the night. As far as solid foods or baby foods you should introduce them only one or two at a time so that you can monitor for food allergies. Ex. give baby green beans and sweet potatoes for a week, if no reaction on week two give the baby green beans, sweet potatoes, pears and carrots. This way if the child becomes ill you will be able to narrow down what it was. Always check with your pediatrican as they are the ones that know best and are helping you monitor the health and wellfare of you child.

Yes I do believe that it is best to start with this as it is the easiest on the tummy. They have trouble digesting anything harder. Then after that you can indroduce the other types of cereals. Then I usually move on to a watery constancy of veggies first. (Also you can give them yogurt). And its best to do one kind for about 4 days just to keep track of any possible food allergies. What I usually do is rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, then green beans, peas, carrots, squash, etc... then fruits banana, apricot, applesauce, etc...... Then once they are about 6-8 months you can actually give them cottage cheese, ground meats, egg yolk.......I know this because I have 4 children and have a daycare. I feed all of them. Once they are 7-8 months I will grind up the foods that I am giving the other kids (bland without season). You can grind it up and even freeze it. There are so many things that you can grind. I have one little one that eats full range of foods.

I have two sons. The younger is now 9 months old. I started solids when he was 51/2 month old. Initially started with rice cereal and later I started cooked rice and veggies at 6 months. Just add all veggies into rice and cook until soft and it is easy to feed. Rice is best because it digests fast without any problems. I dislike the idea of keeping anything in the refrigerator for babies. Cook small portions and feed them fresh the amount they require. I used to steam apples too to feed my son. Now I make juice with many fruits once a day and feed him. Preparing fresh may be difficult but it is worth the effort.

welcome to the wonderful world of mylot. me and my wife have a three year old son, and my wife start to give her mashed potatoes and bananas when he was four months old. all in small potions too.at 6 months she started to give him mashed carrots and cooked rice. i dont know about cereals my wife made it all from scratch and keep it refrigerated. heat it up before feeding.

Try egg-yolk, it can supply iron for your baby. Take a little first time, diluting with water. If the baby has no allergic response to egg-yolk, you could add more gradually to one fourth, one third or one half. It is pretty good for babies taking some egg-yolk since four month and a half, he or she won't have anemia.

When my babies turned six months old, i started giving them rice milled and cooked it well, i mixed it with their milk. they don't like the taste of baby cereals so i just milk rice milled with their milk so that they become easily full.

Well the usual like applesauce etc....or any blended foods....Rice cereal is the way to start them as it is less likely to cause any kind of allergic reaction as other wheat cereals etc....after that you can blend any kind of food into a puree and serve it to them...for the most part anyway.

rice tends to be softer on a babies stomach than many foods, but i'd go by what your childs dr. recommends considering all babies are different and he'll know what's good t start your child off with if you have any conscerns :)