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EAT => Feeding Solid Food => Topic started by: Sydney on April 05, 2006, 23:36:32 pm
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I am getting ready to start dd on solids next week when she turns 6 months. How long do you wait before you introduce two meals, 3 meals?
TIA!
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I would wait a week or so and see how he is going adjusting to solids. I didn't introduce meal 3 until 2 months after starting solids.
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We moved quite quickly to 3 solids per day. We started solids about a week before 6 months. One week later we were at 2 solids a day, and 3 weeks after that we are on 3 solids a day. We began with a morning feed, then added the evening and last the lunch feed. DD eats the most at the middle feed of the day.
HTH
~Rachel
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I started cereals less than 2 weeks ago (when my lo turned 6 months) and my Dr. told me that I could start with rice cereal in the morning only (so if it upsets his tummy it isn't through the night!) He told me that I could introduce a new cereal (barley) 3 - 5 days and bump rice up to lunch. Then again with his 3rd cereal - oats. So now my lo is getting 3 solids (cereals) a day (Oats in the morning, barley for lunch and rice for dinner) in addition to all of his regular feeds. I BF and then about 1/2 hour to an hour later I feed him his cereals. I am planning to start his first real solid food this week sometime so that he has been on cereals for at least 2 weeks. :)
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Thanks everyone. That helps alot.
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I started weaning at 4 months - smooth purees 1 meal, then increase to 2 meals at 5 months. I only added an otherone on a consistant basis at 6 months.
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I feed DS breakfast and lunch, then give him finger foods while we are eating dinner, not that he actually gets any in his mouth, but it is a good learning experience.
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Does your ds have teeth yet? What kind of finger foods?
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I give buttered toast or toast with cheese spread.
baby rice cakes - cinnimon and apple flavor
veggies sometimes
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She hasn't cut any teeth yet. Would it be OK for her to "gum" these things?
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Yes, Calum gums them - he has no teeth YET, i may be posting otherwise soon :-\
She will probably screw her face up and throw them away to start with, but keep with it and she will learn.
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He has 2 bottom teeth, but doesn't use them for anything except chomping on my knuckles ;D ;D ;D
I give him: Very small pieces of ripe banana, hard toast, and those little wagon-wheels gerber makes. I gave him a graham cracker once and he gagged and choked so it scared me, so I haven't given him another one. He gags and chokes on the banana, but I know they are tiny and he just has to swollow them down. I was worried about giving him the wagon wheels because of the sugar, but there is 1 gram in 3 wheels and I only give him one. He also gets his sippy cup at dinner to *try* to drink, but mostly just chew on. (he needs our help to tip it up).
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Idahomom- Try coating the banana pieces in cereal. That makes them easier to pick up and may be easier to eat that way
~Rachel
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PaigeJalyn - Thanks!! i will try that.
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Wow, all you guys seem so experienced at this. I am scared to give her ANYTHING!! I just get these horrible pictures in my head of her choking and it scares me to death :'(
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She will gag and possibly even choke at bit, but keep calm and offer her water and try again later. Calum has a bit of a gagging reflex. at the start of introducing lumper textures or finger food he gagged a couple of times and projectile vomited everywhere. Now after a couple of weeks he gums everything and know to expect lumpy bits.
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I didn't give dd1 finger food until 9 months... not rushing anything with dd2 either