Veer is 4 months 1 week and we just got the green light to start the solids! He's been showing a lot of interest in food as well. I'm going to follow the same pattern with him as I did with my daughter.

Cereal (oatmeal) till he's 5 months with occasionally adding mashed bananas or pears. Once he'll hit 5 months I'll start with pears, peaches, squash, pumpkin,peas etc. While also starting bland Indian Vegetarian Food (whatever I make for us Veer will get the same pureed) we eat tons of veggies, lentils etc. My daughter was eating everything we ate by the time she turned 1 and I'm hoping Veer will too!!

I found this article about feeding babies with some research in it if anyone is interested. There are benefits on both sides. I was surprised to read risk of allergies goes down with earlier feeding of solids since I had heard the opposite.

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@posh

I got the sippy cup at babies r us. I just put a little water in it and she loves playing with it and it seems she gets a little water, but not much. I tried to attach a picture of her with it but not sure if it worked.

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I'm going to bring it up at his 4 month appt and hopefully get the ok to start cereal then

@Fraz omg where did you get the cup?

Grayson just turned 4 months old today so I will probably begin giving him either oatmeal in his bottle for breakfast and his night feeding or either I'll try fruits on his bottle just starting off with breakfast and his nighttime bottle.

At four months I started with cereal, oatmeal. The next week I did barley cereal, and this week quinoa. My doctor said grains first because they are gentlest on the belly, then greens, then fruits, then strained meats. He gave us the go ahead to feed her. We are going slow with it since we started early. Tablespoon or so for breakfast and dinner. It has been great so far. She is interested and we also give her a sippy cup (found one for four months) and let her practice with that during her meals. My sister had trouble getting her daughter off the bottle so thought introducing her to cups early might be good for me later.

Just tried sweet potatoes and my son gaged. That was actually his first baby food as I usually do real food just mushed. I mixed in a little oatmeal because he doesn't do well with runny food but he hated it lol

You can water down foods and cereals with formula too. That's what I do ☺️

Probably should have mentioned that I'm not breastfeeding (supply sucked and couldn't ever get it back up?) so he's all formula so no weaning for us

But he always watches me eat and smiles and laughs and opens his mouth himself anytime I give him his paci so I'm thinking I may start him at 5 mos just to see if he likes it

My paediatrician suggested giving my baby cereal starting now because guidelines are changing for when to begin feeding babies. So I give her a teaspoon of oats cereal, watered down with my breastmilk at night so it's almost like soup. She seems to enjoy it so far and she's waking up less to feed at night.

I will be starting khari with veggies and fruits once I get the green light in a few days. I found how to make homemade cereals on pintrest with just a blender.

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My baby is 4 months 8 days, I started a week ago with fruits and then veggies,

Im trying to figure out how to make homemade cereal (oat,rice,quinoa..)

we as family changed last year completly the way we eat, so we go more real food,whole food, organic...etc

Sooo, baby was eating banana, drops of orange juice, apple, advocato, tiny bits, he wont eat more than a spoon by now?

3rd baby but 1st time doing this way

I've started my son on rice cereal and organic veggies from beechnut like carrots, sweet potatoes and squash. No issues. He loves them all. And was given the green light by his pediatrician.

I have tried a few things and it hasn't seemed to bother him. First mushed avocados, oatmeal, and mashed potatoes. His favorite was the potatoes. He actually does better the thicker food instead of making it soupy. With all my kids I do baby led weaning and I slowly start them by giving things here and there. I have bought him a few baby foods for when we are out to eat and he can't eat what I'm having to hold him off from nursing till we get home. But of course if he wants to nurse I have no problem doing my there, he just gets cranky in his seat sometimes.

He's not getting anything else until 6 months, but since rice cereal constipates he's only getting oat

I've started Bennett on oat cereal by recommendation because my milk isn't very good and he eats every hour else. He loves it!