After several months of only consuming breast milk or formula, some babies have difficulty adjusting to solid foods. To start the introduction process, mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron-fortified rice cereal with 4 to 6 tablespoons of formula, breast milk, or water. Some people mix rice cereal with fruit juice, too. Spoon feed an iron-fortified rice cereal to your baby.
You can nurse or bottle feed first, and then end feedings with rice cereal. And do include other iron-fortified, single-grain cereals besides rice. Variety is the spice of life — even for baby! When introducing new solid foods to your baby, do so one at a time. This way, you can detect any potential food allergies or sensitivities early. For example, after you feed your baby peas for the first time, wait 3 to 5 days before introducing carrots. You might have heard of adding rice cereal to a bottle to thicken breast milk or formula.
If your baby has episodes of acid reflux , your doctor might advise this method to thicken the milk and try to prevent regurgitation.
But this is rare. Doing so poses a few different risks. With no soaking required, red lentils cook to an oatmeal-like consistency in about 20 minutes, while brown and green lentils hold their disc shape and cook in about 25 minutes.
Serve red lentils with a spoon, or serve brown or green lentils as finger foods or as a puree. Pasta made from enriched wheat flour contains non-heme iron, but note that whole grain pasta or imported pasta from Italy is not fortified. Check the label to know for sure. Baby food 7 first foods to give your baby that are better than rice cereal Starting your baby on solids? Photo: iStockphoto.
Red meat 0. Dark poultry 0. Lentils 1. Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. Getty Images. If you're introducing solids and your baby seem to hate rice cereal, you may be wondering if she's eating enough. Feeding Baby Solids Safely.
Continue Reading Below. Read This Next. When Can Babies Eat Cereal? Best Finger Foods for Babies. View Sources. Baby Feeding. First Year. First Year Groups. Go to Your Baby's Age. My son just turned 8 months old. When we first introduced baby purees he loved them, had no issue eating them at all and ate a ton. He then refused it. I can sometimes get him to eat it, but not a whole lot. He just gags then throws it up.
He shows absolutely no interest in it. He really has no interest and he used to eat baby purees like a champ! So frustrating Stephanie! Pay close attention to use stick shaped foods and teethers for him to mouth on. Also, where to place the puff so decrease gagging. I feel like such a awful mother. I hate it! I tried to get baby puffs and he hated everything. I tried making oatmeal cookies and adding sweet potatoes and carrots but he knew.
This is just him in the grocery store seeing this colorful bags and screaming bloody murder. Please anyone a prayer I would love oh so much!
Will let you guys know soon! He will put his own spoon in his mouth so I try to put food on that so he is at least tasting it. Sounds like your doing a great job though, keep trying without any pressure!
Thank you so much for this wonderful guide! My question is should I move backwards to thinner foods to promote a positive eating experience for him and minimize his gagging while doing the tethers, sensory bins, Whole Foods, etc that you recommend?
Or would it be better to push him to try more texture to stimulate his senses? Right now he breastfeeds and rarely accepts baby cereal more likely to accept it if very thin, more likely to refuse if thick at all. Ok, thanks very much, I will follow your suggestions. You want him chewing on different as much as possible, definitely give a bunch of different teethers to use! Hi Alisha, My son is almost nine months old and has never let me feed him any kind of puree with a spoon.
He gets very angry when I get puree into his mouth against his will. He will take finger food to his mouth and chew off a bits very happily but then is unable to swallow them or spit them out so again gets very frustrated and upset.
He will spend an hour with little bits of food towards the front of his mouth crying and getting frustrated on and off but will very rarely swallow the little bits of food. Sometimes I will take the food out of his mouth for him but he hates that too.
He gags occasionally but not often and rarely spits the food out. Once he vomited the food mixed with milk. Do you think that he has a sensory issue or motor skills issue? Thanks very much. A therapist will be able to give you some specific direct advice that could change things around quickly. These are great tips! My son, who is almost 3, is averse to anything but his bottle. Nothing except his bottle goes to his mouth, usually.
These foods are like crunchy, long, cheesy flavored foods. This is a great step, but now we need to move on to the next. Hi Olivia, thank you! That can go a long way in breaking down that sensitivity. My almost 1 year old will eat any kind of crunchy snack like cheerios, puffs, crackers, biscuits sometimes he will eat cut up toast and stage 1 and 2 purees.
I am only breastfeeding him 3 times a day now after breakfast, after lunch and before bed He is barely eating anything so he is hungry and cranky all the time. Sometimes before bed I will give him cheerios and he will eat so much of it, meaning he is starving. Should I give him baby puree food after he eats his crackers to fill him up? Have you seen my post: how to transition to table foods.
I think this will be really helpful for you. It has step by step. Think about breading soft foods and trying chicken nuggets, etc. He initially started by eating purees off my finger at 9 months old and we progressed from there. We eventually at 13 months had to cut back on breastfeeding some to get him to take more solids. He is small but growing.
This will be really encouraging and helpful to other parents. Great work!! Hi, I noticed that you only offer 3 breastfeeds a day in this plan. My 7month old, feeds roughly every 2 to 3 hours day and night, how do you stop them from feeding so much to put them into this sort of routine? Hey Sophie, Every child is different! However starting to offer some meals as well throughout the day so they can start to work on that transition to solid foods can help, but you would be trying to offer the breastmilk with the meal if you are working on decreasing feeding from the breast.
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