If you do opt for infant cereal, experts usually recommend offering an assortment of grains, as opposed to just rice cereal as the first food you give to your baby. Always feed cereal with a spoon, not a bottle. After starting with just one or two teaspoons at a time, your baby will likely move up to three or four tablespoons of cereal once or twice a day. Vary the grain source of the cereal oatmeal, barley, wheat, rice so the baby isn't getting the same grain all of the time.
You can start other types of baby food at any point and this is a great way to introduce baby to a wider variety of flavors. There is no reason to introduce vegetables before fruit a common myth. The important thing is to expose your baby to many different flavors.
You can start with mild-tasting vegetables and fruit, but don't assume what your baby will like or dislike. Keep in mind that they may need to try a flavor multiple times before they enjoy it. Remember, all flavors are new to them! As with cereal, start with a few teaspoons and then work your way up to three or four tablespoons once or twice a day.
Broadly, most babies eat:. As babies get older, they move through the classic baby food stages and steps , starting with pureed, single ingredient baby foods and gradually moving up to foods that have more texture.
If you started your baby on purees, it can be an exciting time to introduce them to finger foods. Use little to no salt and take care that the texture and shape of foods offered do not promote choking. By eight to nine months of age, babies are quite adept at grasping food and getting it to their mouths. They will likely enjoy feeding themselves. Watch your baby carefully as you offer very small pieces of finger foods, avoiding choking hazards , such as whole grapes, raisins, raw vegetables, and large chunks of cheese.
It's also important to be caught up on baby CPR guidelines. Good finger foods include:. Once your child has mastered eating finger foods, you might introduce a small utensil, along with mixed dishes, to their meals. You can also usually introduce yogurt at this age. By the end of their first year or the beginning of their second year, your baby will likely be eating much of the same food as the rest of the family.
Babies can get most of the vitamins they need from their food. They need:. Just as important as knowing when to start each food is knowing which foods to avoid. Before your baby turns one year old, avoid these foods entirely:. Oatmeal contains high amounts of fiber, magnesium, iron and zinc.
Oatmeal is a great way to introduce textures because the oats are soft, but still retain their structure.
Oatmeal's strong nutritional profile will aid in baby's growth and development. It is recommended for babies to start solid foods when they reach six months of age. They help promote fullness and a healthy appetite while preventing gas. Many babies tend to experience constipation when they start new foods. Oatmeal is a fiber-rich food that acts as a natural laxative to help prevent constipation.
The fiber in oatmeal adds bulk to their stools to make the bowel movement process easier and gentler. You are not limited in how you prepare oatmeal for your baby.
You can mix fruits, vegetables and other foods into it to make it more flavorful and exciting for your baby to enjoy. You can also use it to help with the introduction of other new solids, like mashed banana or mashed berry. We love this organic baby oatmeal , easily mixed with breast milk, formula, or water for a gentle transition to solid foods.
You can also choose to serve oatmeal warm or cold. Those early-bird specials rice cereal, applesauce, bananas, yellow veggies get pretty old after a few dozen meals.
Spice things up at around 7 or 8 months by adding:. At 8 months, you can start trying finger foods to add a whole other dimension to eating. Ready to serve up a combo platter?
That's fine, as long as you keep the foods separate for a while. Your goal is to get your baby acquainted and happy with the taste of particular foods, so if you mush the meats and veggies together, she may never know the joy of just plain peas. Once she likes the taste of a variety of different flavors, feel free to mix things up. Always hold off on honey which can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum, a bacteria that is harmless to adults but can cause infantile botulism, a serious illness, in babies and cow's milk until your baby is at least 1 year old.
Most doctors will, however, green-light whole-milk yogurt, cottage cheese and hard cheese by 8 months or so, or even sooner. Although it was once common to delay giving a baby certain foods like eggs, seafood, nuts and some dairy in the hopes of staving off allergies, the AAP no longer recommends doing so since the data shows that holding off on certain foods does not prevent food allergies.
In fact, the AAP now says that introducing allergenic foods like peanut butter earlier in a child's life — between 4 and 6 months and certainly by 11 months — actually reduces her chances of developing a food allergy.
Just be sure you've successfully introduced a couple of other solids cereals, fruits or vegetables first, and be sure to introduce the foods one at a time at home not, say, at baby's day care center. While food allergies are relatively common in babies and some children will outgrow them by age 5 , they do need to be taken seriously. Babies' reactions to food can range from gassiness, diarrhea or mucus in the stool to vomiting and rashes these usually occur along with mouth swelling or itching.
Other symptoms include a runny nose, watery eyes, wheezing that doesn't seem to be due to a cold and unusual wakefulness or crankiness, day or night. If you think your baby may be allergic to something you've fed her, speak to your pediatrician before offering it again. It's especially important to check in with your doctor if your baby seems to react to almost every new food you offer, or there's a history of allergies in your family.
You also shouldn't give your baby foods that won't dissolve in the mouth, can't be mashed with the gums or can be easily sucked into the windpipe. Alarming as it might seem, if your baby gags during her first encounter with any kind of food, her reaction is normal. Those signs include the ability to support her own head, good tongue thrust can push food out of her mouth and showing interest in the foods you're eating.
When you feel your baby is ready and your pediatrician gives the go -head, you can then start feeding her rice cereal by mixing the cereal flakes with her breast milk or formula. The familiar taste will help her accept the new food and rice cereal tends to be less allergy-provoking than some other foods. Infants are just beginning new tastes and textures, so don't be surprised if she initially rejects your attempts.
Try again in a few minutes. Once she gets used to the rice cereal, increase the quantity slowly. After she gets used to rice cereal, you can then introduce oat or barley cereal followed by vegetables, fruit and then finally meat. Introduce new foods one at a time in order.
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