Solids

My baby is growing up! Hannah is 5 months today! Anyway, I was going to wait until 6 months but she is starting to try and eat my food so have decided to start solids. So I have 2 questions:

* What did you start giving your baby? Have done a bit of reading and found various things - start with baby rice, start with veges, start with fruit... Not very helpful!

* What time did you start with? I was thinking dinner time after her feed cos she seems to be feeding for longer then and seems a bit grumpy so thought maybe she was hungry? But all the info said start with during the day - cant really work out why tho.

Cant believe shes starting solids already, where have the last 5 months gone...

Edited by aimeejoy

I started Josiah at 4.5 months, with baby rice (Farex) at dinner. It filled him up enough that he started sleeping through one of his 2 night feeds! Then, I started giving him Farex at breakfast and fruit at night, then Farex at breakfast, fruit or custard at lunch and vegetables at night (building up over a month to that stage).

james would,nt eat at 7 months old so i got a friend to help she started him on banana casturd mixed with a little formual and he loves it oh and we started lunch time aswell

Aimee I went and bought Watties baby rice with apples yesterday, havent tried it yet but will tommorow. Will let you know how that went!

I know Zaara is going to be 5 months soon (in 8 days)...oh how time flys

I think I started Jake at three months. Looking back it was too early. I was just soooo excited about it though. can't recall why. Anyway, we started on baby rice. They say do veges first as if you do fruit first they may develop a sweet tooth. Read a mag a few weeks ago that said this was rubbish. Jake ate lots of pumpkin, kumara, bananas, not so much apples, but in Jpaan they were hideously expensive and "someone" kept using his little cans of apples for roast pork. He also loved peas and silverbeet. Now he eats almost anything, but also gets fussy. He will only eat certain things on certain days. ONe thing he loves all the time is weetbix though. He MUST have warm milk however - no sugar ( thanks step-mum!)

Thanks! We gave Hannah some veges - cant say she loved it but was very interested in it

Another reason they say to give first solids (and each new food introduced) during the day is so you can kep an eye on them for a couple of hours to make sure they don't have an allergic reaction.

yep, organics health food shops down here have them, you can order online... the company that makes them are: Sunshine Organic Treats Ltd. Phone (03) 5464505 email sot@xtra.co.nz www.sunshineorganic.co.nz
maybe they can tell you a stockist in your area???

Hey Aimee...how are you going with solids?

How is Hannah liking solids and what seems to be her fav?

Mum buys different watties 4-6 months can food and Zaara likes every thing so far. Well she eats it with out spitting it back on my face.

I started Charlotte on Organic baby rice then moved her on to kumara, carrot and potato. I only fed her vegetables for the first 2 months and then still kept them as her main food for the next few months following that- I had heard that feeding her veges rather than fruit meant that they will eat their veges alot better later on and its easier to introduce fruit after veges than the other way- eg they are less likely to take to veges if they are given fruit first as they prefer sweeter flavours.
Of course some kids will still eat veges fine but I thought I would give it a try. She eats anything and everything and still really loves her veges- I don't know if she was always going to be like that but it seems to make sense to me and I think it may have helped :)