What food did you offer your baby first?

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Are you offering the traditional rice cereal, then oatmeal, then veggies, etc. OR just skipping ahead to veggies or fruits? With my 3 year old, we followed the traditional route and started slowly on rice then oatmeal and so on. I'm wanting to skip the processed crap and just go straight to veggies with this baby. Thoughts?

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I skipped and tried the following so far, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, pears, apples, avocado and a mix of them all.  Gasp.... I didn't wait the required "3" days.

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We tried rice and he hated it so we went to oatmeal and he loves it! We're gonna do that for a couple months and then maybe at six months get him on veggies and then fruits!

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I did the oatmeal with banana in it OMG she loves it see how happy she is lol

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We are skipping the cereals and at six months starting on veggies.

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Skipping the cereal... also, definitely do veggies for a while before fruits!

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Just started oatmeal and LO loves it. Did carrots for two days but I think it didn't quite agree with her tummy so might just stick with the cereal for a few days before trying out something new, probably sweet potato.

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Baby had a bad reaction to rice cereal. So know we make our own organic baby foods. We've tried peas, bananas, and sweet potatoes. He's not really a fan of any of them but it's good practice!

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My pediatrician told me the baby doesn't need iron fortified cereal until 6 months because that's when your breast milk content starts to change and the baby's iron stores start to go down. So he said if we do food before 6 months to just go for stage 1 fruits and veggies and then mix in rice cereal or oatmeal at 6 mo.

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I started oatmeal cereal which he likes okay, yesterday started with apples. He's really not big on eating anything yet tbh just wants the breast lol!

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Skipping cereals. Pureed banana, apple and carrot went down well. Not all together ;)

What food did you offer your baby first?

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