I didn't get the memo?

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Did I miss something? I'm a ftm my lo is 7 months old and she has only had breastmilk, oatmeal, various stage two foods, wheat puffs, and a taste of peanut butter. I have a few friends who also have 7 months old and they have given their lo pizza, mac and cheese, ice cream and McDonald's nuggets. They all laugh and ask me if I have my lo on a diet? Ummm no? Did I miss something? Can babies have everything now that they are 7/8 months old??? Serious question. If so, I didn't get the memo 🙄

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I got the memo and I threw it away!! I have zero plans of introducing junk food to her right now. I want her to enjoy fruits and vegetables and acquire a taste for healthy foods before she has anything like awesome junk food! Once you introduce sweets, nuggets, and all the deliciousness that is bad for us, good luck ever trying to get them to eat healthy! You're doing the right thing in my opinion because I'm doing the same!! And agree with previous poster, food before 1 is just for fun!!

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My LO has been eating fruit, veggies, cereal, pasta and meat. Soon starting egg & fish. But I prepare separately for her as I don't give her salt, sugar and cooked oil...

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Everyone is different but we have decided not to give our daughter our food until around 9 months. She doesn't even have teeth yet lol. But I'm definitely not ready to give her junk at such a young age.

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Yes. After 6 months they can have anything except honey. Even if they don't have teeth yet. My daughters ped said she can have pieces of real food about the size of her thumbnail to start. I would just pull off pieces of whatever I was eating. Now I put stuff in front of her (she can do bigger pieces now), and her fine motor skills are improving by the day it seems!  But this is my second... I was like you with my first. I would give my son yogurt and puréed stuff and maybe some yogurt melts or cereal puffs here and there. At his 9 month checkup his doc was like ok seriously ditch the purees and give this boy real food! 😂 And both of mine were exclusively formula fed... still getting about 24-28oz a day with 2-3 meals at this age.

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My oldest he is 2 and I was so paranoid feeding him! Well I think that was wrong of me he is the pickiest eater I have ever met😑 it is brutal trying to get him to eat something he likes and he has dairy, severe peanut allergy.

My youngest who is 8 months I feed him everything! Other then any peanuts or honey. He loves food any kind of food! Tonight he had some Alfredo and was in heaven lol

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Seriously. I'm so behind apparently my sister is always saying how her daughter ate everything by 8 months but what she keeps forgetting is that this is my first she keeps comparing my daughter to her second. Of course with the second we're all "experts" with the first we're all too scared to give them anything. So I've been giving her more of our food cause now I feel behind. My daughters also not sitting up by herself or crawling. She can sit if I place her but won't get up. Hopefully it all changes soon cause I'm starting to feel like a bad mother !!

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Our pediatrician told us to give our son everything except honey once he turned 6 months.

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Other than stage 2 purée, my son has only had baby yogurt lil crunchers baby mum mums and peanut butter in with oatmeal in the morning. So far the only thing he give hard time on is plain mango. He must not like taste. :(

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I don't even follow that. I personally think it's to early for those hard types of food. I let her eat the gerber lil crunchies and the lil mum mums things like that. Her doctor said to give her boiled chicken I said no way she's not ready for that yet

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I didn't get it either. I'll give a taste if I think it's something he can handle but other than that I've only given purees and teething wafers.

I didn't get the memo?

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