Anyone else skipping cereal?

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I'm excited as we were given the green light on solids at my son's 6 month appt this morning! She said don't even bother with cereal and go straight to veggies and fruits. Anyone else doing this?? We're gonna try sweet potatoes tonight if baby cooperates. 😎

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Skipped cereal and baby food and went straight to real food. It's been going so well. She feeds herself while we eat and she eats what we eat. She loves it.

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My Dr said the same thing, cereal is really just a filler. My daughter eats veggies, fruit, and protein from beans, meat, and egg yolks. She loves food!

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At 6 months babies need iron. Their natural iron stores are depleted and they need to get it from their diet. You can absolutely skip cereal just make sure they get meat. Our girl loves fish and steak. Our pediatrician told us to introduce meats and egg first, then veggies, then fruit.

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We do Baby Led Weaning and it’s going great! Baby just eats what you eat (except for honey). You just cut it into finger shapes and they self feed. You can read more about it, but we love it.

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Do babies need cereal? My daughter doesn't seem to care for it. We are going to start stage 2 foods and give her meats from that

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We give our baby oatmeal. Breastfed babies need iron which can be found in infant cereals. We will eventually start giving him meats but for now he will get his iron from oatmeal. I also think he likes the variety of mixing it up with other foods. 
Our pediatrician actually told us to give it twice a day ... I know some pediatricians will say to skip it. There’s a wide range of suggestions these days...

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I'm with you. Cereal is often just "tummy filler" with no nutritional value. We started with a little baby oatmeal (whole oats chopped up in our Baby Bullet) and have gone onto applesauce, peas and sweet potatoes. It's been fun! Good luck. 😊

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I did rice cereal for a few days with my baby, but only to see how she would react to eating and wanted to start with something bland. I took her off the rice cereal. But we do earths best organic whole grain oatmeal cereal mixed with fruit for breakfast. My baby loves it

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Yes my son tried them and hated it so I just went to purees

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we kinda did too she like s everything i have given her she bit under weight so avocado has been good she loves squash bananas and apples but i think apples and banana are causing harder stool btw i blend all the fruit and veggies fresh

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