First Weaning Foods?

Question

My son is almost 23 weeks and we've decided to experiment with first weaning. I was wondering what other mothers had decided to use for first tastes? I want to avoid baby cereal and go straight to vegetables + breast milk. I was thinking maybe carrot? What do you think? Xx

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We're starting with baby led weaning next weekend when she turns 6 months.
With my first, we skipped cereal and started with avocados. We also did sweet potato, squash, carrot, pumpkin...etc
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What's in season! Doing squash, sweet potatoes, peas, etc. start with veggies then go to fruits

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So... I will tell you what I am doing and maybe you will follow it, maybe not, but t will at least give you a different perspective.
We plan to raise my son on a paleo lifestyle; plenty of meat, fruits, and veggies with no harmful additives in food. It's actually quite healthy, and given that I have problems metabolizing sugar, and diabetes stalks the men in my husband's family, we figured it is the right thing to do.
To begin with, his first non-milk will be a bone broth. A baby's gut is highly permeable to allow nutrients to pass through. This is okay for milk, but not when the baby switched to foods. The collagen in bone broth actually helps seal off the intestine and prevents food from leeching back into the bloodstream.
Next I will begin with veggies and meats, as well as some fruits (the less sweet variety). I plan to introduce these as puréed one at a time so we can see how he does.
We probably won't do much in the way of grains, but if we do it will be wild rice or brown rice.
Once we know what works we'll for him, we will just purée our food and give it to him.
I plan to EBF until he is a year old or so, and then let him self-wean. His meal will be at lunch or breakfast, never at night, since I want him to get breastmilk in the evenings.

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Veggie stage one first and then Fruits stage one. I didn't purée my own food because at this point it's so little to just test for allergies. Once she is cleared from all stage one veggies and fruits I will begin to puree them myself. I used Gerber organic and it has been great. I also started off with carrots and would test each for 5 days. 2tsp day one, 4tsp days two and 6 tsp day 3-5. Don't start the testing process on new veggies or fruits at night because if an allergy flares up you might not notice right away as you would during the day. Hope this helps! Good luck :)

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So far I've made puréed:
Carrot
Zucchini
Swede
Pumpkin
Potato (mixed with zucchini to make it freezable)
Green beans
Apple
Pear
I read somewhere to introduce a fruit so Bub won't get constipated. 
I mix around his puree's too! like I'll do potato and pumpkin mixed and then carrot & apple mixed with his formula for dessert
I also do 2 serves - 1 savoury and 1 sweet

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I started with lentils puree as they are rich in proteins n fibre. Then i introduced mix of mashed rice with lentils. Now will start wid mashed fruits n eggs.

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We are basically experimenting with everything except cereal. My son's favorites are carrots, pumpkin and turkey and sweet potatoes. He also likes nibbling on his 2 yr old sister's breakfast(she eats strawberries and eggs).  The pedi said what ever we eat he can eat just puree what needs to be pureed. She also suggested adding a tiny bit of natural no sugar added nut butter to help avoid allergies.

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High iron foods are recommended first :)

First Weaning Foods?

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