Introduction of rice cereal and foods??

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When did you introduce cereals or foods? Our pedi said we can introduce rice cereal between 4 and 6 months if baby shows readiness and all other foods after 6 months, but all the research I’ve seen says to wait for everything including cereal until after 6 months...??

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Look up baby led weening - we introduced solids around 6 months (avocado and sweet potato) and never did cereal.

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All the newest research says it’s best to wait until six months. It’s generally becoming more and more old school to introduce any sooner than that. Also many people are skipping the rice cereal all together because it’s nutritionally pointless. 
We started with purées at six months and didn’t do rice cereal at all.

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Pediatricians deal with a zillion different health issues relevant to anyone from birth to age 18. It's a very broad field. So they don't know everything about each topic. Just as matter of course, they are often wrong. So as parents we have to do our own research and chose carefully when to disagree with a pediatrician's recommendations. When your pediatrician is advising something counter to what the AAP recommends, that usually means the pediatrician isn't up to date and needs to do some more reading on that topic.
You'd think on a topic that affects every single baby, like food introduction, they'd bother to pay attention to current research and recommendations, but not all do.

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I wait until six months.

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We started at 4 months with rice cereal. And 6 months for baby food

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What? I'm surprised by people's comments on here. My pediatrician recommended starting at 4 months (or as early as baby will eat) because new research shows that starting solids earlier helps prevent food allergies (which we all know are becoming way rampant). I make my own rice cereal for my son. I don't think everybody has to do the same thing though, it depends on each baby and honestly I don't think any option is "bad" as long as your baby is still primarily drinking milk

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My baby is 5 months next week & we JUST started rice cereal this week. He’s not a fan 🤣 I can tell my breast milk isn’t doing it anymore. My paperwork says whether they’re over 13lbs or eating 32 oz a day.

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Never introduced cereal. I went straight to puréed veggies.

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Never cereal foods at 8

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I gave my baby the baby oatmeal mixed with breastmilk starting when she was a little over 4 months. I had planned on waiting longer but she started daycare then and refused to take bottles when she was there but she would eat some off the spoon. The baby oatmeal kept her from going 8-9 hours without food.

Introduction of rice cereal and foods??

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