When will you start introducing solids?

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Comment your thoughts on why earlier or later?! I’m curious and am not sure when to start with my baby.

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Purees at 4months, regular food at 6months

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I think it completely depends on how much interest your baby shows in food and how well they do breastfeeding/formula feeding: if they are satisfied as is, then it’s good to wait. If they need something more, then go for it! Every babies needs are different!

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6m is ALLLLLL major heath organizations recommendations due to gut maturity. Infants don’t have the enzymes to digest solids properly until around 6m. 
Please please do your own research on this. And just cause dr said ok at 4m means nothing. It really means that, that dr is out of date and needs to reevaluate what his/her knowledge is of current infant nutrition. They aren’t nutritionists/dietitian. Have little to 0 edu in nutrition.

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I’m planning on talking to my doctor at his 4 month check up. He will be 4.5 months at that appointment. He’s 3.5 months now and not showing any ready signs, so I’m thinking at least 5 months.

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I'll be asking his dr at his 4 month appointment if we can start before 6 months because hes always interested in my food.

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6 months. With my son we let him taste some purées at like 4.5 months and he basically just spit it out because that thrust reflex is still there. By 6 months he’d actually eat it. We did BLW and plan on doing the same with this baby.

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I’m gonna be asking at her 4 month appointment next week! Because she stares at us SO hard when we’re eating and she starts drooling 😂 I feel so bad that I end up putting her in the swing or bouncer facing away from me 🤭 
But since she’s EBF, I wanna be sure it’s fine to do and obviously still nurse as much as she wants (I’m feeding on demand) I wanna start with oatmeal cereal maybe but we will see. I started my first at 5ish months cause that’s when he showed interest.

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We will probably do veggies starting at 5 months and fruits at 6 months. 
Did that with my 5 year old

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We may start at 5 months. He's 4 months and already showing signs of wanting to eat but we didn't want to start too early. We are discussing again with his pediatrician at his 5 month appointment.

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At my 2 mo appt the pediatrician said we’d talk about it at the 4 mo appt. I’m going to do it as soon as she is showing all the signs of being ready. It will be tiny amounts. I work and am not sure I’ll be able to go past 6 mo breastfeeding so I’d like her to be already introduced to solids at that point.

When will you start introducing solids?

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