Where do i start when introducing foods?

Question

Our pediatrician told us at our 2 month appointment that we could start introducing foods around 4 months of age, which is a couple of weeks from now. 
Where do I start?! Do I start with oatmeal or rice cereal? Go straight to puréed veggies? Please help! I seriously don’t even know where or how to begin or how frequently I introduce new foods.

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Please please please do your research on current recommendations. (Your dr is not up to date with current information)
All major health organizations recommendations are 6m due to gut maturity. Infants don’t have the enzymes to digest solids properly until around 6m. 
Skip the cereals especially rice. They aren’t healthy and 0 nutritional value. 
Purees or BLW at 6m old.

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I work in child care with infants. Most of my parents start at 4-5 months. Start with vegetables first! One new food a week to make sure no allergic reactions happen. Alternate vegetables and fruit each week, meaning do vegetable one week and the next week do a fruit. We give our infants multigrain oatmeal mixed in with the food. My child hated cereal but that is what I started with. Don’t buy any mixes until you’ve tried all of them individually. Starting out they may only eat half a container if that. Don’t get discouraged if they don’t eat, just keep trying. It was a lot easier for us to get them to eat table food or baby food when they started at 4 months versus those that started at 6 months. By 6 months we had them eating table food.

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I would wait closer up 6 months unless baby is really showing signs of being ready before that. We started with oatmeal and then added veggies. We did once a day just to get the hang of it. She is obsessed with food now at 5.5 month and eats twice a day.

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NO FOOD BEFORE 6 months. Please mama. Don’t do that to your baby. Babies source of nutrition should ONLY be BM or formula for the first 6 months and then when baby is showing all signs of readiness, start solids.

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I wouldn't introduce foods until baby can sit unassisted  and shows interest in food. Most reputable sources I am aware of recommend breast milk or formula exclusively for six months. We did BLW with both and say "food before one is just for fun." Our first foods included avocado, boiled eggs, banana, etc.

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I started with rice cereal and then moved on to purees a week or two later. I started with veggies, and then fruit. This was my first time, and looking back on it, I wish I had known about BLW (baby led weaning). It would've been much more practical.

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I wouldn’t start at 4 months unless baby is truly ready. Our pediatrician told me to start at 4 months too (she just wanted him to gain more weight) but my son wasn’t
Ready so I waited. When he was ready I had started with sweet potatoes, bananas, and apples. Then I went to squash and carrots. After that I just bought a bunch of different ones and just started feeding him whatever. I just got a feel for what he liked. Now he’ll eat pretty much any of them. Some of the gross foods he won’t eat by themselves but if it’s mixed with pears or banana he’ll eat it.

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If you’re going to do cereal do oat cereal instead of rice. A lot of babies get constipated with the rice. Start off with it runnier, then slowly make it thicker as they get used to eating. 
If you’re going with purées do veggies first, & make sure it’s 1 vegetable at a time, for a couple meals before switching to a new kind, not the purées with multiple stuff in them, so then you know if there are any sensitivities. 
That’s the advice my dr gave us when we introduced food to my son!

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veggies or fruits first. every kid hates the cereal. but wait until closer to 6 months

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Look ingo baby lead weaning

Where do i start when introducing foods?

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