what was your BF baby's first solid food?

I feel like my supply is barely keeping up and they are still hungry after nursing. Does that mean they are ready for solids? They will be 6 months old on Thanksgiving - only about 2.5 weeks away.

Im conflicted about starting them on pureed avocado or just some plain rice or barley cereal... what did you start with?

 

We did cereal first. The solution for your supply worry- nurse them again in an hour. You can do it- the more you put them on, the more you'll make.

 

We started with rice cereal and they hated it so within a week or two we moved on to veggies. We did peas, then green beans, then squash. It took them quite a while before they ate enough that it mattered, so I still nursed them just as much.

 

We did egg yolk mixed with some BM and then avocado and plain whole milk yogurt. There is a great book we used called Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. She gives great guidelines for when and what to feed. We followed her guidelines and have a very healthy 3 yr old who is not picky at all. We made all her food and the book has a lot of ways to make it simple and easy to do in bulk!

 

We did cereal first then green beans.

 

:hug: It's hard not knowing how much milk you are giving them. If you want to try to increase your supply, try adding another nursing session in.

To answer your question, I did rice cereal first and then sweet potato.

 

I agree with adding a nursing session.

We did very soft ripe bananas, plain yogurt, and cereal first. Not too long after that we started adding veggies. Good luck!

 

I agree with pp about adding another nursing.

dd#1: a dill pickle. her first solid food was at 6 months and she had 6 teeth already. I gave her the pickle as a joke thinking she would suck a little juice off and pinch up her face. instead she grabbed it and literally ate the whole dill pickle.

ds#1 - potato chips around 6 months old. (I know, bad mommy)- 2 teeth before he was 4 months old, about 6 teeth by 6 months too.

dd # 2 and ds #2 rice cereal mixed with breast milk.

 

the twins we did avacado. With Kennedy we did mashed up banana.
We never did much of the "rice cereal". They dont need it like they did in the " old days" especially for breastfeeding babies Good first foods can be anything your eating just mashed up Bananas, avacados, pears, sweet potatoes, etc etc. best of luck!

 

If you start solids this will probably not be enough extra nutrition to solve a supply issue for quite a while. Try adding another nursing session or pumping once a day to increase your supply.

We started with pureed vegetables, carrots and pumpkin, and apple puree and did not add cereal for several weeks.

 

I loved that book!

We started with Avocados, Sweet Potatoes and tried Rice cereal but quickly quit that.
The grains that the book talked about that stuck with me was Millet. I still do a mixture in the mornings for the kids. Millet, lentils, barley, amaranth etc. they are easy to grind up and cook yourself so you don't have to waste any breastmilk reconstituting like you might if you did the boxed rice cereal.

we quickly added the egg yolk and whole milk yogurt too!

 

I never did cereal, but started them on what we were eating mushed up.

My eldest had mango first since it was very plentiful at the time (Dominican Republic). He was about 7 months.

Second had ketchup at about 5 days. Her thoughtful older brother gave her a covered french fry in the car and she happily sucked on. At 7 she is my best eater, very varied and adventerous. Who knows, maybe it was that hfcs beginning! :laughing:

I have no idea what or when the twins started eating for solid food. Was I supposed to remember? I do remember spoon feeding one of them, which I never did with the older two. At 3 she still likes me to feed her.

I would let her nurse more if you are worried about that and let her experiment with solid food. At this point it isn't for calories or nutrition so letting her nurse more should help. I too read super baby food and took what I liked from it.

 

Sweet Potato.

 

Maybe they are wanting to nurse a lot because of a growth spurt; it's pretty common around that age.

I gave my boys that rice cereal, but I wouldn't advise it. That stuff really constipates if they eat a lot. My daughter ate some yogurt, strawberry, peach smoothie for her first food. She stold it from her Daddy. But pears, rice, cereal, and oatmeal were her first (Mommy sanction)foods. I just gave them to her a few times during her fifth month since she was begging to eat. This week she just started meats and carrots.

 

Could we give under 1 babies egg yolk??? I read some where shouldn't give baby egg though. If we can. I would love to.

 

Just not the egg whites