Just starting baby food

I've been spoon feeding the girls cereal for about a month and a half now. Our ped suggested it due to reflux issues. I just started adding in fruits and started with peaches. I have waited the 4 days and now I want to introduce a veggie now. So, my question is, when I introduce the veggie, can I still do peaches at the same time, or do I just do one thing a day? Not really sure how it should work. Right now I feed rice/peaches mix midmorning and with the bedtime bottle. If I can do a fruit and veggie in the same day, do I add the veggie in the afternoon or replace one of the other cereal feeds? Sorry for all the questions, just not sure the best way to proceed. TIA

 

We are working through the same thing at the moment. What I have dont is introduce a new food every four days. Most days my babies have only had one meal because they havent been drinking as much formula. But I have had days where I have inroduced a new food and they have also had a old one in the morning.
With my son who is now four, I started with cereal which also had fruit and then added a veggie as another meal in the afternoon.

 

LOL! Feeding is something I could never grasp! HA! I always wondered what was the right way or the wrong way. And you know what??! The right way to go about it-is YOUR way. Once they've had a fruit/veggie for x amount of days, you can add that to their list of foods they can eat. So yes-you can still do peaches at the same time. I did veggies first, then added fruit. So I did cereal in the morning, veggie at dinner/lunch. Once we added fruit, I did cereal/fruit in the morning and then usually veg/fruit at dinner. Or I offered cereal/veg at lunch. Whatever you are in the mood for! There's no wrong way to go about it! And I was TERRIBLE about keeping track of what they ate, for how many days. I didn't really follow that to a t....

 

At 4 months, we were just introducing rice cereal. Granted they were getting 2 tsp per ounce of formula in their bottles, but they werent quite ready from the spoon. Once they got it at about 5.5 months, we did the 4 day wait rule with foods.

Give the same food for 4 days in a row. If no reaction you can then introduce another and still keep feeding whatever has passed the 4 day rule challenge. We did 2 solids meals at 6 months (bfast and dinner) and then went to 3 at 9 months by adding in lunch.

Try wholesomebabyfood.com for some good suggestions and recipes.

 

Yes, when you introduce a new food you can do it while feeding previous foods that have proven safe. There are no hard and fast rules. You can feed a veggie for breakfast even! You can just add the veggie with another feed. Just always keep in mind that this is still practice at such a young age and 1 or 2 tablespoons is pretty much a meal.