I've been feeding my 5months old with rice cereal.....?

I am a first time mom too and my daughter is only a week from being 6 months. She's been eating rice cereal since she was 2 months due to acid reflux and I've never breastfed. We just recently started her on baby food. To start off start with the stage one and my doctor told me to start with orange foods such as carrots and sweet potatoes and squash and just things like that. Give them one type for a couple days to see how they do then move to the next. I give my daughter formula or sometimes water to drink with it. After she did good on the orange foods I just started giving her fruits and other vegetables. Gerber has this awesome menu planner that you could use. I used it to see what she could eat right now. http://menuplanner.gerber.com/

I hope this helps.

if he is eating the rice cereal with no problems, you can start by introducing the baby oatmeal next, or the barley cereal.

As far as fruits go, the easiest ones to start with are bananas and avocados, because all you have to do is mash them and mix them with some formula to thin them out.

When you are ready to move on to other fruits and vegetables, either use the canned stuff, or you can make your own at home by steaming them and then tossing them in a food processor.

As long as you introduce new foods one at a time, your baby can eat pretty much the same foods you do, they just have to be bland and pureed. Only feed them one new food at a time so in case their is an allergic reaction, you know what caused it.

Avoid honey and peanut butter, since these are common allergens, and stay away from citrus fruits because the acidity is hard on baby tummies.

My daughter is 13 months and she has been eating whatever we eat cut up small since she got her top and bottom teeth in.

I waited a month after I introduced rice cereal. I started out with all veggies then fruits too after a couple of weeks. I just didn't want him to taste sugar first. It's recommended that you don't start them out with anything sweet. So I did peas for a few days, greenbeans, squash, carrots then the sweetest which was sweet potatoes. Then on to fruits but that's only once a day. I didn't fully introduce meat until 8 mos.

Add: he's also been on oatmeal, barley, whole wheat and brown rice cereal.

Mine loved banannas to start with. If you give him sweet fruits like apple early it can cause a bellyache and waking up during the night. You can feed him pretty much any stage one baby food, just go slow. Mine is 9 months now and between 6 and 9 months we began feeding her whatever we were eating. She loves scrambled eggs, green beans, steamed carrots, PB&J sandwiches, Gerber toddler meals, and if we are eating out, bits and pieces of our dinner. Rice cereal is filling but not very nutritious, so you might want to consider adding other foods, but his nutrition is coming from his milk right now. Solids are just for fun!

you can introduce boiled potatoes for start. mashed. not butter or anything. measure a tablespoon full and feed him little by little so he will have an idea of taste and texture of other food. then for lunch introduce another kind of food like a ripe banana or an apple. scrape little amounts of the fruit using his spoon. other food you can try are boiled carrots, hard boiled eggs, or steamed rice with nothing on it. of course you have to cool them down first. but warm enough for him to eat it. not too cold though. do you give him water aside form the formula? you can introduce orange juice too. or apple juice but pic the unsweetened ones. too sweet might make him jumpy.

I started rice, at for months, then switched each week to a different single grain.. Those cereals are jam packed with everything they need, plus your milk, your baby will be more than fine. I started with a pear after I tried all the cereals.

supply him some infant nutrients prunes. try 2 oz..of prune juice with 2 oz..of boiled water. you are able to also positioned an oz of darkish Karo Syrup into 4 oz..of formula. Bananas are well-known to be binding and so are rice cereal. try him on distinct cereals like oatmeal and different end result jointly with prunes, peaches, and pears.

Have you seen http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ ? It was a really fantastic resource for me when I was researching starting solids for my son. Ultimately he never ate baby cereal or any commercial baby food because we did baby led weaning, which is explained on that site. At 7.5 months he was eating nearly everything I ate.

My siblings would start eating foods like that when they were around that age...... But not fully... Just a little at a time... until they were older and got off of their bottles :)