First Foods

[flyerso6]

What was your babies first food (other than rice cereal) and when did you start solids?

The twins have been getting cereal for about a week and a half now and are doing pretty good with it and I am thinking about adding a different solid, I am thinking avocado or sweet potatoes. I plan on making my own baby food too instead of buying the jars.

[ikkin510]

I started foods other then cereal about 2 weeks after cereal.

[KMS]

We combined fresh avocado with brown rice cereal at about 6 months and just started with that instead of starting with plain rice cereal. Shortly after that, about a week-ish, we introduced sweet potatoes.

[uptowngirl]

We skipped cereal altogether and went right for the avocado. ;) She also has had sweet potato, banana, applesauce, mango, pear and quinoa. I think she was about 5 and a half months when we started on real food. At first I mushed up the food for her, but lately I've been giving her bigger pieces and just watching her closely. Today she had two slices of avocado at lunch and about a quarter cup of the quinoa we had with dinner. We've waited probably 3-5 days between new foods just to make sure there aren't any allergies.

[lize566]

Zach started with cereal about 1 week shy of 5 months. He did pretty well, but I waited a couple of weeks before introducing more food, mainly b/c I wanted to make my own and just didn't have time to get everything together (not that it's hard, b/c it's super easy, it was just right before Christmas.) We then tried purees of carrots, pears, apples, peas, sweet potatoes, and maybe a few others, but those were the main ones we did for the first couple of month.