We started Lorelei on solid foods a few weeks ago. Most people I know started their babies on solids before six months but I mostly waited until after. I say mostly because she got a nibble of banana, a little avocado and a few sweet potato puffs while she was 5 months old.
We started with rice cereal mixed with breast milk but I quickly moved away from that
So far she has had
Rice cereal
Banana
Avocado
Asparagus
Peas
Carrots
Sweet Potato
Apple
Chicken
A few pieces of rotini with a tiny bit of spaghetti sauce on it
and chewed on a leaf of lettuce- she may or may not have eaten any of that
I've been playing with Baby Led Weaning (which is misleadingly named because she still gets all the nursing she wants) ... she does get some pureed stuff but she also gets finger food every meal. Her purees are a bit textured, and we don't buy jarred baby foods
Her favorites are banana and avocado and she LOVES the fresh feeder- it's a handle with a mesh net that holds food. They chew on the mesh to squish the food out. It is easy and something she can do herself. The real "baby led weaning" advocates decry both the use of the mesh feeder and any sort of pureeing, but I really like doing a bit of all of it. She gets used to the varied ways of eating so its all good.
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