What was your feeding routine when you introduced solids to your baby?

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I have a soon-to-be 5 month old son and hubby and I are feeding 6oz of formula every 3 - 4 hours and some pureed solids after feeds. (since 3 months 2 weeks)

My question to you guys is,,,, How did you go about introducing solids to your little one and what was your routine when feeding it to them?
I don't give him pureed foods after every milk feeds. It's only every now and then (after his feeds), but I wanted to get in a proper routine of feeding him half solids and he's milk because he weighs only 11 pounds.....and setting up a routine is good

 

[?Mama of 3 boys?]

My baby is almost 5 months too
At his 4 month check up the Dr gave us the ok to start baby rice cereal mixed with formula, water, or baby juice.
So, we did the cereal for a few weeks, then he told us to introduce orange veggies. So, we started with squash.
Next week we will move on to carrots and sweet potatoes, then the green veggies, then fruits.

I plan on using this schedule:

Early morning-formula
Breakfast-Cereal
Lunch-1/2 jar fruit and 1/2 jar veggie
Dinner- 1/2 jar fruit and 1/2 jar veggie
Bedtime-Cereal
And bottles in between
Something to that effect...Gerber suggests 2 servings of cereal, 2 servings of fruits and 2 servings of veggies a day. Serving sizes are 1/2 jar of baby food, and 4 tablespoons of rice cereal.
So all in all your baby should eat 8 tablespoons of cereal, 1 jar of fruit, and 1 jar of veggies per day.
Hope this helps

Oh...and later on the meats will be part of lunch or dinner.

 

[Pippin]

No particular routine. I offered a bit of rice cereal once a day, in no particular schedule or pattern. Just whenever I thought about it and was able to express a bit of milk for it. Over the next few weeks I offered other foods, and went to 1-2 feeds a day rather than just one.


She continued to breastfeed on demand, about every 2-3 hours and at night.

We started solids at 5 1/2 months. Recommendations were a bit different when my daughter was a baby -- 4-6 months rather than the current '6 months.'

(BTW, I hope that when you say you're giving purees 'after feeds' that you dont' mean after EVERY feed. If you must offer solids this early, once a day is plenty, and twice would be the absolute max.)

EDIT: If his weight gain is low, you dont' want to be increasing his solids. Most solid foods contain less fat and far fewer calories than breastmilk or formula. So it's better to encourage as much formula as possible, and hold off on the solids.

EDIT#2: Mama of 3 quotes Gerber's website in supporting her plan to give 4 meals of solids a day from 4-5 months.

Of COURSE Gerber wants mothers to give lots of solids as early as possible. Gerber obviously benefits from selling as much baby food as they can. The AAP, OTOH, recommends introducing solids slowly and gradually, and keeping formula/breastmilk as the basis of babies diet until around a year.