baby food

At 7 months Myles tolerated pears, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots and oatmeal. That was about it until he was much older.

At 8 months I added peaches and he did fine with that. Around 9 months he could eat green veggies like peas, spinach, broccoli, and berries (blueberries and strawberries).

If you make your own baby food you should probably not do carrots because they are root vegetables and can contain nitrites….so it’s better to buy them since the baby food comapanies supposedly test for that. I used the Gerber Organic brand.

hmm.. i would try the step 1 pureed first.. thats what i did with shane. the sweet potatoes, squash,carrots, peas,and bananas were first. we dont seem to have any problems with bananas. oh ya and he choked on the home made avicados a lot if i dont blend it very well.i tried to leave out as much fruits first so that he will like the veggies. i heard that they wont like the veggies as much if you do fruit first. when i did fruit i made sure i left out berries. but now we just started stage 2’s and i am starting to add the protiens now.

well thats the order we went in! good luck, i hope he loves it!!

shanesmom2006-12-27 16:5:32

We have done rice cereal, applesauce, bananas, peas, sweet potatoes, green beans, and prunes with great success. One of those makes her constipated but I haven’t figured out the exact culprit yet. (obviously not the prunes)

We tried pears early on but I was suspicious it flared up her reflux…now I”m not so sure so I’m going to try them again. We have been lucky that no baby foods seem to make her reflux much worse and better yet….we’ve yet to find a food that she doesn’t like! I’m going to try some actual green beans soon. See how she handles those. Sarah didn’t really care for those star puffs either. I think she just didn’t know what to do with them!

Good luck! I hope it goes smoothly for you!

shelby (or anyone else)… what do you do with the avicodos to make them taste better?? i thought it was the chunks that he gagged on, but he just doesnt like the taste.

and i forgot to mention that i think the pears do flare his reflux up a bit as well.. i think apples do a little too but not as much as pears.

Lauren,

Myels won’t eat plain avacado either. I usually mash it as fine as I can (with a little water, milk or formula to thin it some) and then add it to his other pureed baby foods. Sneaky, hugh? He doesn’t even notice it.

We did the same thing – just mashed the avocados really fine and thinned it out with a little breastmilk when they were first starting out. My kids loved it and still love avocados to this day.