Baby Food

miller2917

Cathlete
Hi All - My second daughter (16 weeks) will soon be ready for baby food and I am wondering if any of you health nuts can give me some advice on baby food. I've recently read that you don't have to start babies on grain cereals. Has anyone started with something else.

Also, did you start by making your own or did you use jarred?

I am considering making my own but don't want to invest the time if jarred are just as good. I started my first one on cereals and then moved to jarred.

Can you make any good book recommendations. I've read a little bit about Super Baby Food.......

Thanks, Susan
 
My baby is 19 weeks old now. I've been giving him Gerber Rice cereal for about three weeks. The formula just didnt seem to satisfy him enough. I've thought about making his baby food as well. What I'm not sure I understand just yet, how is a teeny tiny jar of Gerber applesauce $0.80 and yet a very large jar from Dole is $3.00? Both ingredients say "applesauce". I'm wondering what is done to the food that makes it ok for baby.
I too, would love some input from others.
Thanks for bringing this up.
Susan C.M.
 
My doctor was old school.
Cereal in 2 weeks.I used beechnut(hard to find).
My daughter was eating 8 oz bottles in 2 weeks. He said feed her. She is hungry.
3 months food back then 1 new fruit per week then on to veggies then whatever.
My daughters doc was the best.
Always there 24/7 holidays everything.
Too bad he is going to retire ....
He was the best.
Every doc is different. I know some who don't start food for 6 months.
NO sleeping for those moms....
Anne
http://www.picturetrail.com/acatalina
 
Cereal at 2 weeks old? I think my mom said the same thing to me.
Wonder why they don't want you to feed them now until 4 -6 months? Allergies?
 
I didn't start my daughter on solids until she was 6 months old, based on her dr's advise and from books that I read. We started with rice cereal, and moved on to vege and fruits. We made sure that we stay with only 1 kind of new food for at least 2 weeks. Try Earth's Best baby food. It's organic. I do think that it's a lot better than other brands.
 
Hi Susan -
I started my daughter on solids at 4 months (didn't put it in the bottle as I wanted her to learn eating from a spoon right away). It was rice cereal and I found the Gerber brand just fine. She liked all of them, oatmeal, barley, mixed grain. I think I bought one other brand, an organic brand, but can't remember the name exactly, maybe Earth's Best. She had no problem. If I have another baby, I'll start with the grain cereals again.

I bought the baby food from jars. Gerber offers an organic line but I also tried other organic brands as well however sometimes they were more expensive than Gerber's organic. They all worked fine except the ones with meat and the fancier meals, like noodle vegetable, she didn't like those at all. By the time she was ready to try meat, we just fixed her chicken or whatever and cut it up real fine. She liked that. Also, I stayed away from banana (unless it was mixed with other fruit) as it was the one fruit that didn't quite taste as good as a fresh banana.

I preferred to spring for the jars as I always offered her something different everyday and didn't want something sitting for days in the fridge. While we would've liked to have made all her food from scratch, it just wasn't practical to do so, mainly no time.

I can't recommend a book but do recommend variety in the offerings.
Diana
 
I started my kids on Gerber rice then onto the barley & mixed grains in a bowl mixed with breastmilk (or you may use formula). I gave my daughter (1st born) jar food but for my son I made it from scratch. I felt guilty that I didn't nurse him as long as I nursed my daughter. To be honest making baby food is not that bad at all. I would make one big batch, keep some in the fridge for the next few feedings and freeze the rest. It would take a couple of hours to prepar but I think it was worth it. You can save A LOT of money that way too! I also gave both my kids a "new" food for 1 full week to make sure they didn't have any issues. I have 2 kids and at the time was working full time (just went part time a month ago). Enjoy your new baby.
 
Hi. My son is 8 months and I started him on rice cereal at 4 months. I buy the jarred food b/c I just don't have the time to make babyfood. I do give him fresh bananas - I just mash them up really good b/c even though he is 8 months, he has trouble swallowing textured foods. He loves the YoBaby organic yogurt. It is a bit pricey but he enjoys it.
 
I believe I started my son on rice cereal around 4 months old as well. He quickly blew threw every kind w/o any troubles. I think I waited 3-5 days before introducing a new food as per his doctor. I guess I probably started him on jarred foods at about 6 months. I've used Gerber, Beechnut, both organic and the regular. I also tried DelMonte's baby food that Target sells. It was all fine...all the same stuff truly. I never considered making the baby food from scratch. I read the ingredients on the jar. If I thought it was okay, I bought it and if not, I simply skipped it.
 

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