Did you eat my babies?

I was trying to go by the books and start my son on solids at 6 months. Just before five months he started screaming at me to share whatever I was eating and pulling what ever place setting towards him. At 5 months I started asking Mamas before me what to do and they all insisted that he was ready.

So at 5 months I gave him rice cereal and he was so excited until he realized that there was bigger and better food out there.

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Thus began the journey of feeding an infant with a teenagers appetite: We started cereal at 2 months because of acid reflux was supposed to be in a bottle but that was just frustrating everyone. I started vegetables with my first but with some diaper issues we did this because of the BRAT diet. She is much more interested in the food then the bottle. She attacks the spoon if you are not fast enough.

Looking to start some veggies this week! Hi Amanda My daughter just turned 3 months and has reflux as well , she vomits all the time What cereals did u start first and were u feeding via bottle or with spoon? Our 3 month old also has reflux issues. What has seemed to help with the spit ups is formula with rice starch in it.

If you havent tried, see if it works. I have had my son on cereal since 4 months. He spits up a lot and he is already 20lbs. The cereal I started on was Rice only.

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My sister made the mistake of using oatmeal on one of her kids. They had really bad digestive issues. That might just be a person experience. But rice is easier to digest from what I hear. Also there is formula that has rice starch. Baby 1 we tried rice cereal at months exactly.

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Baby 3 I was going to wait until at least 6 months which is in 3 days because of the new allergy info but finally caved at about 5. He was also constantly eating non-food items like paper and grabbing everything we were trying to eat.

I do try to limit anything with gluten because my husband and oldest son are gluten intolerant but other than that I just make sure I know where the benadryl is in case he has a reaction. With my kids we have established routines and sleep patterns. When that sleep pattern is interrupted by waking hungry then that was an indication that my baby was in need of more calories.

I plan on waiting until my daughter is 6mo before starting solids, however I was wondering if you had any idea why her doctor was so gung ho about her starting them at 4mo. She is EBF and growing just fine! She said many mothers find this phase a shock because it comes right after babies finally seem settled into a good routine. This just happened to us!

We just went through this as well.

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I read about the four month sleep regression and it completely explained what we were experiencing. Suddenly every nap and bedtime was a battle fought with a half sleep shrieking tantrum. For our boy it was like Dr. I was reading the comments..

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And can you get the Great Lakes Gelatin in stores? I would love some thoughts and feedback. I am a proud first mommy of a five month old girl and she has been showing signs that she is ready for solids for a few weeks now. She has been grabbing for food and mimicking chewing. Yes, Great Lakes Gelatin comes from grass-fed cows so I feel very good about consuming it.

When Can My Baby Start Eating Solid Foods?

My son is drooling big time and teething AND seems very interested in food…he stops everything to watch me eat. So, my bottom-line question is…did Griffin drool when he was teething…or was he able to mange the saliva at that point? Griffin was drooling but he never was a HUGE drooler. Or, you could also run by your doctor. If he is getting teeth he is ready… teeth are for eating. They drool more when they teeth because they are chewing on things tryin to push rhose teeth through.

At least give him a taste or two and see if he wants it. Griffin is so handsome! She did great with solids. The other two ate all the baby food, no problem, but they are fussy about their solid food now! Although, I do like the way banana and avocado mash tastes. Danielle Best He is soooo big. I cant believe it, and he is so unbelievably adorable.

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Good job Mom and Dad. I do not understand how that worked…. Cassaundra Hernandez I started my son on baby cereal at three weeks he ate solid foods at 2 months. Brittany Berghammer and many people cant see giving babies solids at such an early age… there will always be total opposite ends of the spectrum on anything especially parenting.

We waited till they were ready and did baby led solids it worked out for us. I still wanna know how to keep foods away from a child till they are 2!!! Dawn Acero I agree with all five of your great suggestions. Plus, a mix of banana and avocado is actually a great adult snack too. Sarena Parker I started rice cereal with breast milk at 5 and a half months, she seemed ready and was a little underweight so I thought it would help.

I have a hard time thinking about starting it any sooner than that. Their digestive systems are not ready for solids so early! Karine Vaillancourt My son started grabbing things off my plate or protesting whenever I ate to try some. It was fairly obvious to me. He was about 7 months old. Laurel Kimmel With my first i started around 10 months. With my second i started a little before 12 months, although she wanted food as early as 4 or five months.

Junk food, in this study, is defined as highly palatable, energy-dense and nutrient-poor. It is likely that children will like the taste of this food even if it's unfamiliar because it appeals to our innate predilections. But what researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia found was that after exposure to junk food in the womb, and through breast milk, brain reward pathways become desensitised to them — in the same way that drug addicts need increasing doses of drugs to get the desired hit, the theory goes that these children will need more Kit Kats or crisps. If you're now feeling bad that you could only hold down dry crackers and Pringles your entire pregnancy, don't.

There are plenty of other factors that shape a child's appetite for different foods as they grow up, from peer pressure and advertising to individual taste sensitivity. Scientists may have looked into the effects of fetal flavour learning on infancy and early childhood, but as Alison Ventura, assistant professor in nutritional sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia, points out "not into adolescence and adulthood.

That's a good question: How long does it last? What are the other possible factors that might mediate the effect over time? You can imagine it's pretty complex — that having broccoli when you're a foetus doesn't mean you're going to love it when you're an adult. Have you seen any correlation between what you ate while pregnant and your children's tastes?

Or did yours disprove the rule? Follow Amy Fleming on Twitter. The amniotic fluid sniffers Pity the poor participants in this experiment carried out by Mennella. A love of veg Another experiment by Mennella involved one group of mothers drinking ml of carrot juice four days a week for three weeks during the last trimester of pregnancy, a second group doing the same during the first two months of breastfeeding, and a control group giving carrot juice a wide berth altogether.

Not all is lost If you're now feeling bad that you could only hold down dry crackers and Pringles your entire pregnancy, don't. Topics Food Tasting notes.