What was baby's first food and when did you start it?

[fedoragirl]

DD had avocado as her first food at 4 1/2 months. I tossed out all the cereals a week later after I tasted them.

[crl]

Avocado at 6 months. We did blw.

Catherine

[SnuggleBuggles]

We also tried avocado at 6m.

[lizzywednesday]

DD had a taste of peach and nectarine at 4 months, but we didn't start solids officially 'til 6 or 7 months.

We gave her bread and guacamole a lot when she was first starting.

I wasn't comfortable with starting anything at 4 months - DD still had her tongue-thrust reflex and she wasn't sitting up independently. It made me intensely uncomfortable that I'd be spooning cereal into a critter who couldn't sit up on her own ... and the waste from the tongue-thrust didn't appeal to me, either.

I donated the unopened box of cereal that I bought to a food drive at the office.

[momm]

Avocados at 7 months. He loved it

[Penny's Pappa]

Cereal at 4 months.

[bcafe]

Salmon at 8.5 months.

[BabyDahl]

Mashed banana at 6.5 months (not terribly fond of it), shortly after tried avocado (didn't like that either) then pureed pumpkin (she loved it!)

[BabbyO]

Well, we tried to get DS1 to eat rice cereal at 6 mo...but I'm certain that NOTHING ended up in his mouth. He taught us that we needed to do BLW and at 6.5 mo he was trying avocado & toast. Much better result. He was sucking on steak shortly after that!

[BayGirl2]

DS- Avocado at 4 months. He was sooo ready to eat

DD- Rice cereal at 4 months, just this week.

We planned to wait a few months for for DD, but she has been sooo interested in food and met the physical milestones. She's not taking the bottle well still and I decided to try spooning BM into her mouth. Then I tried adding some cereal in to thicken it up and she loved it. We had to grab the camera after I started - these milestones are so less of a big deal with #2 than with #1.