Confused about solids

DD just recently started solids (she's 6 mos. old). She has been getting 2 TBSP. of rice cereal in the morning for the last week. Yesterday I decided to try some carrots (which she hated yesterday, but loved today).

I know I'm supposed to try a new food after 3 days - but how do I incorporate it all?

Tomorrow the plan is:
6:30ish: 7 oz. bottle when she wakes up
9:30ish: 2 TBSP. rice cereal followed by 5-6 oz. bottle
12:30ish: Jar of carrots follow by 7 oz. bottle
4:30ish: 7 oz. Bottle
Later on: BF

What do I do the next day? Do I try another food in place of the carrots? If so, when do I give her the carrots again? Should she be getting rice cereal WITH the carrots? What food should I try after the carrots?

I really feel so clueless about this all (and my ped's directions were VERY vague!). Thanks.

P.S. How long should it take DD to finish a 7 oz. bottle??

Re: Confused about solids

I think I posted my peds schedule awhile back - I will try and bump it for you.

Honestly though - I just use it as a guideline and do whatever I'm in the mood really.

I usually give him

Breakfast - cereal and a fruit
Lunch - fruit and a veggie
Dinner - fruit and a veggie (or we will skip dinner all together some days.

I will now be introducing meats - so I will then probably do
Breakfast - cereal and a fruit
Lunch - Veggie and a meat
Maybe the same for dinner?

YOu should stick with the same food for three days so that way you will know if she's allergic - so I would give carrots one more day! HTH.

I will bump the post for you!

Message edited 12/30/2007 11:25:24 PM.

Re: Confused about solids

You can mix the carrots INTO the rice cereal to. I never seperate them b/c my son doesnt like the cereal on its own...and we moved right to oatmeal, and stick with that anway.

Give carrots every day for 3 days with the cereal..then you move on to a new food. Say its peas..you give peas each day with the cereal for 3 days, then you move on to say apples...etc...

After you've done all the foods you want to at the time, then you can mix and match as you see fit based on tastes etc.

I try to do a lot of random stuff, to incorporate different tastes but we do a LOT of sweet potatoes , apples and bannans b/c those are his fav's right now.

Re: Confused about solids

DS is 4+ months here is his schedule:

7:30 bottle
10:30 bottle
12:00 cereal w/ veggies
2:30 bottl
6:00 cereal w/fruit
8:00 bottle

Today we started green beans. I will keep the vegetable as greenbeans until Wednesday when we will move onto carrots....he liked the greenbeans so there wasnt much of an issue BUT had he NOT liked the greenbeans I still would of given him a couple of spoonfuls until Wednesday just to make sure there was no allergy and given him Squash (which he loves) instead as his veggie...

Keep in mind that some of the foods have a different consistancy and for some infants getting used to a new flavor AND a new consistancy is tough. Try adding a little bit of cereal to a new food to help with the flavor and the consistancy...

Re: Confused about solids

Thanks for posting this...i'm going through the same thing right now.

Diana, when do you feed your son his formula? Also, do you not give him cereal now?

At thi point he's had cereal and oatmeal and we've done 3 days of sweet potatoes and carrots. I've only been doing 2 meals per day and formula in between. I feel like I might be feeding him too much. I think we've talked about this before, I feel like my son would just keep eating and eating if I let him.

I didn't think this would be so confusing! One more trick to add to my schedule is that he is in daycare so I don't want to be giving him breakfast at 6am because of our time schedule. I'd rather them give it to him once he is there. So his first meal is always just a bottle. Thanks (and hope I didn't hijack - just a hot topic for me too).

Re: Confused about solids

Our feeding goes like this:

Feed DS breakfast as soon as he wakes up. He gets cereal and fruit.

An hour later he gets a 6oz bottle.

Usually around 12ish - he then gets fruit and a veggie. An hour later another 6oz bottle.

Around 3:30 - he will get some sort of solids - I don't give it all the time - and I'm not consistent enough with this feeding - I have to start it on a regular basis. Then a 6oz bottle.

6:15ish - 6oz bottle and bed.

Up until about a week ago I was giving him cereal with every feeding. I would just mix the cereal with whatever he was getting - but now that he has tried so many fruits and veggies - I decided to cut out the cereal and give him the other things instead.

I hope that makes some sort of sense for you!

Re: Confused about solids

thanks so much!!! that does make sense (and helps a lot)

Re: Confused about solids

We are still on the trying all the different foods stage so i havent been mixing and matching yet. We just finished fruits and will be starting veggies this week. We wait like 3-4 days b/t each new food.
DS gets the baby food 2x a day: breakfast at around 8:15Am and then gets his dinner at around 6-6:30PM

Re: Confused about solids

My son just turned 5 mos and this is his schedule - although he has been weird about the first 2 bottles so I may have to adjust - just not sure how - may wait until I add a third meal - with my first son I added the 3rd meal at 6 mos once he had already tried all stage 1 fruits and veggies. I strated cereal at 3.5 mos and started fruits around 4.5 mos and will start veggies today (a little over 5 mos).

But this is a typical day here...

wakeup (730ish) - 3-5oz bottle
10ish - cereal and jar of baby food
1230ish - 4-5.5 oz bottle
300ish - 5.5 oz bottle
600ish 5.5 oz bottle
730ish cereal and jar of baby food
930 6.5 oz bottle

Message edited 12/31/2007 7:47:20 AM.

Re: Confused about solids

Great post! We're starting next week w/veggies and I am CLUELESS!!