how long after cereal did you start veggies and fruits?

Rylan actually started "eating" his cereal yesterday!! I was such a proud mama . How long after cereal did you start veggies and fruits? I want to do veggies first...hopefully make my own.

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I think for us it was around 2-3 weeks, we did oatmeal, rice & barley, then moved onto veggies. I know its been posted on here before, but a great site for making babyfood is www.wholesomebabyfood.com.
Glad he is "eating" now!

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I did veggies before fruits, and did yellow/orange fruits first. I know there was a reason why but I cannot remember I made them myself and it was super-easy.

I believe I began to give him veggies about 3 - 4 weeks after he mastered cereal.

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About 2-3 weeks too! I started with fruits but wish I did the veggies first.

Good luck :)

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We just waited long enough to give each cereal a try. Rice he ate for a little over a week, then his doctor said 3 days was enough to see if he had a reaction. So then he had oats and barley within a second week. After that, we started veggies.

He started eating solids at 6 months though, so the process may have been a little faster. I think some moms who start cereal at 4 months give it a little more time. How old is Rylan?

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So it seems everyone tried all cereals before switching. I guess I should try that first. We have an appointment today so i'll ask.

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a few weeks...prob a few days after she finally got the hang of cereal (took her awhile!)

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I actually have not tried any other cereal besides rice and he's just started veggies (he's eating green peas)

I started veggies after 2 weeks of cereal...I am going to try oatmeal after I know he is not allergic to the peas...so next will be oatmeal and peas

then oatmeal with another veggie, after a couple of days of that and if there is no reaction...I will try barley with the veggie he is already trying. And then introduce another veggie. So for a while I will be doing different cereal with different veggies before I start fruits..I want him to really enjoy the veggies before I start the sweet stuff.

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about 2 weeks....we did rice and then oatmeal (she didn't like it). We didn't try barley at the recommendation of our ped and went right to the fruits.

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I waited until DS was on the full serving of cereal (and for a few days) before I moved on to veggies. We added veggies rather than replaced the cereal with them, which is why I did it that way.

ETA: we didn't do all the cereals before switching. I went straight to oatmeal b/c the rice starch in one of his formula changes bound him up so much. I knew he wasn't allergic to it so I figured that was enough for now. I only just introduced barley (well, multi-grain is the Earth's Best version) a couple of weeks ago b/c I kept forgetting to switch the oatmeal out.

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3 weeks. I did a week each or rice, oatmeal and barley then started veggies first and then fruits. It's so easy to make your own too!

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Actually, our pediatrician thought it was fine to go to veggies or fruits before working through all the cereals. I just went through the cereals anyway because that's what it seems like everyone does. She just recommended the basics: carrots, peas, squash, sweet potato, pears, apples, bananas, prunes, and peaches to start. She stressed not buying things that are mixes until you try each single food and make sure there are no allergies.

So it seems you are okay moving to a fruit or veggie if you prefer!

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We started with cereal and then moved on to fruit about a week or two later. We didn't start vegetables for about a month or so after we started fruit. DD was 5 1/2 months when we finally started veggies.

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Cereal for a month. Rice for a few weeks then Oatmeal with banana mixture. Then onto Veggies only. I did the same process with my first DD. Audrina will be 6mths. in 8 more days so I will try a few more foods. Next month I am switching to stage 2 foods. Maybe 8mths.

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Thanks guys!! I think i'm going to try a full week of each cereal then move onto veggies...then fruits.

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dawn, my son is the same age at your s and i started cereal with im about two weeks ago. it took a little bit of time but now he likes it. he would gag and cry when i first gave it to him which told me he wasnt ready for it. i then tried again with oatmeal. i usedto give rice to my daughter but it would bind her and i was told by the pediatrian to do rice oatmeal barley then multi in that order and to do fruits before vegetables because fruits are less likely to cause a reaction for some reason. also when you try them on fruits or vegetiables give him it 3-5 times to see if there is a reaction. ive been putting some jarred bananass and mixing it with his wet cereal and he loves it. also likes apples. since i refrigerate the jar i heat up the apple or bananas for 5 seconds in the micro to take the chill out and it helps.

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I did all the cereals for a week each and then started fruits with, so it ended up being about a total of one month on cereal before starting fruits, then did all the fruits before starting vegs.