First puree - 6 month old

[Dani_Ldn]

So tonight is the night that lo tries his first food. I am so nervous! Until now he has been ebf, but is definitely needing more, so am introducing solids 1 meal a day for a week or 2 & then 2 meals etc.. His first meal tonight will be puree carrot with a bit of breast milk mixed in if I can manage to express any.

I have baby rice too, but that seems dull & the weaning book I have says carrot is completely fine to start with. But what did every one else start their lo on when beginning to wean?

Also, I always feed lo to sleep after his bath, is it still ok to do this (will be an hour or so after he eats & after his bath still). I am guessing he won't take as much breast milk as he usually would though.

 

[bananaz]

When you first introduce solids it really shouldn't have any impact on your breastfeeding schedule. Solid food is just for fun at this point and he likely won't eat very much so it shouldn't affect his milk intake.

I started my LO with rice cereal followed by sweet potatoes but ended up switching to finger foods pretty early on.

 

[Mrs Bee]

We started on pumpkin ....I just mixed with water...expressing was too much messing around for me...even now Alice still enjoys her milk feeds as normal.

 

[amjon]

We did sweet potato with milk.

 

[Saphira]

We started with carrots too. I don't see why it wouldn't be okay to continue as usual for your bedtime routine. Not much changes once they start eating solids, well, except for the poo!

 

[special_kala]

Mine have never had baby rice/puree.

Fox has had cucumber, carrot, potato and chicken so far.

 

[Scout]

I started with sweet potatoes. My lo still takes her bottles just like b/4 feeding and I'm doing a fruit and vegi twice a day now.

 

[familygirl30]

I'm just giving my son baby rice to start with around breakfast time and going to add a bit of puréed fruit then in a week or too start with puréed veg for lunch or dinner