why no meat until 6 months?

[lollylou1]

so im just wondering why you arent allowed to give your baby meat until they reach 6 months?

i was shopping and looking at the different jars that they sell to see if i could make something similar homemade but most of the stage 1 jars are either fruit or contain meat and say from 4 months plus, a few say 6 months but the chicken etc says 4 months

was just curious

thanks girls

Lou
xxx

 

[Jkelmum]

I think some meats are hard to digest ...cant spell tday ....maybe a little mince blended well ....pork is the hardest meat to degest xxx

 

[sabby52]

I thought it was no meat until 9 months ?? IDK

 

[mommyof3co]

I know everyone says diff things, we've had 2 diff pedis between the boys and both said meat around 9mo, but I also read some people say you can actually start solids with plain meat? I chose to hold off on it until we tried all veggies and mixes and fruits before doing any meat at all, I didn't feel they needed it...plus babyfood meatis pretty gross lol I wanted them to be able to chew it up and eat the real thing so that's what we did

 

[mommyof3co]

I found this for you too...this is a great website about babyfood, how to make it, when to introduce certain things, all that

This is for beef
https://wholesomebabyfood.com/beefbabyfoodrecipes.html

And chicken
https://wholesomebabyfood.com/chickenbabyfoodrecipes.htm

There are more types of meat and fish on there you can look at too

 

[thelilbump]

my hv told me i could introduce meat from 6 months? I'm not sure why you not earlier perhpas because their digestive system is still developing. I didn't know about it bein older than 6 months tho? We've been given bits of chicken in pasta and it doesn't appear to have any bad effect.

 

[moomin_troll]

zane hates eating veg so at 6 months i used the meat jars for 6 months plus and he loves them.

i duno why there is a age limit but i just guess they dont need meat till that age as they get what they need from milk still

 

[lollylou1]

i qm just really confused because there are jars that say chicken and rice and veg and cottage pie suitable from 4 months?

i get so confused

Lou
xxx

 

[moomin_troll]

well i have no idea then lol just stick to the jars with the right age for u lol

 

[icculcaz]

i think its because nowadays department of health say no food at all til 6m. i dont get why they changed it from 4-6m. was 4m for absolute donkeys years... it never hurt us lot generally did it? bet heinz are losing millions from it. i was getting all excited in the baby food aisle today eyeing up all the fun food scarlett will be having soon (dont trust my cooking for a teeny baby just yet)

 

[AC81]

my hv said no meat until 6 months and then start with white meat like chicken/fish etc. Then after 7 months introduce red meats like beef and lamb. I agree everything is so confusing! I used to be so excited about weaning but its kind of scared me now.