The Canadian Paediatric Society has a comprehensive guide for feeding baby in the first year. I've often heard people say the CPS recommends starting with rice cereal as a baby's first food but on their site they recommend starting with an iron rich food that can include: iron fortified cereal, meat, poultry, cooked egg yoke, or well cooked legumes (beans, lentils, chickpeas).
A blogger that I follow pointed to this MSNBC article from 2005. The article suggests that baby first food books are out of date and that, as parents, it's our responsibility to expose our children to a variety of foods including spice! They also talk about rice cereal as being equivalent to adding sugar to your child's formula because it's so quickly converted in the body. And allergies? Unless you have a family history of allergens, there's no need to avoid particular foods.
My "first foods" visit to the doctor isn't until October 27th so I have plenty of time to mull it over and decide when to introduce Petra to food and what it will be.
What did you feed your child as a first meal?
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Hi Gina :)
ReplyDeleteMy youngest daughter is 8 months-old now and I fed her very first "snack" last week, I delay introducing solids by a couple of months at least (my first daughter was 9 months when she had her first meal).
Avocado mashed with banana and mixed with breast milk to make it nice and soft, she loved it! Few days ago I offered her a bit of organic oatmeal mixed with breas tmilk, she loved this too, and today she had a tiny bit of sweet potato mixed with breast milk, she loved it! BTW, sweet potatoes actually taste like breast milk and are very easy to digest, it's the perfect first food.
i've heard that about sweet potatoes. i think that's what we're going to start with next month.
ReplyDeletethe MSNBC article is from you of course. i've had a few people tell me they liked it.