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[wickedcherub]

Why is everything I read about starting babies on solids contradicting everything else I read about starting babies on solids???

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[notodette.livejournal.com]

LOL

LJ says six months.

Most of them also say baby-led weaning, but I did jars. JUDGE ME!

[silkygecko.livejournal.com]

Eh. We do a lot of jars too. Yes I make some veggies and rice/pasta and puree them when I have time, but I don't set aside 10 hours a week to do it. And it's so hard to find fruit during the winter that is fresh and not from South America (where they spray non-FDA approved pesticides), so we do all jars for fruits. Oh judge me too LJ, judge me hard.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

AH PESTICIDES I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT.

Haha, I'm a worry wart to begin with, this whole being a mum thing has just made it explode exponentially.

[sueg.livejournal.com]

Unless you're buying organic jarred food it has pesticides too, though. So wash well/peel if you don't buy organic.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

I'm going let my babies feed themselves and sometimes give them jarred food, I WIN AT LIFE! \o/

Oh no, wait, I guess that really means I FAIL AT MOTHERING!

I should have started one of them on solids at 4 months and start the other at 6 months and perform my own experiment. Alas, I was not thinking.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

How old are your twins? I am going to go with what you're doing. Try and cook as much as I can, have jars for times when I can't, give them food to play with and smush.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

They'll be 6 months on April 5th.

With my first we tried rice cereal first and he hated it, then I was eating a banana and he was all excited so I let him eat some smooshed pieces off my finger. Then we moved to jars and did those at daycare, but then my mom bought me a food mill to make my own food so I did that instead. :P I hope to do a lot more of letting them play with food and gnaw on it/mush it with the twins, if for no other reason that I can't imagine the cost of jars for two or how I'd manage to spoon food in both their little mouths at the same time without going insane.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I WILL. ON AN ANON COMMUNITY.

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Too soon?