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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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[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I know I'm probably going to start with purees while handing the kid some finger foods to play with.

I think I want to start off just cooking my own rice porridge rather than the packet stuff, but it seems like I have to make it suuuuuuuuuuuper smooth and now I'm not so sure.

Most of the mothers in my mothers group have started on solids already, I think I'm going to wait until 5 months until I actually try.

[sueg.livejournal.com]

You only have to make it really smooth if you start really early. If you wait until closer to 6 months you may not need to. But the nice thing about the packaged stuff is that it has the extra iron in it. I know a lot of people on LJ claim that baby cereal is nutritionally void but that extra iron is advantageous for some babies.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Do you know whether Liam would get enough iron from my breastmilk especially since I take supplements?

I will google that now.

[sueg.livejournal.com]

He probably will, but I have also known breastfed babies who had low iron levels at a year. You don't really know if your baby will be one of those until they do the test at 12 months, which is a little late for making a decision about fortified cereal. (assuming the iron testing routine is similar in Oz).

On the bright side, iron in breastmilk is very bioavailable, more so than iron in fortified cereal.

One thing I loved about commercial baby cereal is that I could give Finn skinny slices of slippery foods like avocado and banana by tossing them in baby rice cereal first, so they wouldn't slip out of his hands. I didn't actually use a ton of it otherwise, but I used a little.