Can someone explain No Solids before one year philosophy?

[Anonymous]

Clinically speaking, at least for formula fed babies, they are not supposed to drink more than 32 ounces a day - REAL FOOD is supposed to fill the gap and fill them up. Otherwise, they will be overdosing on formula.

My 7 mo DD eats 2 meals a day - each is 1/4 cup cereal plus one 4 ounce jar of baby food, and now we need to do 3 meals/day because she is back up to 37 ounces a day (from 30 ozs 2 weeks ago).

[Anonymous]

My son started at 4 months per his pediatrician's recommendation. He took right to it and hasn't looked back. He is very healthy and LOVES veggies. Now that he is a year old he wants to feed himself and doesn't like me to help until the very end. Which is messy, but great! Thank goodness for wipes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son started at 4 months per his pediatrician's recommendation. He took right to it and hasn't looked back. He is very healthy and LOVES veggies. Now that he is a year old he wants to feed himself and doesn't like me to help until the very end. Which is messy, but great! Thank goodness for wipes!

I hope u are not using baby wipes on your child's hands and face to clean up food! THat would be unhealthy and expensive and wasteful! Use a washable cloth with JUST WATER

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son started at 4 months per his pediatrician's recommendation. He took right to it and hasn't looked back. He is very healthy and LOVES veggies. Now that he is a year old he wants to feed himself and doesn't like me to help until the very end. Which is messy, but great! Thank goodness for wipes!

I hope u are not using baby wipes on your child's hands and face to clean up food! THat would be unhealthy and expensive and wasteful! Use a washable cloth with JUST WATER

Maybe she's using wipes on the highchair and table. Love how people jump to conclusions around here to get in a dig at someone else.

I've also heard of the "no solids until after 1 yr" philosophy, from someone in my La Leche League meeting. The LLL leader didn't seem to keen on it though. FWIW, we offered solids starting around 5.5 months but my DD didn't really start eating them with interest until 10 months or so. She just now has almost all her molars at 17 months so waiting for molars would have been silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The culture where I was raised is centuries old"

What?

Exactly....what? A century is a hundred years. So, yeah, I'm from the U.S., and the culture I was raised in is centuries old too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son started at 4 months per his pediatrician's recommendation. He took right to it and hasn't looked back. He is very healthy and LOVES veggies. Now that he is a year old he wants to feed himself and doesn't like me to help until the very end. Which is messy, but great! Thank goodness for wipes!

I hope u are not using baby wipes on your child's hands and face to clean up food! THat would be unhealthy and expensive and wasteful! Use a washable cloth with JUST WATER

Why unhealthy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The culture where I was raised is centuries old, too bad you prefer to listen to such sources that have their "studies" paid by the industry that makes you believe that your children need tasteless mush produced in a plant that has little to no regulation. Obviously you can make your own organic baby food but they will either say it's hard and time consuming or they'll try to make you believe you need to buy all the gadgets to get the "perfect texture".

It's not about being crunchy (whatever that means), it's about knowing your child and following their signs. We started late with one child but the other one was grabbing food from my plate at 5 months and we went with him.

And, honestly, giving them rice cereal and watch them choke or spit it out didn't seem like it help with all the allergies your children have been suffering (something almost unheard off where I come from.) I guess it's time to review your concepts...

I like you.

Let's be friends.

[Anonymous]

OP, how can you say you aren't judging at the same time you use the word 'insane' to describe Mayim Bialik.

[Anonymous]

Mayim Bialik is not a D list celeb. She plays a major supporting character in a very popular, award-winning, CURRENT TV series. (Big Bang Theory)

[Anonymous]

I'm just curious: who believes in no solids before one year besides Mayim Bialik?

I get the impression it's what mothers do who are really, really afraid of weaning and scared that their child is going to prefer solid foods to their breast. I just don't get the rationale behind it otherwise. It seems to me like denying an older baby tastes of food is kind of like trying to keep your child from learning to crawl, or walk, by never allowing their feet to touch the earth.

I am also curious what "centuries old" culture the PP who mentioned it is from, since my Indian relatives also start solids before 6 months, along with the European ones. The only reason I can imagine for withholding food from a healthy, curious, adventurous eight-, nine-, or ten- month old is because there is a famine and all solid foods need to go to the adults first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:bm or formula alone is not enough to satisfy most babies that long. At 6 months is when solids should be introduced

Not really. The child will let you know when they're ready and it can be at 5mos or at 9.5 mos. Any time between 5 and 12 months is "normal".

The jarred purees industries make you believe you should feed your child that tasteless mush and then the clumpy stuff and then struggle with puffs and chicken nuggets until they're old enough to use utensils.

What OP is talking about is called BABY LED WEANING or BABY LED SOLIDS and you feed the child stuff from your plate as soon as they show interest for what you're eating - the biggest sign they're ready for solids.

Once they're reaching for your plate when you eat, you use a fork to mush up what you're eating or cut it up in small pieces to let them have it on their own. There are wonderful websites where you can learn about it. My child refused purees and I learned about it when doing some research. Our ped was useless so I had to find it on my own.

OP, read about it, it's very interesting and it's amazing to watch our 20mo old eating Indian food... DH feeds her from his plate and I'm in awe every day. I can't for the life of me eat more than a few spoons of his food because it's so spicy and she just LOVES his food. She eats adult sized portions already!

I have no problem with BLW, but I have to say that my now 19 month old daugher has been eating Indian food for months - rice, meat/vegetable curries, dal, parathas, dosas...and we started off with bland mush. Some kids are just more adventurous eaters than others, so don't take too much credit for it.

[Anonymous]

I am the OP and I never called anyone insane!

[Anonymous]

Just want to point out that just because a baby grabs for food doesn't mean they are ready for it...they grab for all kinds of things that are not a good idea for them to have. When teeth come in, important digestive enzymes do too and giving a 4 month old solids instead of breast milk because they reach for them does the child a disservice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no dog in this fight, but had a laugh remembering my son at 8 months basically GRABBING food out of my hands. Kid would have downed a burrito if he'd had the teeth to gnaw on it. My little one wasn't as intense but they both loved food early on. Don't worry, they got plenty of breast milk and formula too.

I am laughing too. Mine is only 5 months and doing this. I am ignoring my instincts and waiting until 6 months just in case there is something to that virgin gut theory, but it is amazing to me that there are uninterested children.

[Anonymous]

DH (who is 33) was solely FF until a year, and appears to have no lasting effects. His mother claims it wasn't in to BF back then, but my mother BF myself and my siblings, so no idea. We started DD at 6 months per our ped and wasn't until around 7 months that she started eating more than a small bite.