Health visitor said only introduce 1 food per week???

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Has anyone else heard this?

She said stick to one food in the 1st week then add one new one each week so dd will get used to each new flavour.

It just seems that it will take ages to get her eating a range of foods.

How did you introduce new foods?
Thanks for all ideas!

I know one person who is doing a food a week. Her dd has mental allergies and so they need to go carefully to ensure she is ok with each new food. Personally I just threw food at them. Ds1 a little more slowly since he was the pfb but dd jsut got stuck into family meals from the start, day 1 steal some melon off her brother, day 2 chomp away on the same stew as the rest of us.

If you do that she'll be forty before eating a full diet!

She'd have a meltdown at the idea of BLW then.

This sort of advice is why HVs get such a hard time on MN. It'd take forever to try even a small range of foods!

my HV said 3 days as sometimes reactions can be delayed.

But unless there are lots of allergy issues in the family don't worry.

DS2 is a much better eater than DS1 purely because I just fed him whatever I was eating and didn't worry about it. I literally cooked a bit extra and then pureed it - although DS2 wasnt that interested in pureed food so we went more down the BLW route.

DS1 is much more fussy eater as I worried far too much and introduced foods too slowly.

I'm doing baby led weaning so DS just has a bit of whatever we're having. One food a week sounds nuts (and dull!) unless there's a sound medical reason too.

with ds1 i was thick and thought baby jars were what you fed babies.

with ds2 i just let him pick what they wanted off my plate at the start.

now, ds1 is really fussy. ds2 eats everything.

The advice I got was if you are starting weaning before 6 months, you should introduce foods one at a time (every 3days tho rather than a week) in case of allergies/reactions.
If you wait until 6 months though, the immune system has developed enough to just go for it. Made sense to me, and all the more reason to wait til 6 months IMHO, as it's less of a pain in the arse.

How old is your DD? If she's 6mo it's just not practical advice!! I looked through a range of websites and there is lots of contradictory advice out there so I can understand why you're questioning it. DD is my 1st and I looked into it a lot and decided I would give her two days on each type of food - no allergies in our family at all. Then I was talking to a friend, her DD is one week older than mine, her DD is her 3rd and she is doing BLW and started off by just giving her something different each day. So I figured why not. I have been giving DD purees with the occasional bit of finger food and tried almost a new food every day. By 7mo you "should" be introducing more textured food, on 3 meals a day and moving onto meat/fish. So if you followed your HV theory then by 7mo your DD would be eating, carrot, brocoli, parsnip and apple and that would be it. Hardly a balanced diet?! However if your DD is younger than 6mo then maybe tread a bit more slowly.

unless your little one is under 6 months, then NO! Can you imagine only eating broccoli for week, and then broccoli and pear for a week... Your health visitor needs some training.