First Tastes

[dennya]

I have just started my dd on some baby rice and thinking about moving on to some fruit puree. I read a book (I know!!!!) that said to start a new food every three days, so apple, then pear three days later etc...Is this the norm?

Hi dennya...yeah that sounds the norm. I think the reasoning behind it is that if your baby's belly reacts to something, you'll be able to identify what it was and therefore avoid it, at least for a little while.

One thing to be aware of though, don't launch them straight into the sweet stuff too soon. DS2 would only eat sweet stuff - yoghurts and fruit-for ages. It was a real battle to get anything remotely savoury in him. In the end I resorted to banning sweet stuff altogether so he had to have savoury!!

hi dennya, i'm on first tastes too. one book i have says introduce new food every 3 days and another book i have (also a bestseller) says that's not necessary these days and so you can introduce one different food each day (as long as there isn't a history of allergies to certain foods in your family).

i've introduced a different food on most days and this is at the 11am feed so that there's all day for DD to get upset stomach rather than having it in the middle of the night (this was advice from our HV). She's been fine on all stuff so far. I introduced savory for the first week and fruit (apples and pears) the second week as i didn't want DD to get a taste for sweet things only - as theinvisiblegirl says (love the name invisiblegirl BTW )

hope you enjoy weaning - i love it!

I did the 3 day thing with ds until I got bored of waiting for reactions that didn't exist. I think if there's no history of food allergies you probably don't need to worry so much. I figured that since there are thousands of foods for him to try he'd be about 46 before he could eat everything if I kept waiting 3 days!!

Thanks for the advice. And I was going to try the fruit first and hadnt thought about them liking it so much, that they would resist savoury, so I may go with savoury first. Great tip! Thanks Guys

Sweet potato and butternut squash were huge winners with FAt Boy