7 Month Old - Formula vs Baby Food

[Cradle2crayons]

I would simply do as the others have said.

I personally would go buy a box of baby rice or oatmeal cereal. I would start there. I would mash up a very ripe banana. Mash up green beans, mashed potatoes, mash up well cooked carrots.

Store bought baby foods are NOT necessary at all. And personally thi they are a huge waste of money,

If you have a blender you can blend what isn't mashable. Even spaghetti etc.

I would first start with more bland options to be sure he can tolerate it as well as rice cereal and move up from there.

Mom has given permission. Go for it.

[Play Care]

While I agree that store bought baby foods are not necessary, I completely disagree with the "food before one is just for fun" mantra. Some babies need actual food before one. I had two big EBM fed babies that were screaming from hunger from 6 months - 8 months. The bottle was ****ed down in seconds flat and they were screaming for more. It was a nightmare, and honestly I would probably term if it happened again. Thank the good Lord the pediatrician told mom she needed to start feeding the babies food. Up until that point she thought *I* just needed to learn how to help them soothe

[spinnymarie]

With baby led weaning I was giving my kids the same things the rest of us were eating at 7 months... they don't eat much of it, and I wouldn't do it without permission, but it might help.
Anyone starting baby led weaning should read up on it though - it actually involves using BIGGER pieces of food, not smaller, as people normally do.

[kitykids3]

If on the food program 8 months is the golden age that you must start cereal.


She gave you permission so serve some soft finger foods.

I dislike serving baby food, the process, but if a parent hasn't by 8 months, I tell parents this. That Food Program requires babies having cereal by 8 months. Even if ur not on the food program, u can still use the excuse that is USDA recommendations.

[mamac]

Good to know... yes I have been documenting. I have tried making him the bigger bottles and he seems to waste the formula if I do it. I cannot make him drink the whole bottle but it's not lasting as long. I think a lot of it is the busy period where they don't want to sit still...they want to play. I have to continually sit there and make him finish the bottle.... and even then he won't... but then he has a melt down an hour later which a bottle will cure.

What size nipple does he have on his bottle? I just went through this with my 6 month old dcb. He wasn't finishing a bottle but was always wanting one. I switched him to a size 2 and now he finishes his bottle every time.