for those who started baby food at 4 months

a few questions:
1. when did you start meats? Not the dinner kind like "Chicken Noodle dinner" or Turkey and Rice", but the "chicken n chicken gravy types. I ask because I those have a ton of protein in them (7 or 8 grams, versus 2 or 3 for the other types) and I know too much too early is bad on their tummies. My son is nearly 6 months old, and was thinking of starting him at 6 months. Is this too early?
2. how much were/are they eating at 5 12/-6 months at a time? My son typically eats about 4 ounces of jarred food, but just gobbled down about 5 1/2 tonight for dinner.
3. Lastly, did you vary their feedings, such as a fruit and a veggie, or just stick to one jar of something?

Thanks for all the insight.

i tried that when he was 6 months..... he wont eat plain meat & gravy tho unless it is off our plates   (8 1/2 months now)

1. I started meats at 6 months as well as dinners. My son hated ALL meats and ALL dinners. So we went straight to table foods. He started Fruits and Veggies at 4 months though.

2. @ 5-6 months he was eating1 jar and a bowl of oatmealin the am and 2 jars in the PM. (a fruit and veggie)

3. We varied them. Fruit and veggies in the pm. And strictly fruit in the am!

i never did meats in a jar...i waited until my kids were ready to eat easy to chew meat, like chicken, off our plates. Anything I wouldnt eat or even try, I wouldnt give them haha

My daughter's doctor advised me not to start meats until 7mos. Due to the protein in them they need to be able to tolerate and break it down.


ETA: But my daughter never liked the jarred meats.

Those stage 2 meats are disgusting! Smell them and taste them yourself, they are awful, like meat gruel.

Gavin refused them.....he started the stage 3 meats around 7 months and still eats them...he loves them

Well I started my daughter out on the cereals at 4 months, and at 5 1/2 months I started her out on vegetables (it was thanksgiving and felt she needed sweet potatoes LOL). After I ran through those i moved to fruits. I would give her about a 1/2 jar of fruit for breakfast with 1 tbsp of cereal, then for lunch I would give her 1/2 jar of either fruit or veg w/ 1 tbsp of cereal, and dinner a veg with 2 tbsp of cereal. I didn't start meats until she was 9 months old as recommended by her pedi.

by 5 months nathans feeding schedule was a 6oz bottle and then some cereal in the am, at lunce he ate 1 jar of fruit and 1 jar of the mixed meals, then around late afteroon a 8 ounce bottle, then at dinner time he ate a meat, veggie and a fruit, and then a bottle at bed time

We never did the stage 1 meats because they were disgusting. So we started the stage 2 meats, and that was probably around 6 1/2 months.

I usually give her half a jar of a meat/veggie and then half a jar of fruit in one sitting. So 1 whole jar total. I just do it that way to kind of balance out the fruit and veggies.

Quoting ♥ Megan ♥:“ My daughter's doctor advised me not to start meats until 7mos. Due to the protein in them they need to be able to tolerate and break it down. ETA: But my daughter never liked the jarred meats.”

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Quoting bbuck5717:“ a few questions: 1. when did you start meats? Not the dinner kind like "Chicken Noodle dinner" or Turkey ... [snip!] ... you vary their feedings, such as a fruit and a veggie, or just stick to one jar of something? Thanks for all the insight.”

about six and a half months. after her six month appt her doctor told me to try meats with her..the ones mixed with something because just plain meats have a disgusting texture and most babies don't like them... tylas all time fave so far is pineapple glazed ham  

Quoting MommaOfAngels~MJL:“ Your avi is awesome!! You didnt take that, did you?”

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