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Speaker 1: How exactly do you start solids? First off, you want to be thinking about how
many meals a day you're going to start with. Some doctors will recommend one meal a day
and some will recommend two. I think it's easiest to think about it as one meal a day
your first month of solids, two meals a day your second month of solids and three meals
a day your third month of solids and moving on.
If you're starting a new food, it's best to start that new food in the morning so that
if there is an allergic reaction you can see that unfold throughout the day rather than
starting at night where you put your baby to sleep and they wake up crying and you don't
know if they have a tummy-ache or they're having some sort of reaction at night.
Whatever you and your doctor decide you're going to use as your first food, the texture
of that food has to be pureed like a liquid puree. What's going to happen is you're going
to feed your child a variety of foods in liquid puree for the whole first month. As you start
to move on you're going to start to thicken up that food so it'll sort of become a thicker
puree. The goal by about eight months is to be getting them closer to like a thick mashed
potato kind of consistency where they're moving up in the continuum of thickness as they master
different foods and as they continue on in their feeding process.
Babies are often recommended to start with rice cereal. Rice cereal is the least allergenic
food possible to feed your baby which why some doctors prefer to start with that particular
type of cereal. All the baby cereals are fortified with iron which babies need after six months
so at some point your baby will need to have some cereal even if it's not their first food
or something that has iron in them to add to their diet