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Speaker 1: I'm your host Heidi Mrko, and I'm a mom on
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Speaker 1: expect every step of the way. It's one of the
Speaker 1: most momentous and messy milestones of the first year starting solids.
Speaker 1: But as you think about baby's first bite, you're probably
Speaker 1: wondering what exactly that first bite should be, not to
Speaker 1: mention exactly when and how you should be serving it out.
Speaker 1: And today we're dishing up everything you need to know
Speaker 1: about introducing solids. Emma's here with me. Hey, Emma, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is so exciting for me because this is such
Speaker 1: a great stage, because this is when I can literally
Speaker 1: eat off my kid's plate like it begins, it begins.
Speaker 1: So all the scraps that are left over, yea, all
Speaker 1: of them. So that's good. But do you remember the
Speaker 1: first time that I gave you solids? Come on, you
Speaker 1: must remember, yeah, no, of course not. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: it wasn't really a choice of what you were going
Speaker 1: to give baby for first solids, because it was going
Speaker 1: to be right cereal every time, and it was those
Speaker 1: white flakes that absolutely have no taste or texture, and
Speaker 1: you dissolve them in breast milk or formula and then
Speaker 1: make them into this gross white soupy stuff. And I
Speaker 1: put it on a spoon and it went in your
Speaker 1: mouth and then most of it came right back out
Speaker 1: of your mouth. And we did capture it on video
Speaker 1: because Dad Eric had the cam quarter handy. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it was super cute. But I think we introduced right
Speaker 1: cereal first with Wyatt too, but I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what you started lennox on. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything on that, mom, Like, I didn't
Speaker 1: write anything down. Well, I know it wasn't right Cyril,
Speaker 1: because we had moved on from that. It was probably
Speaker 1: a vegetable perium thing. Was probably like a packet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he loved he absolutely loved I remember, um was
Speaker 1: it a Plumber organic pet? I loved them too, And
Speaker 1: he loved the purple carrot one. Yeah, he liked the
Speaker 1: purple carrot. There was also one that tastes like Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I think it was like cinnamon something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was so good. Yeah, I loved it. Maybe you
Speaker 1: liked it. And it wasn't him after all. I just
Speaker 1: remember that he did he initially he loves solids. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember him eating whole milk yogurt. I remember
Speaker 1: one time we were at a video shoot. You had
Speaker 1: him on your lap in front of the craft services
Speaker 1: table and there and there's a there's a bowl of
Speaker 1: cream cheese and he just like dove headfirst into it
Speaker 1: a lot of dream cheese. It was crazy, Um, how
Speaker 1: did you start with Sebby? So we were on our
Speaker 1: way to Lebanon to baptize Sebby and arrived at Heathrow
Speaker 1: and it was just one of those like hey, just
Speaker 1: try food. So we gave him a banana. He was
Speaker 1: not about that life. He's like, what is this? That changed? Yes,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I was actually expecting him to be way
Speaker 1: more into it and that whole trip, like he participated
Speaker 1: in like Lebanese spices and stuff like baby food, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't. He hated it. He hated any sort of
Speaker 1: baby food. Lennox loved a good pouch. Sevy was not
Speaker 1: on board, which is I, boy, have those roles reverse.
Speaker 1: So let's take a quick break and when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm answering the biggest questions you have about starting solids? Okay, mom,
Speaker 1: so let's break down the biggest questions our listeners have
Speaker 1: about starting those solids. How do you really know that
Speaker 1: your baby is ready to start solids? I know that
Speaker 1: things are obviously different with every baby, but what's like
Speaker 1: the average age range? And when should we have that
Speaker 1: conversation with the pediatrician and be like, hey, should we
Speaker 1: do this? Should we do this? So most pediatricians give
Speaker 1: the official green light, that's the a P recommendation at
Speaker 1: six months, but don't wait, don't wait to have the conversation,
Speaker 1: have it at the four months check up, because that
Speaker 1: way you can ask all your questions and you can
Speaker 1: be prepared. Some pediutricians will give you the go ahead
Speaker 1: just a little bit earlier. Definitely not before four months.
Speaker 1: But if a baby is absolutely chomp at the bit,
Speaker 1: if she's showing signs of readiness, and there's a whole
Speaker 1: long list of signs of readiness, but the highlights are
Speaker 1: your baby should be able to hold up her head
Speaker 1: well and sit at least propped, because it's really not
Speaker 1: safe or easy to feed a baby who slumped over.
Speaker 1: The other thing is some babies start taking an interest
Speaker 1: in food when they are starting to feel ready, and
Speaker 1: that might mean that they're eyeing every bite you take
Speaker 1: or they're grabbing at your spoon. Would you guys, actually,
Speaker 1: did I remember that cuties? Are there problems with starting
Speaker 1: too early or waiting too long to get into that
Speaker 1: food train? Yeah, definitely, I mean starting too soon can
Speaker 1: sometimes trigger allergies. But it's also a matter of digestive readiness,
Speaker 1: because a baby who's too young doesn't have the enzymes
Speaker 1: that are necessary to digest solids. Plus, babies in the
Speaker 1: first six months really at everything they need nutrition wise,
Speaker 1: from breast milk or formula. Now, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: waiting too long the downside isn't necessarily about them needing
Speaker 1: nutrients and not getting them, but it's about them needing
Speaker 1: the experience of eating solids and not getting it because
Speaker 1: it's way harder, you know, to teach an older baby
Speaker 1: new tricks, and if they're really set in their ways,
Speaker 1: you know, they're stubborn. Yeah, they're used to their liquids
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're you're putting something
Speaker 1: solid into their mouth. You know, well, after six months,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, some parents wait till eight months or so,
Speaker 1: then they might not be so open, and you know
Speaker 1: it's six months, they're ready, but they're still relatively putty
Speaker 1: in your hands. I feel like there are so many
Speaker 1: unknowns and variables in the situation. What are the best
Speaker 1: foods to start out with? And how do you decide
Speaker 1: what is right for your baby? Well, like I said,
Speaker 1: not right cereal, that's not recommended anymore. That was always
Speaker 1: to go to for food and it doesn't really have
Speaker 1: anything going for it besides not having taste or texture.
Speaker 1: It has iron, but babies can get that important iron
Speaker 1: after six months from either the formula they're drinking or
Speaker 1: from if their breastfeed from a vitamin mineral drops. So
Speaker 1: not not to worry about that now. In terms of
Speaker 1: first food, there's a lot of things you could choose from.
Speaker 1: It's not like the world is literally their oyster at first.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to start with a plate of oysters,
Speaker 1: but there are so many other foods that you can
Speaker 1: start with. Veggies are favorite, like harrots, or sweet potatoes
Speaker 1: or squash, those are all sweet veggies. Avocado that is
Speaker 1: actually one of the best, very best first baby foods.
Speaker 1: Most babies love it and if it's a ripe avocado.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect texture fruit like mango or banana or watermelon.
Speaker 1: I mean, the common wisdom is to start first with
Speaker 1: vegetables because you know you don't want baby to get
Speaker 1: a taste for sweet things first. But the tooth is
Speaker 1: babies really have a sweet tooth no matter what, so
Speaker 1: you know it's not a deal breaker. Um, you can't
Speaker 1: even start with whole milk yogurt. Lennox loved whole milk yogurt.
Speaker 1: Sebby loves scrambled egg, which is perfectly fine. First food,
Speaker 1: whole grain cereal. If you're gonna do cereal, choose one
Speaker 1: that's whole grain, not that refined very cereal. But really,
Speaker 1: the best person to ask is not me, it's your pediatrician.
Speaker 1: So that's why you should ask at the four months
Speaker 1: check of like, what do you think I should start
Speaker 1: with first? I did that. You know it's gonna get messy.
Speaker 1: So my personal best advice is to get that camera ready.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to miss that moment to look
Speaker 1: back on. That's a Kodak moment. I'm dating myself. But
Speaker 1: is there a right way to start introducing solids with
Speaker 1: how you feed it to them. I want my kids
Speaker 1: to feel like he's at a Michelin star meal his
Speaker 1: first bite. You know, I really want to go in
Speaker 1: with a bang. I know, you with a white napkins
Speaker 1: and tablecloth. Yeah, yeah, you definitely have that right on
Speaker 1: the messy part, because if it's not messy, you're you're
Speaker 1: definitely doing something wrong. So skip the white tablecloth unless
Speaker 1: you really like washing them. Let's set some basic ground
Speaker 1: roles for starting solids. You want to start in a highchair,
Speaker 1: not only because it's the safest place to feed baby salids,
Speaker 1: but because it's a really good habit to get into,
Speaker 1: not in your lab not n CARSI and ultimately not
Speaker 1: when they're crawling around or running around. Emma guilty. And
Speaker 1: of course you you definitely want to dress them for
Speaker 1: the mess dress for mess um, which means either a
Speaker 1: diaper or a diaper in a bib. And I say
Speaker 1: advantage bib only for the fact that is a good
Speaker 1: habit to get them into. And you want that big, giant,
Speaker 1: massive rubber bib with the trench built in love those,
Speaker 1: don't you think, yes, yes, yes, And then it definitely
Speaker 1: helps to put a splat mat under did you use
Speaker 1: the splat Matt. Yes, I still have it for Stubby.
Speaker 1: He can't eat without spilling, and he's well either swat
Speaker 1: Matt or a dog. Yeah, well I never had a dog,
Speaker 1: but I had splot mats for both kids. Nobody's happier
Speaker 1: than the family dog. When a baby starts solids and
Speaker 1: then slow and slower wins the race, Um, you should
Speaker 1: leave yourself lots and lots of time because it's going
Speaker 1: to take lots and lots of time because baby food
Speaker 1: is never a fast food. And really, I can't emphasize
Speaker 1: this enough. No pushing, no prodding. How much or how
Speaker 1: little your baby eats should always be his business. And
Speaker 1: also no projecting, like if you hate avocado, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean your baby is gonna hate avocado. And just because
Speaker 1: you have a sweet tooth doesn't mean your baby will
Speaker 1: want everything sweet either. And as for the Michelin star,
Speaker 1: I say baby steps. The potential is there to raise
Speaker 1: a foodie. I mean there might even be hope for
Speaker 1: Lennox who knows. So to me that sounds really time consuming.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's because I have two kids, So is it
Speaker 1: really better to make your own baby food? Lint? I
Speaker 1: would never call myself lazy, but I never ever once
Speaker 1: made baby food. I I opened a jar. By all means,
Speaker 1: if you want to go for it, if you're feeling motivated,
Speaker 1: and it can be as easy as pureing an avocado,
Speaker 1: or it can be something way more ambitious. You might
Speaker 1: be looking for recipes online, and that's fine. You can
Speaker 1: make big batches, you can freeze them in ice cube
Speaker 1: trays so that you have individual servings, but don't feel
Speaker 1: any pressure to do it. You have enough to do,
Speaker 1: and it's not necessarily more nutritious to make your own
Speaker 1: anymore than buying fresh produce and steaming it and cutting
Speaker 1: it up yourself is more nutritious than buying frozen um
Speaker 1: and in fact, most baby foods are super nutritious. When
Speaker 1: there are so many healthy options. You can buy pouches
Speaker 1: and jars and even frozen ones, and so many of
Speaker 1: them are organic. To just make sure that, whether you're
Speaker 1: doing it yourself, for your buying, that you pass on
Speaker 1: the salt and the sugar and the added fat because
Speaker 1: your baby doesn't need that. You can also sabotage their
Speaker 1: taste for straight up foods now. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you mentioned cinnamon earlier and spices are fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: Sebby loves garlic right now, it's ironic. No, you don't
Speaker 1: love garlic, but spices, whether it's cinnamon, garlic, curry, some
Speaker 1: babies absolutely love that and there's no reason not to
Speaker 1: give it to them. Sebby loves garlic because his dad
Speaker 1: is Lebanese, so it's probably genetic. Because I hate garlic.
Speaker 1: I'm like a vampire, you know. And sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: the flavor learning does begin in utero, but clearly it
Speaker 1: was not going on in your utero, definitely not. So.
Speaker 1: I know you're supposed to keep trying when a baby
Speaker 1: doesn't like a food, but realistically, how many times this
Speaker 1: feels like really stressful. I get really upset when my
Speaker 1: baby is uncomfortable or upset. It is realistic, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it could take actually ten or fifteen tries of
Speaker 1: the same food before your baby decides to accept and
Speaker 1: lap up something that you're offering a new food. So
Speaker 1: if first you don't succeed, just try to try again,
Speaker 1: you know, wait a few days, wait until next month,
Speaker 1: and then try again before your baby gets stuck into
Speaker 1: a preschool run of only liking one or two foods
Speaker 1: like both My children right now. Yeah, maybe what foods
Speaker 1: are no knows anything that a baby can choke on.
Speaker 1: Um No, gagging is completely different. We'll get into that later.
Speaker 1: So nothing they can choke on. Honey, No honey for
Speaker 1: your little honey in the first year. Skip juice for
Speaker 1: the first year at least. I mean, there's no compelling
Speaker 1: reason to give your child juice anyway. Otherwise, most pedutricians
Speaker 1: are gonna, okay, most foods in a baby friendly form
Speaker 1: for most babies. And what about allergies and starting foods
Speaker 1: that allergetic You know, they're dreaded, but not that uncommon.
Speaker 1: You know, this has actually changed a lot. Doctors used
Speaker 1: to think it was important to hold off on allergenic foods,
Speaker 1: so nuts, peanuts, egg whites until after the first birthday.
Speaker 1: That's definitely what I did with you and Wyatt. But
Speaker 1: now research shows that introducing allergenic foods earlier, say it's
Speaker 1: six months, can reduce the baby's risk of developing allergies.
Speaker 1: So first thing you do, always check with a pediatrician
Speaker 1: for the go ahead. But most are going to suggest
Speaker 1: offering peanuts for instance, not obviously not peanuts in baby
Speaker 1: friendly form. There are mixing powders or pouches designed to
Speaker 1: introduce allergenic foods like peanuts to babies. I did that,
Speaker 1: was Seby. I did that was Seby. So at least
Speaker 1: we know he's not allergic to peanuts. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think Lennox has ever tried a peanut or
Speaker 1: a peanut butter. He's never had a nut but and
Speaker 1: of course scrambled eggs. Sebi loves and loves eggs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go figure. Do you need to introduce one food at
Speaker 1: a time. I assume that's probably great for allergy detecting. Again,
Speaker 1: check with the pediatrition. Most are going to suggest waiting
Speaker 1: a few days between new foods. Um introduce one, then
Speaker 1: wait a few days to see if there's any kind
Speaker 1: of allergic reaction, which there usually isn't, and then go
Speaker 1: on to another food. How should you feed solids in
Speaker 1: the beginning? Do you start with breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Speaker 1: How do you know how much exactly to give them?
Speaker 1: You know, the important thing to remember is that press
Speaker 1: milk formula. Those are the mainstays of the baby side
Speaker 1: until the first birthday. Solids aren't really about the nutrition,
Speaker 1: They're about the experience. They're not about serving sizes. They're
Speaker 1: not about you know, how much you give and how
Speaker 1: often you give it. For now, just consider nutritional gravy. Right,
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to take the place of rest milk
Speaker 1: or formula. And there really aren't any rules about how
Speaker 1: many meals to clearly start with one meal. See how
Speaker 1: that goes. What you want is your baby to be
Speaker 1: in a really good mood, not the cranky hour. That's
Speaker 1: not the best time to give it. Um Also not
Speaker 1: when they're overtired, when they're starving, because if they're in
Speaker 1: the market for breasts or a bottle and are really hungry,
Speaker 1: they're just not going to take that food. So it
Speaker 1: is a better idea to give them that solid meal
Speaker 1: between their their breasts or bottle feeding so that they're
Speaker 1: not starving or stuff to the gills. And then once
Speaker 1: your baby gets used to one meal, then you can
Speaker 1: move to two and then eventually three as you get
Speaker 1: closer to the first birthday. And at that point you
Speaker 1: can also add a you know, a little snack here
Speaker 1: and there. Okay, so now onto a big one baby
Speaker 1: lead meaning I didn't do it with one, but I
Speaker 1: did do it with Sebby and I'm really glad I
Speaker 1: did because Seby eats way more than Lennox. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of parents are doing it. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the hip cool thing to do, but I also
Speaker 1: know parents who are terrified that their baby will choke.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still scary of my kids choking. I
Speaker 1: wanted them as seven, and I'll probably be nervous when
Speaker 1: he's twenty. But there have been a couple of near
Speaker 1: misses seven there. Yeah, there has for both of them.
Speaker 1: But it was something they found on the floor, not
Speaker 1: something you put in front of them. So there's that.
Speaker 1: I mean, like a lego. Yeah. So I am a
Speaker 1: fan of baby lead weaning. What it is, um, it's
Speaker 1: literally letting baby lead the way on solids, and I
Speaker 1: hear it over and over again from parents who have
Speaker 1: tried it. Babies love it and they end up being
Speaker 1: more adventurous eaters. So it's true what you said. Let's
Speaker 1: break it down. First things first, check with a pediatrician. UM. Now,
Speaker 1: the AP doesn't come out for or against baby lead weaning,
Speaker 1: but it's always a good idea to get your pediatricians. Take.
Speaker 1: What you do with this is you put the food
Speaker 1: on a high chair tray and you let baby go
Speaker 1: to town. Simple as that you let them touch it,
Speaker 1: smear it. Ultimately, the hope is that they put it
Speaker 1: in their mouth. At some point, I had a mom
Speaker 1: post a video on my Facebook page which was hysterical.
Speaker 1: She gave her baby spaghetti with tomato sauce, and the
Speaker 1: baby couldn't get her hands on spaghetti because it was
Speaker 1: so slippery. So she literally she just put her head
Speaker 1: down on the high chair tray and she licked the
Speaker 1: sauce off the spaghetti, and she was happy as a clam.
Speaker 1: She was happy as a clamp. I mean, it should
Speaker 1: look like a crime scene when you're done with Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, remember when Sevy had that red packet and
Speaker 1: it was all over him at your house. Actually it
Speaker 1: looks like he was, like, you know, wanted by the FBI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that comes with the territory. I mean, the rules
Speaker 1: are as long as the food that you're giving your
Speaker 1: baby is small pieces, and as long as those small
Speaker 1: pieces can be mushed together by their gums, then then
Speaker 1: it's ago. So I mean it could be pieces of
Speaker 1: soft banana or soft sweet potato, or soft cooked carrot,
Speaker 1: or it could be mango. It could be scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1: It could be little pieces of French toes. It could
Speaker 1: be soft cooked pasta pieces. It could be flakes of fish.
Speaker 1: It could be cottage cheese or yogurt. I mean literally,
Speaker 1: anything that you give your baby could end up being
Speaker 1: a finger food. And that goes for yogurt. They just
Speaker 1: put their fingers in it and they look it off.
Speaker 1: So the ideas get your baby used to eating whatever
Speaker 1: you know you're eating in modified form, assuming that what
Speaker 1: you're eating is baby appropriate. So clearly not a t bone,
Speaker 1: but maybe minced up hamburger is fine. This was the
Speaker 1: one time I did make baby food. I would make
Speaker 1: Sevy those little tiny muffins that were like whole grain,
Speaker 1: whole wheats with blueberries in them, and they were super soft,
Speaker 1: and he loved they were made. They were made with love.
Speaker 1: That's that's when I say a lenox every night, here's
Speaker 1: your dinner made with love. And sometimes he'll ask me,
Speaker 1: He's like, is it made with love? I say, yes,
Speaker 1: it is. So a baby doesn't need teeth to actually
Speaker 1: do baby lead weaning, right. This is something parents asked
Speaker 1: all the time. And to clarify, you know, some babies
Speaker 1: get their first teeth way before they're ready to start solids.
Speaker 1: Like you had your first teeth at four months, Um,
Speaker 1: that wasn't going to help you out at all. Some
Speaker 1: babies get their teeth super early before they're even ready
Speaker 1: to eat solids, and some babies don't get any teeth
Speaker 1: at all until they were like fourteen months. So you
Speaker 1: you don't need to wait for teeth either way. And
Speaker 1: what you need to keep in mind is that the
Speaker 1: first teeth are not for chewing. They can't chew with
Speaker 1: those teeth. They can only bite with those teeth. And
Speaker 1: the reality is until they have a full set of molars,
Speaker 1: the teeth really aren't going to be reliable or effective
Speaker 1: for chewing anyway. So it's all about the gums. If
Speaker 1: you're wondering whether a food you're giving your baby for
Speaker 1: baby lid weaning is safe, put it in your mouth
Speaker 1: and try to chew it without teeth, using just your gums,
Speaker 1: and if it wishes right up, then you're good to go.
Speaker 1: So I know a lot of parents are doing this,
Speaker 1: but I also know a lot of people and parents
Speaker 1: who are terrified their babies will choke. Um, I feel
Speaker 1: like that never goes away, Like I said, but talk
Speaker 1: to me. I totally get it. I mean, but we
Speaker 1: got to clear up the difference between gagging and choking.
Speaker 1: Babies can gag on pure as, they can gag on
Speaker 1: pretty much anything. They can gag on their own tool.
Speaker 1: When they're teething and they're drooling up a storm, they're
Speaker 1: they're always gagging. It's just their way of clearing their throats,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't mean they're choking. Choking is completely different
Speaker 1: because it's silent. It's want a baby can breathe or
Speaker 1: make any sounds. And that said, of course, you should
Speaker 1: only serve your baby food when they're sitting down in
Speaker 1: their high chair, and only if your baby has good
Speaker 1: head control, and you should only offer foods that a
Speaker 1: baby can come And on top of all that, whether
Speaker 1: you're starting with baby lid waning or whether you're starting
Speaker 1: with purees, take your baby CPR class so that you
Speaker 1: know what to do in case your baby ever chokes.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have to be on food ps. It
Speaker 1: can be on that lego, it can be on something
Speaker 1: they find on the floor that maybe you dropped, So
Speaker 1: that's important regardless, so you know what to do in
Speaker 1: case of a choking incident. But don't give your baby
Speaker 1: any hard foods that actually need to be chewed with
Speaker 1: teeth or that could be easily inhaled. So that goes
Speaker 1: for the whole nuts. No popcorn, no hot dogs unless
Speaker 1: you slice them and slice them and slice them again.
Speaker 1: No whole grapes, no harder sticky candy, no raw carrot sticks.
Speaker 1: Even Lenox knows this, Like, if Sevy wants popcorn, Lenox
Speaker 1: is like, he cannot have popcorn unless you break it up.
Speaker 1: You have to smash it up. He really took it
Speaker 1: to heart. He's a concerned brother. Way to protect your baby, brother, Lennox. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so now we've talked it out, what advice would you
Speaker 1: give your mom friends out there who are still nervous
Speaker 1: about that first flight of solids? Okay, so I got you.
Speaker 1: I messed up being neurotic with my first one. Um
Speaker 1: with Sevy, he was a great eater. Now he's got
Speaker 1: like toddler issues. But you know what happens. He grows
Speaker 1: out of that um and he's much more of an
Speaker 1: adventurous eater than Lennox. You know, help try anything, Let
Speaker 1: them live their lives safely. That's beautiful. But let them live,
Speaker 1: let them learn, live, and let eat baby love A
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