When to start solids american academy of pediatrics
When to Start Solid Foods with an Infant
hello welcome to fdtv i'm your host
saveetha here with dr. Sam and nurse
amber today we're going to talk about
when to start solid foods with their
infant the American Academy of
Pediatrics recommends that you can start
your baby on foods between the ages of
four to six months of age my little boy
and you guys have seen him on some
previous videos at that time he was
about two months old and now he just
turned five months old so we've actually
just started introducing these things to
him okay great and now what tell it fits
have you started um for him we actually
skipped grains I have a lot of food
allergies and they believe because of
the autoimmune disease that I have its
hereditary so we started him on grains
it didn't go well so my doctor my
immunologist recommended we went
straight to vegetables and fruit so
right now he's on spinach oh okay and
that's going really well he likes it he
he really does like it yeah good this is
just baby food you do or just um it
depends I I do both i puree and i buy
okay great yeah so how do you know your
baby may be ready to start solids a
couple of things the baby loses his
tongue thrust or almost loses it so if
you put a spoon in the baby's mouth and
it doesn't push it back out with its
tongue the baby's ready to start
accepting new foods the baby and this
was my son he's really interested in
food that we're eating so i'm holding
Jacob in my arm while I'm eating
something he kind of mouths a little bit
and so I could figure it out he was
starting to get a little hungry and then
also and i noticed this with my son too
he can actually suck in his bottom lip
to take food so when i put the spoon in
there he has like I call it the old man
like lips suck and he looks like he
doesn't have tea well he doesn't have to
you but like dentures he just sucks it
right in so that's another thing too we
can actually get the food into his mouth
which is important knee yeah well my
younger baby is big now so you start
from getting leasing I know well when I
was a baby my mom I always went to my
mom and I'd her food oh yeah yeah that's
that's how we learned that you guys are
ready that's so just like we were saying
most people do start off with a single
grain item like baby rice or baby
oatmeal single brain and these are the
two most commonly used due to the
decrease chances the baby may be
allergic to them I myself have a
horrendous wheat allergy I'm and that
you know I matter of fact my mom she was
actually talking to me and she was like
well what about cream of wheat because
it's easily dead you know easily
swallowed and I said no because but you
know a lot of people with allergies now
okay so so you don't have to start grain
no you don't have to start green um you
know again like with my son we did grain
for five days every day he had symptoms
that there was something maybe a little
bit off so he went ahead went to the
vegetables according to my pediatrician
immunologist and it was fine oh great
yeah yeah and what does your
pediatrician recommend um basically my
allergist and my pediatrician
recommended that we do one new food per
week make sure that we don't have a
reaction to it then we move on from
there one of the things that my
pediatrician said and you know take it
or leave it I I follow the advice I did
it with my daughter and she's a great
vegetable eater it start off with the
greens first babies like most people
have a natural affinity towards sweets
so starting off with a green actually
helps develop a better taste for the
green vegetables so all all both of my
children we started off on avocado
actually good and hopefully that'll give
him a lifelong love of fruit and
vegetables like you do right yeah yeah
and that's Michaela to my little girl
she I mean she didn't eat meat for the
first four years of her life not by
choice Wow not by my choice but by her
she just was a vegetable and fruit only
yeah yeah so uh so what about milk um
milks super important I think one of the
things that we have to remember as
parents is that your baby's main source
of nutrition is absolute breast milk
which is the best or formula and that's
21 years age at least the big thing to
remember of course though with doing
milk is that you can never give a baby
cows milk or soy milk it doesn't have
the nutritional properties that babies
require and it actually has higher
numbers of proteins actually can cause
kidney damage as well oh wow which is a
concern oh and there's some other foods
to stay away from too what are they um
nuts um you know everybody knows peanut
allergies a huge thing nowadays you
would never ever want to give her child
any type of nut butter even if it was
like sunflower almond because of the
stickiness remember a baby can have an
anaphylactic reaction reaction very
quick
and you know as we've seen in our office
I mean those those are absolutely can be
fatal so that's really scary yeah a big
one is honey you know um people want to
kind of sweeten things up maybe you're
thinking about the rice or the porridge
or something like that never honey honey
contains botulism and it can cause death
and infants but for an adult it's fun
yeah it's just it's not processed so
it's not all honey but there is some
that do contain botulism but if an adult
takes it and it has a little we're big
enough that we can sustain it we're
gonna be yeah that's correct so yeah
anything else not that I can think of
right now I mean right now it's just you
know at least in our family is starting
the foods and learning all the rules
that go along with that another thing
that I always try to remember too is
look at the actual if you're going to
buy you know processed baby food which i
do is i buy the organic kind it actually
has the month recommendation on it too
there's a lot of foods that maybe just
don't write yet for my baby's belly
which you know and it'll stay on there
you know four to six months six to eight
eight to twelve so make sure that you
try to figure that in another thing is
to my pediatrician talk to me about was
make sure that we're not putting rice
cereal in the baby's bottle to thicken
it up a baby needs to have the skill of
loot learning to use a spoon and so
that's the reason they don't recommend
you doing that as the baby needs spoon
use to help with the tongue for us and
things like that nice yeah and yeah and
they grow quickly they do mwah okay take
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