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<\/a>I don\u2019t start solids with my kids until after 6 months.\u00a0 Both girls were a few weeks past 6 months when I started them on baby rice cereal.\u00a0 I then did oatmeal, barley, veggies and finally fruit.\u00a0 I use the American approach of introducing one new food at a time in case they have a reaction to something I\u2019ll know what to avoid in the future.\u00a0 I was surprised when I had Sugarplum in for a weight check at the baby clinic in Dublin at around 6 months and was informed that she should be eating solids and I should just blend up whatever the family is having (like EVERYTHING we were having) and spoon feed it to the baby.\u00a0 The nurse was concerned that I had only started cereal as the Irish do not worry about allergies and just introduce everything at once.<\/p>\nI am a bit more cautious than most parents probably are because hubby has some very severe food allergies in his family.\u00a0 I have specific foods which I avoid for long periods of time.\u00a0 I don\u2019t do anything with eggs or dairy until after at least 10 months and no milk for drinking until after a year.\u00a0 I also do not do any wheat until after a year (this makes for interesting 1st birthday cakes, see\u00a0“A Piece of Cake”<\/a>).\u00a0 I do peanut butter around 18 months and also hold off sulfites (found in wine and balsamic vinegar) as this one of hubby\u2019s family allergies until around a year and a half.\u00a0 I also wait on shellfish until after 2 years as it\u2019s another family allergy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes it seems like a lot of trouble to introduce one food at a time, but I know if we ever do have a severe (or even minor) reaction I’ll be glad I was so careful. \u00a0It’s also come in very handy in learning food preferences. \u00a0For example, Honeybun\u00a0hated avocado for years and by introducing it by itself I knew right away that is what she disliked and not something else it was mixed in with. \u00a0(Besides, what adult would want all their food blended together?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the baby shower I attended recently I was amazed by how much feeding stuff the soon-to-be mommy received.\u00a0 Bottles aside, she now has a full collection of baby spoons, sippy cups and snack bowls.\u00a0 Of course I already have all this stuff for Doodle too, but that\u2019s only because it\u2019s left over from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}