At what age should my baby start stage 3 food?

Question

At what age should my baby start stage 3 food?

Answer 1

If you are going to let Gerber raise your child you should ask Gerber.

Otherwise you should let your baby eat normal family foods, not c**p in a jar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/676279...

She said children should be fed only with breast or formula milk for six months, then weaned onto solids to improve control over how much they ate.

This could prevent babies becoming picky about food.

Mrs Rapley has spent 25 years as a health visitor, and she said: "I found so many parents were coming to me with the same problems - 'my child is constipated, my child is really picky' - and they couldn't get them on to second stage baby food."

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Solids best

After six months, Mrs Rapley said babies were capable of taking food into their mouths and chewing it.

Therefore, feeding them pureed food at this time could delay the development of chewing skills.

Instead, she said, they should be given milk and solid pieces of food which they could chew.

Mrs Rapley argued that babies fed pureed food had little control over how much food they ate, thus rendering them vulnerable to constipation, and running a risk that they would react by becoming fussy eaters later in life.

She blamed the food industry for convincing parents that they should give children pureed food.

She said: "Sound scientific research and government advice now agree that there is no longer any window of a baby's development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids."

Answer 2

1 year

Answer 3

It depends on your baby.  It depends on how many teeth he has.  My son has been on stage 2 since he was 4 months old bc he was able to.  I havnt started him on stage 3 yet, even though he's got a couple teeth.  Those little pieces still scare me.  He has had other table foods though, like popsickles, cheese, gerber finger puffs, and broccoli cheese soup (just the broth not the chunks of broc!)

I would wait until he/she has got quite a few teeth for stage 3 bc there are some decent sized little chunks in it, and if (s)hes not chewing just swallowing like my son then they can easily choke on the stage 3 bits.

Answer 4

Yes about one year. My 10 month old is happy on stage one. I will start it after one!

Good luck!

Answer 5

dont go by age, go by when they are ready for it. try it, if baby doesnt take too well, leave it a while.

my daughter was on puree (4-6) food till 8mos.

she then went on to lumps (7mos+) at 8mos

then mashed (10mos+) at 9mos

i just knew when she was ready.