What is best first food for baby
WHAT FOODS TO FEED BABY FIRST 4-6 MONTHS + HOW TO KNOW WHEN BABY IS READY FOR SOLIDS
hey happy homemakers welcome back to my
channel so today video is gonna be all
about what foods to feed baby first as
well as sites on knowing when baby is
ready this Wiggly one is Chloe and she's
my second child and she is currently six
months and just starting to eat solids
or purees and she is a budding foodie
just like her mommy anyways I'm gonna
put her down because she is very Wiggly
this video has been so highly requested
and I'm finally filming it so thank you
for your patience
Chloe is now six months old and finally
showing an interest and desire and
eating purees so my mind is just kind of
going back over all of that information
that I gathered when Marcus was a baby
and I wanted to say that I am by no
means a medical expert this is not
medical advice everyone has different
needs you guys should contact your
pediatricians this is just the best way
that I found to feed my babies
personally and it's a combination of a
lot of different advice that I found out
there so make sure that you talk to your
own pediatricians when deciding what's
best for your baby and one more thing I
am planning to make a series on this so
where this video is going to be how to
know when baby is ready plus what foods
to feed baby first in those first couple
months my next two will be on baby
feeding essentials so equipment thought
you'll want if you're making your own
baby food and then one more video will
be on recipes and how I make my own baby
food at home so stay tuned for those and
make sure you're subscribed on my
channel so you won't miss them I am a
major foodie and when it comes to
feeding my babies I am just as excited I
love introducing them to new flavors I
love watching their faces when they try
new flavors so I have done a ton of
research when I first started feeding
Marcus and personally I just love the
French approach to introducing foods to
babies though their philosophy is
essentially the first three years of
their life their their palates are
developing and so this is a time when
you just like strategically want to
introduce of many different flavors to
the baby as you can so that they'll grow
accustomed to those good foods and enjoy
real whole natural food
and everything and one of my favorite
resources on learning how to do that is
French kids eat everything and I feel
like if kids in France are eating
everything that has served on their
plates whatever adults eat they must be
getting something right so this is a
read that I highly recommend they have a
few good recipes but really it just kind
of gives you a strategy as a parent on
how to introduce foods to your kids and
not be picky eaters that's like the
hardest thing in America I think so many
kids are picky and it almost feels like
it's inevitable but Marcus eats pretty
much everything we put on his plate and
I think is all because of reading this
book so I highly recommend it it's
called French kids eat everything and
it's by Karen Le'Veon which is really
fun read - it's really interesting about
a woman who moved her American family to
France for a few years and her kids had
to adapt to eating everything especially
older child was already quite picky and
she learned to eat like a French kid so
it's a really interesting read and then
the second book I would recommend is the
Biba baby cookbook this is also based on
the French philosophy and I really do
love it it has a lot of great recipe
ideas as well as pictures so from my
understanding kind of what I used to
guide me when I was first introducing
foods to Marcus and now to Chloe my
second child
you can introduce foods to babies
anywhere from about four months to six
months depending on your baby you're
their mother and you observe them most
so you are the best person to judge when
baby is ready but two tips that will
help you is number one how much interest
does baby have at four months Marcus was
totally interested in everything I was
putting in my mouth he would hover over
my plate just kind of wiggling like
babies do with his mouth wide open just
wanting to eat everything on my plate
which I didn't give many don't worry he
was just like so ready to just start
eating foods at four months where Chloe
was a completely different she was she
is still just completely happy without
Mama's milk and she's a super mama's
girl she just loves that closeness that
we have she was kind of like take it or
leave it up until about five and a half
months and now she's like six six months
and
and she's just now starting to eat foods
so yeah it just really depends on your
baby and like I said you're their mama
you observe your baby most of the hours
of the day you are the best person that
can make that call when your baby is
ready to start solids well I say solids
by purees is what I mean and then my
second piece of advice is to wait until
they can sit up on their own um and for
Marcus that was like right around four
months and for Chloe that was about five
five and a half months I think the idea
behind that role is well first of all
it's a lot easier to feed a baby when
you think the baby can sit up in a chair
but I think it just has to do with them
able to swallow something that's a
little thicker than Mother's Milk I hope
that kind of gives you an idea of what
things to look for to know when your
baby is ready to start trying solids the
first foods that I always introduce baby
were whole-grain rice cereal and I have
a box here I love this brand Earth's
best because it has just really it's
organic and it has just really simple
great ingredients so this is what I use
for both Chloe and Marcus this is like
your best friend when your baby is
starting solids because it's just so
easy to mix mix with some breast milk or
water and you can carry it anywhere with
you it's a powder form and you don't
have to measure it out or anything you
just kind of eyeball it but I would say
make sure that you're doing it thin
enough when you're just starting to
introduce it to baby so that it's easy
for them to swallow and then you can get
a little bit thicker as the baby gets
older so babe I commend that you start
them with the rice cereal and then the
next step would be to introduce week to
them with the wheat cereal but you want
to make sure that you get the ones with
the number one on it every brand has
like one two or three I think but one is
for ages four to six months and it only
has one like plain vegetable or fruit so
this one and their specific fruits and
vegetables that they make it with so
this one is a one it's plum only plums
in it and in those books it will talk
more about only starting baby on one
specific vegetable at a time so that
baby can learn to like that flavor and
you don't want to do anything too
sweet because you want their palate to
get used to the more like vegetable
flavor so that they like vegetables too
so I always did vegetables first with
Marcus I have done this plumb one with
Chloe though so in addition to the fact
that it is only one single fruit or
vegetable in it it also is a little bit
runny er than the other purees I like to
get organic and you can get them in
squeezy tubes or this little Tupperware
type thing which are bulk handy and I
usually make my own but I really do
appreciate having some of these on hand
just for if I don't have time or we're
out we have to go and we're gonna eat
somewhere I just like to have these on
hand that I can throw my diaper bag
there shelf-stable so even if you are
planning to make all of baby's food grab
some of these they'll be a lifesaver
so this one is Beechnut organic stage
one this one's just pumpkin this one is
happy baby organics it's just sweet
potatoes both stage one and the ones I
just showed you are both plum organics
um so I mean there's a wide variety of
them but I do like to get organic
especially when baby is so young so the
last thing we're gonna talking about is
food ideas what kind of fruit and
vegetables that you want to feed baby
from four to six months to start off and
I used to have a booklet that had like
just an amazing little guide but I can't
find it anywhere it was written by a
French expert so I'm just going to type
up my own little guide and put it here
on the screen for you guys you can
screenshot it that way if you want to
have it for future reference so there
are a lot of fruits on this list but
personally I did focus on vegetables
with a few fruits on the side um so for
fruits you can feed apricots banana
orange peach pear apple and grapes and
obviously plums because we have a plum
puree here you can give baby artichoke
carrot zucchini broccoli watercress
spinach green bean lettuce leek winter
squashes red lettuce and tomato and then
obviously the rice cereal for baby
French people also feed their babies
butter at this young age sometimes they
mix the butter in with like a little bit
of pea puree because that's how we like
our peas so baby would like it that way
too it's kind of the philosophy there
and then the foods that you should not
be baby until they are one year old
would be honey dairy milk and beets
beeps because there's supposedly
something in the Soylent that they're
grown in and it can give baby rash it
can be hard on baby's digestive system
yeah that's a mouthful
so yeah there's the guy that I kind of
went by when I was feeding Marcus and
Chloe their first foods so my favorite
things to feed Chloe right now our
butternut squash sweet potato pumpkin
puree and obviously she likes that plum
puree right now we have some nice
apricots in the fridge so I will
probably make her puree out of those and
like I said I'm going to be doing a
couple more videos like this so stay
tuned for those make sure you subscribe
to my channel so you won't miss out
anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this
video let me know if you have any
questions down in the comments and I
will do my best to respond hope you guys
are all having a fantastic day and I
will see you in my next video bye guys
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