Sounds like you're doing a GREAT job Krystie . Don't let your MCHN sway you, you know you're doing the best for your baby. 3 meals is alot for a baby that has only just started solids. And it's not necessary. You just keep doing what works, following your baby's lead, and you'll all be fine .
The MCHN sounds like a bit of a wally if you ask me!! She should be reccommending herself that they start solids at around 6 months, so it is strange that she thinks he should be eating that much when he has only just started.
As for rice cereal, yes it has iron but so does a lot of things (like your broccoli!). Don't worry about it, PLENTY of people never give it to their babies, no dramas.
Really the MCHNs would be providing a better service if they value informed choices and diversity!
Don't worry about it and keep going the way you are!!
Blergh! Rice cereal, have you ever tasted the stuff! I bought it once and mixed it up for DD and it looked so unappetising I didn't bother. We stuck with BLS (and leftovers).
I stopped going to the MHCN by six months so I never heard any bad advice from one!
we haven't started solids (or even thinking about them yet!) but even to me 3 meals a day for a 6 month old sounds a bit ridiculous! TBH I never listen to my MCHN either...I only tell her the bare basics and don't ask her questions (although have only been to see her twice). BB is a much better place for information and advice! I would be so lost without lovely BB members!
Just keep doing what you are comfortable with, and I think if he loves broccoli then great!! and who cares about rice cereal!
You are all so fantastic. These sorts of responses are exactly why so many people feel so comfortable asking questions and raising their concerns on BB
I was telling my DH about it all and his opinion is that the nurses probably HAVE to tell you to start with rice cereal and most likely aren't generally allowed to tell you alternative methods (like BLS) because they have to stick with their current guidelines. He figured that if a child happened to get sick from BLS and the nurse had recommended it, then they are opening doors to lawsuits. I guess he's right, but at the same time I would have thought that the nurses would want to be up to date with current research and methods and even if they aren't allowed to recommend BLS, at least they could be supportive if you mention that you are going down that path...
We ended up getting some rice cereal just to see if Kyson would even be interested. I made it up with breastmilk and he still mostly turned his nose up at it. Usually if I give him spoonfed foods he grabs the spoon and shoves it in his mouth himself, but with the rice cereal he played with the spoon until pretty much all the cereal had fallen off, and then he just chewed on the spoon, lol. I then gave him his broccoli and he chowed down like he hadn't been fed in days! HAHA!
I had a similar experience this week with my GP except my DS is 8 months so you can imagine her shock when I said he's still feeding during the night! My DS is not interested in food until about 7pm, he's so full of milk. However I have been offering him solids at least twice a day every day for three months. I have tipped SO many bowls of mush (vegies, fruit, rice cereal, various combos of the three) in the bin!! We've had good days and not interested days and at the moment he's blowing raspeberries at almost everything offered...however he will pull himself to stand to grab my apple and has just started tasting veges and toast (I think he likes the carbs like Mummy!!) off my plate - without coercion and I think thats the way forward for us..
Thanks for the post KrystieLove, I was feeling a little teary after my docs visit..
Oh thank goodness I've read this. I was bit woried as we don't really seem to be getting anywhere fast with actually eating solids, not even 1 meal a day! She is interested but not alot actually goes down, I was panicing as to when its a problem as in when do they stop getting what they need from milk (DD is formula fed), DD is now 6.5MO. As for the 3 meals a day thats just silly, way too soon to be doing that!
I told myself last night that DD will do this when she is ready & not before. She was born a month prem & had inital feeding problems, that felt like it would never improve but within a week she had got the knack so I'm thinking this will eventually twig with her & away we go!
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. Don't let your MCHN sway you, you know you're doing the best for your baby. 3 meals is alot for a baby that has only just started solids. And it's not necessary. You just keep doing what works, following your baby's lead, and you'll all be fine
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