Can my 6mo have normal porridge oats?

[Barb Glare]

By the time babies are 6mnths they are sufficiently mature that they can eat just about anything. Pureed foods are completely unnecessary. Baby foods are obsolete - they can just eat any normal food you have in the house

[Indadhanu]

Oh beauty, I have quick oats so I don't even have to grind it up? YAY!

When are they allowed to start eating meat? I've heard so many different things I'm so confused!

[Doing my best]

Hi Leasha,

We started our DD on meat about 7 months. Our reason was that we wanted her to have veges and fruit first, and were introducing things one by one. I just cooked casserol style in water (without all the normal casserole flavours to start with), then minced in the food processor. I never pureed meat..

Oh - and we gave oats (porridge from 5&1/2) months mixed with formula, then when yoghurt introduced, replaced formula with yoghurt.

[~Kim~]

Darcy wouldn't eat the baby porridges/cereals...she loved oats - so that's what she had. That's what she still has. Some of the 'rules' say to steer clear of oats and wheat based cereals for the first 12 months, but I agree with Barb.

[thepixie]

sorry for crashing leasha but what about dairy? my DD is always trying to steal my yoghurt

[Indadhanu]

Hi pixie, apparently yoghurt is safe from 6 months. I've also heard that the baby yoghurt is only less lumpy than our yoghurt so no need to go buy special yoghurt just make sure there aren't overly huge lumps in whatever you give them.

[thepixie]

cool! that'll make her happy!