However parents have been feeding their little ones baby cereal for.
Baby first food cereal.
At around 7 months start adding in some cooked squashes like acorn and butternut carrots and even some zucchini.
While single grain foods are the best baby cereal types to use as first foods for infants there comes a time when the child is ready for multi grain cereals usually between 6 and 8 months and the nestle nestum 3 is one of the best recommendations here.
7 first foods to give your baby that are better than rice cereal 1.
Don t serve it from a bottle.
Adding these fruits veggies and meats can expand the nutrients that babies get beginning at six months of age.
From purely a nutritional standpoint some medical professionals may advise against offering your baby anything other than formula or breast milk before their first birthday as food should not act as their main source of nutrition.
Start by serving one or two teaspoons.
Dark poultry 0 4 mg iron per ounce 3.
Red meat 0 5 to 0 8 mg iron per ounce 2.
Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula.
Well cooked and finely chopped so baby doesn t choke 7 whole grain breads and cereals as opposed to baby cereal fresh fruit.
Egg yolks 1 mg iron per yolk 4.
Instead help your baby sit upright and offer the cereal with a small spoon once or twice a day after a bottle or breast feeding.
Beans 1 to 2 mg iron per cup 6.
By the 6 month mark your little one may be ready to have their first taste of solid foods.