6 Month Old and Baby Food

I started feeding my child jar food at 4 months with a jar for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Started with #1, then #2 and #3 at 8 months. Then started introducing table food after 8 months. I still however give him a meat/veggie jar at night until he grows molars so he can chew chuncks of meat. He's 13 months now. He gets an afternoon snack with juice and juice mid-morning with whole milk with each meal. Hope this helps.

At 6 months old, my son ate cereal for breakfast and two jars of food for lunch and dinner, one vegetable, one dessert. He was usually satisfied with that amount, but occasionally i would give him baby snacks as well.

Hi there,
My son is 8 months old now, and I have been feeding him cereal and baby food for a while. Ive been feeding my little one 3 times a day with bottles in between. I have been trying to eliminate at least one bottle, and more food. When he. she starts to get teeth, you can start to introduce food. Or when they are looking at you when you are eating something. Ive been giving my little one, a taste of everything and hes fine. He just acts like hes starving all the time, and hes tiny. I think he has a fast matoblism...lol Hes still a peanut

Hi...my son who is 8 and my daughter who is 2 were very different eaters. My son would eat 3 jars of baby food and a bottle at each sitting, 3 times a day, plus baby cereal and a whole banana every morning. Yes you read that right! He ate 4 times a day all that food! He is very healthy and not a bit over weight. My daughter on the otherhand...she wouldn't touch baby cereal from the very begining...and never really cared for baby food too much. She would eat about a tablespoon from 3 different kinds at each meal. Babies are natural...they want to eat when they are hungray and they stop when the are full...if your little one seems hungray...feed her one time as much as she will eat untill she won't take anymore. Then you will have some idea of how much she can take at each sitting! Good luck.

With my daughter ijust fed her as much as she wanted about one and a half jars a meal and with my son i threw the babyfood thing out the window and just cut up what i was eating really small and he would eat it. i never really followed any guidelines

At 6 mos, my little girl was eating half a jar of stage 2 baby food mixed with 1/8-1/4 cup rice cereal for breakfast, one stage 2 jar baby food (4 oz) and one stage one jar baby food (2.5 oz) for lunch and the same again at dinner. Along with this she nursed approximately 5 times in a 24 hour period. My kid really likes to eat! She is not overweight, she actually falls in the 50th percentile at every check up. She is 7 mos old now (almost 8 mos) and she has given up baby food. She is refusing to eat anything that she can't put in her mouth by herself. Every kids is different. Your youngest may just have a larger appetite than her siblings.

My son was born 2 months Preemie. He was in the hospital for a month before he was strong enough to come home. By the age of 3 months, he was eating mashed bannanna and baby cereal in addition to his nursing, and by 6 months, he was done with babyfood and eating whatever we ate (after it went through the blender) and by 9 months we didn't need to blend it anymore. I think all kids are different, and if you did nurse your little one yourself, then they're already able to handle the foods you eat. I personally don't agree with babyfood at all except as a matter of convenience, as you can make anything you can eat palatable for little ones with a little extra processing. As long as you avoid certain things, seafood and nuts for example, until younguns are old enough to not react to them (I let my husband give my son a bite of shrimp at 1yr old and he had a bad reaction, but can eat them now) then I see no reason to buy all that babyfood...buy a good food processor and make your babys' food yourself out of whatever you're eating...makes them less finniky too in the long run and saves you lots of $$$, and helps with not developing food allergies. Any holistic Dr. will tell you that a baby kept solely on babyfood can have many problems when it comes time to ween them to normal every day food. Good Luck !!!