Your beginner eater has had her very first meal. It’s now day two of solid foods and she is ready for another meal. For the first week, give her one meal each day consisting of one single food – the same food you fed to her in her very first meal. Give her some breast milk or formula before the solid food so that she is not too hungry when you spoon-feed her. After she finishes the food you can give her the rest of the breast or formula. For the first few days, each meal should be no more that a tablespoon before mixing with liquid.
At the beginning of the second week of solid foods, introduce your baby to one new food from the list below. Wait 4-7 days (The Four Day Wait Rule) and watch for allergy symptoms before introducing another food.
- ripe avocado
- ripe banana
- sweet potato
- yogurt, whole-milk (6 months or older)
- commercial, iron-fortified single-grain cereals: rice, barley, millet, oatmeal
- mild fruits, cooked and strained apricots, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, prunes
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