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Ready or Not?

The Real Scoop on Solids

Part One

By Ann Calandro, RNC, IBCLC

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Here are a few things to look for when you are trying to assess Baby's development for clues to begin solid foods:

  • Is your healthy baby nursing more and more but doesn't seem to fill up on breast milk alone?
  • Can your baby sit up well?
  • When offered food, does your baby open wide and readily accept the food rather than push it back out with his tongue?
  • Does your baby show an interest in what you are eating?
  • Can your baby pick up small bits of food and propel them toward his mouth?

If your baby is showing these developmental signs, it is probably about time to think about offering solids.

What Solids?
Remember all those charts and food pyramids you had to memorize in high school? Remember the fruits and the vegetab
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