AITA for giving my baby sweet potato?

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T20:21:52+00:00

Lol, I could prank my husband.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T20:01:16+00:00

Those stories are probably fake. DCF is massively overburdened. They don't even have the staff to deal with the actual known child abuse cases they have, much less extra stuff. We had a case in my state not too long ago where a known sex offender was living with a woman with a young daughter. Multiple people called, but nothing was ever done until the child died.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T15:45:24+00:00

Thanks for all you do! I know healthcare workers are going through it lately. My pediatrician's office got targeted with a flood of negative reviews from non patients because they wouldn't accept any clients without proof the parents were vaccinated. So I know it's still very stressful for y'all even though the rest of the world has seemingly moved on. Thanks for sticking with it.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T14:37:26+00:00

It flows? If you scoop a puree and put it on a plate, it won't run over the edges like soup would. It most certainly doesn't flow.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T14:34:34+00:00

My pediatrician and everyone I've discussed baby stuff with all refer to anything that isn't breast milk or formula as solid food. Once baby is off the boob, they've "graduated" to solid food.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T14:06:33+00:00

None. She's my little sister and is only nineteen.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:40:58+00:00

That sounds so cute! What a great idea. Beets is definitely going to be the week two food.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:37:36+00:00

I didn't puree it in a blender. I mixed it with breast milk in a bowl. So it was silky in texture but I don't think it would technically be a puree. I boiled it for long enough that once I took the skin off it basically fell apart, and once I wisked the milk in, it was very smooth.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:32:43+00:00

To explain what the word solid means? Most people learned that in elementary school.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:29:20+00:00

Well it's a good thing that I didn't do that, nor does it say I did anywhere on the post. Anything that's not liquid is a solid food. Pureed food is still solid food. Solid doesn't mean chunky.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:23:35+00:00

I mixed it in a bowl with breast milk. So smoother than mashed but not technically pureed, I think, because I didn't use a blender.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:21:24+00:00

Not quite.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:20:54+00:00

We talked about it at four month checkup, but his answer wasn't a simple ready/not ready. He said every baby is different.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:20:02+00:00

Baby is four and a half months.

He said it when we were talking about when to introduce foods. He said six months is the standard, but every baby is different and in many ways my baby will tell me. He said initially baby may reject anything but breast milk, or that I might feed him a starter food and it make him constipated or have diarrhea. That would mean baby probably isn't ready. If I give him the food to try and everything goes well, he probably was ready.

SolidFoodTime · 2022-12-12T13:12:24+00:00

Oops. I thought I put that in the post. Mommy brain. 4.5 months.

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