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If I start giving my 5 mo old banana baby food now can I mix it with the rice cereal or serve seperately?

I am asking my dr. about it on Monday so, I won't do it either way until then, but I've heard a lot of ppl say that at 5 months they started with the basic fruits. I am guessing this is baby food, of course... but is it supposed to be mixed in with the rice cereal or served seperately. How did your baby do when starting baby foods? lol.. wow, guess i should have read that before i submitted it, huh?

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1. Mixing is fine, straight is fine also. However your baby likes it.
2. you are going to feed your 5 month old banana baby food? i didn't know bananas ate baby food.
3. Why are you feeding a 5 month old banana? Isn't it a bit mushy?
4. I don't think you should feed your banana anything much less baby food. and you shouldn't keep a banana for 5 months!
5. seperate
6. I started her with veggies first. I wanted her to experience them before the sweet stuff. In any case you can mix it with the cereal if you want. Also, things like bananas are so easy to mash yourself with a fork, there's no point buying the baby food version.
7. I always mixed the fruit in with some rice cereal, especially the feeding right before bed, he seemed to sleep better through the nite and was more satisfied...
8. If its the first time- do them seperatly. The mixture is a little pasty & hard to swallow, unless you add a little cereal to a lot of bananas. My son liked the combination. :) (Now 13 months old)
9. buy him pear baby food kids love it, atleast better than 5 month old bananas try it both ways and see which he prefers, MOST eat it seperate though
10. There is no good answer that's the fun of it but variety is good for babies, serving them next to each other but separate would be a good experiment, see what he does. I'm not a huge fan of baby food, our doctor said as long as the food isn't nasty and processed (like doritos) or a choking hazard, or extremely spicy, you can feed a kid that age anyting you can eat, as long as it's easy to chew.
11. I cut a bigger hole in the baby bottle nipples and put fresh banana and peanut butter in the baby formula, mixed it in the blender then gave it to my daughter that way! She loved it!
12. You can mix it together. Just make sure it's the right consistency so the baby can eat it.
13. Oh, if the baby is 5 months it can be served seperately. I can't believe how things change. My dauther is 13yrs old and I started her way before 5 months.
14. When my son was that age. I started with Rice Cereal first and then when on to the different cereals. Then I started with Gerber 1st baby foods. I did fruits first and then did veggies. They tell you to give them the same thing for 3 days in a row, because if they develop an allergy you can pin point it. So start with cereal first and then fruits. Once your baby has had both then yes you can mix it. They love that. Best of luck to you. Hope this helped.
15. I actually began baby food stage one with my babies at 3 months, which to some is too early, but breast milk and formula was not filling them up. at 5 months you can mix it in with their cereal for added taste and thicker texture. I mixed the baby food stage one (fruits) with their milk as a snack but not too thick. my kids loved it and slept so good, especially at night. you can listen to what your doctor says but you are the mommy and you know best. you can serve it seperate or mixed in the cereal either way im sure the baby will love it.
16. I started with rice cereal and formula or water. 5 months seems pretty early to try to mix foods. Mine were almost 9 or 10 months old before I tried to do that. And I always worried about choking, because mixing a fruit with some cereal is still pretty pasty, thick or grainy - which often makes a baby gag. Maybe you can introduce the solids one at a time (cereal first...after a week or so, banana, etc) and keep the foods separate until your baby is able to sit up without help or is crawling around. Also, if you mix foods and your baby develops an allergy, it'll make it harder to figure out which ingredient is causing it. All in all, though, variety is good. Just don't try to introduce too many new things too soon, or else your baby will acquire a finicky palate from being turned off by strong flavors or textures.
17. The recommended practice these days is to actually wait until 6 months for baby food of any type because of "open gut". This is where the cells in the small intestine have spaces between them, increasing the risk of allergies, obesity, and childhood diabetes. Also, if you DO start solids before six months (or after, really), use the four day rule. Never mix two foods until you've introduced both foods seperately first, waiting four days after a new food to start another new food. This allows for allergy observance. If a reaction is going to occur, it'll likely be during the first four days. If you mix cereal and bananas and your baby has an allergic reaction, how would you know which one it was that caused it?
18. Start with VEGGIES, MEATS, and LAST (after a couple of months) FRUITS. You can mix them with any type of baby cereals. If your baby has never had solid, now you are starting, you should: 1. Only Rice cereal mix with breast milk or formulas (a month or two of that) slowly increase the cereals quanities. I use the formulas can 1 oz scoop. I start with 1-2 scoops and make it very loose, then slowly make it thicker. 2. After a couple of months of cereal only. Use level 1 VEGGIE or MEAT baby food, mix with 1 or 2 scoops of cereal (depend on your baby), and add water or milk. 3. After a couple of months of cereal & level 1, start on level 2 baby food. 4. After a couple of months of level 2, you could start with Fruits or move on to level 3. I suggest FRUITS last because it's sweet and babies will get too used to it and would not eat the healthy Veggie food. Also, you should try some finger foods like the Gerber stars cookie. It's small and soft and mild in the mouth. Start by breaking each corner first until the baby get used to eating the cookie then you can give them the whole thing. Good Luck.
19. Different doctors recommend different things. For my son we started with just rice cereal. Mixed with a little water and watery at first. My Dr. recommended waiting a little while between foods to insure that there was no food allergies. So after a week or so I started another food, like a fruit. Pears, apples, and the like are the best because they are the most bland. Bananas would be fine I guess. I would not start with fruit mixed with fruit just one and then the other. When I started my son on rice cereal he had a problem with constipation so we moved to oat cereal soon and he did fine after that. The best advice is to ask your Dr what he suggests and then go from there. The website below is for Gerber and has a healthy feeding plan as well as if you sign up with them they will send you coupons. Good luck with your baby. Genessa
20. You should feed your child new things seperately so that if they have a reaction to any thing you know what it is. When you have given them most of the fruits or cereals than you can mix them. Most doctors recomend starting with rice cereal as it's the easiest for them to digest. And you should only give them one thing new a week to make sure that they can digest it and that they won't react to it. Someone said to give them meat as one of the first foods??? NO meat is one of the hardest things to digest, You start with cereal, fruits, vegtables and than if you eat meat than meat. When you start vegtables you can start startches like rice, noodles and potatoes.
21. I have 5 children and i started by mixing it with the cereal so they could get used to the different texture first
22. either way, i think oatmeal is better
23. i would experment and first try it mixed and the next day try them speret and witch one she like's the most than theres your answer
24. i started my kids on rice cereal first before giving any jar baby food and then once they got on the jar food i usually mix it up together. but i started them at age 4months. i know every doctor is different. but you do want to start with rice then after a month go to oatmeal then go to mix cereal. also when giving the baby the baby food from the jar, give the same foods for 3-5 days to make sure the baby doesnt have an allergic reaction
25. LOL, I totally knew what you meant. Those responses made me laugh though. You can do either mixed or seperate. I personally didn't mix fruits into cereal, just because I wanted my baby to get used to different tastes and textures so I didn't want to sweeten the cereal. Totally up to you and what your baby likes though.
26. lol..actually that was funny but now that I re-read it I understand. My son loved the combo. Either way is fine. It all depends on the little bananas taste buds! <smile>. But it is surely ok to give baby either or both.
27. I wouldn't waste my money on the banana baby food -- I'd just use real bananas. I always started with veggies, though. I like mashed potatoes or avocadoes as a first food. Bananas are good because they are sweet but then there is a chance the baby won't take to veggies because they aren't sweet. I wouldn't mix it with cereal -- you want to make sure that if there is an allergy problem that you can identify what food is causing the symptoms. One more thing -- are you sure you really want to start a baby on solids so young? I've never started a baby on solid foods before at least 6 months -- usually more like 8-9 months. But mine may have just not been ready for solids and yours is. That's your call to make.
28. Babies don't need anything other than breast milk (or formula) until 6 months. Then start with rice, then other cereals, then vegetables then fruits.