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Ross

Ross

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Question for you grands. Have your sons and daughters been told by their Peds that a baby 6-7 months old should be fed vegetables one week and fruit the next, continue to alternate for up to 8 weeks?

Now 24 to 28 years ago, we fed them something from each food group daily. Has that somehow changed and I'm now Grandparent challenged as well as other things?

I can see doing it to see if the child is going to have any allergic reaction to the new food, but once that's been established, what is so wrong about giving them fruits, veggies, cereals, and milk/formula?
 
I agree with you Ross. "In my day" we gave our babies a variety of foods each day so they received a balanced diet. My nine year old grandaughter was also fed like this, but maybe the so called experts have decided this new way helps their digestive systems become used too all foods.

Mary
 
I remember we started out with one food a week, starting with the veggies, because once they taste fruit they'll never want the veggies. The one-a-week thing was to be able to spot allergies quickly.

But then I had a very old school ped with my kids and they started on cereal at 1 month - and LOVED it might I add. And neither child has problems with being over-weight, which was one of the arguments I've heard to not start so early.
 
Haven't heard the alternating thing... but what everyone suggests is that you should introduce new foods one at a time. So, let's say we start Junior out with rice cereal... do that for about a week, next Junior gets rice cereal and sweet potatoes, for about 3-7 days, then you can try another new food... conventional wisdom says to give 'em a specific food for at least 3 days to give time for any sensitivities or allergic reactions to appear. Of course, if Junior won't eat a particular food, skip it. He may change his mind later.

Avoid straight cow's milk, citrus, and honey til Junior is a year old.

once they taste fruit they'll never want the veggies
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- this has pretty much been refuted now - especially if Junior has been on breastmilk - there's probably nothing sweeter than breastmilk:D
 
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Every few years they switch from saying "breast milk only" to "formula only," to "soy formula only," back to "breast milk only." And they are absolutely, arrogantly positive that they are scientifically correct each time.

Baby care is the absolute worst area of medicine for fads. For a while, there was a push to heavily reduce fat in babies' diets to an extremely low amount, completely ignoring the fact that fats are absolutely critical to babies' mental and neurological development.

My vote would be to use common sense. If you don't have food allergies in your family, why would they start now? I don't believe in doing anything that affects a child just for the convenience of the pediatrician.

As far as testimonials, I have yet to see a fad health theory, no matter how bogus, that didn't have someone for whom it worked a miracle, and which didn't attract its own True Believers to carry forth the Word...

Best wishes,
 
We've always introduced one new food weekly, until a good base of easily tolerated foods was established.
Thereafter the babies should eat just like us, alternating the type of fruit and veggie daily.
(Depending on the age of the baby and if he is under/over weight, still nursing, etc.)
 
Our son and DIL have a seven month old. She no longer wants to nurse so she's on formula, cereal, fruits and vegetables on a daily basis.

She doesn't like peas though and neither does her 3 year old brother.
Earline
 
tobagotwo said:
Every few years they switch from saying "breast milk only" to "formula only," to "soy formula only," back to "breast milk only." And they are absolutely, arrogantly positive that they are scientifically correct each time.

Baby care is the absolute worst area of medicine for fads. For a while, there was a push to heavily reduce fat in babies' diets to an extremely low amount, completely ignoring the fact that fats are absolutely critical to babies' mental and neurological development.

My vote would be to use common sense. If you don't have food allergies in your family, why would they start now? I don't believe in doing anything that affects a child just for the convenience of the pediatrician.

As far as testimonials, I have yet to see a fad health theory, no matter how bogus, that didn't have someone for whom it worked a miracle, and which didn't attract its own True Believers to carry forth the Word...

Best wishes,
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This is my take on the situation also.

Chris will not listen because Andrea has him on this alternating fruit one week veggies the next. This has been going on far too long and cannot possibly be healthy for this kid.

Heck his 7.5 months old and still cannot crawl. When he's here, we try to work with him, but dad gets aggravated because we let him cry instead of picking him up as soon as he starts. I'm getting very frustrated with them. (The parents that is)
 
marie said:
Our son and DIL have a seven month old. She no longer wants to nurse so she's on formula, cereal, fruits and vegetables on a daily basis.

She doesn't like peas though and neither does her 3 year old brother.
Earline
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Chris was trying to feed him something resembling squash and Talon just threw a fit over it. I told Chris to taste it. He did and said it was horrible. I told that's exactly what Talon is trying to tell you. Get rid of it and find something else. :rolleyes: But no, mommy says...............
 
I agree totally, Ross.....if a baby obviously hates a food, there is no reason to push it.
Later on it can be tried again.
Babies usually love carrots, beans, sweet potato.....it makes for a positive start to veggies.
 
Regarding the crawling....I've found that nowadays many babies are actually getting lazy or spoiled by busy parents.
Too many parents keep the baby in Exersaucers, swings, Jumpers, etc. instead of just laying on the floor with them.
Spread out some toys and eventually the baby will do his best to explore and look for the toys that are further out of reach.
 
Bina said:
Regarding the crawling....I've found that nowadays many babies are actually getting lazy or spoiled by busy parents.
Too many parents keep the baby in Exersaucers, swings, Jumpers, etc. instead of just laying on the floor with them.
Spread out some toys and eventually the baby will do his best to explore and look for the toys that are further out of reach.
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If certain parents would allow us to try.......... :rolleyes:

Did you ever want to smack your own upside the head to get them to think a bit?
 
It's kind of funny - back when my kids were little Dr. Spock was still a popular manual for raising children - then the experts said Throw the book away, use your common sense. Same should hold true now, shouldn't it :confused:
 
This is actually huge concern for me as a new parent. What my parents and in-laws believe to be the best way is not necessarily the best anymore. What I mean is, research has proven their methods faulty or inferior. I can also tell they're going to (attempt) to teach things to my child that I don't believe is in its best interest. Doesn't mean they're necessarily ignorant, they're just... not well read about the subject anymore :D

It's funny you mention it because there's an article about this in Parenting magazine that just came to my house. It's a big deal.
 
Be careful what "science" tells you about what to do with your baby. Much of what you read in these baby/parents magazines is bogus semiscience. Studies with no control parameters, or based on only ten children, or providing outputs that completely ignore their own results are common now. There is a great deal of pressure to sell magazines, and the magazines have to have interesting-sounding articles from (usually completely unqualified) "experts." This puts a lot of stress on these people to invent new "truths" for the magazines' covers. And those truths need to line up with the products that are buying advertising that month, or at least not make them look bad.

A classic was the ruin of Psychology Today, when people started to realize that much of what filled up the pages were "studies" that were conducted by college kids on four or five of their friends as homework for courses. The result was that almost everything that was put forth by the magazine was true - if the world only contained college-age kids, and if you could trust a college sophomore to derive meaning from it without bias.

Trust yourself. Trust your instincts.

Not that your parents will dispense only wisdom, or that you won't do some things better, or see some things more clearly. But with total love of your child come moments of indecision and complete exhaustion. I guarantee you that by the time your kid is in his or her teens, you'll be thanking the Lord that they didn't listen to everything you said, and that they overlooked and eventually forgot your many ragged and non-fatherly moments, and most of your more idiotic decisions.

The job of being a parent ain't human...

Best wishes,
 
My parents did an awesome job! I am 1 of 4 kids, ages 43,41,35(me) and 34. I think it is the Grandparents that should write books on how to raise childern, rather then some of these so called experts. My wife and I try to raise our kids like our parents raised us. Ross you are right about the way to feed newborns. My wife and I try to teach ours 6,4 and 3 years about respect and manners. We were raised to say please, Thank you, yes sir, no sir etc... Love your Grand baby, like we love our kids. All the love in the world
 
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