When did you introduce meats to baby?

[Melynn]

My son is 7.5 months and has had alllll kinds of fruits and veggies and cereals...when can I start pureed meats? Any suggestions on what to start with?
he has NO teeth, idk how he could possibly eat a steak!

 

[jacks mom]

my son is 8 months and i just started him on the meats. he took very well to them. they have a good sweet potato and turkey one and some chicken and veggie ones. i used those first, since they were similar to the veggies he already had been eating

 

[miranda]

I started when my son was 6 months which he is almost 7 months now but he HATES meats so I offer it but he wont eat it.. he wont even swallow it. But you can start him anytime now!!!

 

[frogysue]

In the US drs recommend 8 months for meats; in the UK they recommend them earlier, so I thought it was fine when I gave them to my dd at 7 1/2 months (she did fine). Chicken and turkey are the most gentle meats and very good to start with. Meats can be strongly-flavored, so feel free to mix them with other flavors - chicken-apple, chicken-sweet potato, and chicken-yogurt are all pretty tasty. Because of the strong flavors, if you want to make your own puree, you should not use the cooking water in the puree like you would for a veggie.

If you are introducing finger foods to your son, some protiens work very nicely for that - tofu cubes are very soft, and scrambled egg yolk is also a good finger food. I gave my daughter cooked ground turkey, too, but only after she was comfortable with pureed chicken. I preferred to give beef first as a finger food (in the form of meatloaf or broken-up cooked hamburger) because to me a pureed steak just seemed weird But those foods were all soft enough for her to gum even w/o teeth. I think my dd was eating chicken for 2-3 weeks before I started introducing pork and beef (we eat chicken more often anyway).

 

[zoe]

any time now he needs the iron
at this time my kids ate what we ate/not puree?!

 

[~CriCkeT~]

I started around 8 months...At first she didn't like the meats. It took her some time to like them. So, if he doesn't seem to care for them give him a little time and he will.

I started her on Gerber Chicken first. Then we slowly made our way to beef...

Here is the link

http://www.gerber.com/Products/2nd_Foods_Meats.aspx?PLineId=5c1200a3-be2c-47c4-91c8-3f0bc6bdaabc

 

[oswegolindzmeta]

I used to buy Beechnut baby food so my son started eating meats from the baby food jars around 6 months... He would eat things like "ham, pineapple, and rice" "sweet potato & turkey" and "turkey tetrazzini"... He also ate stage 3 dinners with meats in them when he got to be around 8 months... like macaroni & beef dinner or vegetable beef dinner. Probably around 9-10 months he started eating some lunch meats like turkey and ham, just like lunch meat ripped up into small pieces. I would say at 7.5 months you can give him the stage 2 dinners that have meat in them and probably start stage 3 soon... I would wait until he's a bit older to offer any "real" meats.

 

[Baby Boy due 2/14/2010!]

My daughter BARELY has 1 tooth, and we have given her TINY TINY pieces of steak, chicken, and turkey. Your son doesn't need teeth, his gums are hard enough where his molars will be one day where it will chew the food. Just cut the meat up in tiny pieces. Avoid any extra salts, or added things like garlic on your meat, or anything like that. Introduce it slowly. My daughter is 8 months old.

 

[ARMY*WIFE[lovin life]]

they have the pureed meats for baby but they are SO gross. try a really soft meat like spam [its just processed ham] or those baby sausage sticks.

 

[robind]

We started at 6 months,and it was chicken dinner,we found that a baby food dinner was best when starting meat.Try the sweet potato and chicken.My son loved it.