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Home › Articles › Starting Solids and Supplementation › The Real Scoop on Solid Foods for Baby Part Two

The Real Scoop on Solid Foods for Baby Part Two

Does Baby Know Best?

By Ann Calandro, RNC, IBCLC

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True Stories
Chris Kaden's first child was a slow starter with solids. The Bordentown, N.J., mother had many concerns. When her second child was born, she felt more relaxed.

"With starting solids, as with all aspects of parenting, I truly believe that parents must follow their hearts," she says. "I have felt best about the decisions we've made where we trusted our baby to know what she or he needed. By doing our own research, we felt confident that what we were doing was right for our child. Of course, we often found ourselves defending our choices to doctors, family or friends. This wasn't always easy, but for my children's sake, I would do anything. I never knew I had a backbone until I became a mother! I am actually very glad and thankful for the difficulties we had with our babies. I think it has made me a better and a stronger person, and I wouldn't have missed that opportunity for me to grow as an individual and a mother."

Rebecca DeYoung Daniels, a dietitian and mother of five from Overland Park, Kan., also learned a thing or two about mothering as she had more children. "I believe that all of my children learned to self-regulate their intake through breastfeeding and that they now have very healthy attitudes toward food and eating," she says. "I was also a lazy mother ... after No. 1 rejected mushy baby food, I didn't bother with the mess with subsequent children. They ate things they could feed themselves or small bites of what we were eating. As a dietitian, I was frustrated with all of the 'rules' and reacted by throwing them all to the wind and letting my children set the pace."

Medical Support
Sveral of the mothers who wrote had been supported in allowing their children to wait on solids until they were ready by California pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon.


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