Feeding from a spoon

jadelman0211 · March 2012

At what age did you introduce feeding with a spoon to your little one? I am trying to do cereal with my son who is 4 months, and he won't swallow. I don't remember having any issues with my first. My husband thinks my first was older when we started the soon feeding. But I don't remember. Any tips to get him to eat?
He is breast fed only so far(but does take it in a bottle at times). Any tips on getting him to eat with a spoon?

Janet_2011 · March 2012

He will be ready when he is ready.. if that makes any sense. You should let your baby be able to swallow before introducing the spoon . That's just my opinion.

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starrxoxo9 · March 2012

Tessa was 1 week shy of 6 months. She took to it right away.

sands3 · March 2012

I just started Jack at 4 months. It took him several days to learn to swallow it. It's been a week and he's still learning

jadelman0211 · March 2012

Thanks ladies! I figures out was going to take some practice but didn't know of there were any tricks to get them to learn to swallow

ashley_smashley · March 2012

Your babies tongue thrust reflex isnt mature yet. It will take some time. Here is a great article by Dr. Sears

http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/feeding-infants-toddlers/starting-solids/6-reasons-delay-introducing-solid-food

clope18 · March 2012

4 months, I started with cereal. He will make funny faces the first few days, but it's from confusion from using the spoon

My2Boys · March 2012

Jaksyn started around 4 months and he took a while to get the hang of it, he is six months now and doing good, but still is not great he does spit it back out a lot.

heyitsme · March 2012

When I tried with my lo she kept putting her hands in her mouth with the spoon lol. she was almost 5 months and I haven't tried since

trixiesmom8 · April 2012

We just started last night. My lo is 5.5 months old. We started with rice cereal.

Feeding from a spoon

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