Most physicians here indicate that babies should be on breastmilk or formula alone until they are 6 months old. However, when you baby is old enough to sit up unsupported, and starts taking keen interest in your food-grabbing your plate, following your spoon to your mouth and looking at you like "Where's mine??" then these are good indications thaat he/she is ready for first foods. I do not know wat Pablum is-we do not have that here inthe states as far as I know. Some people put cereal in baby's bottle, and some people are against doing o. i did not do it because it went against the reccommendations of my pediatrician. But a lot of people do that and have children who grow up just fine.

My son is 4 months and Ive been feeding him rice cereal and now oatmeal cereal for about a month now. (Its the begginers by heinz.) And hes just recently started eating the begginers baby food. He gets about a tablespoon of cereal in the mourning and a tablespoon of baby food at night. With just the formual all he wanted to do was eat so we trid him on the cereal and after a while of that and with him doing good on it we tried baby food.

I would try giving your introducing your baby to rice cereal, it is the first food a baby is supposed to eat, because it is a single grain cereal I would try it first in small amounts{couple of bites}. Mix it with your baby's formula in a small bowl make it kind of runny so that it is thin enough to swollow, and then gradually over the next couple of weeks make it a little thicker, as long as your baby can tolerate it. If you would like to try vegetables it probobly wouldn't hurt but I would wait a little longer to start feeding in large amounts. Start out with just plain vegetables to make sure your child isn't allergic and then you can start giving them the mixed vegetebles. Usually fruit you should wait untill they are around 5 months. It can sometimes give them a diaper rash. And after feeding the cereal I would give them the rest of their formula they usually get really tired after eating it. Good luck!

Would someone please explain what Pablum is?

i think it's rice cereal? i know it's a canadian thing...

My daughter is about 4 1/2 months olds. I started her on rice cereal when she was about 3 1/2 months. Before then....i had to put the cereal in her bottle b/c she had reflux. Most doctors say that you can start feeding rice cereal when the baby is 4 months old. Some can start before that.

Sillyakchick.....Pablum used to be the BRAND name of the cereal for babies. It has in the past few years been taken over by Heinz.

It is exactly the same as your rice cereals in the states, we just call it pablum...
it's like calling vegetable soup CAMPBELLS vegetable soup, instead of vegetable soup...
Or like calling toothpaste AQUAFRESH toothpaste...It is just the BRAND name.

I had to laugh because my hubby is from the US and when we first started our son on solids, I said...ok...we have to go and get some pablum...he laughed and said...Pablum...what the heck is that?????

Oh, and about the question of when to start solids. My pediatrician said around 5 to 6 months, but you can start them earlier like the person in one of the previous posts said...they begin to show interest.
I started mine on PABLUM...(LOL)..rice cereal for about 4 days..tolerated well..then I tried some peas with it..he seemed to get alot of gas, I since found out that when introducing vegies, start with the yellow ones first, easier on the stomach..so I then gave him carrots, then after a couple of days we did the sweet potatoes.
I just bought some squash and will try green beans next week.


The one question I have if anyone can answer is do I get him strongly eating vegies, like so I know he will eat them, before I introduce fruits???Or do I have to worry that much that he won't eat his vegies once he tries the fruit?
If anyone can give me their opinions on that, i would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Susie.

Can anyone tell me if pablum makes your baby constipated?