Baby Feeding Timeline

Follow this general timeline of when to introduce new foods to your baby. Remember to consult your child’s pediatrician with any questions about feeding your baby.*

0 to 4 months:

• Breast milk or formula

4 to 6 months

Begin to add:

• Single-grain cereals (rice, oat, and barley)
• Single-vegetable purees
• Single-fruit purees

6 to 8 months

Continue to add:

• Single-grain cereals (rice, oat, and barley)
• Single-vegetable purees
• Single-fruit purees

Then add:

• Mixed grain-and-vegetable purees
• Mixed grain-and-fruit purees
• Simple fruit-and-vegetable combinations

8 to 12 months

Add:

• Chunkier purees
• Proteins (meat, poultry, fish, and tofu purees; cheese; and yogurt)
• Very soft finger foods

1 year

Add:

• Eggs
• Whole cow’s milk
• Finger foods
• Mixed dishes cut into small pieces and served with a spoon

Wean:

• Formula
• Baby purees

* We strongly recommend that you consult your child’s pediatrician before modifying any diet or eating regimen, or introducing new categories of food.

 

Excerpted from Cooking Light First Foods, Oxmoor House, © 2010 by Time Home Entertainment Inc.