6 months · First tastes

Feeding your 6 month old

Meals: Start with 1 meal, build to 2
Milk: Breast milk or formula is still the main source of nutrition
Water: Small sips with meals from an open, straw or free-flow cup (up to 4–8 oz / 120–240 ml a day)

This month

It's about exploring, not amounts. Offer soft foods in big, grippable shapes, with iron-rich foods (meat, beans or lentils, iron-fortified infant cereal) from the start. Introduce common allergens like well-cooked egg and peanut. Offer peanut only as smooth peanut butter thinned into food, or as peanut powder: never whole nuts or spoonfuls. If your baby has severe eczema or an egg allergy, ask your pediatrician how to start peanut soon. Offer sips of water from a cup with meals (up to 4–8 oz / 120–240 ml a day). No honey, and no added salt or sugar.