Revised: Monday April 11 2011
Is My Baby Ready for Solid Food?
When your baby is 6 months old, he is ready for solid foods. Breast milk is still the most important food for your baby at this age, but 6 months is the best time to start giving your baby solid foods.
Solid foods provide your baby with nutrients, as well as flavours for him to learn to enjoy. He will also learn how to swallow foods that are watery at first, then lumpy and then thicker before he learns to eat small pieces of solid foods.
Your baby is ready to start eating solids when he:
- Is 6 months old
- Holds his head up
- Sits up in a high chair
- Opens his mouth wide when you offer food on a spoon
- Turns his face away if he doesn't want the food
- Closes his lips over the spoon, keeps food in his mouth and swallows it instead of pushing it out
For more information:
Region of Peel — Public Health
905-799-7700
Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Caledon residents call free of charge at 905-584-2216
To speak with a Public Health Nurse
Baby's First Foods 