Starting Solid Foods at Six Months

Health care providers recommend exclusively chest/breastfeeding your infant until 6 months, and then introducing solid foods while continuing to nurse. The Canadian Pediatric Society and UNICEF recommend continuing to nurse until your child is aged two years or more. Human milk still has many nutritional and health benefits for your baby but by 6 months, growing babies need more calories and higher amounts of certain vitamins and minerals, especially iron, than human milk alone can provide. These vitamins and minerals are contained in solid food and supplements. Read the links below to learn more about starting to feed your child solid foods.

• Canadian Breastfeeding Foundation - Breastfeed a Toddler

• Indigenous Midwifery, First Breaths to First Foods: Stories of Indigenous Family Life

• The MotHERS Program - Introducing solids at 6 to 9 months

• Canadian Paediatric Society - Feeding your baby in the first year

• Healthy Child Manitoba - Feeding Your Baby 6 months to 1 year