Raw greens!!! pureed raw spinach, NO dairy whatsoever (there is more protein and calcium in broccolli and other greens) pureed avocado (raw and great!) and quinoa is a GREAT gluten free grain. Gluten is too hard on lil baby tummies and digestive tract. fresh juices are a great way to introduce food straying from Mother's milk. Organic produce ONLY. Never compromise that. Otherwise you are directly feeding your baby toxic chemicals and hormones. It's easy. Yes, it may be slightly more expensive, but shouldn't this be what we spend most of our money on... our and our lil babie's health?

As a pediatric physician assistant I could not agree more with Dr. Greene.....GREAT ADVISE. It is shocking to me how many parents and grandparents want to give there little 4 and 6 week babies rice cereal thinking they will sleep through the night.... I have a 5year old, and 5 months old who I exclusively breast feed. Working FT is tuff but your web site motivates me and reinforces how healthy mothers milk is for babies... I will spread the word!!!!!

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. While bread gets a bad rap, it is necessary to stress that all breads are not alike. I have a business baking and selling breads, cookies and anything that is made with flour. My products are all made with Organic Whole Grain flour. Some of the grain is wheat, some is quinoa, teff, millet, sorghum etc. Thanks again for your good work. Jacqueline Vasan, owner of Bread from the Heart.

Mashed avocado makes a great first food. Very nutritious with lots of healthy fat for brain development and one of the most non-allergenic foods. Steamed and pureed butternut squash is great and really tasty. Making your own food is really easy. I just steamed everything and pureed in a magic bullet. Froze enough for the week. I'm out of the house 10 hours a day and believe me I'm not overachiever. You can do this easily give it a try. The foods taste so much better than the packaged stuff. You can do some cereal yourself my milling brown rice or oatmeal (old fashioned slow cook kind) into a fine powder (again in my magic bullet) before cooking it's dirt cheap and more wholesome. If your on a tight budget making your own foods is much cheaper and trasitioning the baby to table food is much more natural and doesn't require anything more than just slowly thickening the food you cook until finally your just mashing it with a fork.... then on to bite size pieces when your baby is ready...... you don't need any of those fancy devices the baby stores are selling... a magic bullet type grinder or a food processor and a steaming basket(they go in the bottom of the pot).

My sons first food was brown rice cereal. Yay mommy! My thought is, if its made by Gerber, my son is NOT EATING it. I also wouldn't feed myself processed foods everyday. My son doesn't either, all homemade for him :) he likes it better the way.

Hello Dr Alan I just want to tell u that I agree with u about NOT giving kids that 'DEMON FOOD". I am a mother of 2 boys, Shaqcal who's 14 and ryon who's 8. I have NEVER giving them white rice baby food. I started shaqcal on whole grain and veg's mixed and to every 5 jars of veggy baby food i gave him i would give him 1 jar of fruit. He is now 14 and A very healthy young man, He chooses healthy food over junk food 9 out of 10 times and water and milk over jucie and soda. With ryon i did it a lil different, I still did NOT ever give him white rice baby food, but for ever 5 jars of veggy i gave him 3 jars of fruit. Today he is an active young boy and has always maintened a healthy weight. He does like sugar WAYYYYY more then shaqcal, but still eats healthy. So again i totally %100 agree with u about NOT starting babies on white rice is the BEST thing anybody can do for there kids. Thank u for bringing this to the worlds attention. Hopefully people open there eyes and see that just because something had been around for MANY MANY years and has been told to us by countless doctors that maybe just maybe those doctors are WRONG and mother follow there gut feeling instead of what's THE NORM". Thank u From a greatful mother of 2 healthy boys Elexcyus Kramble. :)