Your baby shouldn’t be eating meat yet. She is too young.
She is too young for solids too, but apparently you already know that. Probably around 9 months (at the earliest) you should start your baby on meats. Preferably, home-cooked. There are lots of preservatives in the jarred food.

Why delay solids?

My ped didn’t want my son on meats until he was nine months old. He started solids at five months. I don’t know if that matters. I don’t know if you can just progress from where they started, or if their systems are just not capable of handling certain things until certain ages. It seems to me that when my son was starting solids the lactation specialist at my mommies group said that in Europe they start with meats, because babies need iron and meats are excellent sources of iron, so I would think you would be okay at this point. Gerber makes meats and meat dinners in Stage 2. If she does not eat a lot of meat (the dinners are mostly veggies), then you should also give her some cereal at dinner time (you can even mix it in), in order to maintain her iron levels, particularly if she is breastfed, since formula is fortified with iron.

I don’t know if this is technically what you are supposed to do but this is what I’m planning on doing. As soon as I get through all of the stage 2 veggies and fruits then I’m going to start on the meats. I think generally they don’t really need the meats until they are like 7-8 months old. So since she started a little early maybe do the meats at like 6 months?

Well as for the “no comments” on the not sopposed to feed them thing…its kind of part of the question…generally your “not sopposed” to feed babys even cereal untill six months, but you know that. You feed your baby early for whatever reason early…but you did it because you thought it was what was best or what was needed. YOU are that babys mommy, only you know when he/she is ready. If the baby handles stage two food well I dont see why it would be an unreasonable jump…but I just woldnt do it myself. Im too parinoid about choking.

When my baby was little (4-12 months) I used the “Super baby food book” to make all my own baby food. So, my baby was eating all kinds of veges and fruits and such before she was “supposed” to!! My daughter personally didn’t like meat, and still doesn’t – so I never really fed her much of that!!

Good Luck S

I never did the baby meats. They looked too gross to me. I just cooked some meat and cut it up into minced pieces. For example I crock potted a turkey breast. I did not start until closer to 8 months for meat. Veggies and fruit was started around 6 months.

I would ask your ped.

If you’re aware you might as well feed your baby fish&chips with chocolate cake for dinner.

She’s too young for meat yet.

As soon as my little one was eating the 2 stage foods…I gave her the Gerber beef and what not. I don’t think there is anything wrong with giving it to her now.

Gerber makes it in 2nd stage foods for a reason…if it wasn’t good for them…why would they make it for that stage? I trust Gerber for the most part.