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Guides · Trisha

7 months · Austin, Texas

  • Starting solid food

    6 to 9 months · sources shown

  • Childproofing before they crawl

    6 to 9 months · sources shown

  • Sleep between 6 and 9 months

    6 to 9 months · sources shown

  • Getting ready for the 9-month check-up

    9 months · sources shown

  • Posting things into a box

    6 to 9 months · 10 minutes

  • Peekaboo behind the sofa

    4 to 9 months · 5 minutes

  • Water play at the kitchen sink

    6 to 12 months · 15 minutes

  • Board books she is allowed to chew

    6 to 12 months · 10 minutes

  • Sweet potato, first spoons

    6 months and up · sources shown

  • Oatmeal with mashed pear

    6 months and up · sources shown

  • Soft-cooked carrot sticks

    7 months and up · sources shown

  • Plain yogurt with banana

    7 months and up · sources shown

  • A high chair

    6 to 9 months · sources shown

  • The next car seat

    9 to 24 months · sources shown

  • Sleep sacks in the right size

    6 to 12 months · sources shown

  • What to skip entirely

    Any age · sources shown

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Starting solid food

Guides · 6 to 9 months

Short answer

Families arrive at this one in different weeks, and the app does not hand you a deadline. The guide sets out what the sources say and leaves the decision where it belongs.

When it applies

6 to 9 months. United States · Austin, Texas.

Useful next steps

  • Put it in family plans

    Home

  • Start a food-introduction moment when you do

    Journal

  • Take the question to the 9-month check-up

    Coming up

When to seek help

Anything that worries you is reason enough to call. Your pediatrician knows your child; a page does not.

Sources

  • Federal public-health resource
  • National pediatric resource
  • California state health department

Each one opens, so you can read it yourself. We check our sources periodically.

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The next steps are things you can actually do today, in the app you are already in.

The sources are at the bottom, and they are the whole point.

“I don't want a lecture. I want to know what to do next, and where that came from.”

Priya

An activity

Forty minutes, on a Tuesday.

Posting things into a box

Activities · 10 minutes

What you need
A box. A lid with a hole in it. Things too big to swallow.
What to try
Hand her one. Let her find the hole. Do it again for as long as she is interested.
What to avoid
Anything small enough to fit in her mouth.

6 to 9 monthsSources shown

“Forty minutes. On a Tuesday.”

Jo

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  • Activities suggest something to try. That is all they claim.

A recipe, and a thing to buy

What they eat, and what can wait.

Sweet potato, first spoons

25 minutes · 6 portions

  • 1 sweet potato
  • Water, or her usual milk, to loosen
Declared allergens
None declared
Texture
Smooth purée, thinned to the back of a spoon
Storage
3 days covered in the fridge, or frozen in 1 fl oz portions

Start a food-introduction moment

It opens a Journal moment with the dish already in the title, and today's date, and you write the rest.

A high chair

When it's needed
Around the time she sits up on her own and joins the table.
What can wait
The second cover. The tray insert. The travel one.
What can be reused
Anything that wipes clean.

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“We own three bottle brushes and no bottles.”

Sam

Coverage

Where the guidance reaches.

  • Federal

    United States public resources

  • 50 + DC

    States and the District of Columbia

  • 500

    The largest cities

Coverage varies by topic and by place. The app shows you what it holds for Austin, Texas, and says so plainly when it holds nothing.

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It answers from your family's own records and published sources, and shows where each answer came from. It is not medical advice, and it is limited to 20 questions a day and 100 a month per child, shared by the adults linked to that child.

Last bottle

8 September

“When was the last bottle?”

The last bottle logged was 4 oz at 6:50 pm, recorded by Sam.

From your family's records

Private to Priya. Not shown to Sam or Jo, and never posted to Community.

Priya's conversations

  • 8 SepLast bottle
  • 2 SepWhen did Trisha last nap?
  • 28 AugWhat to ask at the 9-month visit
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  • It shows you where an answer came from.
  • It stays yours.

Guides and answers are educational information and don't replace your child's healthcare professional. We check our sources periodically.

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