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Solid Starts provides you everything you need to know about introducing solid foods to babies with baby led weaning, BLW, or transitioning from spoon feeding or purées to finger foods. Built by a team of board-certified pediatricians, infant feeding therapists, swallowing specialists, allergist and dietitian to guide your child’s food journey. This is your trusted tool to feel confident when starting solids and creating joyful mealtimes.
THE #1 TRUSTED BABY FOOD DATABASE IN THE WORLD
Learn how to safely introduce 400+ foods to baby in our First Foods® Database. Each food has detailed nutrition information, choking & allergen guidance, instructions on how to cut and serve the food based on baby's age, and videos of real babies eating. Updated by our team of pediatric professionals so you have the latest evidence-backed information.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START BABY LED WEANING
Easy introduction of baby’s first 100 foods with simple meals for each food to take the guesswork out of meal planning. Learn with access to our library of articles and guides about infant CPR, recognizing signs of readiness for eating, fantastic first foods, introducing allergens, cup drinking, and more..
PERSONALIZED FOR YOUR BABY’S UNIQUE JOURNEY
Get our guided introduction to 100 first foods—complete with tailored meal plans that include recommended foods and recipes by our pediatric team of experts. We suggest new foods to try that gradually build your baby’s ability to bite and chew a variety of textures—and explain exactly how to serve them to make the most of mealtime. Common food allergens are introduced along the way, with step-by-step guidance to help you build confidence with each taste.
A PEDIATRIC PRO IN YOUR POCKET
Developed by a team of pediatricians, infant feeding therapists, swallowing specialists, allergist and dietitian to bring you the latest expert guidance for feeding your baby.
BABY FOOD TRACKER
Record baby's progress with a digital food log, log foods tried, track baby's favorite foods, make a list of foods you'd like to try later, and track reactions or sensitivities which you can download to share with doctors and caregivers
BLW MEALS AND RECIPES
300+ BLW ideas and easy baby recipes, toddler recipes and family recipes. Explore categories including baby’s first meals, iron-rich ideas, and quick breakfasts ideas.
WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING
“It’s really the only app one NEEDS to have for a baby.” - Stephanie
“Every new parent needs this app! As a first time mom, I had zero idea of how to start solids. The content provided by Solid Starts gave me the confidence to start solids when my baby was ready shortly after 6 months!” - Shelley
“The Solid Starts app is one of the most used on my phone, as I’m constantly checking to make sure I’m preparing food for my daughter safely and to keep an eye out for what to watch for.” - Phoebe
“You gave me the confidence to do baby led weaning, and also stand my ground with grandparents/child care of how I want my child to be fed and food served.” - Laura
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
The Solid Starts First Foods® Database is free to download and use. Upgrade to unlock all the features that make starting solids even easier with our All Access monthly or yearly plan, which you can try with a free trial.
All subscriptions can be canceled anytime. Payment will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled or turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions by visiting your account settings in the App Store. Prices may vary per country and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence.
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As a new mom almost two years ago, I got swept up in researching baby led weaning while pregnant and decided that’s what we were going to do when it was time for my son. Well, by the time my son was 6 months old and ready in February 2020, I got nervous. How do I cut these things for him? Any foods to avoid? Do I have to introduce 1 food at a time for a certain # of days to help show allergies? It doesn’t all have to be mushy/purée food? Even with looking into baby led weaning, I still had so many questions and though I love my pediatrician, they gave such outdated information that I wasn’t sure where to turn! Thankfully I found SolidStarts on Instagram (right when they first started!) and that was the support and guidance I needed this whole time! Save to say, my son will be turning 2 this august and is an AMAZING eater. Every time we go to a family members house, out to eat at a restaurant, or even random social media posts, everyone says how they are amazed with how well he eats and I have to give a big THANK YOU to Jenny and all of the team at Solid Starts because this mama would’ve been so lost and confused without all of their information and support! I highly recommend not only this app but checking out their Instagram page too. So many helpful tips and advice and seeing real babies with how and what they are eating. Thank you again Solid Starts! I’ve got one HAPPY eater!
Developer Response
Thank you SO much for this, Gabby! Your story is exactly why we do what we do! So wonderful to hear that your son is a happy eater! xoxo
All mamas need this!
MamaChelios
As a first time mama, I had fed my son too many purees at first and when it was time to feed him solid foods, I wouldn’t feed him much of a variety because he would try something and act like he didn’t like it so I would just think to myself, “Okay. He doesn’t like that. I’m not going to serve it again.” This led to him being picky and not really willing to try new foods. I wouldn’t say that he’s extremely picky, but still.. I knew that I wanted to do something completely different the second time around. As a second time mama, I decided to go with baby led weaning. I knew that I was going to do it, even if I didn’t know how. Right as I was having my second child start solids, I found solid starts. And thank goodness because it helped me so much. I was able to serve him a variety of foods, have him eat what we ate by learning how to cut it and just make simple modifications like not adding salt or sugar. It was slow in the beginning, mostly because I was always afraid of him choking. But they teach you the difference between choking and gagging as well. And as he for better at eating I became more confident in what I was doing as well. I owe it all to solid starts. I would recommend this app to any of my mama friends or family. So great to see my son eat 3 meals a day at only 10 months old and my first son willing to try new things as well.
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing your story! So amazing to hear how BLW has made your son a great eater! 💕
MUST HAVE FOR ALL PARENTS
jayde z
I’ve used Solidstarts Instagram to learn how to cut foods and recipe ideas. However, the FREE app is beyond convenient to search exactly what you’re trying to serve. I’ve used his app for my first child. He’s now 20 months and thriving with food. He eats what we eat and I owe it all to Solidstarts. My daughter is 7 months and we started solids about a month ago. I’ve since forgotten how to serve a lot of foods for her age range. But then I can easily search the app and see how to cut foods, how to prepare, nutrition facts, history of the food etc. and it’s all backed by specialists, doctors and research. There’s also a free recipe included with each food they have in their system. Which is a win-win. You can decide to purchase a subscription to track foods. Their website also provides even MORE searchable data. They have a very advanced search engine which allows you to look up things like “prevent picky eating”, “baby eating fast” etc. and all the articles will populate on that topic. It’s amazing what this company is doing. I recommend this to all of the parents I know. I can’t thank them enough for their hard work and dedication!!
Developer Response
Awww, THANK YOU so much for this review and for recommending us to others. It truly means the world to us 🥰
Helpful information horrible functionality
uclabecca
The information this app provides is wonderful. The articles are helpful, the instructions on how to prepare different foods safely give me peace of mind, and the guidance on introducing allergens made it much less scary. BUT, the functionality of this app is absolute trash. When I try to add a meal to the tracker, it always logs it for the following day and I have to manually go in and individually change every ingredient to the correct day—it’s infuriating! The allergen introduction feature also just stopped working for me after pistachio. Usually when you complete an allergen, the next one pops up for you to start, but the app just stopped working once we hit pistachio. I hate the meal planning feature, and I dislike that you need to complete these other modules (like dip and bite) before it will give you instructions on the next allergen. Why can’t I just go into the allergen list, click one, and get the instructions and meals for introducing that allergen?? Logging foods is so annoying that I just stopped using the feature after a few weeks. I will also say this app is very white and has little to no information on many of the Chinese vegetables we consume. Lastly, the recipes on the app are not good and I did not enjoy any of the ones we tried that are designed to be shared by the whole family. TLDR: useful for allergen introduction (as long as the app is working) and for checking how to safely prepare a food (as long as it’s a mainstream food), and not much else.
Developer Response
Hi there - we sincerely appreciate you taking the time to send your thoughts. We are always working to improve the app experience and user feedback is so valuable in helping to inform our roadmap of updates. We have passed all of this onto our dev team - thank you again! If you have any other questions/feedback/suggestions, please reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact - we’re always happy to help 🤍
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Seller
SolidStarts LLC
Size
124.7 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
