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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.
Have feedback or questions? Please send contact us at www.solidstarts.com/contact
Terms of Service: https://solidstarts.com/terms-of-use/
Privacy Policy: https://solidstarts.com/privacy-policy-2/
I have had a difficult weaning journey with multiples allergies which have been terrifying but the app is such an amazing tool that has helped me track each individual food item I give my son and I have used this as my report for the allergy clinic but also for my own personal reference whilst I slowly introduce all the foods to him. Not only has it been huge for his allergies, the guidance and support has really helped me and the amount of available information in an easy to read format is so useful and the videos! I have found since becoming a mum that almost every app or website can quickly become overwhelming but this app has been the only source I can really rely on through this - I have also had to contact customer service a couple of times now and they have responded within hours and gone the extra mile to help. I never usually write reviews but this app truly deserves the recognition and people deserve to have such a useful tool on their phone!
Developer Response
Aw, thank you SO much, Kathlyn! Incredibly glad to hear how much the app helped during your solids journey, especially in light of multiple allergies. We are so, so grateful for your support and community and can’t thank you enough for taking the time to leave a review! This truly made our day! 🤍
Gone downhill
smellybishop
I used this with my first son and raved about the app and website to all other parents I knew. Was excited to get started with my new son and even though the price had gone up enormously I still felt it was worth it as especially the first foods I find so useful in the past. However things started badly and got worse. Logged in and got my latest sons profile set up and offered me a free trial however then took me to the page which ended up charging me immediately anyway so not sure what happened there but fine I though I’m going to use it anyway so whatever. Then couldn’t access any of the guides I’d been charged for. Couldn’t log any foods. Couldn’t add anything to my first foods. Kept getting error messages. Followed the troubleshooting and now can’t log back in as even the forgot password is giving error messages. Was using the app free features fine for a month (in the run up to 6m and weaning) as soon as I pay everything stopped working. TBH I’m not sure the new features warrant the high subscription cost yes there’s lots of different features now but are these things we want/need? I’m not convinced. Perhaps they could have had a scaled model or specific packages like they used to where you could ad hoc purchase certain guides. Sadly have cancelled my subscription and now going with another weaning guide which is better value.
Developer Response
Hi there, oh goodness - so very sorry to hear about all of the tech trouble! If you have a moment, could you please reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact ? We would love to see how we can make this right! 🤍 Also, appreciate the feedback on possible subscription tiers - we are always working to improve the app experience and user feedback is so valuable in helping to inform our roadmap of updates. We've passed this suggestion along to our team- thank you!
Useful but restrictive
Hoppy sparrow
I was recommended this app and I can understand why as the database is useful for beginning baby led weaning; however there are a couple of issues that would be helpful to know when subscribing. Firstly, to access the allergen introductory meals you need to unlock them one by one which makes shopping and planning for feeding impossible as you have to log the meal as done to see what you need for the following day, this does not make for a sensible way of operating with a baby as you may not have the suggested items to serve unless you are up for daily shopping. You can somewhat work round this by marking the meals as done but then it automatically logs each ingredient which you have to individually remove if you have not tried them with your baby yet. I also found the suggested meals assumed you had already served other recipes that hadn’t been suggested which meant hopping between meals for preparation guidance and, again, made planning tricky. All in all a useful tool but the free part would be sufficient if you don’t want to follow the suggested day by day plan or waste time deleting logs to access meals.
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for getting in touch and we hear you on all of this! 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 🤍
Needs a more user friendly way to track
HealthyFoodie77
Great app for info about what/how to serve at what age but not user friendly for tracking. For many reasons… For instance, you can’t use characters like “/“ in the notes which makes it hard to use as you can’t write 1/2 pear - only letters. Tracking is not very intuitive, in my opinion they need to hire a UX expert. It’s a bit cumbersome to add foods to several days. Adding multiple foods to a day is also time consuming. I can never quite understand where I am in the app, especially in the food log section. I just don’t have the time. Also I expected to have the guides they offer as PDFs in this app, not have to buy them separately. I’d be willing to pay more but just have them there. Another issue is missing common foods like egg yolks but only having eggs. I don’t want to have to add something as basic as this manually. Personally I’m slightly disappointed that this app recommends Cheerios to 9+ months old babies. Featured food? Why?! A way to build bad eating habits and metabolic health issues. Sugar and processed foods have no place in a baby’s diet. Everyone’s choice but don’t push it.
We made some improvements and bug fixes. Thanks for being part of our community! If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at solidstarts.com/contact.
Version 5.3.0
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Information
Provider
SolidStarts LLC
Size
132 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 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.
