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I love the info for each of the foods, and it’s been a great resource for introducing baby led weaning. However, that info is free on their app and on their website, with the paid subscription for the app including just the tracker. I paid the $10 for the year long subscription so that I could log what foods my baby eats. While this was helpful for the first couple weeks or so, the way that their app is designed makes it a very poor experience. For example, if my baby ate banana French toast, I have to separately search “bread”, then log it, then search “egg” and log it, search “banana” and log it, etc. It’s extremely time consuming, especially if baby is starting to eat a variety of foods each day. There’s no multi select or group select for the Tracker, which makes it inefficient. Also, their tool is very interesting…if I’m searching “salmon”, for example, and type the first three letters, it comes up with “yam” instead as the top result. So if I’m trying to log quickly, I have to type out the entire word before it even comes up as an option. All in all, great resources that are free, but would not recommend the paid subscription until their UX gets some major improvement.

I can’t rave enough about the content provided by Solid Starts! The food database + educational content on the blog have been incredibly helpful to us introducing solids as first time parents. My one recommendation for the app is that I wish it offered a space for a running log of foods tried (similar to the Favorites or Try Later sections). Having to track each individual day and click through the calendar for an inventory is a pain, so I’ve just been logging foods on the first time tried and adding them all as Favorites to access a running list. It would be so nice if when adding to the calendar a food automatically populated to a Food Log or Foods Tried list.

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.