Solids (yes, again, sorry!)

TheBug16

Can someone share with me some guidelines on starting solids? I sorta feel like I'm going in blind and just hoping I'm doing the right thing and not causing any damage.

I wanted to skip rice cereal since I've heard its just a filler, so we started with oatmeal. DH tasted it and said its gross and made me mix in some sweet potatoes to flavor it up... Then the next two days we did some bananas mixed in the oatmeal. (Banana baby food tastes awesome, by the way) Sound okay? How do I know when to stop? He'll just tell me when he's full or had enough? Right now he's being fed only once a day. How do I know when to start feeding more often than that?