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My dd is 10 mos. she is a real begger and when anyone is eating anything she is right there grunting. I have given her cheerios and the graduate puffs that she loves. I have tried stage 3 foods the chunky stuff she doesn't like that. I tried the diced carrots that was a no. She is starting to fight me to eat the baby food. I can't for the life of me remember what I fed my ds when he was at this stage. She wants to feed herself. What foods should I try? I know her digestive system is still not ready for eggs and cheese.
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I babysit a 9 month old. He LOVES pasta right now. It is easy for him to pick up and eat or for me to feed to him. We also do a 1/2 of a banana at a time...he likes to hold it and just sort of gnaws on it until it is gone! Umm..canned fruit, if you dice it up pretty small, deli sandwich meat, and actually, yes, sliced cheese. Green beans are a huge hit..and good for him, too. Peas, while he isn't thrilled with, also go down easy. That is all I can think of right now that he is eating! LOL
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My son refused to eat baby food at that age. He ate a lot of mac and cheese and fruit dices. If you have a food processor you can chop up whatever the rest of you are eating for dinner.
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I posted earlier but my computer froze and I lost it. My baby was much the same way - it is getting easier now that he has more teeth and is older than a year. It may be a texture or smell thing too. The baby pushes things away before it even makes it to his mouth. And things he does eat may only be a bite or so. Just curious to what we are eating.
Fruits are and have been a big hit because they are softer to gum or chew with few teeth. Bananas are great! aFrozen blueberries are great and they help them during teething too. For fresh fruit I used a mesh feeder - cut fruit small and remove most of the skin and let her suck or bite on it. Then you don't have to worry about gagging/choking. Apples, grapes, fresh blueberries, peaches, watermellon were all received well. Now he eats fruit cups, but I don't care for the syrup. I would peal peas and corn which also helped with dexterity - they are getting independent and want to feed themselves.
Cooled down soft small pieces of pasta either plain or a little bit of oil/butter so they don't stick together. Teething crackers or wagon wheels that basically melt in their mouth. I would give small amounts of cheese or yogurt but limited to a couple of bites since he wasn't on whole milk yet. He did not like kidney beans or baked beans. Green beans were good. Mashed fresh potatoes or sweet potatoes without butter were good. I remember reading frozen bagels were supposed to be okay, but I was to affraid to give that. Egg yolk is okay before one, whites after a year.
If I think of anything else I will add. HTH - good luck and just experiment. It depends on how many teeth she has too. Remember that right now is an experimental phase, most of her nutrients are still coming from breat milk or formula. You only have two months left before the real worrying begins on if she is getting the right nutrients (where I'm at now). Also, my first child was a piece of cake - he followed all the stages like clock work. So, of course this one had to be different.
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Whats this about cheese? My 10 mo has loooved cheese for quite a while now...
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Originally Posted by Grey
Whats this about cheese? My 10 mo has loooved cheese for quite a while now...
I'm sure my dd would love it too! But my doctor and some books I read when my ds was a baby suggested not giving whole milk or the like cheese and such before a year because their digestive system isn't mature enough and something about could contribute to food allergies later.I don't know! I know alot of people that do give it. But not me , If she were to have any allergies or food sensitivities later I would be blaming myself wether it was from that or not. But that's just me. Thank you all for the suggestions, I think I am going to get ine of those mesh things. I am so distracted by my 3 yr. old I fear my baby will choke when I'm not looking. I don't have time to read up on each month she reaches like I did with my ds. So I would have probably given her babyfood till she was 3 if she let me! LOL!!
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Originally Posted by mommy&wifeisme
I'm sure my dd would love it too! But my doctor and some books I read when my ds was a baby suggested not giving whole milk or the like cheese and such before a year because their digestive system isn't mature enough and something about could contribute to food allergies later.I don't know! I know alot of people that do give it. But not me , If she were to have any allergies or food sensitivities later I would be blaming myself wether it was from that or not. But that's just me. Thank you all for the suggestions, I think I am going to get ine of those mesh things. I am so distracted by my 3 yr. old I fear my baby will choke when I'm not looking. I don't have time to read up on each month she reaches like I did with my ds. So I would have probably given her babyfood till she was 3 if she let me! LOL!!
That's funny about Dairy! I gave both dd and ds yogurt & cheese at 9 mths and started mixing formula and milk in the sippy cup at 10 mths! No reactions so far!!
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thought of another - oatmeal, get the kind that has higher zinc and folic acid.
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We started little diva on table foods as soon as she showed signs of interest. I was careful with the sizes and textures. What made her gag one week worked a week later. If it's not a meal where she can eat everything, like steak (well, she eats that now - I tear it into threads) or pieces too big where she is missing a nutrient, I will start her out on baby food and treat the meal as a supplement. Other times I give her baby food as a supplement. Spaghetti, no need. She will scarf it down with two hands. She loves green beans and other soft veggies. She likes small pieces of chicken. She loves rice. Pretty much anything we have now, she eats. At ten months, she was well on her way. She wants to have everything mommy has, including my cappucinos and teas. I think she still thinks she's a part of me!!
The doctor did stress that I should keep her on baby cereal for awhile (don't know the deadline, but I'm in no rush - she nibbles on mine anyway), because it has extra nutrients our cereals don't like, as mentioned above, iron and zinc. I do give her baby food veggies, though, like squash because, sigh, the rest of the family won't eat it. She likes lettuce! Hooray!
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My DD is 10 months old and her pediatrician has her completely on milk now- which shes actually doing better with than she did her formula.. no more spitting up. She just gets a dose of polyvisol everyday to make up for what the milk lacks that the formula had. The only things he put off limits for her to eat is nuts, peanut butter and honey. He said she could have anything else and actually had her eating american cheese at 7 months. Shes very independent and will only eat if shes feeding herself, so she gets cheerios, butter cookies, green beans, peas, carrots, pasta, cheese, hamburger (cut into small pieces), scrambeled eggs, bananas- and these were all foods her pediatrician wrote down that she could have among others. He said there really wasnt any need for her to have baby food anymore unless I still had some around the house, as long as shes getting her polyvisol supplement, table food was fine. Whats really funny when we go to Panera (I've had a lot of mystery shops there lately), when our salads come, she'll pull my plate over to her, grab my baguette and then push my salad back to me. She uses it as a teether while we're eating. People crack up when they walk by because shes chewing on a piece of bread thats close to the size of her head.