At What Age Did You Start Giving Your Baby Finger Foods?
And what did you give them?
I don’t plan on giving him stuff like this yet, but I’m just curious as to when most people start doing so.
A: I started with my son around 7-8 months. Began with cheerios (you don’t have to buy the ones in the baby section…. they are the same thing!) and then Gerber pufffs and we’ve moved up too pretty much all finger foods now and my son is 10 1/2 months. Good Luck!
A: 7-8 months. I started with cheerios (puffs weren’t yet available), then went onto other soft foods like fruits, veggies, crackers, cheese, etc.
A: 6 months
avocado wedges, melon slices etc just to suck & play with
Now he’s 7 months he has baby rice cakes, dried apricots, lumps of partially cooked apple, toast, pitta breads, pretty much anything he can hold.
he has at least one finger food meal a day
A: You doctor will let you know when it is time to put him on solid food, but when he can pick up stuff with his thumb and finger, and has a basic understanding that he will have to gum his banana, or cherio, or cooked vegetable pieces. Try to find items that are fairly soft or mushy, but still hold shape….like cooked peas, small cubes of cooked carrot, diced up cooked apple. Don’t go with really slippery food like diced grape because it is hard to pick up and he could choke. Hot dog pieces are not a good idea until he has some experience chewing. remember to quarter the hot dog and then dice, don’t cut it into rounds because he could choke on that too.
A: My daughter didn’t get finger foods until she was a year old, but she choked on everything (even baby food) so I waited a bit longer for her. My niece has been able to eat finger foods (the little puffs and cheerios) since 6 months. It depends on your child, the recommended age on the little puffs is 1 year old but I know lots of babies who were able to eat them sooner. I would just make sure the first time you try that he isn’t buckled into a highchair or anything so you can get to him easier if he does choke
A: My daughter was almost 7 months when start started table foods. She basically tries everything. Chicken, potatoes, fruits, veggies…she does really well with them & would rather eat them then baby food.
A: around 5 months… cheerios and gerber puffs… then I gradually added anything that was small enough to not pose a choking hazard.
A: I started at 8 months, gave my son rusks, baby rice cakes, baby biscuits, soft vegetables, bread (soft), cucumber, soft pears
A: I just started at 8 months, he had 2 teeth and the pincer grasp, unfortunately he did not take to them well, he is a little stinker
A: I started at finger foods at 6 months but they hardly ate anything but it gave them practise, they got the hang of it about 7-8months. I started with cooked veggies and toast etc.
7 months, toast, organix sweetcorn puffs and carrot coated puffs, etc
9 months to a year it depends on your baby.
about 7 months
small pieces of light toast, banana, baby biscuits
I started my girl at about 7 months. I gave her those puffs, they dissolve as soon as they put them in their mouth plus kids love them.
about 7 months, my LO refused to be fed so we started giving her really soft fruits & veggies cubed up real small.
well my son chews on little soldiers of bread with butter
he’s 8 months
6 months.
I start usually start with low-iron fruit like pears, apples, longan fruit (in season), mango, melon, watermelon, bananas.
Then once they are eating solids on a regular basis I add high iron foods like meat in combination with vitamin C rich foods.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/676279…
After six months, Mrs Rapley said babies were capable of taking food into their mouths and chewing it.
Therefore, feeding them pureed food at this time could delay the development of chewing skills.
Instead, she said, they should be given milk and solid pieces of food which they could chew.
Mrs Rapley argued that babies fed pureed food had little control over how much food they ate, thus rendering them vulnerable to constipation, and running a risk that they would react by becoming fussy eaters later in life.
She blamed the food industry for convincing parents that they should give children pureed food.
She said: “Sound scientific research and government advice now agree that there is no longer any window of a baby’s development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids.” http://www.babyreference.com/BeyondBreas…
Use close-to-no-iron foods for
experimentation (pear, cucumber, apple,
plum, papaya, melon, banana) to protect
baby’s immune advantages before solid
foods are a sure thing
And feed high iron foods once solids are a “go”