What kinds of foods for a 7-month-old?

Question

I am trying to be creative with my child's menu. He is enjoying the usual pureed fruits and veggies and we just started him on puffs and Cheerios. He is doing pretty well with his chewing but no teethe yet, so the foods need to be pretty mushy still.
Just wondering what creative foods some of you have tried with your babies who are around 7-months?
And, is it too early for yogurt?

Answer 1

Well, I grind up just about anything in my little food processor. last week when we have spagetti I just put some in the f.p. with a lot of sauce and got it down to a good moderately chunky consistency for my 8 month old who has 5 teeth. He LOVED it, it was so much tastier than the usual flavorless veggies in the jars. They can have finely shredded cheese, full-fat yogurt and fine-curd cottage cheese, bananas you mush yourself so they aren't so thin like in the jars, etc.

Answer 2

As long as there are no food allergies. I started my son on yogurt at about 7/8 mo.
I gave him oatmeal w/ a little cinnamon. Also mashed potatoes w/ gravy. Just thin them out a little. Those little abc pastas w cheese melted on them ( velveeta is good ) scambled eggs w/ cheese. Grits are a great source of iron . Anything like that just put a little milk in them not to be so thick. Even though the foods are mushy, they still love the taste!

Answer 3

I always gave my babies yogurt and cottage cheese by 6 or 7 months. My youngest just ate whatever everyone else ate. She refused almost all jarred foods. You can buy a manual baby food grinder (Sassy is one brand) and just grind up whatever table food the rest of the family is eating. For snacks, small peices of cut-up cheese and banana were always a favorite of my kids.

Answer 4

Baby yogurt is great, and if he can manage Cheerios he'll probably be okay for things like ripe banana, avocado, and baby food mac & cheese.

Answer 5

I have an 8month old he eats everything that we do, when he didnt have teeth i use to give him mash and bean jucie, He loved it but every child is different and as for yogurt hes had them sice he was 4 months old and he loves them. good luck hunni

Answer 6

I never never bough jar foods ,Sorry Gerber.
I purchased a blender ,and everything the family ate my child ate.
I had 3 children ,and the doctor never stopped me he was told .
just watch the salts ,and sugars.

Answer 7

Foods do not need to be mushy, read this:
http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html

yes too early for any dairy.

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Understanding the baby’s motivation
This approach to introducing solids offers a baby the opportunity to discover what other foods have to offer as part of finding out about the world around him. It utilises his desire to explore and experiment, and to mimic the activities of others. Allowing the baby to set the pace of each meal, and maintaining an emphasis on play and exploration rather than on eating, enables the transition to solid foods to take place as naturally as possible. This is because it would appear that what motivates babies to make this transition is curiosity, not hunger.

There is no reason for mealtimes to coincide with the baby’s milk feeds. Indeed, thinking of (milk) feeding and the introduction to solid foods as two separate activities will allow a more relaxed approach and make the experience more enjoyable for both parents and child.

Won’t he choke?
Many parents worry about babies choking. However, there is good reason to believe that babies are at less risk of choking if they are in control of what goes into their mouth than if they are spoon fed. This is because babies are not capable of intentionally moving food to the back of their throats until after they have learnt to chew. And they do not develop the ability to chew until after they have developed the ability to reach out and grab things. Thus, a very young baby cannot easily put himself at risk because he cannot get the food into his mouth in the first place. On the other hand, the action used to suck food off a spoon tends to take the food straight to the back of the mouth, causing gagging. This means that spoon feeding has its own potential to lead to choking – and makes the giving of lumpy foods with a spoon especially dangerous.

It appears that a baby’s general development keeps pace with the development of his ability to manage food in his mouth, and to digest it. A baby who is struggling to get food into his mouth is probably not quite ready to eat it. It is important to resist the temptation to ‘help’ the baby in these circumstances since his own developmental abilities are what ensure that the transition to solid feeding takes place at the right pace for him. This process is also what keeps him safe from choking on small pieces of food, since, if he is not yet able to pick up small objects using his finger and thumb, he will not be able to get, for example, a pea or a raisin into his mouth. Once he is able to do this, he will have developed the necessary oral skills to deal with it. Putting foods into a baby’s mouth for him overrides this natural protection and increases the risk of choking.

Tipping a baby backwards or lying him down to feed him solid foods is dangerous. A baby who is handling food should always be supported in an upright position. In this way, food which he is not yet able to swallow, or does not wish to swallow, will fall forward out of his mouth, not backwards into his throat.

Adopting a baby-led approach doesn’t mean abandoning all the common sense rules of safety. While it is very unlikely that a young baby would succeed in picking up a peanut, for example, accidents can and will happen on rare occasions – however the baby is fed. Rules of safety which apply in other play situations should therefore be adhered to when eating is in progress.

Answer 8

try yogurt...baked potatoe mushed no butter or salt...try also small pieces of cheese

Answer 9

ice cream

Answer 10

mushy foods...