Please, list all the foods I can feed my 8 month-old baby girl.?

Answer 1

My 8 month old eats baby cereal mixed with formula, step two baby food of any kind, if they are just starting baby food try step 1 start with one flavor use only that for a week then add something and use only that for a week to make sure they are not allergic. My 8 month old also likes the cereal puffs that you can buy in the baby food aisle. They melt so you don't have to worry as much with them choking.

Answer 2

Supposedly, you can't give kids eggs until they're 12mths. Other than that there's not a lot an 8mth old can't eat. I would make up potato, pumpkin, broccoli, carrots & seasonal fruit & mash them separately & put them in an ice cube trays & freeze them & bag them with the date. How smooth you mash depends on the bub & whether they'll eat lumpy bits. That way you can vary the veg/fruit mix & you don't have to cook every day & it's a lot tastier & cheaper than the canned/or jar food. I use to do the same with minced meat as well. Don't be afraid to season them either. No reason they should have bland food. For breakfast, you could pre make a container of semolina that'll last a few days. Microwave a couple of cubes of the frozen fruit for sweetness. Weetbix is a good one too

Answer 3

It's easier to tell you what you can't feed them.

No honey or nut products.
No grapes.
No hotdogs.

Anything else, as long as the baby isn't allergic to them, and is ready for that particular texture, is fine. If you're getting a fight when you're spoon feeding baby food, try some small finger foods - like Cheerios - to see if she wants to feed herself. (Common at her age.) If the Cheerios work, she can have small pieces of pretty much anything you're eating - just around the size of a Cheerio or smaller.

Answer 4

Life cereal. Eating it dry, and he snagged a piece and ate it perfectly, so I called his dr and she said that was fine. Of course there is the choking risk, which is why I called the doc, but he loves the Life cereal. I find it odd, but it makes him happy and he doesn't waste as many as he does Cheerios. He also eats crackers and cut up fruit/veggies, along with the normal baby foods. I love love love http://www.babycenter.com/ and used it much more than the What to Expect book. Give it a looksie

Answer 5

Formula/Breastmilk, baby cereal in a bowl mixed with formula/breastmilk (never put it in a bottle), stage 1 jar foods. If she takes all of these well, you could probably give her some cheerios on her highchair.

Answer 6

Everything you eat excluding: honey and corn syrup.

Limit salt, sugar and preservatives. There is no need to limit seasonings such as herbs and spices.

You may also choose to avoid certain potential allergens until either 9 months, 12 months, or 24 months. There is no consensus on which and when. The top allergens include: dairy, soy, wheat, egg whites, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, and sesame seeds.

There is absolutely no need to puree food for a baby ever. There is no need to give infant cereal ever.

Please read:
Baby-led introduction to solids
http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html

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.

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