when is it ok to start introducing some soft table foods?

Question

My youngest daughter is gonna be 6 months on the 12th. It's been a long time since i had an infant and so I don't quite remember when it's ok to start a little table food. She jut cut her first tooth and their are more on their way.She's already been on cereal and fruits and veggies as far as baby food goes. Is it ok to start giving her biter biscuits and some of the gerber graduates cereal puffs?

Answer 1

you shouldn't feed graduates until around 10-12 months old last time I checked. You actually shouldn't feed anything but breastmilk or formula for the first 5 1/2-6 months. Then you start the cereals then beginner jar foods. You are getting ahead of yourself already.

Answer 2

DO NOT start finger foods until your child has the pincer grasp. Starting any table or finger foods at 6 months is not recommended by any ped I know!! There is no point and no need to risk choking. I would say 10-11 months is when you can start to intro those types of foods. Stick with small amounts of very mashed and water down solids and cereals.

Answer 3

My son is 11 months and he started at 9 months eating the Gerber Graduates and table foods like mashed potatoes. He had 2 teeth at 7 months and still no more. The teeth don't really matter, it's how they chew with their gums.

Answer 4

meals that have an analogous consistency of toddler nutrition, even nevertheless they're "genuine human beings" nutrition are super at her age- I in no way, ever gave my babies toddler nutrition and that regulate into over 30 years in the past! Oatmeal or the different warm cereal like cream of wheat or grits, organic applesauce, yogurt, mashed potatoes, mashed cooked vegetables, scrambled eggs, etc. are all super. In a pair months you are able to upload finger meals, like Cheerios, cooked green beans and carrots, etc. If she will't have milk, make her potatoes with the soy milk- you additionally can get soy yogurt.

Answer 5

I gave my son finger foods at 10 months and he still had problems with them. I think 6 months is WAY to early and they should learn to chew foods like stage 3 baby foods, and I started those at 8 months and he did great.

Answer 6

You never need to use baby food, or pureed food. You never need to use any commercially packaged baby food like gerber puffs, with god knows what in them. Nor do the foods have to be particularly mushy. My son has been eating pears, apples, etc since he started solids.

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html
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 7

i guess times have changed. if we had waited this long to feed our little guy would have been howling.
try some mashed carrots, mashed potatoes. remember peas and corn have skins and are hard to digest.
mashed bananas and yes biter biscuits.
maybe a few cheerios on her highchair tray..........
good luck with it all
cheers