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baby self feeding ?
so little one looooves to eat. we usually eat dinner together as a family but sometime he just can't wait until its finished so dh starts to feed him while i finish up our dinner in the kitchen. last night we wanted to keep him at the table with us while we finished, so we gave him a teething biscuit. what are some other options of food for him to munch on while we eat? he is 6 month and no teeth.
Re: baby self feeding ?
Honestly, I'm not big on puffs or mum mums. First of all, mum mums break off in chunks. I never let her have them. Second of all, there are better foods you can give them that have way better nutritional value. No offense, I know they're super popular but I always felt like they're overpriced sugared air.
We didn't deal with gagging too much, but gagging is a very natural reaction. It's self protective and can take a while to disappear. It's developmental thing for them to be able to move food to the back of their mouths with their tongue. Gagging =/=choking. Also, you will see the baby chewing even though they may have no teeth.
It can be hard for them to pick food up with fingers until they develop the pincer grasp which doesn't happen for a little while. Until then they grab and make a fist. I know we didn't start solids until 6 months and she didn't have the ability to pick up small foods until near the 7-8 month range
Wholesomebabyfood.com is a great site for info and ideas.
Things we gave: shredded or small chunks of cheese, mushed/chopped avocado, lots of regular whole milk yogurt with pureed fruit (rasperries, mangos, blueberries), soft bananas, oatmeal with brown sugar, grits with cheese, all sorts of pureed veggies, ground beef/chicken, scrambled egg whites.
he is on purees (has been since 5months- we were going to wait until 6 but he acted like us eating was tourture since he couldn't have any and did the same at dc). he loves bananas and avocado. he got zuchinni/carrot/apple puree last night as his dinner.
he is good at picking things up in his fat little hands and likes to try to feed himself (he gets his own spoon dipped in his food). its just after he is finished dinner, we need something to occupy him and satisfy his food jealousy, so we can finish eating. i guess i was hoping there was a non-mesh feeder for fruits. i may have to go there. gag (for me).
We would not survive without mum mums. They do break off in chunks as they get more aggressive. But they are also made to dissolve quickly. For as quick as Emma is to swallow things without mashing them, she has never had a problem. We still give them to her for snacks when we're out and about or if she wants something around the house. If they are flavored, they are all flavored with the actual item, ex. bananas or vegetables. They are baby rice cakes. The have 1g of sugar in 4 of them. Which is a lot. Emma back then would eat like a quarter of one. Now she still only eats like one of them.
We only used puffs until she could eat cheerios, but again I don't see the issue. They taught her how to pick things up, put them in her mouth, and swallow. Again they are naturally flavored, and they have 1g of sugar in a serving of 66. Again, way more than Em would ever eat. So I'm not exactly concerned about sugar overload.
Not trying to be contrary, just pointing out since you were asking for things he can feed himself.
Ok I see. I guess I wasn't sure what you were asking then.
If you're looking for fruit, what about buying some frozen fruit that you just defrost. It's soft and small, easy to grab. It can be messy though b/c it can be mushy. You could also do cooked soft fruits cut up like apples or pears.
Another option, if you're sure he's had his fill, is to just give him something to play with until his food hits his belly!
cheese. lots and lots of cheese.
steamed apples cut into chunks
ripe pears
chicken meatballs cut into pieces
THIS IS SPASTIC but hope it helps.
we did baby led weaning, milo never had purees. some of our first foods with and without teeth were the veggies from our dinner we just got them into finger sized pieces so he could grasp them. also BROCOLLI is really easy for them to eat and the trees break off so no real teeth action is used.
you'd be amazed what babies can gum up though. we give him pieces of meat and although he has his front teeth he grinds and chews with him gums.
once he had his two bottom teeth he could eat corn off the cob, and with the addition of his two front we can just give him a whole apple, i bite into it first so he know the taste and then goes to town.
fwiw we bought the puffs and milo would get confused because he couldn't move them around his mouth like real food, and would gag/throw up because of it.
I like this idea for me, I still struggle with Emma eating fruits whole except for melons. She chokes and throws up. We eat lots of applesauce and mashed bananas. Never thought about it. Thanks!
I'm going to sound like an idiot here but I thought babies weren't supposed to have dairy/cheese until closer to a year. I know milk is a definite but I assumed cheese was still in the 8-10 month range. Baby ering isn't 8 months yet.
nope I was able to post the same thing. I didn't offer cheese until closer to 11 months.
This post makes me thankful for my non-choking, not-throwing-up son. Never had any of this.
Besides steamed apples/pears, I liked mango chunks, avocado chunks, and the barley or wheat teething biscuits from Earth's Best. I'm also a fan of roasting carrots and parsnips cut into julienne strips, thick enough to be held. Just roast them a shorter time so that flesh and skins are soft, not crispy.
thanks ladies!
we will likely shy away from dairy until closer to 12 months because of some lactose intolerance on both sides. great call on the steamed fruits and roasted veggies. he can rock a teething biscuit but i was apprehensive about a cookie-type thing to often.
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Fwiw I cook with old breastmilk that smells fine but older then I prefer to have him drink.
Also, here's some good info on dairy for infants. http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/dairy.htm
Sorry for being a PW in this post.
Have you ever talked to her pedi about this? They can refer you to a feeding specialist or a speech therapist to make sure there are no physical issues that may be causing this.
So, I was originally anti puffs. But honestly, a serving size of Happy Baby puffs is 75 pieces. And at that, it is .5g of sugar. Seven on his high chair after dinner, and after he has spurned everything we offered, is fine by me if it lets us finish dinner. But I get the dislike - I have seen kids house entire containers of Gerber ones full of all sorts of stuff.
Also, my secret baby feeding weapons are whole foods organic frozen fruits and veggies.