What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

I want to start Noah on more variety before Table food ( which my Ped starts at 9 and 1/2 months) ..

I was thinking this week of trying..
Toast strips
Pasta( I got the Earths best organic sesame street one today)
Cheddar Cheese strips

What else?

He eats purees of most fruits and veggies..and yogurt and doesnt liek Eggs or avacados.

what other finger foods or purees or mixes or table foods??

and am I the only one still worried about choking?

Do those on more table food really not take too much at once or choke on something long ( like cheese or fruits wedges?)

TIA!

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Caden's not there yet..but I remember pretty much what the twins were eating at that age..(Ariel ate nothing b/c I was paranoid about choking )

Chop Meat
Crushed Pineapple
Peas
Cheese (all kinds even bleu!)
Pasta (Ditalini is perfect)
Cream Cheese & Jelly sandwich cut up in pieces
Waffles
pancakes

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

ds is a huge gagger and i hate doing finger foods with him b/c he always throws up. so i'm not much help with what we've tried.

but i read in a parenting mag. that for children under 1:
cut pieces about the size of a pea or your pinkie fingernail. once they can gum and hold food and have some teeth: cut foods into strips about the length and thickness of their pinkie finger.

hth a bit.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Lucas has such an aweful gag reflex and I have to admit that I have been holding off on table food but I am going to start this week. My ped recommended using the food mill for the meats and mixing it with the pureed food. So we are going to try chicken with sweet potatoes. Then we'll move on to more things. He seems to be doing really well with the puffs.

I also noticed that he gags less when he feeds himself. But of course that makes me even more nervous

I need to let go

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

DD has four teeth now, with a 5th on its way. I have to start her on table foods but have no idea where to start.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

DD is 10 months and I have given her chicken nuggets cut up, polly-o string cheese (I'll hold it and let her bite off little pieces), pastina, corned beef (we were eating it one night and I gave her aliitle and she loved it), mini pancakes. She hates the jar meats so I don't give those at all. I'm a nervous wreck when I feed her table food but she already has 6 teeth so I figured I should start.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Posted by Ang-Rich

Lucas has such an aweful gag reflex and I have to admit that I have been holding off on table food but I am going to start this week. My ped recommended using the food mill for the meats and mixing it with the pureed food. So we are going to try chicken with sweet potatoes. Then we'll move on to more things. He seems to be doing really well with the puffs.

I also noticed that he gags less when he feeds himself. But of course that makes me even more nervous

I need to let go

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

I have been living under a rock, I had no idea that at these ages babies eat all of this food My DD is just about 8 months, and we don't go back to the ped until 9 months, guess I'll wait to talk to him until then.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Posted by nbc188

I have been living under a rock, I had no idea that at these ages babies eat all of this food My DD is just about 8 months, and we don't go back to the ped until 9 months, guess I'll wait to talk to him until then.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Posted by InShock

Posted by nbc188

I have been living under a rock, I had no idea that at these ages babies eat all of this food My DD is just about 8 months, and we don't go back to the ped until 9 months, guess I'll wait to talk to him until then.

Apparently we both live under the same rock!

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

pasta
scrambled eggs
pancakes/waffles
chicken nuggets
cheese
pizza
fries
gerber puffs/cheeze doodles/dried fruit
bread

anything I can put in his mouth. He is a piggy.

Message edited 2/25/2008 5:22:32 PM.

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

oh, wow. DD is 8 months and is on stage 3 foods. She also eats cheerios and puffs. She is ready for the next step...I just wasn't sure where to start...now I have some ideas, thanks!

Re: What Foods are your 8-10 month olds eating?

Posted by InShock

Posted by nbc188

I have been living under a rock, I had no idea that at these ages babies eat all of this food My DD is just about 8 months, and we don't go back to the ped until 9 months, guess I'll wait to talk to him until then.

Apparently we both live under the same rock!