baby advice feeding question..

Ellejmorgan

My darling baby girl just turned 7 months has started to get funny with her food, earlier I was trying to feed her choccie pudding baby food and she didn't want to know, she had her lips firmly clamped, it's been a few times now...

She allowed her 11 year old sister to feed her, but not me..

My baby has a terrific sense of humour even now, she's hilarious, always giggling and happy I wondered if she's wanting to go on our food..

As yet she has no teeth but I think she's wanting finger food, she's very independant...

What do you all think ??
Also if anyone has any interesting ideas for future finger feeding that would be brilliant on a budget though if poss..

Many thanks...

skintchick

You can feed them whatever you would eat. Look into Baby Led Weaning, which is basically finger foods from the start. There is a forum where you can aske questions.

Basically though, roasted veggies are good, make them big enough for baby to hold and have food sticking out of their fist to chew on. Bread sticks can be good, chunks of cheese cut long so they can hold them, same with bits of meat even.

Just think of nutritious things you can cut or make into a rectangluar type shape for baby to get a good grip on and go for it!

emsywoo123

Ooooh Skint you beat me to it! Baby Led Weaning!

I used a combination of puree and BLW to be honest-depending on what we were eating and when

Ellejmorgan

How does a baby realise she doen't want her mum to feed her but allow her big sis to ???

I will look into finger foods but she has no teeth, that's the main problem..

thankyou for the replies

Gillyx

My baby has no teeth and will quite happily chomp on steamed veg, pasta, chunks of fruit, he just gums them down

GobbledyGook

They don't need teeth for loads of food (same with old people who don't eat with falsies in).

Not letting you feed her, but letting her sister is just one of those things. At the moment my ex-H could just stand and constantly change my sons nappy all day long. If I do it you'd think I was murdering him! Next week it will be the other way round.

One wise HV once said to me "Don't try too hard to understand the whys because they'll change them just as you work it out". She had a good point.

ellay864

Don't worry about teeth. My sons were 12 and 11months before they got teeth but managed solid finger foods better than many others. Was kinda scary when I saw what he could do to a ginger nut biscuit with just gums ( and before I'm shot down I didn't give it to him!)

freyasmum

My 8 month old nephew will only take (some) dinner from a spoon, any other meal he prefers to eat himself. He just flat out refuses to accept anything other than that which he can hold and chew as and when he wants - he's a really independent little boy!

She'll definitely be able to take whatever you're having, as long as you don't salt it for her.

Ellejmorgan

thanks all..

At the moment i've been eating fish fingers as trying to get baby weight off, could give her those without the breadcrumbs..
I like the pasta idea thank you to that poster..

My other kids weren't as advanced as her they were 1 before needing older food..

I've just moved her out of my room into her nursery and stopped her last feed so seems like a good time to try her...

mildred1978

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

thanks all..

At the moment i've been eating fish fingers as trying to get baby weight off, could give her those without the breadcrumbs..
I like the pasta idea thank you to that poster..

My other kids weren't as advanced as her they were 1 before needing older food..

I've just moved her out of my room into her nursery and stopped her last feed so seems like a good time to try her...

Why without breadcrumbs? Never heard of them being used for weightloss - not sure what would make you think that would work.

My son had whatever we were having from the day he turned 6 months. Never have I made anything especially for him. BLW is brilliant. Yes, he has some fussy days, but it's hardly worth stressing about.

building_with_lego

Baby led weaning, and bear in mind that "under one it's just for fun", i.e. she's getting the nutrition she needs from her milk, and is playing with food and learning about eating solids but can still happily survive on what she's getting from milk.

(It's important to remember this as you're sweeping more food than you gave her up off the floor I don't know how babies do that.)