What are you feeding you little one?

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My son is 8 months old now, and he currently eats 3-4 8oz bottles a day and then eats breakfast lunch and dinner with a snack or two in between... right now he only has the pouches or jar purée but it doesn’t seem to fill him anymore, I have to feed him two pouches or jar at a time if I don’t mix in oatmeal which I only do for breakfast. I know at this point he can start having finger foods but I’m so nervous and I honestly don’t know what to give him that’s a good variety and safe, we have tried peaches pears carrots and peas cut up and he did pretty good with those. So what’s everyone little ones eat?

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We do baby led weaning, so he eats what we eats. I just make sure it’s soft enough for him to gum and that it’s cut appropriately and to not give him any choking hazards. He’ll be 8 months tomorrow and these are all the foods he’s eaten so far. Just be patient- it can take time for them to really figure out chewing and swallowing, and gagging is normal in the beginning. Now he eats a large majority of the food we give him and he loves it!

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My baby girl eats finger foods for breakfast and dinner. So far she’s had banana, strawberry, blueberries, scrambled eggs, shredded cheese, avocado, sweet potato, broccoli, pasta noodles and I just gave her salmon lox this am. For snacks she has rice rusks, yogurt melts, and quinoa puffs. She occasionally has purées for convenience when we don’t have time for a mess. We’ve had so much fun exploring new foods!

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Formula and some snacks throughout the day. She doesn’t care for anything we try to give her as far as baby food goes. She hated avocados and strawberries. She’ll eat a few bites of fried eggs but not scrambled. She likes banana but only frozen. Watermelon was a definite no thank you. She will however eat my popcorn chicken, any sort of fast food she needs to try, and french fries 🙃🤦🏼‍♀️

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My little man gets 3-4 bottles and at least two meals of oatmeal and purée. He’s been eating veggies and fruits on his own for a few months and is pretty adventurous. He digs pretty much any veggie or fruit (he’s a little iffy on bananas), has had tri-tip, chicken and fish and he loves to snack on the Plum Organics Super Puffs. I’ve started making fruit & veg purées for him and freezing them so we don’t have to buy the pouches as frequently, so he gets some fun combinations. We are going to start introducing more meat into his diet because he seems to like the variety.

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I was also nervous about giving my 8 mo. little bite size solid foods to pickup but I made sure to make the bites soft, small and watch her closely. It’s fascinating seeing a baby learn to coordinate fingers, hand to mouth. She loves finger food:
Breakfast: baby cereal + peanut butter & milk bottle (to nap)
Lunch: beef + potato purée & finger foods (steamed carrots or potato or roasted cauliflower, scrambled eggs) & milk bottle
3pm: fruit finger foods (nectarines, kiwi, etc) & milk bottle
Dinner: veggie purée + bread bites & milk bottle to sleep

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My 8mo (no teeth) has 3 milk feeds a day , breakfast : 1/2 banana, one weetbix, 2 strawberries 2 scoops of Greek yogurt all mixed together and spoon fed 
Morning tea: slices of toast 
Lunch: meat and veggies mashed 
Arvo: cheese sticks and steamed veggie sticks
Dinner : meat and veggies mashed and then apple/pear mashed for dessert. 
I spoon feed him his main meals and give him finger food as snacks :)

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Breakfast: cut up peaches,blueberries,bananas,and a bowl of oatmeal w/cut up fruit. 
Lunch:anything I’m eating just in baby sized bites on her tray,maybe an applesauce pouch,or fruit cut up on her tray.
Same goes for supper. She’s doing super well with eating,both with her hands off her tray and by spoon! Ya my baby was only happy with purée baby food for about a month and a half and then it wasn’t enough for her. This is working well...

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We give baby small tastes of regular food in between pouches. So far baby enjoys pickles, watermelon, chicken, steak, rice, refried beans, pancake bites, peanut butter, banana. We usually try 1 taste of a new food a week.

What are you feeding you little one?

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