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reko000
If you started with purées and/or are too anxious for baby led weaning, what were your first solid foods you gave your baby that they could pick up and eat on their own? My LO is not interested in being spoon fed, he wants to do it himself, so I’ve been putting thicker baby food in those little training spoons, but I’m wondering what I should try next? He likes eating smashed avocado with his hands. He’s not big on bananas. What about those puffs that melt in their mouth? Peas? Ideas? Thank you!
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FloraGold
We’ve been giving our purée-eater puffs, numnum crackers and those gerber soothe and chew sticks. No ‘real’ food yet cause he’s just too eager to stick the whole piece of anything down his throat ��
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twinmama43
Tofu is super soft and a good way to introduce soy, cheerios (plain), meatballs with just ground beef and homemade hummus as the binder, thicker oatmeal, Greek yogurt plain or with pb or purées mixed it, chunky mashed sweet potato
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ellieb2097
I did baked sweet potato large wedges that he could easily squish in his hands
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BabyJune0123
Scrambled eggs are great, also really soft boiled squash lightly mashed but still with some texture to grab. I also hold plums or bananas, skin off, in my hands and let her nibble at them.
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hungrymomma
Our LO is so interested in food but for some reason, spoon feeding just never worked for her. If I put her puree/ porridge in one of those dummys with holes in for her to suck out of, she eats everything but she just won't do it with a spoon.
Otherwise I give her teething crackers with hummus/ peanut butter/ smashed avo, tomato wedges (she holds them and munches them!), plum halves, soft boiled butternut/ zucchini
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sunrisechaser
Mashed sweet potato, mashed carrots, mashed strawberries, yogurt, applesauce
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Alexandra1923
cracks with some greek yoghurt on it, scrambled eggs..
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we just cut up whatever we're having and give it to her on her tray and she eats it herself just fine. picks it up in handfuls and eats it out of her fist. if a piece is too bug and she can't chew it she spits it out and puts more in her mouth. she also lost interest in being spoon fed very quickly. I just cook her meat separate from ours so there's no spices. she's eaten everything we have given her
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firsttimeeemom
My son would gag really bad on the puffs so we switched to cheerios- he did really well & now we do both cheerios and puffs. He likes cooked carrots cut into little cubes and also the chew sticks & scrambled eggs
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