Puff piece
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- May
- 13
We took a giant step forward on the road to eating “real” solids last week when JD actually chewed the tiny piece of Gerber Graduates fruit Puff I gave him instead of choking on it. Since I had broken the star-shaped Puff into such small fragments, I had to place the pieces in his mouth as they were too tiny for him to grasp. (My personal best is breaking one of those tiny puffs into 10 microscopic pieces!) But there was definite chewing.
Emboldened, I immediately bought the wagon wheels for him to try. I placed the wheel on his food tray and waited to see what he would do, betting that the odds were in my favor he would try to shove it in his mouth like everything else these days. Sure enough, he began to gnaw on it, happily smearing the resulting sticky paste all over his face, clothes, high chair and in his hair. Even better, it kept him occupied while I buzzed around the kitchen cleaning up and trying to get his lunch ready.
The next day, we moved on to little bites of the doughy middle of a whole wheat bagel, also well-received. I figure I’ll try some small pieces of soft fruit next, maybe some really ripe banana and peaches. Beyond that, we’re open to suggestions for what worked well for other beginning eaters. Also, does this mean I should be moving into Stage 3 foods?
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on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm by Tracey Princiotta.
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Here as cranky grandma again. When you say Stage 3 Foods, I assume you’re referring to packaged, prepared commercial baby foods. So, my response is made with that assumption in mind. I don’t understand why people use commercially prepared baby foods. It is so easy to cook, then mash or shred whatever food it is that the adults are eating, for little fingers to feed themselves. You’re introducing them to such a variety of tastes and textures they’ll never get from prepared foods. You can save leftovers and freeze them in tiny portions for future use, or travel. There is no reason not to feed the little ones the same foods we eat, appropriately prepared.
Thanks for letting me sound off.
I agree. I would skip stage 3 foods all together and go straight to soft table foods. Many stage 3 foods are even more difficult because of the mixed textures. They also taste pretty bad.
Avacado and tofu are great first foods.