Baby solid foods by age: 8 to 10 months
This is the time to begin to offer your baby foods that you can take with your fingers, so you can practice how to feed him.
Signs that are ready to eat solid food and you can take with your fingers
- You can hold your head up alone.
- You can sit well in his high chair to eat.
- It is able to make chewing motions.
- Shows interest in food.
- You can close your mouth around a spoon.
- You can move the tongue from side to side but is losing the extrusion reflex of the tongue, that is, the reflection of pushing his tongue out of his mouth all that is solid.
- Take things with thumb and index finger (or pinch object).
- You can transfer things from one hand to the other.
- It takes everything in their mouths.
- It has begun to mimic chewing, moving the jaw from side to side.
Foods you can give
Breast milk: about 3 to 5 times a day. Either formula: about 4 to 5 bottles of 5 to 6 ounces (147-177 ml) daily. In addition to:
- Bits pasteurized soft cheese or cottage cheese. If you wonder why those dairy products may be given to a child much earlier than cow's milk (which should not be introduced to the baby's diet until 12 months of age), it is because the culture processes used to make the manufacture easier to digest milk protein and reduce the amounts of lactose.
- Iron fortified cereals (rice, barley, oats, wheat or various mixtures).
- Fruits and ground as bananas, peaches (peaches), pears, avocado (avocado), cooked carrots, squash (zucchini), potatoes (potatoes) or sweet potatoes (sweet potato) vegetables.
- Food you can make with your fingers (dry O-shaped cereal low in sugar, pieces of lightly toasted bread pieces of ripe banana, well-cooked spiral pasta, special teething biscuits).
- Small amounts of protein foods such as eggs, mashed red meat and poultry and fish without spines. You can also offer vegetable purees which have thin skin, such as lentils, peas and black beans.
How much to eat per day
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup of dairy products a day (or 1/2 ounce of cheese)
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup of iron-fortified cereal
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup of fruit
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup of vegetables
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup protein foods.
Other tips
Enter the new food with three days apart from each other. Thus, if your little one has an allergic reaction you may realize.
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