Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook - 8 to 10 Months

8 to 10 Months

The signs for readiness for solid food when your baby is eight to ten months old are the same as the earlier signs but with a few additions:

·         Can pick up items with the thumb and forefinger

·         Can transfer items from one hand to the other

·         Has a tendency to put most things that he or she picks up in the mouth

·         Moves jaws in a chewing motion

At this stage, you still need to continue to breastfeed your baby but you can also feed him or her more solid food. In the earlier stages, we focused more on soft solid food like purees and mashed food but at this stage, you can begin to introduce soft finger food.

Some of the food that you can feed your baby who is eight to ten months old include small amounts of soft, pasteurized cheeses like cottage cheese, small pieces of ripe banana, small amounts of mashed potatoes sans the milk and seasonings, and small amounts of well-cooked scrambled eggs.

You can also up the amount that you give your baby per feeding to ¼ to 1/3 cup for dairy, ¼ to ½ cup for fruit, ¼ to ½ cup for fortified cereal, ¼ to ½ cup for vegetables, and 1/8 to ¼ cup for proteins like well-cooked fish or pureed chicken breast.

Don’t forget to introduce new food one at a time with three days in between to make sure your baby is not allergic.

This is an excerpt from the book: Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook