what finger food is your 10-12 month old eating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm guilty of thinking of DS (a poor second child ) as "the baby" and so am very behind in getting him started on finger foods. he's 10m and has 2 teeth. When i read all these suggestions I worry about him choking, i can't imagine giving him blueberries, even cut up, and having him mush them in his mouth enough to swallow.

did you guys work from smooth baby food (we do homemade, but pureed really fine) to chunky to baby food, or did your little ones just figure it out? I'm scared that there's really only one way to know if he's ready - and it involves giving it to him & seeing if he chokes!!!

I have given him whole peices of soft fruit (mango, pear, banana) and peices of bread, and he did ok - but i suspect that's mainly because he gummed it so much before getting peices off that it was a non issue......but as i said, he's a 2nd, so i didnt sit and watch/document it.....

I have actually been surprised how DD has been able to deal with food chunks I give her that might be a little too big. She just spits them out after gumming at them for a awhile (of course, I don't know for sure that it is too big until she spits it out). I felt a little more comfortable experimenting with little larger chunks after reading about baby-led weaning. We haven't really done it but one of the things they talk about is that babies often know when a chunk of food is too big (which by NO means means that a baby shouldn't be closely monitored - please don't flame me ). She is 10 months and has two bottom teeth. Today, she was eating blueberries whole and doing a great job with them.

[Anonymous]

All of the above. Mine is 11 mos and only has two little teeth on the bottom but she gums everything up. She can house a pile of cut blueberries in no time flat.

Totally second frozen veggies, esp the mixes--I boil them until really soft in big batches and then give her some at dinner every night. Also highly recommend chicken in the can--you can get organic canned chicken at WF and it breaks up into nice little pieces and is so easy. My kid loves it.