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What age to start finger food?

14 replies

hercules · 22/04/2004 13:03

DD is now on solids and I wanted to know how wil i know when she is ready for ff. I envisage her choking.
btw she is 6 months.

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lydialemon · 22/04/2004 13:27

Well DD is just under 6 months and I've been giving her things like baby biscuits and baby rice cakes for a couple of weeks. I think I first gave her a rusk to suck on at abot 4.5 mths (so I could eat my dinner in peace!) She's also been given cucumber slices in a cafe, which she managed to suck out the middle and we got rid of the rind.

The only thing we've had trouble with was some bread crust, it doesn't dissolve fast enough but she manages to suck big chunks off, so we'll leave that a bit longer. DD first had solids at 4 mths though.

suzywong · 22/04/2004 13:29

Agree with Lydia (hello btw )
Baby organix do a very firm bread stick with their slavia dissolves before it gets too big.

dinosaur · 22/04/2004 13:30

slavia?

eddm · 22/04/2004 13:54

First gave ds raisins at 7 months. Those that didn't end up on the floor went, erm, straight through him IYSWIM. Rice cakes more successful!

suzywong · 22/04/2004 13:55

Yes Slavia, it was my mother's name

toddlerbob · 22/04/2004 22:22

My ds didn't work out finger food until a week before his 1st birthday. He could suck on one of those rice cakes (with someone holding it for him as he headbutted it) from 6 months. No danger of choking the amount of dribble he produced!

mummytojames · 22/04/2004 22:26

i gave mine from about five month but at first i would stick to the baby bisuits as they are designed to disolve in the mouth so not compleately taking away the risk of chocking but lessening it i suppose as long as you are watching her at all times then she should be fing to start finger food

bunnyrabbit · 23/04/2004 15:21

My friends HV gave her some good advice. "Give them soft foods so if they choke it won't hurt".

So I started DS on marmite sanwiches and cooked veg. Frozen veg is good if your working, parnips zapped in the microwave are easy and he loves them.

bunnyrabbit · 23/04/2004 15:22

parsnips!

Tommy · 23/04/2004 15:31

banana is nice and messy.

Beware the finger food though....my DS1 got stared on it and wouldn't eat anything else for about a year - it was like one long finger buffet in our house

Goingcrazy · 23/04/2004 19:36

Made a big mistake with DD1 as I was too scared to giv her finger food in case she choked!! As a result she didn't eat crusts until she was about 7 and roast dinners were a nightmare as it used to take her hours to chew a mouthful of meat! With DD2 started giving cheese spread sandwiches, toast fingers etc from about 6 months. She used to love the toast, first sucking all the butter off and then sucking the toast to death. Mmmm lovely! She also loved cucumber slices and banana chunks.

Hennypenny · 26/04/2004 01:31

I gave my DS aged 5 months toast fingers. He sucked them. I did watch his every move though. Putting little finger in his mouth and removing stuff that he wasn't swallowing.

When I told my Mother/Aunts about this, they were disgusted and said that I could choke my baby. This was extremely good advice until I found out that my mother was held upside down because she choked on a banana piece. It was a whole piece and I mash mine!!!

I reckon each to their own. My DS who is now 7.5 months likes to eat crusts of bread instead of toast. He also likes breadsticks.

Hennypenny · 26/04/2004 01:33

Oh and as I done a roast dinner today, I put 3 roast potatoes, some chopped up chicken breast, some yorkshire pudding (no salt home made) in the blender and then added some of this baby gravy from C&G. It looked like shite but baby loved it.

Hulababy · 26/04/2004 08:21

I gave DD finger food from 5 or 6 months and she was really keen to give everything a go (despite no teeth until 13 months). I tried everything and anything too - not just 'proper' finger food like toast and breadsticks.

I remember on Christmas Day when she was 8 months her sitting there havign the whole meal as finger food - meat, veggies, yorkshire pud, and then dessert.

We never actually ad the envisaged chocking at all either, maybe as she had no teeth so couldn't actually bite that easily.

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