BLW - if it's a soft solid its OK?

[jetjets]

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The meat would have to be very well cooked. I mean falling off.

i don't think it does have to be THAT soft personally. dd did fine with turkey and lamb at 7 months old for her christmas dinner. it was just cooked 'normally' by my SIL, who wasn't expecting dd to have any. we don't eat meat so dd tends to just get meat when we're with meat eaters so she gets it as it comes IYSWIM. i would say it's probably best the meat isn;t still bloody, from a health point of view perhaps, but i know some mums do give babies blue steaks...more iron maybe or something?? can you tell i don't eat meat?!

My DD doesn't have teeth but manages fine with most foods. i give her carrots etc steamed but as i eat them so not very cooked and apples i grate (usually) but pears she eats raw and whole! You'll be surprised how much they can tear off with just gums!

Watch out for things like raw apple and carrot as they can't be broken down and squidged with saliva and gum so are a bit of a choking hazard with little ones. My dd choked on apple.

I roast carrot sticks... have found they stay sticky (as in stick shape) better yet still soft enough to chew on.

On the webchat that Gill Rapley did she did say that even if a baby can't chew the meat they can get a lot of the goodness from sucking it.. think that's were I read it lol! I have that and a couple of other links on here

My dd does well with ripe pears!

Chicken is a good meat to start on... nice bit of roast! To be fair though like Dizzy my DD was 7 months at christmas and had a full crimbo dinner with all the trimmings!

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jetjets, i think your instincts are bang-on. a big hunk of meat to chew at until it becomes a pale ghost of itself would be yummy for a toothless baby, and i steamed carrot and skipped apple for a while. by nine months she was scraping away at the whole apple, though, so it doesn't take long.

JJ She is just over 10 months now! can't believe where the time has gone

She very quickly went from "sticky" food to pretty much everything we eat.