Finger foods and nappy contents!!

[Tinkjon]

DS (8 mo) is having a lot of finger foods and every day I am finding big lumps in his nappy (which he has pooed out, that is, not which he has dropped down there ) Is this normal, doesn't it mean he isn't digesting much of it and therefore not getting the goodness from it? I know that some parts of foods are indigestible for babies but even what I thought was a simple food like carrots sees carrot lumps in his nappy. Do other babies do this?

Yes!

Peas seem to come out looking exactly the same as well....

Sorry no advice - will watch with interest as I was wondering about the nutrition side of this too.

oh yes, very normal

non-finger-food slop goes through too just isn't as easy to spot

they don't really digest food properly till about a year (hence the whole 'food's for fun until they're one' thing)

most of his goodness is still coming from milk

Normal!

Most food digestion happens through chewing so until they get their molars babies tend to poo chunks .

MsrBadger, goodness me I had no idea they didn't digest food properly at this age at all!

Hmmm, thinking about this some more... so does this mean that, for young babies, pureed foods are easier to digest - and therefore give baby more nutrients - than finger foods?

possibly a little bit, but purees do go straight through too, you just don't see them so well in the nappy.

Really, most of their nutrients should still be coming from milk anyway