Need help with what to feed 9 month old?

lilmejo

Ok, so babies and food have always seemed so confusing to me. When to start what foods? what texture? Just recetly LO has begun picking up those little dissolving snacks and eating them. But I want to start giving him real food, other than the purees, but not sure what exactly he can have and how much and what texture. Can I start giving him some of our dinner? And if so, he's still learning to pick up the food so it takes him a while, so should I still give him the pureed foods to supplement. In a typical day he eats, multigrain cereal and fruit for breakfast a 7-8oz botle around 10am. Yogurt (which he loves) for lunch, an 7-8 oz bottle around 3, a meat and vegetable for dinner around 6 and a 7-8 oz bottle around 7:30

LMBecky11

Cottage cheese is a good starter, and let him eat it with his hands. And maybe try putting the yogurt on the tray and letting him use his hands to eat that. After my LO got the hang of eating the puffs and stuff around 8 or 9 months she was fine eating soft/mild cheeses, bread, noodles, soft fruits, cooked vegetables, rice, adult cereals like cherrios or kix... I just consider a food before I give it to her and if I think its too hard I don't give it to her and if its too big I cut it up. Now she eats almost anything we are eating, with the exception of hard stuff or chips.

kacelle

Babies' primary nutrition should come from breastmilk or formula until a year old.  It's perfectly fine if it takes him a while to catch on to feeding himself.  

We've been giving DD the foods we're eating since she was 6 months old.  It's perfectly fine to offer spoonfuls or to put foods on his high chair tray to let him feed himself.

Popular foods here are: pineapple chunks, edamame, green beans, homemade chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, quesadillas, and cheese

M&M227

When DD started finger foods I would feed her a puree around 5:30 and then let her eat some of whatever we were eating at dinner (around 6).  If she couldn't have what we were eating I would give her some puffs.  I would do both for a bit until LO gets the hang of finger foods.

Once LO gets good, he's going to want what you have and not purees, don't worry, you'll know when he's ready.

We started with soft fruits and veggies (banana, sweet potato) and then small pasta now she'll eat anything. 

Mylittlebee20

I agree with cottage cheese!

At 9 months we fed DD purees, yogurt, and fruit in the mesh feeder. I usually give her some of what we're eating as long as it's soft and easy for her to eat.

futuremrsmcnichols

So far, we have done pasta (penne noodles, macaroni), apple slices, bananas, whole fat yogurt, cottage cheese, puffs, yogurt melts, mashed potatoes, cheerios, oatmeal, carrot sticks, hummus (just scooped some onto her tray and let her lick it off her fingers). She still gets purees probably once a day, but prefers finger foods because I can't feed her fast enough and she gets upset. With finger foods, she goes at her own pace and is content longer. As long as BM/Formula is the primary source of his nutrition, just follow his lead.