When do you stop giving baby purees and just give real food?

kimbo319 · June 2011

I only give my kid 2 purees a day and the rest of the time I give him real fruit or whatever we are having (plus formula). When do you stop giving the purees? He really looks forward to the purees, likes them a lot but he likes the adult food too. He just turned 9 months.

Pamela_B · June 2011

I believe I stopped at 10-11 months. DS eats anything so we just cut up fruits and veggies into pieces and he eats them. He still has purees now though so I can get rid of them.

BLUEIEDHIPPY · June 2011

I would think its up to the parents& the lo, when you think he is ready go for it, H still gets mostly puree's at this point, we just got him to eat what we do for dinner, we are sticking with that for a week, then next week adding in lunch then breakfast the following week after that...I think it all up to personal choice & what your lo is ready for!

historychick79 · June 2011

Try any time at this point; and then it's a question if they're ready for it. I started trying at 7mos with DS--puffs, mum mums, bananas, blueberries chopped up in yogurt, bread, etc. However he has a strong gag reflex and doesn't attempt to gum/chew and swallow. He just looks miserable, starts spitting up a storm and wants it out of his mouth. Teething cookies are the only thing he looks remotely happy chewing on, and even that ends when a piece breaks off. Our pedi isn't worried and thinks C doesn't like the texture at this point and to just keep trying. So give it a shot--some kids are champs right from the start and others can be on purees past a year.

D_Nett86 · June 2011

I stopped giving my DS purees at 9 months.

Masonismylove · June 2011

7-8 months he started taking food off of our plates so we decided to stop the purees and give him our food. He still eats puffs and yogurt melts and gerber yogurt.

Elmo12 · June 2011

LO basically refused to be spoonfed at around 9 months. We have been doing finger foods and BM since then. Some of his favorites are:

sweet potato

banana

cheese and cream cheese sandwiches

pasta (esp mac and cheese -- i find spaghetti sauce too messy and not very nutritious anyways)

black beans, corn and quinoa

Dreamsicle23 · June 2011

Around 9 months. He still has the occasional pouch if we're out and I'm too lazy to sit down and feed him real food.

LJR 84 · June 2011

DD still eats baby purees. We offer her table food all the time, but she hasn't shown very much interest yet. I asked our Pedi about this, and she said it's perfectly fine/normal. Some babies just don't take to table food until 1+. We always offer her things, as does day care, but when she won't eat it we just give her the stage 3 purees.

She'll put down some yogurt melts and little crunchies like nobodys business though!

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Angela814 · June 2011

It's up to you. We never did purees. DD2 loves to eat, and it's nice to be able to sit down and eat my food at the same time.

robyn2201 · June 2011

Angela814:
It's up to you. We never did purees. DD2 loves to eat, and it's nice to be able to sit down and eat my food at the same time.

Same here. Started DD on soft finger foods at 6 months.

Jessi+Aiden · June 2011

My DS has never eaten purees. He just hated the consistency, so we were kind of forced into a more BLW approach. That being said, most things I have looked into seem to indicate that by one children are eating table food only. My b/u daycare center enforces this policy very strictly. They start introducing the children in the older infant room to "school meals" as soon as the parents give the OK for finger foods, and really start working towards all school meals between 9-10 months. Once the little ones go into the 12mo - 18mo room, there are zero bottles and zero purees. They will give BM, formula, or cows milk as you request them too but after 12 months it must be in a sippy cup.

Sorry for the ramble... Point is, one year seems to be the cut off point for purees according to daycare/my pedi.