HI, My DS is almost 14 months. He has about 8 front teeth and I don't think any molars yet. I am still cutting up his food very small and I am not sure when I should just hand him something bigger to see if he is ready to bite and chew. I am even still cutting up things like bananas and bread. What do you all do? He is starting a part time day care at the end of the month and I have to send meals. Right now I am cutting while he is eating. I have an older DD and she was in full time day care that provided meals. They kind of helped me advance her food-wise because I would find out she had been eating x and so I would do it at home too. I can't remember at what age though!
Please share your food prep tips on things like veggies, fruits, chicken, etc. Thanks!
Re: how big is your LO's food?
Our case is a little bit different as we did baby led weaning so I have never really cut up DD's food. I do now because she likes to use her fork and usually wants small pieces. At that age we did lots of slivers (think french fry size) of thing suchs as pasta noodles, chicken breast, veggies etc. Bread I never cut. I would try to not cut as much up and see how he does. Hope this helps a bit.
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That's exactly my thinking as well. My child will shove a lot of food in her mouth.. I'm concerned she would choke if I just hand food to her!
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YES. My DS does this. It's like he thinks the food will be taken away if he doesn't shove it all in his mouth as quickly as possible. I usually have to hold his sippy cup of water to his mouth when he has a huge mouthfull to encourage him to wash it down - stresses me out!
I'd say basically prep the food so anything could be swallowed whole without choking him. That's what I do. It's ideal if he chews it, but it's soft enough or small enough that it could be swallowed without a problem.