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Dd is 9 months old and still has no teeth. She loves her homemade? purees and mashed bananas and cereal and puffs. Im wondering when zhouldni start her on chunkier foods like tiny chunks of bananas and pasta and such? Im so scared of her choking on more adultish foods.
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  • SteelCity44SteelCity44 member
    We don't chew with our front teeth, which are the first ones babies get. You'll be amazed what they can chew with their gums. Start slow, but start offering other foods. My kid was eating chicken wings and hamburgers at 6 months and didn't get a tooth until 9 months. And remember: gagging =/= choking. Gagging is totally normal. Good luck.
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  • oliversmommy32912oliversmommy32912 member

    We started on really soft foods first (avocado, banana, soft cooked pears, sweet potato, etc). Babies don't need teeth to chew their food. They just mash it up with their gums. As long as you make the bites small enough you shouldn't have to worry too much about choking. You can definitely expect gagging. While it can be scary at times it is perfectly normal. It is part of the way babies learn to chew and what size bites they can handle.

    We started really doing solids around 8 or 9 months and DS now doesn't eat purees at all (If we are away from home he will take a squeezie pouch but only if he gets to do it himself). We started by giving purees first and ending with some finger foods on his plate. After a while we dropped how much puree we were giving him and upped his finger foods. In a month or two he was really good at the finger foods.

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  • BaileyMom39BaileyMom39
    My daughter is 11 months old and still has no teeth.  But eats EVERYTHING! I just cut it up for her and don't give her things she would have trouble with -- example, peel skin off potato, apples.  She amazes me with how much she can eat.  I was nervous at first but now I do not hestitate at giving her whatever we are eating.
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  • lalafirefly27lalafirefly27
    Thanks for the advice!
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  • blondie87blondie87 member
    try putting the food in  mesh strainer first. That way she can get used to biting things. plus it comes out so little you won't have to worry.
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  • AstrosMomAstrosMom member
    imagekbruington:

    imageSteelCity44:
    We don't chew with our front teeth, which are the first ones babies get. You'll be amazed what they can chew with their gums. Start slow, but start offering other foods. My kid was eating chicken wings and hamburgers at 6 months and didn't get a tooth until 9 months. And remember: gagging =/= choking. Gagging is totally normal. Good luck.

    Exactly. My LO eats a wide variety of foods and he only has his 4 front teeth. Just make the pieces small and very soft at first so your baby can get used to it.  

    thanks for the reminder on this whole subject ladies.  i have been dreading starting DS on solids too, but i'm under the gun now b/c he has to be off purees to move up to the next daycare room at 12 months.  the whole gagging thing scares me but i know he'll get past it soon enough!  it's amazing how much you forget from one kid to the next : )

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