Easy Finger Foods for a Gagging 10 Month Old?

I don't know what you have tried...but here are some suggestions of soft finger foods that my son (who had no gag reflex and a lot of teeth really early) enjoyed! We are vegetarians...so there is a lot of soy substitute! But, meat eaters can eat veggie products too!!!
Tofu (straight from the package, cut into small pieces)
really soft, really small noodles
avocado (again, a really ripe one)
Soy yogurt - not a finger food, but not rice cereal!
Gerber makes some puffs and dehydrated fruit bits that basically dissolve
banana
veggie hot dogs, skinned and cut into tiny pieces

My son loved to feed himself too, but didn't have the teeth to chew solid food. What he learned how to do was use those little rubber spoons. That satisfied his very adamant desire to feed himself.

You can also buy a little hand held meat grinder and essentially make your own baby food. If she's gagging she's probably not ready for more solid food yet. Also keep an eye out for allergies. It's harder to sort out when there's a large variety.

Lastly, even though the sodiums high, we would occasionally use canned soups like progresso chunky chicken noodle, or campbells. Pour off all the soup, rinse what's left, and you've got VERY moist squishy noodles and vegetables.

good luck
~Z.

Soft baby cooked baby green peas. That was my daughters first finger food. She loved them. Especially since their fresh in the markets now and you can cook them your self.

I recently went to a specialist for some of my daughter's eating issues, and she mentioned that gagging really isn't that uncommon, and that it is often more a sign of a novel sensation than a problem. My daughter sounds bad when she's gagging, but she always produces the offending item and it is over quickly - if i hear her gagging with our production or for an extended period of time then i would know that it was a different situation. In the mean time, with that advice, i've just let my daughter continue to experiment with things and she has gotten more adept at finger foods and gags less.

You may want to bring up this issue with your pediatrician and see if she has feedback for your particular baby.

So, for finger foods -
the specialist referred me to this page:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/Meals.htm

One of the great ideas on there is to make little pancakes. I like this because you can make them and add some pureed vegetables or fruit.

Another idea from the specialist is to take pureed foods and then add rice cereal. Then you can make the mush as 'solid' as you like, but, it is still mush. This seems to work extremely well.

Another thing that i have done is get some teething biscuits, that are unlikely to break off, that she can gnaw on. You have to keep an eye on the kid just in case a piece does break off, because it won't dissolve so easily in their mouths. However, with this they can sit and chew for a while! (And, honestly, the upside to that aggressive gag reflex is that i know my daughter gets things out of her mouth pretty well if they feel weird.)

Try any soft fruit cut into small pieces or party mashed with a work. If the fruit is slippery, coat them in crushed cheerios or rice cereal. It may be a little messy to start but your daughter will soon get the idea and pleasure of feeding herself.
Good luck.

Have you tried silky tofu, the very soft kind slip right down the throat. It comes in sweet flavor too. How about baby yogurt?

Have she tried sweet peas yet? My daughter loves them since she's 8 months old. When I started feeding her sweet peas, I used to "de-shell". I used the frozen kind. Some sweet peas are softer than the other, you might want to try it yourself to make sure she can smash it with her gum just like eating cheerios. Chick peas are very soft too.