Feeding a 10 Month Old

She would probably prefer finger foods. Here is what I feed my 10 month old:
Breakfast: yoghurt with small pieces of fruit (raspberries, blueberries, grapes quartered, peaches, nectarine, melon, cantalope, kiwi, pineapple), banana slices (a real favorite), slices of toast (she naws on this and likes it as a soldier so she can hold it), egg yolks or scrambled eggs if your doc has okayed egg whites, cereal sometimes - though she is less fond of this now that she wants to self feed,
Lunch: cheese stick(big favorite), mashed potatos or small pieces of boiled potatoes, roasted sweet potato sticks (she really loves these), soft pieces of carrot, zuchini, squash, petit peas, tofu, cooked slices of apple, rice with some baby food meat mixed in, pasta, gerber graduates, brocoli, spinach, shepherd's piece, macaroni and cheese, tiny pieces of chicken tenders, tiny pieces of other meats. she will naw on a piece of pizza or eat the cheese/tomato part.
dinner: similar to lunch
the book: super baby food is good, though be forewarned, it is aimed at a vegetarian approach. I use it for some ideas and then supplement with meat as I am not a vegetarian.

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scrambled egg with cheese, sliced cheese, french toast sticks, oatmeal with brown suger, farina with sugar, vanilla and an egg mixed in, chunky soups with veggies cooked well, noodles, mashed potatoes are always a biggie. soft and lightly buttered biscuit (or honey instead of butter), jello, rice pudding, cut up penne pasta with a small amount of marinara sauce for flavor. Child needs to chew. I don't know if teeth are involved yet but don't try hard or stringy meats until then. Applesauce chunky style is good and baby hot dogs can be gummed (matter of fact, I froze some when my kids were teething..took down the swelling in gums). Before you know it, the child will be through this and on to another stage. Jeanne

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My 10 month old also dislikes the stage 3 and I can't say I blame him! Have you tasted that stuff? No flavor! We give me smaller pieces of what we are eating including salmon, tuna, chili, spaghetti, everything. We are still giving some stage 2 fruits and vegetables but we are trying to get him onto solids completely. Just keep trying different foods with her. Good luck!

Don't worry about it... it's totally normal. I know VERY few kids who would eat the 3rd foods. I know my son refused to eat them so I just jumped him straight to table foods. Still give her the 2nd foods if she'll eat them, but try to incorporate more table foods. Hope that helps! :)

Hi, R.. My son was the same way. He would gag on 3rd and regular foods. My pediatrician told me to feed him whatever he could keep down. So I would recommend the same to you. Don't worry about pushing table foods on her yet. Offer them to her regularly so she has a chance to get used to them, but the 2nd foods are fine. She'll let you know when she's ready for move.

First of all, there really isn't a rush here - it's not like there's more vitamins in chunky food, per se.

Secondly, chewing is hard, or maybe just boring - my 2 year old still spits out raw baby carrots halfway sometimes though I know she loves the taste and could eat cooked ones for days.

So, a couple of thoughts. We mixed 2nd foods with other chunkier things, like tiny pearl pasta, cooked peas, etc. This works for fruits too.

Also, if you've got the time and a blender/food processor/mini-chop, you can take cooked veggies with rice or pasta and make your own food. The nice thing is, if it's too chunky, just whirl it around a few more times and it'll be smoother.

Honestly, have you ever tasted the 3rd foods meals or read their ingredients list? They're disguisting! No adult recipe would start out spaghetti with meat sauce with carrot juice! My 12 month old doesn't like 3rd foods either, but I've been pureeing him his own meals for awhile now and he likes everything in them. I usually start out with a little meat (browned ground beef or chicken thighs (a little more fat)) and then add potatoes, peas, carrots, celery, sometimes a little onion, sometimes fresh spinach, whatever vegetable combination looks good that I would also want to eat. Use just enough water to cook it all through, then pour it all in the blender and puree it to your desired consistency. If you're using a whole piece of meat, I would dice it separately into VERY small pieces first, if you plan to leave the vegetables chunky. My little boy loves it all and eats it up. If your mixture is too runny add a little rice cereal. I usually make almost a week's worth at a time and freeze or refrigerate it. Sometimes I make two different "dishes" and then other meals feed him things like fresh mashed banana or yogurt. Anyways, in summary, my guess is she doesn't like the 3rd foods because they just taste weird! :-)

Hi!
My twins sons are almost a year now and they hated the 3rd foods. I only fed it to them a few times because I made my own baby food. One thing I realized with my boys is that they would rather have finger foods than chunky food. I pretty much feed them anything now, but I started out with bananas, pears, peaches, peas, green beans, sweet potatoes and beans. They LOVE beans! I give them the pork and beans kind and rinse them off. Then I just put it on their tray and they go to town!
They have now started to like cottage cheese and the like yogurt too. I feed them graham crackers the other day as well and they really liked it too.
I still feed them mushed up food as well if they are not eating well on their own. I think that just making sure that your little one is eating enough is good. I always feel like I am not doing what I should or on the right pace with what America is doing, so just go at your child's pace!
Have fun!

My 8 month old LOVES macaroni & cheese! Also, we let him chew on pizza crust and he loves it! He does not like baby food so we have to get creative.
J.

My kids hated those 3rd stage foods. She can probably eat a lot of what your family is eating - mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, peas, cereal, blueberries, applesauce, hashbrowns, whole-milk yogurt, cottage cheese and tofu were some of my children's favorites. Most of those, the kids can feed themselves, which will save you time feeding, but will probably be messy!

Yeah, I'm not sure why but the 3rd foods are just not a big hit. My son would maybe eat them once but then the next time I would try, he would spit them out and gag and act like I was trying to poison him! He's 11+ months now and I still use some #2s as supplements or combos but mostly I try to make my own. What worked for me was giving him little bites of my food and then making a combo for him. For example, I used chicken (in a food processor) and mixed it with sweet potatoe mash. Or I would use some frozen veggies like asparagus and cut them up very fine, or peas and crush them with a fork and then mix that in with squash that I roasted myself. I've done a lot of scrambled egg yolk with cheese and shredded zucchini (and I even add a little fresh rosemary) plus I put little pieces of whole wheat cooked pasta in it (which he doesn't like otherwise). I'm not having any luck with real rice or some other things... you just have to be a little creative and try different combos. I use the #2 fruit on top of a whole grain waffle (instead of syrup) and he LOVES it. Yesterday I fed him tiny pieces of my barbequed pork chop and I couldn't believe he loved that too! Good luck!! Oh, also... if my son doesn't really like something, I mix it with applesauce and he pretty much will eat most anything.

I feed my 11 month old everything. I have never done the jarred foods though. I made my own baby food and we have been giving her table foods for a long time now. Tonight for supper we had potato stroganoff hamburger helper, steamed carrots and broccli and cottage cheese. That is what she ate too. I find it much easier to just give them what you are eating! Good luck :)

Hello,
My baby is 14 month old now and she was ready to it chunky food at 13 month even if I was trying to give it to her long before.So in my case the patience did the job for us. I have been dropping little pieces of soft nuddles or carrots in the blended soups, but not too many because she was choking and refusing to it that.But i was still trying, again and again. Still there is some stuff my baby eats blended only but I am happy she eats that .So don't worry. And one more thing.Our pediatrician told us to lower the amount of the formula.It's because (the doctor said)the baby is to full with the formula and doesn't want to eat more other foods.She said the baby at this age needs more vitamins and minerals from other foods not from the formula only.So right now my baby drinks 2 bottles of formula per day(12-18oz
a day).Good luck.

I have 9 month old daughter and i am already feeding her more solid foods like mashed potatoes w/ turkey gravy and she is loving it. Also, i'm giving her mashed banana (fresh) mixed it with oatmeal. A carrot and sweet potato the same way. I, sometimes feed her rice too. I will cook it w/ lots of water and add a little seasoning like chicken broth till it's very soft and tender and mushy.

My baby just turned a year February 2nd and around the time he was 10 months old I was still feeding him baby food, stage 2. I was worried too about him making the switch to table food. He ate some, but didn't really care to feed himself that much. But now, just 2 months later, he is on ALL table food. I still give him Gerber oatmeal sometimes for breakfast, but that's it. I buy those little individual cups of veggies, they are 6 packs. They have carrots, peas, corn, and green beans, just microwave them and they're ready to go. He love them and just enough for him. I also buy Del Monte fruit cups and manderin oranges. We do lots of cheerios, graham crackers, ritz, and I buy the Gerber Graduates cereal bars which he loves. I recently found Lunchables Jr. that I'm excited about, although he hasn't tried those yet. Just keep trying, I wouldn't get stressed about it, she will do it when she's ready. I don't do stage 3, I had a bad experience with my 2nd baby choking on them all the time, I found they have some harder chunks in them babies might not be ready for. Good luck!

No worries. My 16 month old still often prefers Stage 2 veggies in a jar to the real thing. She prefers pureed peas and beans to the real thing. I worried she wouldn't transition to chunky food but she eats lots of other chunky stuff like pasta, crackers, scrambled egg, lunchmeat and cheese. As long as your daughter eats veggies in some form I wouldn't be too preoccupied.