Foods for a 7 Month Old

If I remember correctly, we started off with things like macaroni and cheese, not the icky baby food kind, but the real ones. I would watch very carefully, though, and give her like one macaroni at the time. We also did arrowroot cookies, because they dissolve immediately and are very hard to choke on. I think that the only thing that my child ever choked on was a biscuit, because I was not watching carefully enough, and she shoved the whole thing in her mouth.

You can start him on really soft things that will essentially dissolve in his mouth and the Stage 3 baby foods are chunkier and teach them to chew.

Give him more time... My children started on more chuckier food at about 1yr olds. You can do a little now. Give a small piece of banana, torillas, toast and you can try small cubes of carrots, peas, and string green beans.
Have fun.
L.

Hi A.,

Try oatmeal first. Start it thin then make it thicker. You can also start him on muched up stuff like sweet potatos, bananas. apple sause is good too. Don't start meat yet but making your own baby food is a great way to move from finely pured to chunkier food. Go at his pace. Also take a look at "Super Baby Food" it is a great guide on nutrition, feeding stages and gives a long list of choking hazards.

I too was worried about my daughter choking so I took a CPR/Choking class. I have to be honest, he's gonna choke on something at some point. It's important you know what to do. My daughter has choked so many times I can't count but the method I learned has ALWAYS worked immediately. I did it though her pediatricians office but my OB offered a class too. The YMCA does also. It gets less scary after the first time you are able to put your new skill into practice and see that every thing is just fine.

He'll be just fine!

He's too young. On the plus side, he will tell you this by spitting the food out (typically), not choking. Parents often think the tongue thrust is gone, but it's still there - protecting them from us. :)

9 months is about the minimum age for chunky jarred food, and some babies aren't really ready until much closer to their first birthday... many will eat mashed table food (steamed shredded squash or mashed sweet potato) before they eat chunky jarred food. Mine did.

It is absolutely too young to start on anything chunky. The reccomendation is veggies at 6 months fruit at 7 and the meat type at 8 months but all in the baby food jar style foods. I have a great guide reccommended by a baby dietician for general eating for babies. I will send over a copy if you want just e-mail me and i will get a copy of it to you. ____@____.com

Maybe start with thicker foods like those with cerial or oatmeal (baby food) then around nine months try the ones with rice or chunks very small amounts if baby has trouble with it maybe back off to the regualr stuff. I am having trouble rembering when mine started foods like that they are almost 3 and 5 seems so long ago....

Anyways Hope this was helpful

From what I've learned from our pediatrician and experience with my now 1 1/2 year old daughter, it depends on what he is ready for, and always be careful--my daughter choked quite a bit learning to eat thicker foods. If he's only had SOME jar food, I would suggest waiting until he has been eating it regularly for some time. There's no need to rush him to eat chunkier/thicker foods. Once he's had the 1st stage foods for a while and seems to have 'mastered' eating them, then you could start introducing 2nd stage foods. Always be very careful though--both my mother and mother-in-law tried to feed my daughter thicker foods before she was ready and she choked. Luckily she was fine, but it was very scary. She also choked on other occasions just getting used to the new textures, and it made me feel like a bad mom that it happened so often, but I'm sure it's a pretty normal thing for babies figuring it out, they just need you there to help them! Also, the 1st stage foods are single-ingredient so you can make sure your baby doesn't have any food allergies, so it might be a good idea to give him a wide range of 1st stage foods so that when you introduce 2nd stage, you can use 'process of elimination' if he does have an allergic reaction to figure out what it's from.

Well good luck to you!! Every baby and mother are different! So when your baby is ready then i think you should try it! Me personally i skipped the whole jar baby food. I would give my kids whatever i was eating, i would just cut it up very small. I think i started when they were around 6 months and were sitting up pretty well. I would make dinner and not season some of it for them. I never worried about the allergies that we have been warned about. My self and my husband neither one have allergies so i didnt worry to much. Good luck and you do what you feel is right and when you feel your baby is ready!! If you have any questions feel free to email me!!

Hi A.,
I myself have a seven month old...well he will be 8 months on the 31st of this month and we have started to actually give him some table food...food we have off of our plates and he does great with it. It was actually somthing he let us know he was ready for. He would start to fuss and cry when we were eating so one day I just started to give him some of what I had. My typical routine with him was to feed him while I was cooking and when he was done with his baby food I would let him play with his spoon in his high chair and then one day he just started to fuss and cry and my DH said he noticed him watchin me eat. So I gave him some of whatever it was that I was eating and sure enough, thats what it was. He wanted to taste what I was tasting. So now I just cut the food up into very small little pieces and he does fine. Hes actually very cute when he eats because hes learning to pick it up and put it in his mouth and he will also suck all the juices out before eating each piece. We have given him all kinds of meat and sides. I always include vegetables with the meat and a little bit of a starch. I do try to not give him anything we get from a fast food restaurant because I dont want him to get too used to that type of food so I will usually buy a little can of vegetables and make them for him and myself if we ever grab fast food. But I need to make sure I eat the veggies as well or else he wont really want them. I guess its really up to you and your son if both of you are ready. I will let you know that my son did gag once or twice at the beginning but he brought himself out of it and he was fine...of course I freaked and tried to get him out of the high chair but by the time I got the table part off he was already out of it and he continued to eat. I actually read that its normal for that too happen and its sort of a good thing since that is a human reaction that will be with him for life. I hope this helped. Good Luck.