What Is Your 10 Month Old Eating?

My DD was a fabulous eater until about a week or so ago. She was eating a half of a jar of veggies then half of a jar of fruit which was stage 2. Now we are lucky if she will eat a quarter of a jar of each. She is more interested in our food. We are giving her what we eat in little tiny tiny bits at time. Like last night we had potatoes, chicken and veggies. I still offer her stage 2 food before our dinner just to get her some type of nutrition then move to our food. She also nurses 3-4 times a day and gets two 4oz bottles of breast milk.
If you little one is full blown choking they just aren't ready for those type of foods but if they are just coughing it is them trying to get used to the texture of the food. Which is completely normal. The speech therapist that I work with just says offer fluids with these new textures to help them go down if needed.

My 10 month old nurses about 8 times in a 24 hour period (yes, including during the night still) and eats everything we eat with the exception of any junk food, nuts, honey, and milk. I just make sure to cut up her food to the right sizes for her and sit right next to her the whole time. Some of her favs are cheese cubes, banana muffins, scrambled eggs, fruit, macaroni and ham.

Generally I keep offering her the food until she's full - when she starts throwing it on the floor :) If I had to guess an actual amount, I'd say between 1/2 cup and 1 cup of food, about 4 times per day.

My daughter outright refuses to eat anything mushy: apple sauce, yogurt, ANY babyfood at all....and always has....so she's quite good with not gagging and making sure her food is chewed (or gummed, as the case may be).

My 10mo old is still eating his food pureed really smooth...he has no teeth. I do give him those rice husks and puffs and he LOVES them, but when I try to give him a little bit "chunkier" baby food he doesn't really eat it too well...I think he has a little trouble, but I keep introducing it, like at dinner time. He takes about four bottles today (major bummer that my milk dried up prematurely), each 4-6 oz. He "eats" 3-4 times per day.

My 10 month old eats whateer we are just cut up more. He nurses 4 times a day. My 3rd son however had a crazy gag reflex and choked for a long time on food. Give him more time if he's having a hard time with it. I would just send whatever I was eating through the food processor and that is what they would have for dinner.

our 11 month old eats pretty much what we eat for dinner. In small, smashed amounts. We dont eat much meat other than chicken and fish but we dont give him chicken yet just the gravy or the what its been cooked in. We eat spicy all the time. Curry, Masala, and most dishes are veggies of ALL kinds even ones that most Americans havent heard of. So he is very exposed to many things. He likes most of it, There are his favorites and there are his hates. He also gets rice cereal mixed with puree fruit in the morning, Lunch usually is yogurt, and what we are eating as well unless its he doesnt like it and then we just opt to give him his bottle. We tried sippy cups with mostly cow milk and goat milk mix but he in NOT liking this at all. He still nurses and drinks formula as well since I lost most my supply due to illness. He started people food around 9 months.

We found that cubes of raw tofu were great "people food" for our children when they were babies. We would buy the firm or extra firm kind, so you could cube it up, and I think it's just about impossible to choke on it. And their little fingers can pick up the cubes.

Edited to add: now, at ages 12 and 16, they still eat tofu, now as part of a stir fry. They're meat lovers -- my object wasn't to avoid meat but to give them a baby-friendly protein -- but they'll happily eat a veggie stir fry for dinner.

Edited again to add: They're not supposed to eat egg whites until they're one, but you can scramble an egg yolk and cut it up into pieces -- also a good source of protein and hard to choke on.

Every baby is different in making the food transition. You could get a swallow test done at your pediatricians to see what your little one can handle and can't. Most babies tell you when they are ready. If they are doing fine on purees and breast milk with no harm to their nutritional well being then you are doing the right thing. Try softer foods at first.
Signs of readiness for solid and finger foods
Picks up objects with thumb and forefinger (pincer grasp)
Can transfer items from one hand to the other
Puts everything in his mouth
Moves jaw in a chewing motion

What to feed:
Breast milk or formula, PLUS
Small amounts of soft pasteurized cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese (but no cows' milk until age 1)
Iron-fortified cereals (rice, barley, wheat, oats, mixed cereals)
Mashed fruits and vegetables (bananas, peaches, pears, avocados, cooked carrots, squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes)
Finger foods (lightly toasted bagels, cut up; small pieces of ripe banana; well-cooked spiral pasta; teething crackers; low-sugar O-shaped cereal)
Small amounts of protein (egg, pureed meats, poultry, and boneless fish; tofu; well-cooked and mashed beans with soft skins like lentils, split peas, pintos, black beans)

If I remember correctly, at around 10 months old my son was eating:

Just one serving of pureed baby food per day (mostly for my peace of mind he was eating enough of it)

Mostly table foods such as: breakfast - banana chunks, pieces of buttered toast, spoon feeding him applesauce, gerber puffs, cheerios. Lunch: small bits of grilled cheese sandwhiches, cut up pasta, canned or frozen veggie pieces. Snacks: shredded cheese, fresh fruit cut up (any kind!). Dinner: basically whatever we are having but not the meat - so again probably a veggie, and a rice or pasta kind of side.

Formula bottles: I don't know that I can remember how many ounces but would guess 25 ish ounces ( I remember he took morning, mid day, early afternoon and evening bottles.)

If he's "choking" on things of texture, remember this is ia normal part of adjusting to textured foods. Not actual choking, but gagging sort of noises as he adjusts to what these chunks feel like in his mouth! Just make sure his bites are small enough and soft enough that he won't actually choke on them. Also make sure if he is making gagging noises, don't try to "help" him as you may actually push something down his throat and make it worse.