finger food: when and how to introduce it?

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• xCALLEIGHx

  Sep 6, 2010 3:59PM

  have you tried steaming veg like broccoli and giving it him to hold?

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• piggypops

  Sep 6, 2010 4:22PM

  we also weaned early, we introduced finger food by just putting different things on his plate to try after his meal, so if he didnt want it or chucked it on the floor, which is were most of it went at first it didnt matter, we started offering just before 6 months and by months was eating most of it,
  
  we started with things like raw carrot sticks, celery, apple, then started with things like toast and bread, strips of chicken and cooked veg,

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• MummyEms

  Sep 6, 2010 4:26PM

  My HV suggested putting soft things in front of them and see which ones they grabbed, like a chunk of banana, a strawberry, chunk of buttered bread, chunk of cheese etc

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• RhianJ

  Sep 7, 2010 3:53PM

  My daughter was 6 months last week. I started weaning her when she was 5 months and she has been on puree food since then. On the weekend I thought I would try her with some finger food so I gave her some banana. Sh picked it up straight away and put it in her mouth but was struggling a bit with the lumps as it came away, it also made me a bit nervous watching her. Anyway, that day in Asda I saw a baby mesh feeder (type it in google and there are a lot different ones). Today I put some banana in the mesh feeder and she managed to eat most of it. Basically small bits of banana were coming away when she was biting on the mesh feeder and she loved it.
  
  I am going to use the mesh feeder with different finger foods for a couple more weeks before I try her again.

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