Usually babies between the ages of 8 and 12 months can try to grab something by themselves and eat it.
If you don't want to chase the baby to feed every day in the future, the key is to cultivate the baby's ability to eat independently in advance.
Let's listen to the story of Lilac Mother Planet's Bao Mama @ Liang Dali.
Eating on your own will not only exercise your baby's chewing, motor fineness, and hand-eye coordination, but it will also make your baby more independent.
The point is that instead of "chasing and feeding," families can sit down and eat well.
Most seven-month-old babies can start eating "crumbed" foods, such as crushed noodles, porridge, and can also introduce some finger foods, in addition to practicing fine movements, but also preparing for eating independently later. Now that the classmates have been seven and a half months, they can already share the table with the adults at the meal point and quietly pinch their fingers to eat food.
Some parents say, "My baby doesn't have teeth yet!" Can't eat the scum!" In fact, the little baby chews mainly by the gum bed and not on the teeth, and the classmates do not have teething yet.
What finger food to do at the age of seven months Most bloggers have shared, I mainly share some small details of my self-feeding training here for your reference:
1. Zucchini, asparagus, carrots, yams, potatoes, bananas, these are very suitable for cutting into strips for the baby as finger food to practice eating, the first bite can be fed first, let the baby taste what taste, stimulate the desire to eat.
Image source: @Liang Dali
2. At the beginning, it is still necessary to assist, such as helping to put it into the baby's hands, especially when she can't pick it up for a long time, you can feed two mouthfuls to avoid the baby from losing interest due to frustration, and the baby will soon learn it. When the students ate the Yunnan melon on the first day, they couldn't pinch it at all, almost every one of them needed help, and the next day when they ate the lettuce strips, they could pick it up and stuff it into their mouths, getting more and more 6 day by day.
3. Small muffins are very suitable for babies to eat, there is a sandwich machine at home to use quickly, fried muffins are super convenient to clean and easy. If you want to be more convenient, you can also buy rice cakes, and babies without teeth can also eat them.
4. The baby will definitely get everywhere in the process of learning to eat independently, don't panic, the sweeping robot and the vacuum cleaner are used, I am ready to start a meal anti-dirty cushion, and then give everyone a test after using it.
5. Do not rush to let the baby learn to use the tableware, but you can buy some soft spoons, let the baby feel the grasp of the tableware, first introduce the follow-up and then teach how to use it will be more acceptable.
6. In the process of learning to eat independently, be sure to watch the baby eat! Avoid choking on your baby. Of course, it is also important to learn the first aid method in advance: babies under one year old search for the baby's foreign body stuck throat in the Lilac Mom App, and babies over the age of one year old search for Heimlich first aid in the Lilac Mom App, which is really very useful!