Giving Your Baby Grown-up Food

on October 9, 2008 at 1:27 PM

photo by loriec

Would you give your baby steak? How about Twinkies? Making the decision on when to start giving your baby solid foods (and what to start giving them) can be a stressful one. I wanted to put off giving my daughter solid food for as long as I could. She could choke! Be allergic! Get constipated! But after she kept grabbing food from my plate, I knew she wanted real food and she wanted it bad. And so our daily adventures in feeding began ...

I'm still struggling with what I should feed her and how much to give her so I was really interested this recent New York Times article "Momma, I'll Have Some of Whatever You're Having." It's all about how these parents simply mash up whatever they've made themselves for dinner and feed it to their 7-month-old girl. They give her everything from pasta Bolognese to sole Milanese. Mmmm ... maybe I can get them to cook for me! Check out the article. I'd love to hear what you think.

About the author Suzanne Murray

is the Parenting & Political editor at The Stir/Moms Matter 2012.

Filed Under: development & growth, solid food

Comments (6)

peacefulhippie

on Oct 9, 2008 at 8:10 PM

healthy food yes.... but twinkies have a shelf life of like forever....that cant be healthy. im not a big fan of ppl who give their kids pop . i mean it eats pennies you know. some things are okay but others you definatly should wait to give till they are older. but what do i know i would ask your pediatrician they wud know better than i wud

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loriec

on Oct 10, 2008 at 2:57 AM

Hi and thanks for adding my baby up there,she was enjoying that spaghetti!!!,

I wanted to say that back in the days,babies ate "Table food," all the time,there are a lot of things babies can eat when ready for solids. I would make a list but truth is I did already and somehow my computer decided to switch the page with out me submitting. Anyway you probably would of thought I was writing a article.

JayGirlsMom

on Oct 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM

WHAT A CUTE LITTLE SPAGHETTI FACE!

mommie_2boys

on Oct 10, 2008 at 1:10 PM

I really liked the article but I don't cook very well and everything they eat is way out of my league! Maybe someone could post that list again? :)

fairysurreale

on Oct 13, 2008 at 5:29 PM

Once my kids started to eat solids and could mash with their jaws, they got whatever we ate. My son actually refused to eat his baby food. He wanted what we were eating AND he wanted to feed himself.

joyfullem

on Oct 15, 2008 at 10:22 AM

rebekah eats what we eat she is 13 months at about 7 or 8 i started to feed her what we ate but i fed her the soft stuff only but now she eats it all she has 10 teeth and can chew so what the heck and she has never and wont let me feed her a thing jeeze she eats what she wants and how fast or slow... she knows what she likes too if she doesnt like what is on her plate or part of it it goes straight to the side or the floor ..