Eating
Self feeding
Originally uploaded by sophie8mths
Sophie has started eating fish, chicken, pork and even self feeding. Actually she’s been doing this for a while.
She loves feeding herself.
I’ll make her meals and have some finger food to go along with it. For breakfast, she gets chunks of banana or slices of apple. For lunch/dinner, I’ll give her diced potato/sweet potato/carrot sticks/asparagus. I will mash/grate most of it into her food but leave a few cubes for her to play and mess around with. She loves it. But normally I only give it to her at the end of the meal so that she’s not so distracted. Or else I’ll have to fight with her fingers to feed her.
So far so good. She doesn’t really choke on them. Babies are quite smart, they will twirl it around their mouth and if they really can’t swallow it, it’ll just be in their mouths. At that point, I’ll just stick my finger in and yank it out. For the mashy ones like banana/potatoes, she can manage that and will just eat it.
So fun. I love watching her do that.