What Solids Does Your 7-Month-old Really Enjoy?

Updated on February 22, 2010
R.S. asks from Chicago, IL
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Hi there,

I don't have a set schedule for feeding my 7 month old solids. She still nurses and has been on solids for about a month, but I don't have a set schedule...I offer her yogurt and oatmeal in the morning, with a mashed banana, veggies in the afternoon and then the rest of the container of yogurt at night. She absolutely LOVES the Stonyfield Farm Yo-Baby yogurts but I really try to limit them. I tried a mashed avacado...she sort of liked it...she does not care at all for jarred fruits. So, what kinds of solids does your little one really seem to love?

Thanks!
P.S. I also thought that babies this young could not have yogurt but apparently it says on the container "6 months and up". I consulted our pediatrician and she said that cows milk in yogurt is somehow just fine, so long as the yogurt is fortified with iron, which it is. She seems to enjoy it, hasn't had any reactions whatsoever and since she's in the 5th percentile for weight, I'm just glad she's eating!

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L.O.

answers from Detroit on

My duaghter liked the green beans.. she hated the sweet potatoes and squash...I thnk she ate every fruit.

My son liked every jar of babyfood... and today he eats everything.

She really doesnt have to eat anything. breastmilk is fine for her for a year. food is just practice for eating after she is one..
some kids love the baby food others do not.. she might like cheerios or other small bits of food if she can manage to get them in her mouth..

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A.A.

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My little guy really liked pureed pears. Also, you could try mixing the avocado and banana together since avocado is so nutritious. He also liked sweet potato and pumpkin. Once he was a bit older he LOVES slices of cheese. I make all of our baby food by cooking fruits, veggies and meat and then blending it and freezing it in ice cube trays.

My little one is 15 months, so a fair bit older than yours, but just to give you an example, our schedule is:

breakfast: jar of baby oatmeal, 1/2 tub yogurt
snack: buttered toast
lunch: 2 x pumpkin, 1 x cauliflower, 1 x broccoli, 1 x avocado and 1 x lamb
lunch dessert: 3 x pear, apple or banana and 1/2 tub yogurt
snack: animal crackers or piece of cheese
dinner: same as lunch but minus the meat, sometimes substitute spaghetti
dinner dessert: same as lunch dessert
snack: rice crackers

Hope this gives you an idea!

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M.O.

answers from Chicago on

I thought babies weren't supposed to have yogurt or milk until after 1 year old? I might be wrong.

I feed my baby all natural applesauce. You might want to try the chunky kind too. We also do jarred sweet potatoes, green beans, squash and carrots. I plan to start pureeing my own soon. Right now I am using the containers/jars and saving some to use later with frozen "ice cubes" of foods.

I would start pureeing whatever you're making for dinner. Just add a bit of water and whip it into a smooth consistency.

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M.W.

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With my 1st child I did all the jarred food. With my 2nd, I just pureed what we were eating. Our food tasted so much better that he wouldn't touch jarred food at all, only very expensive organic stuff on vacation but we sorta had to force it. I definately think pureed food was so much easier and tastier. I made things from scratch so there wasn't any preservatives in it. He'd have taco soup, chicken, chicken pot pie, sweet potatoes, avacado, any veggies & fruit (although you gotta watch the high acid ones). When he was about 9mo we started doing cottage cheese & fruit as well and he LOVED it. Our doc said that starting small ammounts of cheese/ yougurt are okay because it starts preparing their body for milk.

C.S.

answers from Charlotte on

My 8mo old loves muffins

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My 8mo old loves muffins

A.L.

answers from Los Angeles on

SWEET POTATO. that's her favorite, I mash it up. And I make her ground lamb and mix it with pureed stewed prunes, she liked that...

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K.H.

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If she is able to hold foods then try some cuccumber sticks dipped in hummus , mine loved this. Also bread sticks are good as they turn to mush once they are wet so no choking (stella d'ora are good as they are thicker).Also Gerber puffs were a hit with mine. Plus simple things like toast with a little butter , or toasted bagels , you could also let her suck on a pancake , all the things I have mentioned are good to help with hand/eye coordination , and even if she doesn't manage to eat much of it she is getting a taste for it , which can help when they get to the fussier stage (around 9/10 months) when they can start to be a little picky.

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R.M.

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Here are a few websites that I found really helpful when I was making my baby's food:

http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/index.html
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/
http://weelicious.com/about/

Some of my son's favorites were mangos, bananas, sweet potatoes, and sweet peas. I used the frozen Birds Eye BABY Sweet Peas, they are the sweetest and I even like them after hating peas. If you have the time to make your own, she will probably like it better than jarred stuff. Mix the avocado with the mango, mine wouldn't eat straight avocado but loved that. And avocado is one of the best things for her. Why do you limit her yogurt intake? I personally wouldn't give my son YoBaby, it is loaded with sugar. If that is why you try to limit them, try mixing your own. Not making your own, just mixing. I buy the store brand of organic yogurt in the big container (whole milk at her age and weight) and mix it with some pureed fruit. It doesn't really need to be sweetened, but you could sweeten it with fruit juice if needed. The whole milk kind looks kinda wierd, it separates and the cream rises to the top, but just mix it really well each time and it is fine. Don't mix yogurt too vigorously though or it gets thin, stir it slowly. Doing yogurt like this doesn't really take much time, and you don't have to feel guilty about the sugar.

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