New Foods for a 9 Month Old

You cann try soft cut up fruits and veggies. grahm crackers. A big fave with my kids was toast with cream cheese on it cut up into bite size pieces. You can try pancakes, little pieces of pasta and soft meats. Basically anything that is small and soft! good luck

Any kind of pasta cooked until supper soft. Any veggies you eat. Yo baby yogurt. Rice. Pretty much anything you eat. My daughter didn't like stage 3 foods. But at this age she eat everything we did. Including meats, but I tryed to give her more tender stuff. But she eats steak now with 8 teeth (all front ones). She's just starting to get her molars.

my daughter is 8mo and just started eating many of the foods the rest of the family does. she had tofu cubes (before i added sodium filled soy sauce), diced up baked sweet potato, spinach and white beans (cooked in olive oil, some onions, and sauteed), scrambled eggs, cooked up peas, diced carrots, etc. anything soft and healthy she can pretty much handle. good luck!

good news, she can have almost anything except eggs, shellfish, honey and nuts. Go for pasta, yogurt, rice, fruit like banana, avocado, berries, chicken, turkey, fish, beef, pork, beans, anything she will eat as long as it is cut up so she does not choke. Just give her what you eat.

My son is 2 now, but he was always a BIG fan of food. I think at around 9 months, I was giving him apple sauce, mango sauce, and little soft peices of fruit or veggies that he could squish with his toungue. Anything he could eat without chewing, I gave him as soon as he seemes ready. I never had to deal with a food allergy or him not liking something. I used to get the mango stuff at Trader Joe's and he still loves mangoes. Most people are very surprised at the things he eats, but I tried to expose him to as many different flavors as possible, and I think it worked! Good luck to u!

Barring she has no allergies, here are some suggestions: any/all fruit except citrus, organic veggies (defrost in microwave), deli turkey, american cheese, yogurt, jelly or cream cheese sandwich, elbow pasta (plain or with butter). Just be sure to cut things into bite-size pieces. Have fun and get ready for a mess!

Try pastina and cous cous, they are small so she cannot choke. It gets her used to food textures, unless she's like my son who had texture issues until he was 16 mo and then finally started eating table foods.

Hi M.!
You can pretty much give her anything you have just cut it up small. When my 2 were that little they LOVED pasta with tomato sauce, cut up bananas, strawberries, blueberries, little apple pieces, peas, cooked and soft carrots, toast, eggs, cheese, yogert ( I used the Yo Baby), and pancakes.
I hope this helps. I know I was getting bored feeding mine the same thing over and over again, how do you think they felt?
Hope this helps!
D. from Saddle Brook NJ

My son loved banana, sweet potato and avocado! They are all super-healthy and easy to mash, too...plus they can easily eat all with their hands!!!

you can give pieces of banana, avacado, peach. I've given my son tofu cubes and smooshed black beans or garbanzo beans(take the outer skin off) not only are they healthy, they are tasty.

Congratulations on making through the first 9 months! Here are some things my daughter enjoyed - pastina and made in broth - adds flavor!, rice, mashed potatoes (white & sweet), meatballs in small pieces, regular oatmeal & grits. I hope you find success with these my daughter - who is now 20 months - eats everything and anything - GOOD LUCK!!!

Dear M.,
Starting children on foods can be perplexing. One word of advice my mother gave me, and it worked like a charm, is to introduce them to veges before fruits. Fruit is naturally sweet and they will like them - veges are not. I never had trouble getting my kids to eat veges. (They are now in their twenties) I also started them early on fish, such as flounder, talapia, and orange roughy. They are bland, easy to chew and digest, and have no bones. Scrambled eggs was another easy one, and cream of wheat (cooled). At this time push the veges and proteins; they will easily take to carbs and fruits.
Good luck, W.

You can give her yogurt, cottage cheese, fruit (mushy ones like banana), pasta or soft cheese. Peas and carrots--very well cooked and very mushy are always a good choice too! Best of luck!

Two of my favorite books on the subject of first foods are:
Feeding the Whole Family by Cynthia Lair
and
Keeping Your Kids Healthy with Chinese Medicine by Bob Flaws.

Forget the Cheerios and Peach puffs unless you are working to get her started on the Standard American Diet: refined packaged, processed, chemicalized foods. In my opinion, they are a "gateway drug" that will take you down the road of goldfish, chips, chicken fingers, fries and mac 'n cheese. Before you know it, you'll have a toddler or preschooler who only eats "white foods" and has behavior problems, sugar addictions and worse!

It's worth the time and effort to buy and prepare REAL food from scratch that all of your family can enjoy. This is your best investment and is true "health insurance" that will protect you against heart disease, diabetes, cancer and many other chronic diseases that plague most Americans. Grab some good books like the ones mentioned above, get inspired and get cookin'! Good health can be fun and delicious.

BTW: I teach classes for busy moms about food. Food for toddlers is a new E-book I'm currently working on. Visit my website to learn more about my other books on Picky Eating, Junk Food and Diet Myths. www.drsusanrubin.com

Our daughter just turned 9 mo. and we give her EVERYTHING! She is such a great eater that she tries all of the whole foods that we can give her (i.e. nothing with spices/sauces and no junk food) She has plain pasta, all kinds of fruits including mango and pealed, seeded grapes. She has every veggie that I can introduce to her including the crazy stuff like swisschard. She is a huge fan of the frozen pea and carrot mix and it is super easy to make and give her. She eats lots of chicken and beef bits, potatoes, cooked carrots, bread. She loves yogurt.

Basically whatever we eat, I set aside an unseasoned portion, break it into the small pieces and she goes to town. We stay away from the caution foods, strawberries and blueberries, no milk yet and nothing processed other than the puffs and cheerios. I don't give her onion....what else, she is a huge fan of red and green peppers, they are mild enough for her.

I will even tell you that at times, when things get a little crazy at work, I feed her canned chicken or veggies. I just pop them open, rinse them very well to remove the preservatives and drop them on her tray. I try not to do that often, but let's be honest, sometimes moms need safe, healthy short cuts. Hope this helps :-)