Baby won't eat from a spoon!

[Candlelynn]

What's a mama to do. I find this seriously frustrating. Home made french fries, butternut squash, yams, peas. Any more finger food ideas for a baby who's 9 months and only has two teeth? ahhhhhhhhhhh!

[woodchick]

How about avocado, banana,black beans, little bits of chicken... Our girls just ate small bits of whatever we were eating.

[sewchris2642]

In addition to the above: apples, pears, oatmeal, Cheerios (or the equivilant), toast, pancakes, mashed potatoes (baked, then mashed), mangos, pizza crust, carrots.

[hjrowan]

Green beans, broccoli florets (well cooked), thin rice cakes, porridge (DD scooped it up in her hands!), pretty much whatever we had minus some allergens I was concerned with.

FWIW we didn't spoon feed at all and did Baby Led Weaning - where the child feeds herself from the begining. Worked well, if a little messy at first

[Pookietooth]

Frozen blueberries were always a hit with ds, same with frozen diced veggies and freeze dried fruits (Trader Joe's sells several kinds). Steamed baby carrots were good too. Anything I was eating in small amounts

[425lisamarie]

DD wouldn't hvae dreamed of letting anyone spoon feed her, but she loved to do it herself! Soups, applesauce, that kind of thing

[JessicaS]

Rice, pasta, spinach, tortellinis, cheese, large curds of cottage cheese, diced potatoes, bits of tortilla, cooked apple, soft pears, I could get ten minutes of peace if ds had a soft juicy pear

[KristyDi]

You've gotten lots of great suggestions so far. I was just going to add that my DD HATED being spoon fed. I gave up after a while. It just frustrated both of us. I offered small soft chunks and fry shaped food and bits from whatever I was eating. She wasn't really big on eating solids until 15 or 16 months but now at nearly 23 months she eats like a champ. Just keep nursing and offering solids your LO will get it.

Oh and we did meat pretty early too. DD had her 4 front teeth. Dark meat chicken or turkey seemed to be her favorite, still are as a matter of fact. In fact around 9 months we gave her a whole turkey wing and she went to town on it. She tore it up and gnawed on the meat and bones. She didn't actually ingest a ton of meat but she had a great time. Ohh I found the video.

[chattyprincess]

Wanted to add my dd had NO teeth until the day of her first bday lol...she would rarely allow us to feed her. Little miss independent self fed from around 7ish months or so. I would just give her lots of the foods other mamas on here reccomended and I always PUT a spoon on her tray (hoping she would get the idea). She has always been 50% percentile height and weight with no wavering so she was getting more then enough nutrients. I almost think it was nicer to not have to worry about dd. I think because she didn't have teeth really young she learned how to take smaller bites and to really "mouth" her food before swallowing. Espcially nice for eating harder foods like crackers and such! she had no teeth to take chunks out with! I also gave really soft meats in small pea size bites so that even if it went down without a chewing she didn't choke...kwim?

[mamatoablessing]

Just let her feed herself. Cut up whatever you're eating (instead of pureed foods) and let her eat that. My kids both fed themselves from the start.

ETA - My kids only had their 4 front teeth at 9 months old. DD #1 finally started getting back teeth around 12-13 months and DD #2 didn't break a back tooth until she was about 18 months old. This did not hinder their ability to eat anything, including all meat!

[Lil'Momma]

You would be surprised what a baby with no teeth/very few teeth can eat. My DD just cut her first tooth (at nine and a half months) and she has been eating chicken, ground beef, cooked vegetables, all kinds of things you would think they wouldn't be able to do. She loves avocado and bananas but gets frustrated when they slip out of her hands before she can get them to her mouth. lol

[EnchantedMamma]

I was a bit paranoid about choking, so I pre-chewed DS's meat in the beginning. A little crude, perhaps, but hey - I'm sure it was was early mamas did and it worked for me.

DS certainly didn't mind He might when he's 15 and I tell him, but at the time I got peace of mind and he got fed!

He did not take to silverware early on, and I refused to push anything. Not so much for his sake as mine - I worked outside of the home and came/come home exhausted every night. I figured that hands were perfectly acceptable for eating.

Then one day, he wanted to eat with silverware.

He ate a lot of black beans, 'nuggets' of things, or sticky/chunky stuff (sticky rice is great (when we eat out for Thai), or scramble an egg and mix in some pre-cooked rice and serve in chunks) in the beginning.

Then pasta corkscrews or anything he could pick up with his pincers grasp. Make it easy on YOU and s/he will be fine!

[Carhootel]

sometimes I would "trick" ds by putting whatever I wanted to feed him on a spoon onto a teething biscuit or carrot stick and let him 'feed' it to himself