Pedi told me to start him on finger foods

[Jazzycat123]

My son is 9 months today and he went for his 9 month wellness check. They said to continue to feed him formula but to get him eating finger foods if he is interested. What finger foods did you start your LO on at 9 months?

 

[the why bird]

We started finger food at six months so I'm not quite certain exactly what she was on by nine months, but some early ones were:

Buttered toast
banana chunks
cheese cut into thin fingers
Cooked batons of carrot or other veggies
French toast or pancake strips
Bread dipped in thick soup or other type of dip
cooked chicken
soft fruits like tomatoes and strawberries
Dry cereal

She did best with food that was soft enough to gum but not crumbly, and cut into fingers or strips instead of chunks for ease of holding.

 

[Noodlebear]

If you eat it, he can eat it. Just avoid honey, whole nuts, added salt/sugar and low fat foods.

 

[MindUtopia]

Yes, pretty much what the PP said. At 9 months, he should have his pincer grip, so be able to pick up almost anything. We started at 6 months with toast with cashew butter, mashed avocado, mashed banana or hummus, rice cakes (with similar things on them), roasted carrots and parsnips, oven-roasted potato or sweet potato chips, soup with toast fingers, cucumber and melon sticks, fruit or savoury muffins (blackberry muffins, blueberry muffins, carrot muffins, spinach and feta muffins, etc). By 9 months, she was also having things like peas and sweet corn as she had a pincer grip and could manage picking them up, plus things that required more scooping, like yogurt, porridge, chunky soups, curry and rice, chilli, etc. which she'd scoop up with her hands.