Alyvia doesn't have teeth yet. I make sure that everything I give her is in tiny bites soft enough to gum, and I give her plenty of water. I watch her like a hawk while she eats - I am super-paranoid about her choking.

She started showing a real interest about a month ago, so it was when she was 7 months. We started really feeding her this past week, though.

macy was almost a year only because she didnt have teeth wed give her mahed potatoes and other things of that texture but liam got teeth really early and hes been eating everything in sight since about 8 months old.

Trace only has his two bottom teeth and he manages just fine. you can give table food whenever, i know a lot of people that skip baby food altogether. my mom never even bought baby food for my brothers. just mash up whatever youre eating. its healthier than giving jarred food with preservatives.

I had a mini mincer when my daughter was a baby and I made all of her baby food. It was much healthier and saved a ton of money.

Now I have a magic bullet, which I absolutely love, and will make .Jaylon's when the time comes

That is the *best* invention ever maiddd!!!! Love it!!

Sarah

I love the magic bullet too!!! I haven't bought one jar of baby food for Noah. I've steamed all his veggies and fruits from fresh and used the magic bullet to puree it. It's so much healthier and .I have fun doing it too!

magic bullet sounds like a sexy toy...

anyway, to people who are making their own baby food, i just read that there are certain homemade veggies that babies under 8 months shouldn't have because of nitrates (or something like that), all i can remember right now is carrots but there were more. i'd look it up but my computer is crawling along tonight.

That's wild! Gerber has a stage 1 carrot available. Do they prepare it differently than it would be at home, I wonder?

yeah, it just said certain homemade veggies. the kind you buy in jars are fine.

the only things with nitrates are carrots and spinach. and thats not all carrots and spinach, just some. i forget which ones are okay and which ones arent.

we give reese mashed potateos or anything else mushy, (thats if its not a mixture of stuff incase oif allergies... reese really wants to eat what we're eatting, he tries to grab our food from our plates, and he watches us eat with a look like "wheres mine???"

how old is he?

I always wondered if the magic bullet would be worth the price. They look neat, and like you could do quite a bit with them.

We started table foods about 8 months, and she was basically eating everything we had, and wouldn't touch baby food at about 10 months. But if I were to do it over again, I probably would have skipped baby food all together, except maybe the cereal. I think they can have table foods when they can have solids, as long as it's the righ consitency!

hes 5 months

The bullet is so worth the price. I wondered too when I saw the infomercial on tv. It seemed too good to be true.

I got mine for christmas, but would have bought one if I didn't.
I make fruit smoothies in it all the time. It comes with a book with all kinds of really easy recipes and hints. It's a lot easier to clean than a blender or food processer.

I want one of them hehe, how much do they run? joseph i think we started on solids around 8 mths , just did it slow with stage 2 then 3 foods and around 11-12mths we would cut everything up like the size of my pinky finger nail for him to eat. I cut everything like that haha its a habit . Even though now hes almost 2 and can eat things without it being cut up like he has eaten pizza fine but i used to cut that up into teeny tiny pieces as well but he had plenty of teeth to chew with, jordynne always watches us eat like its not fair that she doesnt have any food like we have lol she has that sad look of i want some , how come im not getting any on her face lol

I'm not really sure how much they cost in a retail store. Around $50? I saw one on an infomercial yesterday and it was 3 payments of $33, but that came with 2 complete systems. It also included the blender and the juicer, which I don't have, but I would love to.

Edited to say that I still cut up my daughters meats, and she is almost 17!

cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I give .Mia table foods....all but meats now. She eats everything i eat minus the meats.

She loves loves loves corn, mashed taters, tater tots all the starchy foods...i cook carrots and cut them up for her and she picks them up and eats them....she is a doll

i give her all sorts of greens and peas and stuff like that...she loves salad foods...

she is my big girl.