Introducing Food & Beverages
Great beginner finger foods
By about 8 months your baby will have the motor skills to grasp small objects and get them to her mouth. It's time for finger foods!
The finger foods in the list below are nutritious and easy to eat at around 8 months:
- Crackers that dissolve easily
- Round toasted-oat cereal
- Rice cakes
- Ripe bananas
- Cooked mashed vegetables
By the time your baby is around 10 months old, you can add these finger foods to her diet:
- Tiny cheese cubes
- Peeled fruit such as ripe apples and pears in small pieces
- Soft-cooked vegetable cubes
- Well-cooked pasta
- Cooked rice
Foods to avoid
Some nutritious, seemingly safe finger foods are unsafe because they pose a choking danger. If your baby has only her front teeth, she's capable of biting off a chunk of an uncooked carrot. But she can't actually chew it up, which means she could choke on it.
See foods to avoid the first year.