Table Food - Infant Care (up to 18 months old) Message Board

Noel's girl · 09-22-2006, 07:53 PM

My Mom Wants To Give My 8 Month Old Twins Some Table Food, Like Cream Potatoes, Pudding And Apple Sauce Is It Ok To Give This To Them? Am I Being A Bit Too Paranoid And Just Let Her Give It To Them Every Once In A While?

debating · 09-22-2006, 08:33 PM

All my daughter is getting is "table food". We don't buy or make special baby food, we just plan to keep some veggies or meat aside for her before we season them.

If the ingredients are things that you know she has had before, I say it's fine. I would be wary of dairy, or other allergen foods, and if have you a family history of allergies I might be even more careful yet. But I don't think little tastes of things are bad. In fact, many cultures don't often accommodate specifically to a baby, and in places like India and China babies are given spicy foods from infancy.

BUT, only do what you're comfortable with, and if you don't want her to have table foods, don't let your mother brow beat you.

Gayle0000 · 09-23-2006, 06:02 PM

I started giving DD table foods at 5 months old. By 8 months we were totally off the baby jar foods...only getting table foods...and DD didn't even get her first tooth until 10.5 months old. I would definitely try it...your baby might like it.

MissT · 09-23-2006, 07:37 PM

yea my ds hasn't had that much baby food. He's almost a year but I've mostly bought apple sauce and fed him pureed adult foods for the most part. I do buy a small amount of baby food to keep on hand in case we are eating something he absolutely can't eat.

Sherbet · 09-23-2006, 07:59 PM

At 9 months babies can try eating mostly everything we do except:

* Egg whites (until at least 1 year)
* Cows milk (until at least 1 year)
* foods linked to alergic reactions in your family
* heavy spices, salt, pepper etc
* Adult breakfast cereals (until at least 1 year) but you probably don't want to give a lot of them them to your child anyway because most of them contain CRAZY amounts of sugar.
* Grains and seeds (until at least 2 years)

This is according to the NZ ministry of Health guidelines, so may be different subject to where you live.