What Foods for a 7 Month Old?

I had the same problem and what I did was I started making my own food for my two boy, it is very time consuming but you can freeze it and all you have to do is pull it out and heat it up.

Hello, I am a single mom and When my daughter was 6mo My ex divorced me. So When I moved back in with my parents. Thank GOD for my mom. We started my daughter on Everything.. My mom would give her stakes but in a blender so it was like eating baby food. Same with Chicken/Rice/Spegitt/ Just as long as you put in a blender and make it like past Your child will love it.. My duaghter at 7mo was eating corn on the cob.. She was just sucking on and what teeth she had she was able to get some corn.. SHE LOVED it...

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Doctors will probably disagree with me, but my kids are very healthy, so I'll share. At age 7 months, and probably before, I fed my kids mashed potatoes....not baby food, but the same that we eat, rice, macaroni and cheese, and whatever else I found that was soft and easy for them to eat. In fact, the only baby food that they ate by that time was the rice or oatmeal cereals, simply because that was their favorite. The flavored, instant oatmeals are usually a hit at that age, too.

You can make your own baby food simply by steaming or boiling single foods and then pureeing them in a blender or baby food mill. At this age, your baby should probably still be on single foods to check for allergies - i.e. sweet potatos, squash, corn, carrots, green beans, shredded chicken - introduce one new food a week (he can still have the foods he's already tried and is not allergic to) - then, once he has a few foods that are "tried and true" you can start combining. Stage 3 would make most babies this age gag - they need a relatively smooth texture until closer to 9-10 months old.

At 7 months, your baby should still be eating mostly baby food. You can mash up other soft foods like avacado for some variety. When my daughter was that age, I started giving her yogurt (YoBaby). I would also mash up strawberries and mix it with some cottage cheese. If he has teeth, you can try some of the baby bscuits but they are quite messy. Stage 3 foods might not go over well until he is 9 or 10 months old. Good luck. I was so paranoid about my daughter's eating habits because she was underweight but everything worked out.

I have a 6 mth old and I just started mixing and matching. I give her cereal mixed with a fruit in the morn and a vegi for lunch. And sometimes a fruit and vegi for dinner or just cereal again. The dr told me there is not specfic way. Just kind of do whatever. As long as you know they have already had it and no allergic reaction. Use the same food for a week before you try a new, but Im sure you've already done that. Im a first time mom to and my husband is gone as well. I know what you mean. Im always calling my mom in Oklahoma to ask her questions!haha

some mashed potatoes would be great... all kids love that!! Also, try some other kinds of mashed table food... my niece loved mashed spaghetti... Good luck!

i steamed all of my sons food and puread them. it will save you lots of money. and you don't have to cook for the baby every day. you simply pour the food into ice trays a cake spreader helps for spreading ,let them freeze. pop them out, put them in a freezer zip lock and take one or two out as you need. you can do chicken any fruit & veg. you can set it out early on nook it for a few seconds . if its a little runny add some ceral. it gets kind of fun you can make all kinds of combinations. also for a quick fix on the go. motts makes a no sugar or salt added "all natural apple sause" that is really good and half the price just read the lables. also yogat is easy and healthy. really just read lables you will be suprised how much sugar, salt and addatives are in you babys food.
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I would suggest a couple of things. First, try to feed her different types of food, based on what makes sense for grownups. For example, you are not likely to eat green beans for breakfast, neither should your baby. We had a routine that went something like this: jar of fruit mixed with oatmeal (real or babyfood - your choice) for breakfast. I might even have thrown a real banana sliced up and a few cheerios too up there so she could practice picking stuff up. Then lunch would be a veggie and perhaps a few of those baby "stars" or arrowroot crackers (again for her to practice, just be with her). Then at dinner, I'd try to give her something with meat in it. My kids hated the chicken and veggies meals, but liked the ones with lamb, ham, and turkey. I always try to include something like what we were eating, like mashed potatoes. If your daughter has teeth, you can try to give her more solids and less baby food. All my kids were done completely with the jar food by 10 months, because they had enough teeth to eat a mushed up version of our family dinner, which they like better anyway. Ask your dr. about scrambled eggs. My dr. said not before a year, but my sister's dr. said yes at 6 months. My kids don't eat eggs now, but my niece does - which I am not trilled with as I wish my kids ate them- but ask your dr. and see what he says cause they are nice and soft and easy to get down - there is just an allergy risk. My advice is to try to eat each meal with baby when you eat and make it a family affair and try to introduce her to a variety as she is able to handle it (as teeth come in, as she gets better at picking stuff up, as she gets used to things and you're sure she's not allergic). Enjoy!

I have a 3 year old and a 13 month old, my pediatrician didn't even have me start baby food at all until my daughters were 6 month old, around 10 months I started stuff like cheerios, pieces of bananas, yogurt, but nothing really else. When they turned 1 I started regular food, it also depended on how many teeth they had.

I made all my daughter's food when she was a baby and the book Super Baby Food was a great reference book for foods to introduce at different ages and in what quantities. for older kids it has recipes for healthy snacks/meals, birthday/craft ideas, etc. It's a great book. As far as foods, we did avocado, banana, carrots, peas, sweet potato alot at the beginning and when you make your own you can freeze it in ice cubes and store it for future meals. It's so much cheaper. good luck
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People have given you great info! The only thing I will add is this: It is the egg white (albumin) that is a possible allergen for babies under one year. But they can have the egg yolk earlier. My kids loved mashed up, hard-boiled egg yolk. I just chopped up the egg white and put it in my tuna salad (no waste!) I think 6/7 months is too early for #3 foods- but my kids were on mashed table food (whatever we were eating) by the time they were ready for #3's and wouldn't eat them anyway!

Hi L.,
The best foods I have found for a 7 month old are butternut squash, peas, sweet potatoes, green beans, pears, peaches, and rice cereal. I chose the rice cereal with apples and it is vitamin fortified. Also, for mixing the rice cereal- my baby hates dairy and will only drink soy based formulas, but she is mainly breastfed. Anyway, instead of having to pump to feed her rice cereal (because she doesn't really like it mixed with water) I just get soymilk from the grocery store and mix it into the rice cereal and heat it up (about 30 seconds for 5 ounces) and then add more soymilk to make it cool enough for baby until it's about the texture of pudding. She absolutely LOVES it. And she eats all of her veggies before it, plus it's filling and it's perfectly safe for babies. You just can't use soymilk to SUBSTITUTE infant formula/breast milk. She still gets plenty of breast milk.
My peditrician said to feed her twice a day. I do it in the morning a couple of hours after she wakes up, and again at night a couple of hours before bed time. At this age, they really only need stage 2 foods. I tried introducing meat at 7 months and she didn't like it, but when I finally started her on meats around (9 months old) I made sure to get the kind that was mixed with something else. Like, chicken and noodle dinner, or veggies and ginger chicken. Anyway, I hope this helps. Message me if you have a question. Good luck!