My 10 month old baby only wants to eat by himself? How do I feed him?

He used to eat the baby foods like Gerber etc but now at 10 months wouldn't open his mouth for anything at all. He is ready to ead bread pieces or cookie crumbs or cheerios etc if he picks them up but nothing that we want to give in a spoon or by our fingers. This means that he eats very little and then gives up.

As a result he remains hungry most of the times and is becoming cranky. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Asked by guraaf 36 months ago Similar questions: 10 month baby eat feed Family.

I would cut up lots of foods into bite sized pieces and supervise him I would cut up lots of different food into bite sized pieces. These include cooked apples, bananas, carrots, peas, green beans. You can buy these already made by gerber.

There are also chicken sticks that you can cut up. I know it is not recommended, but you could try hotdogs cut up super small and even chicken or spaghetti. By that age most of my 6 kids were on finger foods and ate mostly what we did just cut up super small with much supervision..

Your little man is showing early independence. Try to go with it and provide finger foods such as cheese cubes, hot dog pieces,vegetables that are cooked just enough they won't squish,pieces of banana,pear,apple or grape halves. You will just have to be watchful so he doesn't choke.

Once he feels he has mastered this skill he won't be so stubborn. Try not to be confrontational about it as it will only prolong the stage, It will pass. I know it's frustrating for you.It takes far longer for him to feed himself fingerfoods than for you to spoon it to him but there will be other battles to fight with him and this one isn't worth it.

Sources: had a son just like him .

Let him feed himself... My daughter did the same thing when she was 8 months old. She had all of two teeth, and decided she’d only eat things she could pick up and put into her own mouth. Feeding her got to be quite a challenge, but we found a lot of finger foods that were good for her and let her be in charge of meals.

We gave her scrambled egg yolks, which she loved. Her pediatrician gave us the OK for this because, as he said, the egg whites are usually the cause of any allergic reaction and we have no family history of allergies. You can add some grated cheese to the egg yolks.

Just check with the doctor first to see what he or she says--our daughter is almost ten now, and maybe the "rules" have changed! ;) Any soft, ripe fruits that are cut into bite-size peices are fine. Same with cooked veggies.

Bananas, ripe pears, ripe peaches, or poached apples. I believe you can even buy jarred fruits and vegetables just for babies to eat with their fingers, which saves you some trouble but is more expensive. You can bake a sweet potato, peel it, and cut it into small bits.

Babies aren’t used to having salt and butter on everything, so you can even skip that and your son won’t mind. Little bits of cheese should be OK too, just avoid anything with globs of melted cheese, like pizza. Kids can easily choke on it.

I used to make my daughter (my boys too, actually) grilled cheese sandwiches and cut them into bite-sized squares. Once they were cooled off, the cheese wouldn’t be so gloopy and didn’t cause choking. Same thing for pizza--if you cut it up small enough and it isn’t loaded with very melty cheese, your baby will probably love it.

Soft-cooked pasta and rice are also good choices. Macaroni and cheese is another food he can pickup and feed himself--messy, but a popular food with kids of all ages. Homemade mac and cheese isn't hard, and will be a lot healthier than a boxed mix.

Cheerios are great, of course, and things like toast or bagels cut into small bits. You just don’t want your son to gum or bite off a big hunk that he could choke on. Try to stick with whole grain whenever possible.

Pancakes and waffles are good choices, too. If you make them from scratch, you can add mashed friut and wheat germ to make them healthier. Freeze the extras so you’ll have them on hand for a quick breakfast or snack.

You can even try giving your son very small bits of cooked chicken, although I personally don’t think babies need meat as part of their diets. My kids liked home-made meatballs. You can add minced veggies and/or wheat germ to sneak extra vitamins and minerals in.

You can use ground turkey instead of ground beef. They freeze well, and can easily be broken up into manageable bits for an older baby to feed himself. If some of these foods are being introduced for the first time, be sure to introduce only one new food at a time and then wait a couple of days to make sure your son tolerates them well.

Also, keep in mind that your son is still getting the bulk of his nutrition from breast milk or formula. If you offer him healty finger-foods along with the formula or breast milk, he’ll be doing fine. If you still have concerns about nutrition, talk to the doctor about vitamin drops.

Besides letting your son feed himself as much as possible, you can try letting him use a spoon with your help. This can get messy, but it works very well. Give your son a soft baby spoon, maybe with a short, curved handle so he can hold it well.

Arm yourself with your own spoon. Let him try to feed himself with the spoon, and odds are he’ll be so distracted by what he’s doing that he won’t mind taking a bite here and there from your spoon. We used to do this with the babies in the daycare where I worked, and I wish I’d thought of it when my daughter was little!

You should be able to give your son whole-milk yogurt (I think it’s called YoBaby), which all of my kids loved. In fact, it was the only thing my daughter would let me feed her with a spoon! So, just get out the biggest bib you have, get the camera ready, and give your son a spoon.

The clean-up will be worse than usual, but your son will be learning to feed himself, he’ll develop his fine-motor skills, he’ll have fun, and he’ll get some extra nutrition. It sounds like your son has a mind of his own and some budding independence! This is a positive thing, even though it makes your job a bit harder.

Try not to push him at mealtimes or trick him into eating more than he wants. Meals should be fun and pleasant, not battlegrounds. Just follow his lead and try to focus on WHAT he’s eating instead of HOW MUCH he’s eating.

Good luck! Sources: five years as an infant/toddler teacher and three kids of my own adsgfdgadf's Recommendations 1,2,3, Cook For Me: Over 300 Easy and Healthy Recipes for Babies and Toddlers Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $10.46 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers & Children: 365 Quick, Easy, and Healthy Dishes Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $9.87 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 26 reviews) The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers and Children: From First Foods to Starting School (The Big Book Series) Amazon List Price: $26.85 Used from: $31.98 Lorraine Kelly's Baby and Toddler Eating Plan: Over 100 Healthy, Quick and Easy Recipes Used from: $1.57 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Try picking up some cookbooks like this. They usually have recipes for healthy finger foods and will help give you ideas for meals your son will like AND can feed himself..

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He used to eat the baby foods like Gerber etc but now at 10 months wouldn't open his mouth for anything at all. He is ready to ead bread pieces or cookie crumbs or cheerios etc if he picks them up but nothing that we want to give in a spoon or by our fingers. This means that he eats very little and then gives up.

As a result he remains hungry most of the times and is becoming cranky. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Asked by guraaf 39 months ago Similar Questions: 10 month baby eat feed Recent Questions About: 10 month baby eat feed Family.

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I would cut up lots of foods into bite sized pieces and supervise him I would cut up lots of different food into bite sized pieces. These include cooked apples, bananas, carrots, peas, green beans. You can buy these already made by gerber.

There are also chicken sticks that you can cut up. I know it is not recommended, but you could try hotdogs cut up super small and even chicken or spaghetti. By that age most of my 6 kids were on finger foods and ate mostly what we did just cut up super small with much supervision.

My grandchildren My grandchildren both did that. They wanted to eat whatever the adults at the table were eating. We were all amazed when we discovered that their daughter loves salad!

What my daughter did was make sure all the food was in easily swallowed pieces (no choking) and just turned it out onto their food trays. Messy? Sure!

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Your little man is showing early independence. Try to go with it and provide finger foods such as cheese cubes, hot dog pieces,vegetables that are cooked just enough they won't squish,pieces of banana,pear,apple or grape halves. You will just have to be watchful so he doesn't choke.

Once he feels he has mastered this skill he won't be so stubborn. Try not to be confrontational about it as it will only prolong the stage, It will pass. I know it's frustrating for you.

It takes far longer for him to feed himself fingerfoods than for you to spoon it to him but there will be other battles to fight with him and this one isn't worth it. Sources: had a son just like him .

Let him feed himself... My daughter did the same thing when she was 8 months old. She had all of two teeth, and decided she’d only eat things she could pick up and put into her own mouth. Feeding her got to be quite a challenge, but we found a lot of finger foods that were good for her and let her be in charge of meals.

We gave her scrambled egg yolks, which she loved. Her pediatrician gave us the OK for this because, as he said, the egg whites are usually the cause of any allergic reaction and we have no family history of allergies. You can add some grated cheese to the egg yolks.

Just check with the doctor first to see what he or she says--our daughter is almost ten now, and maybe the "rules" have changed! ;) Any soft, ripe fruits that are cut into bite-size peices are fine. Same with cooked veggies.

Bananas, ripe pears, ripe peaches, or poached apples. I believe you can even buy jarred fruits and vegetables just for babies to eat with their fingers, which saves you some trouble but is more expensive. You can bake a sweet potato, peel it, and cut it into small bits.

Babies aren’t used to having salt and butter on everything, so you can even skip that and your son won’t mind. Little bits of cheese should be OK too, just avoid anything with globs of melted cheese, like pizza. Kids can easily choke on it.

I used to make my daughter (my boys too, actually) grilled cheese sandwiches and cut them into bite-sized squares. Once they were cooled off, the cheese wouldn’t be so gloopy and didn’t cause choking. Same thing for pizza--if you cut it up small enough and it isn’t loaded with very melty cheese, your baby will probably love it.

Soft-cooked pasta and rice are also good choices. Macaroni and cheese is another food he can pickup and feed himself--messy, but a popular food with kids of all ages. Homemade mac and cheese isn't hard, and will be a lot healthier than a boxed mix.

Cheerios are great, of course, and things like toast or bagels cut into small bits. You just don’t want your son to gum or bite off a big hunk that he could choke on. Try to stick with whole grain whenever possible.

Pancakes and waffles are good choices, too. If you make them from scratch, you can add mashed friut and wheat germ to make them healthier. Freeze the extras so you’ll have them on hand for a quick breakfast or snack.

You can even try giving your son very small bits of cooked chicken, although I personally don’t think babies need meat as part of their diets. My kids liked home-made meatballs. You can add minced veggies and/or wheat germ to sneak extra vitamins and minerals in.

You can use ground turkey instead of ground beef. They freeze well, and can easily be broken up into manageable bits for an older baby to feed himself. If some of these foods are being introduced for the first time, be sure to introduce only one new food at a time and then wait a couple of days to make sure your son tolerates them well.

Also, keep in mind that your son is still getting the bulk of his nutrition from breast milk or formula. If you offer him healty finger-foods along with the formula or breast milk, he’ll be doing fine. If you still have concerns about nutrition, talk to the doctor about vitamin drops.

Besides letting your son feed himself as much as possible, you can try letting him use a spoon with your help. This can get messy, but it works very well. Give your son a soft baby spoon, maybe with a short, curved handle so he can hold it well.

Arm yourself with your own spoon. Let him try to feed himself with the spoon, and odds are he’ll be so distracted by what he’s doing that he won’t mind taking a bite here and there from your spoon. We used to do this with the babies in the daycare where I worked, and I wish I’d thought of it when my daughter was little!

You should be able to give your son whole-milk yogurt (I think it’s called YoBaby), which all of my kids loved. In fact, it was the only thing my daughter would let me feed her with a spoon! So, just get out the biggest bib you have, get the camera ready, and give your son a spoon.

The clean-up will be worse than usual, but your son will be learning to feed himself, he’ll develop his fine-motor skills, he’ll have fun, and he’ll get some extra nutrition. It sounds like your son has a mind of his own and some budding independence! This is a positive thing, even though it makes your job a bit harder.

Try not to push him at mealtimes or trick him into eating more than he wants. Meals should be fun and pleasant, not battlegrounds. Just follow his lead and try to focus on WHAT he’s eating instead of HOW MUCH he’s eating.

Good luck! Sources: five years as an infant/toddler teacher and three kids of my own adsgfdgadf's Recommendations 1,2,3, Cook For Me: Over 300 Easy and Healthy Recipes for Babies and Toddlers Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $10.46 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers & Children: 365 Quick, Easy, and Healthy Dishes Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $9.87 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 26 reviews) The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers and Children: From First Foods to Starting School (The Big Book Series) Amazon List Price: $26.85 Used from: $31.98 Lorraine Kelly's Baby and Toddler Eating Plan: Over 100 Healthy, Quick and Easy Recipes Used from: $1.57 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Try picking up some cookbooks like this. They usually have recipes for healthy finger foods and will help give you ideas for meals your son will like AND can feed himself.

We tried to pick foods he would pick up. It's messy, but that's all I can say. Little pieces of cheese or ham or Cheerios and anything else you can think of.

Maybe pieces of Vienna sausages if you don't think that's not too chemically preserved. In sixteen years he'll be out with your car and some high school cheerleader at one AM and you'll think of this as the golden age with no worries. Sources: Life with three kids last one away at college .

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