Introducing food that is not milk
When she watches with interest when you are eating, let her taste your food off your finger: gravy, fruit juice, custard, melted ice cream, soup.
Then offer “finger foods” that your baby can hold and suck but which will not dissolve in her mouth so that she has to swallow anything solid. You could give her:
A hard toast crust, a smooth chop-bone, a scrubbed raw carrot…
Just put the hard food into her fist, as you would a toy, and let her put it in her own mouth and suck it.
Make sure she is sitting up on your lap or in her chair- and keep a careful eye on her in case she put it in her eye or bangs it on the table so that it makes a sharp edge. In other words treat these very first food as of they were toys and let her do the same. She will discover that they taste a lot nicer than plastic…
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