Any advice about snacks for a 7 month old?

my daughter is 7 months old, she is a really good eater and chews food with small lumps in, I noticed that there are various snacks on the market for 7 month olds like bear biscuits and crips...I would like to give her some to encourage her hand to mouth co-ordination but im concerned about her choking, should I break the snacks into small peices initially? She hasnt got any teeth through yet although two look like they are about to break through the gum. Thanks for your help!Any advice about snacks for a 7 month old?
you're right to worry - i gave my son some snacks for 7 month olds and 3 times i had to fish it from the back of his throat as he was choking. i binned them in the end. things he choked on were baby rice cakes and rusks, even when put in small bits - they were just too hard. i have successfully given him lightly toasted white bread cut into tiny squares...which can be increased in size and eventually cut into fingers. little pieces of banana are good, but hard to pick up as they are slippery. how about some grains of boiled rice, peaches, cubes of steamed pear and apple. baby pasta (from boots, supermarkets etc.) is good to start introducing bits too. even though they are tiny, i still had to chop the pasta shapes up after cooking before putting them in food, until they are used to swallowing the bits. now i can leave them whole. how about well cooked bits of potato and carrot too. anything that they can squish and swallow and won't get caught in her mouth! good luck.Any advice about snacks for a 7 month old?
When I started giving my son the teething cookies, I started breaking them up smaller, big enough for him to chew and grab onto, but he has a tendency to shove everything in his mouth at once.





7 months is a great time to introduce snacks. I find Mum-Mum cookies are awesome, and the puff snacks are pretty good.
Don't buy the bear biscuits just yet, we bought the 7month plus ones when my daughter was 7months and they just dont dissolve properly! They break off in hard lumps and are very easy to choke on. Heinz do a biscuit called a biscotti, which are like rich tea fingers and dissolve really easily, they are fab and come in all different flavours. Also try bananas which are easy to eat with no teeth and Organix rice cakes.





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I give my son biscuits bought from the supermarket. usually biscotti by heinz. He has no teeth either but he's able to sog it up with his saliva and then eat it. Rice cakes are good too because little bits of it come off and he can slowly suck on those. Your daughter probably won't choke properly. my son sometimes gets a big lodged in the back of his throat when it's a bit too big but within a couple of seconds he manages to get it back up and eat it properly. baby food brands wouldn't make these type of foods if they thought the baby couldn't eat them.


Sometimes i just give him a bit of fruit or veggies to much on between feeding him. banana, carrot sticks etc
I gave my son baby rice crackers and sugar-free rusks - they both disintegrate quickly on contact with saliva. I did give broken up pieces at 7 months, now my son is 9 months with two bottom teeth and I give him a whole rice cracker to pick up and feed himself. I still supervise carefully and if I think he has too big a piece in his mouth, I take it out.
I suggest bananas (cut up), cantaloupe (cut up), avocado is also a great one to try. I suggest going to wholesomebabyfood.com, its a great website that can give you a ton of ideas of what to feed your baby at different ages. You can do cheerrios and those teething cookies too (watch out, they are messy!)
Don't give her junk food or she will develop a taste for it. Cut up grapes or bits of banana and stay with her when she eats. She has to learn to chew properly.
Get her biter biscuits give her the whole thing and let her gum that. Just watch her so she doesn't break off a chunk and choke but usually they can't my not even 6 month old gets them all the time and she loves them.
We loved cheerios! I also would buy fruit cups and chop it all up. Kix is a good one too. I always went by the pieces need to be no bigger than the child's finger nail. :)
I gave my son puffs. I would break them in half. I was worried about him choking. He loved them. They come in lots of flavors.