Anyone else mentally exhausted after meal time?

Let me start by saying I have a lot anxiety about her choking, so I’ve kind of put solids off as long as possible. She will pick food up with the pincer grasp but doesn’t put it in her mouth. She plays with it in her hands, and then it usually ends up on the floor. I guess she will just get the hang of this someday? Also, I give her such tiny bites because of anxiety that feeding her takes forever! Please tell me I’m not the only one going through this. She has her first two lower front teeth coming in and does the chewing motion pretty good, but I’m just so worried about choking

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I just barely started offering meats now that he has 3 teeth because I was so worried about the choking

Yes! We were doing bite size sausage last night…like little cubes, and I was still tearing them apart

I'm definitely still worried about the choking. But you can also offer large "finger foods" and they can chew off that! For instance, giving a chicken drumstick with the skin taken off, they can chew and eat pieces from it. I have super high anxiety with it, but I've been trying to trust my little one and knowing what to do! There's a great app called "solid starts ". There's a free part with all different foods and they'll give suggestions on how to offer it and how to offer it for different age ranges. this app has helped with some relief. It'll get easier the more you let them!

I was horrified starting solids and baby didn’t like purées. The first “solid” food I was comfortable with was the Little Bellies crunchy sticks. After seeing how confident my boy was eating those, I felt better giving him large things to eat like a steamed piece of broccoli or a sliced up piece of avocado toast.

Yeah I fed my son the smallest amounts of itty bitty bites possible and he spit it all up and aspirated 🥴 it's been four days he's still clearing mucus since the event. Been afraid to give him solids since he is 11 months old.

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