Stage 3 between 9 and 12 months Foods to choose
Food textures
Aim for
Skills learned
Suitable drinks
Most homemade family foods (without added salt, gravies, sauces, . packets or jars of sauce or sugar) are now suitable.
Lumpy foods.
Three meals of about 4-6 tablespoons.
Lumpier textures will help with speech, chewing and increase the variety of baby’s diet in later childhood.
Breastmilk (on demand).
Chopped ffoods. Harder finger foods.
Wide variety v in foods and of f textures.
Two to three snacks. Be able to manage more than two textures in one meal. All drinks (other than ( breastfeeds) breastf taken taken from fr aa cup cup or or beaker. beaker.
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Self feeding.
Infant formula (approx 400mls or 14ozs a day). Cooled boiled water.
