https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:08:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-to-chew-instead-of-sucking-on-food-blw#post-1283507 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:22:12 +0000 Silva 1283507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is really interesting to me. We started with purees, and switched to pieces of table food about a week ago at 7.5 months because she was starting to try to chew the purees. I mean, she doesn't have molars- just front teeth, but she kind of mashes it on the side, moves it around, and makes chewing motions. I still give her pieces small enough for her to swallow whole though- she mostly just mushes it up until its soft and swallows it. It probably just varies by baby? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-to-chew-instead-of-sucking-on-food-blw#post-1283479 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:10:42 +0000 blackbird 1283479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Having the same issue here, except if E gets a chunk in her mouth that she can't spit out, she vomits everywhere </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-to-chew-instead-of-sucking-on-food-blw#post-1283444 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:48:59 +0000 jodyblair 1283444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you did BLW, when did your baby start to chew bites of food instead of sucking on it? DS is 8.5 months old and we've been doing BLW since he was 6 months. He loves sucking on foods and tasting them, but he hasn't really started to chew yet. He will bite off chunks of food, but he just spits them out if they're too big to swallow. </p>