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I kept putting cheerios on his tray because he liked to play with them. Eventually he started eating them so we started with other finger foods at that point.

She started demanding to eat what we were eating shortly after starting solids, so we slowly introduced items. She did an awesome job with chewing them, so we kept giving her more. The only times she has had issues was when she learned to eat from her fist (vs. fingers) and was eating too quickly. She was able to resolve it herself, though.

I always gave him puffs after purées to practice pincer grip and so I can wash his dishes while he is distracted. When he started complaining after a few ozs of purées but was scarfing down puffs and halved blueberries I started switching over. Now at 9.5 months he has finger foods for breakfast and dinner. I feed him his yogurt snack and he never complains about that, as if he knows there isn't a pick-up-able version of yogurt.

starting around 7 months i'd give her puffs to help her learn how to chew and to learn the pincer grasp. it took her a couple weeks but she got the hang of it around 8 months. around the same time she got sick and decided she didn't like purees anymore, so we decided to start introducing more finger foods. now at 9 months she eats all finger foods. so we started with puffs, then introduced bananas, carrots, bread, etc. she still gags probably at least once a meal. it freaks me out everytime but i think she just eats too fast sometimes.