Tips for feeding seven and eight month-old babies:
Continue to purée cooked meat, fish or chicken
Introduce mashed cooked fruit and vegetables, mashed cooked legumes, mashed cooked eggs, soft cheese (such as cottage cheese), custard or plain yoghurt (without sugar)
Remove stalks and stringy bits from foods like pūhā, silverbeet or bok choy
Offer finger foods in pieces that can be picked up by baby. Foods such as very soft fruit and vegetables (ripe bananas, ripe avocado, well-cooked pumpkin), toast fingers or thin slices of cheese are good options.
Remember to keep offering breast milk or formula before solids until your baby is eight to nine months old.