What Solid Foods to Start a 9 Month Baby On, and Mother in Law Problems

Canned veggies are soft enough usually -- peas and carrots, and french style green beans. You can microwave a sweet potato and dice it. You can also buy diced, pre-packaged sweet potato in the produce section -- where the bagged salads are and bagged broccoli called "broccoli wockly" (I know, sounds silly). That's great because I used to freeze it and just pull a few chunks at a time out. Canned fruits are soft too -- peaches, pears, mandarin oranges.
Even without teeth, babies have really strong gums and like texture. A frozen bagel can be good to munch on.

Really, anything from your plate thats soft or can be chopped in tiny pieces should be fine.
If you want more selection in baby foods, try the organics.

I noticed that no one has addressed your Monster in law issues. Let me say that I am right there with you I have known my husband for 7 years and we have been married for 5 of those years. The entire time we where dating I was nothing but nice to this women. They did not have a car so I would go over there and take her places like the grocery store and stuff like that but the women did not know how to be grateful she called me all kinds of names, treated me like I was the lowest dirty on earth and even accused me of stealing stuff from her. After we where married I let it keeping going on but after our son was born I couldn't take it anymore and I told my husband that I if it didn't stop that my son and I would not be around her. Well he warned her and she continued on with the name calling and I finally put a stop to it. I called her up said because her attitude did not change we would not be coming around her anymore. I have told my husband that he is more then welcome to see his mom but I will not be put in that situation and I will not risk the fact that she will talk about me to my son.

So with that being said here is my suggestion to you. First start by talking to your husband. Explain how you feel about the situation and how you are tired of being made out to be the bad guy. Also tell him that he needs to have a talk with his mother about it. If he does not then you need to talk to her. I am not one for face to face confrontation and if you are the same way then call her on the phone and tell her we need to talk. Tell her how she makes you feel when she does this. If she insist that it is your fault then lay down the law tell here that if she can't admit up to her mistakes and quite being rude and disrespectful to you then your relationship with her is over. I know that many grandparents have a relationship with the grandkids but I would cut that tie to because you don't need her speaking badly of you around your child.

I know that all of this may seem a little harsh but I have been in this situation and harsh is pretty much the only way you can go. I hope this helps and I wish you the bast of luck.

D., I have an 8 month old and I have been cooking carrots and dicing them up small, cutting up green beans small, etc. I have been feeding him a lot of the same foods we eat for about a month, just making sure they are soft and cutting them up small. Your baby will let you know. I would start out with diced veggies and fruit and see how he does. If you like the convenience you can do Gerber Graduates. Good Luck!

D.,
You might look at getting him one of these:

http://www.babysafefeeder.com/

I found mine at Babies R Us; Walmart offers one similar made by Munchkin. Both of my children enjoyed eating all kinds of foods with this!

hey momma.

Try to stay away from canned foods bc they are processed, cooked, lacking nutrients,and have tons of sodium. Feed him fresh mango, avocado, guava, oranges, peaches, etc. Anything soft. He can eat scrambled eggs too. Of course organic and free range is always best!
good luck!

my son has alot of stomach problems and so i have to be careful of what i feed him.i make macaroni and cheese or mashed potatoes soft foods like that.he also loves mango,guava and avacado. another thing to think about is his taste pallette is forming now and if you don't allow him to try different types of food he'll be a picky eater.which will be just as bad for you as it will be for him. oh and about the mother in law thing i know all too well what your going through my husbands parents are divorced so i have two mother in laws one of them is an angel sent from heaven she's become my best friend. the other well lets just say she's not so nice the way i can deal with it is to call her out on it in front of the other person involved that way next time she wants to put you in the middle she'll think about how you got her busted the last time she put you in that situation.it's the only thing that works i put up with it for a long time until i couldn't take it anymore well good luck with everything