I Don't Know What to Feed My Baby- I Need a Book That Spells It Out

I always found 2 books to be the best.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Feeding-Toddl...

http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Toddler-Meals-Dummies-Simmons/...

I really like SuperBaby Food. I don't know the author's name. I would call this Babyfood for Dummies. Our doctor gave us the approval that it was good - she didn't recomend the book, but was like "oh yeah, that's a good one." It goes through month by month what baby can eat, describes how to pick out food, and how to cook food, and has lots of other things too - it is like a 500 page book. I have used it a lot and so have a number of other moms I know.

I have a 91/2 month old and my Dr. gave me the go ahead to give him grits, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, yogurt,applesauce, scrambled eggs, mashed ripe banana and mashed avocado. I'm like you, afraid he will choke, but he has been doing great with these things. I tried cheerios this morning and he started to cough, so I was afraid he was choking(he wasn't), but will still hold off on that. I made spaghetti for us last week and put some cooked noodles on his tray and he ate some of that. I mainly give him stage two foods, and foods mentioned above. A piece of pancake or tortilla or soup as he seems interested in what I am eating as he swipes at it. There are soooo many books out there. I agree w/ the other post of blending what you made with a little breastmilk or water. Good Luck!

My pediatrician swears by the book First Foods.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Foods-Bryan-Vartabedian/dp/03...

I love wholesomebabyfood.com,

I think it's exactly what you are looking for.

W/ my first 'Super Baby Food' by Ruth Yaron was my bible.
I poured over that book every night!
I think it is extremely helpful to a 1st time mommy. :)

http://www.superbabyfood.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Baby-Food-Ruth-Yaron/dp/09652...

HTH!!!

Check out Baby Led Weaning. It should help you with your choking fears.

It depends on how many teeth does he have? homemade Soups are safe. There were questions just like yours within last week or so with excellent answers, look up previous mamapedia posts.

My favorite book was called "Feed me, I'm Yours!". It was a basic how-to make your own foods and snacks. I even pulled it back out when my granddaughter came along!

I would just stick with soft solids. Unless he is gagging. My daughter didn’t start eating true solids until about 12 months old. Her gag reflex would kick in so I stayed with stage 2 baby foods. (I personally don't think that they just learn to not gag and constant vomiting is really bad). Do you have a blender? You can just blend up stuff that you eat. Just be careful not to use too much spice. It is OK to use spices so he gets a taste for them. And be careful of certain foods that don't mush easily.

What I did was to feed my babies the same things I was eating, but in smaller pieces, or pureed. That makes it easy, because then you don't have to make two different meals all the time - just make one, and take a few teaspoons of each thing and puree it so the baby can gum it down! You can get a little baby food mill to make the job easier. And remember, it can take 10 times of trying a food before some babies will eat it, so keep trying. :)

I think when my baby was that age, I had one friend w/a child 10 mos
older so I would ask her a few questions.
The ped offered some advice & so did the literature he would give me.
But honestly, it was just some instinct & trial and error.

I started w/rice cereal mixed w/breastmilk or fomula (once my breast
milk dried up).

Then I went to Gerber jarred foods that have the recommended ages
listed on the jar.

My son choked on everything too so pureed baby food was best. We
did that for awhile.

The ped always said give him one food for a few weeks to ensure he
wasn't allergic to it.

Then I would introduce a new food.

I first started w/a pureed Gerber veggie. I thought he wouuld like the
peaches but they seemed too tart for him. His face was priceless. I have the videos on my camera to remind me (almost forgot all that). :)

I did the Gerber food after the Gerber baby rice cereal in bottle for awhile.
Then mashed bananas.
He gradually made his way to tiny (and I mean tiny) bites of what I was eating (a bite of cooked zucchini etc).

At first, he choked on everything. And to be honest that ensued for month. Only now that he is 2 1/2 does he doesn't do that anymore. Of
course, he has all of his teeth.

So my suggestions at this stage (& double check w/your ped) is the infant Gerber rice cereal (I mixed it w/formula since he was drinking that
at that point). I then moved to a Gerber baby veggie. Things slowly went from there.

I don't know of a book, but www.wholesomebabyfood.com is an amazing resource. Good luck!!