Meal time offers a great opportunity for your child to practice and perfect new motor skills. The acts of picking up food with the fingers and grasping a spoon and fork will not only help your child’s dexterity, but also teach self-sufficiency.
When your baby is young, she eats when she is hungry. As she grows, her feedings might start to fall into a typical routine, but as she begins eating table foods, she should have firmly established mealtimes.
Solid foods mark a tremendous milestone for your baby and for you. It’s likely you have a photo or two of your first bites of cereal and you will soon have a page in your album dedicated to your child’s. Those first few bites of solid food are exciting, but can also be confusing.