I was starting to work on Lily's 10 month update but I ended up having a lot to say about her eating behaviors, so I thought I'd just write separately about that...
Lily is eating a much wider variety of foods since her 9 month checkup. Her doctor didn't really want her to be too adventurous until after 9 months so she had just been eating mostly fruits and veggies. Now, almost everything is OK (besides the major allergy triggers and choking hazards). We still introduce new foods one at a time and wait a few days in between foods just to be safe though, especially when we're offering a completely new food group. So far Lily likes pretty much everything we've given her. She's not a picky eater at all, although I hear that might change after the 1 year mark, but I can hope that she won't follow in her father's footsteps in this instance.
She's started eating yogurt. I only give her organic whole milk plain yogurt mixed with pureed fruits. She wasn't crazy about it on its own (it's much too tart for me, so I can understand her hesitation) but she likes it mixed with pureed pears, apples, blueberries or a mixture of more than one fruit. It's actually surprising how much sugar is in the yogurts packaged especially for babies. So she's just going to be eating the plain (unsweetened) yogurt with added (unsweeted) fruits. It's quite tasty actually. And much, much less expensive. At some point I'm sure the convenience factor will weigh in and she'll eat a yogurt cup or two but for now I mix my own.
She also loves beans (another item daddy won't touch). Straight from the can and rinsed it's a really easy addition to her dinnertime. Plus they are really fun finger foods for her. She smashes a few but most of them make it into her mouth. One of her favorite meals has been black beans, cubed avocado and shredded cheese--she's a lover of Mexican-inspired meals already, just like her parents. And she could eat it all on her own.
She isn't eating too much meat yet. I have made her some pureed beef which I mixed with sweet potato and she enjoyed that. And she's had both chicken and turkey, but not regularly. I may try making her some mini-meatballs that she could pick up on her own. She loves her sweet potatoes though. She'll never turn those down.
She has also really taken to her sippy cup. We've been giving her a sippy cup of water for a couple of months now but we usually had to help her drink out of it. Recently she's figured out how to drink from it on her own and she's obsessed! We can't get it out until she's done eating otherwise she'll be too transfixed on the sippy cup and drinking to eat any more. She will drink her entire cup of water in less than 5 minutes. And she doesn't even throw it on the ground all that much.
This month we did have to purchase a mat to put down under her highchair. She's not too messy yet, but every once in a while she'll take to handfuls of food and drop them over the side of her highchair. Since her highchair is on a carpeted area we got a mat to put down.
She still breastfeeds regularly. We won't even think about cutting that down until she hits a year unless something comes up. And she'll also drinking 1 bottle of formula at daycare every day.
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