As infants mature, they gain the skills necessary to progress from eating strained complementary foods from a spoon to feeding themselves finger foods and eventually begin to feed themselves with a spoon. The development of skills follows a sequential…
The type and texture of foods to feed and which feeding styles to use are determined by the infant’s developmental readiness. The rate at which an infant progresses to each new food texture and feeding style is determined by the infant’s own skills and attitudes. Infants always do better if they are allowed to develop […]
