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Foods","introduce-baby-nurture-life","https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/blog/introduce-baby-nurture-life/","/blog/introduce-baby-nurture-life/","2020-07-16T17:20:01","2023-11-08T16:31:56","\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your baby is gulping down purees in the blink of an eye, trying to grab small chunks of food off the high chair or even reaching longingly for whatever’s on \u003C/span>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plate, it may be time to introduce finger foods! Use the simple guide below to help transition your baby from smooth purees to Nurture Life’s chunky, colorful and oh-so-delicious \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stage 3 baby food\u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>What to Order\u003C/b>\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/menus/?currentPage=1&navItem=baby-10-24-mos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nurture Life’s Stage 3 menu\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is full of nutritious, well-balanced, freshly made \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finger foods for your baby\u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and there really is no bad choice on there. If we seem biased, it’s only because we know exactly what’s gone into creating our \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stage 3 baby food\u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meals—including input from registered dietitians, infant nutrition experts, parents and (of course!) the world’s most adorable taste testers.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’ve carefully curated our Finger Food menu to represent the \u003C/span>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> baby food\u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> available, packed with \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/stage-3-baby-food-different/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stage 3 meals that are purposefully different than what you typically see\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perfectly sized for your baby to practice critical self-feeding skills, including the pincer grasp and hand-eye coordination\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooked to the right texture to encourage chewing (no teeth required!) and help develop key mouth muscles\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well balanced with a thoughtful variety of veggies, proteins and grains\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colorful and exciting for babies to touch, grab, play and explore\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vegetable-focused (not fruit-focused like most baby food!) to help develop palates that don’t only want sweet food \u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter which individual meals you order, you’ll know that you’re giving your baby what they need at this critical stage of physical and cognitive development. We often recommend our Finger Foods for babies 10+ months, but be sure to follow your pediatrician’s advice as well as \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/transitioning-baby-finger-foods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your baby’s own signs of readiness to transition to finger foods\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>\u003Cstrong>Sample Week of Finger Foods for Your Baby\u003C/strong>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordering a full week of meals (one per day) will give you a variety of options to serve your baby.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18369\" src=\"https://content.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"stage 3 baby food\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule-728x1024.jpg 728w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule-213x300.jpg 213w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule-768x1080.jpg 768w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Weekly-finger-food-schedule.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" />\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are a few more helpful notes as you choose what to order for your baby:\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see in the example above, we’d recommend ordering at least a couple of repeat meals so that you can try offering the same foods more than once.\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Babies who are just starting to transition to finger foods will still get much of their nutrition from breast milk or formula, so one meal per day is often perfectly adequate. As your baby grows and \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/got-milk-transitioning-breast-milk-formula/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transitions away from breast milk or formula\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you can adjust the finger/table foods upward as necessary.\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your baby’s transition from Stage 2 purees to more complex finger foods can take time—so even if it seems like it’s not going so well, you \u003C/span>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doing it right! The more your baby explores new textures, shapes, sizes and colors, the more familiar and accepting they’ll become. \u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/how-to-freeze-meals-from-nurture-life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nurture Life Finger Foods can be safely frozen\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so if you end up with too many meals in any given week, they won’t have to go to waste.\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>When Your Nurture Life Box Arrives\u003C/b>\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your baby may not be able to fully understand what’s coming from Nurture Life, but you can still get them involved and excited through lively explanations and sensory cues! When you receive your \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">baby food delivery \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">box, turn the unboxing into a fun game of peekaboo and play. Let your baby hold their food jars while you name the meal and explain the illustration. (Maybe even a little “Moooooo!” when the sweet potato cow comes out of the box?!)\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nurture Life Finger Foods are made to order without added preservatives, so be sure to store them in the fridge as soon as you’re done playing together.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/?utm_source=blog_internal&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=conversion&utm_content=introduce-baby-nurture-life-20200716\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18080\" src=\"https://content.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CTA-Healthy-Baby-Meals-Hands-and-Braised-Chicken-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"healthy baby meals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CTA-Healthy-Baby-Meals-Hands-and-Braised-Chicken-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CTA-Healthy-Baby-Meals-Hands-and-Braised-Chicken-300x100.jpg 300w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CTA-Healthy-Baby-Meals-Hands-and-Braised-Chicken-768x256.jpg 768w, https://content.dev.nurturelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CTA-Healthy-Baby-Meals-Hands-and-Braised-Chicken.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>During Mealtime\u003C/b>\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the fun and experimentation begins:\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set your baby up in their high chair.\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set the Finger Food in front of them. \u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give them the freedom to explore the new food on their own: picking it up, playing with it, smearing it around and, of course, dropping chunks all over the place as they try to master that pincer grasp. (\u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/7-tips-managing-messy-eaters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, just in time, here are some tips for managing messy eaters!\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep things low key, letting your baby experience the meal without too much interference, assistance or verbal encouragement. \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/parenting-picky-eaters-no-pressure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relaxed, playful and pressure-free is the goal\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both for you and your baby.\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take note of your baby’s reactions. Even if they’ve rejected a particular food once, twice or three times, that just means that a little more exposure and patience are required. It’s totally normal for babies to need some adjustment time, so just don’t give up!\u003C/span>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>After the Meal\u003C/b>\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once mealtime is over, use Nurture Life’s meal rating feature to provide feedback on your baby’s meal preferences. You can use the mental notes you took while your baby was trying out the meal to rate it 1–5 stars and add some further notes. We also use your feedback to make sure we’re always delivering the \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best baby food!\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you select your next order of Finger Foods, consider reordering some of your baby’s favorites from this round while adding one or two new meals. Serving a balance of accepted and new foods is a great way to \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/blog/4-practical-tips-feeding-picky-toddler-new-foods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gradually expand a baby’s or toddler’s palate\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—keeping things moving in the right direction without overwhelming your little one. We offer standby favorites like Pasta Fagioli as well as slightly more adventurous options like housemade Salmon Cakes.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re new to Nurture Life, \u003C/span>\u003Ca href=\"https://nurturelife.com/how-it-works/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">read more about how our \u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">baby food subscription\u003C/span>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> service works here\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! We also offer well-balanced meals for the entire family from toddlers to adults. 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