Your Baby's 6 to 12 Month Feeding Chart (With Ready-to-Eat Options)

How milk feeds change across these months

It is easy to focus entirely on solids and forget that milk feeds are shifting too, though more gradually than solids are increasing. At six months, breastmilk or formula is still doing the bulk of the nutritional work, with solids playing a supporting role. By nine to ten months, as solid meals increase to two or three a day, milk feeds typically reduce a little in frequency but remain an important part of the day, often continuing well past the first birthday. This is a gradual handover, not a sudden switch, and there is no need to rush weaning off milk feeds simply because solid meals are increasing, the two work alongside each other for most of this first year.

What "moving toward family food" actually looks like

The phrase can sound vague, so it helps to be concrete. By around ten to twelve months, many babies can manage small, soft pieces of food they pick up themselves, soft cooked vegetable pieces, small pieces of soft fruit, or a piece of soft roti, rather than everything needing to be pureed or mashed. This does not mean sharing the exact same plate as the rest of the family just yet, spices, salt levels and certain textures in typical family meals are often still too much for a one-year-old, but it does mean the gap between baby food and family food starts narrowing noticeably around this stage.

If your baby resists moving to the next stage

It is common, and not a cause for worry, if a baby seems to prefer staying at a smoother texture a little longer than this chart suggests, or is slower to accept lumps or finger foods. Babies vary meaningfully in how quickly they take to each stage, and gently continuing to offer the next texture every so often, without forcing it, usually works better than either rushing ahead or giving up on the attempt entirely. If you have ongoing concerns about your baby refusing textures well past the typical window, that is a good conversation to have with your pediatrician, who can rule out anything beyond normal variation.

Choking hazards to keep avoiding through this whole stage

Regardless of which texture stage your baby is at, certain foods remain choking hazards throughout the first year and beyond: whole nuts, whole grapes or cherry tomatoes unless quartered, hard raw vegetable pieces, and anything round, hard and bite-sized that could lodge in a small airway. As your baby moves toward finger foods, keeping pieces soft, small and appropriately shaped matters just as much as the broader texture stage they are in.

For busy days

You will not cook fresh every time, and that is okay. A ready-to-eat grain puree, a fruit puree, or a quick porridge from a clean-ingredient powder can fill a meal without added sugar or preservatives. Options like the Rorosaur Grain Puree Combo, Rorosaur Muskmelon Mango Puree and Rorosaur Porridge Powders make sensible backups alongside home cooking.

What to avoid through the first year

Avoid added sugar and salt through the first year, never give honey under one year, and always check with your pediatrician about your baby's individual needs. Every baby moves through these stages at their own pace, and that is completely normal.