curiosity about what you’re eating
- begin eyeing your plate of food
- reach for a spoonful of food as it travels from the plate to your mouth
- point to your food and ask for it while drooling away
- bottle-fed baby may stop midway and point to your food instead
growing appetite
- seems more hungry than before
- wake more frequently for feeding at night
- begin to eat non-stop (cluster feed) as he/she once did as a newborn
tongue reflex
- losing the extrusion reflex which is “designed” to prevent your baby from swallowing any foreign matter which he/she may be choked upon and in this case, solid food which his/her body is not ready to accept
- to keep solid food in his/her mouth and then swallow it, your baby needs to stop using his/her tongue to push food out of his mouth
physically
- able to sit upright when supported
- also able to keep his/her head in a steady position to swallow well
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