Comments on: What everyone should know about the dangers of jar food http://www.baby-log.com/introducing-solid-food-to-baby/the-dangers-of-jar-food/ Learning to be a Mother, Raise a Baby, Live as a Family Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:11:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Why chewing is important for babies @ Baby-Log| Learning to be a Mother, raise a Baby and live as a Family http://www.baby-log.com/introducing-solid-food-to-baby/the-dangers-of-jar-food/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Why chewing is important for babies @ Baby-Log| Learning to be a Mother, raise a Baby and live as a Family Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:01:46 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/introducing-solid-food-to-baby/the-dangers-of-jar-food/#comment-86 [...] I had no idea that baby could chew; I thought that all the baby foods should be pureed, runny and soft to be easily swallowed. It turns out that babies don’t need teeth to chew - they are using their gums. But chewing is a skill and they need to learn it. Why? Apart from being able to feed on chunky food, there is another reason - the muscles they use for chewing are the same muscles they will use for speech. This is another reason to introduce lumpy food. [...] ">

[...] I had no idea that baby could chew; I thought that all the baby foods should be pureed, runny and soft to be easily swallowed. It turns out that babies don’t need teeth to chew - they are using their gums. But chewing is a skill and they need to learn it. Why? Apart from being able to feed on chunky food, there is another reason - the muscles they use for chewing are the same muscles they will use for speech. This is another reason to introduce lumpy food. [...]

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