Dr. Chheda – At 9 months of age, my favourite kitchen utensil is a pizza cutter! Nine months is when most babies start developing their pincer grasp. When babies can do this, that’s when I know that their muscles in their throat are developed adequately enough that they can tolerate finger foods.

So finger foods are anything that’s smaller than the size of a raisin. So you want whatever you make for dinner, just use that pizza cutter and cut it up into small little pieces so it’s smaller than the size of a raisin, and then give one or two to your baby and see if they’ll pick it up and put in their mouth. You can put it in their mouth as well too. But I know that they can tolerate it, they have this grasp, and it’s just so easy with the pizza cutter just to cut up the food for them.