Months 9-10

Feeding

  • Holds cup for drinking with help from adult14, 26

  • Tips bottle or cup with spout to drink28, 29, 70

  • Holds bottle14, 27

  • Grasps food with hands10

  • Self-feeds finger food14, 24, 27

  • Palmar grasp of spoon27

  • Eats smooth, chewy, and lumpy spoon-fed by caregiver29

Figure 9/10.18.1

Eats smooth, chewy, and lumpy foods that are spoon-fed by caregivers

Figure 9/10.18.2

Holds bottle independently

Figure 9/10.18.3

Palmar grasp of spoon