To learn to chew, serve chewable foods ✔️ Chewing is a skill that needs to be built and practiced over time. We need to bite the food, move it to the side to chew, move it back to the center of the tongue, and then backwards to swallow. Thankfully, babies are born with reflexes that serve as the building blocks of these movements. These reflexes start to fade around 9 mos, meaning the most strategic time to learn how to chew is from 6 to 8 mos. Does this mean toddlers will never learn to chew? O