We can start her on plain full-fat curd on its own, smooth and thick on a spoon. Keep it thick and undiluted, not thinned with water, so it stays on a tilted spoon. Begin with a spoonful or two and build up slowly.

Once she has had it on its own, you can stir it into a food she already takes, like mashed banana, rice, or dal, for a little natural sweetness without sugar. Keep it plain, with no added salt while she is little and no added sugar before she is two.

Now she can take thicker curd, with soft fruit pieces, rice, or soft vegetables alongside that she can pick up herself. Curd itself stays a spoon food, but the soft pieces alongside give her something to practise with. Picking up those little bits helps her practise the pincer grasp she will use for self-feeding.

She can also scoop softer curd herself with a spoon now, and yes, it gets messy. This is also a good age to mix curd through her soft mashed rice, an easy first curd rice she takes from a spoon. Keep offering it plain, with no salt or sugar.

From around a year, curd joins the regular family meals as plain dahi, in her own bowl or stirred through rice and soft dishes. The curd rice she already knows carries on, now mixed through the same rice the family eats. Keep giving her the plain, unsweetened kind, without the salt or sugar that goes into a family raita or lassi.

How much she eats is up to her now, sitting alongside her other foods.