Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Solids? Who needs 'em?

No doubt, my little guy is a milk man. We're still on Stage 2 purees and he'll only indulge those a couple times a week. Puffs? Pshaw. Cheerios? You have got to be kidding me. The final straw? I just tried mashing a banana within an inch of his life and feeding him smaller than a pea size bites. He gagged and coughed and made faces like I was feeding him knives that tasted like poo.

We are going to BF forever and ever and ever.

Re: Solids? Who needs 'em?

  • Maybe he's just not ready for chunky quite yet.  DD used to gag on foods that were too chunky/thick. I would just add juice or water and thin it out and she would be fine. I don't think we did cheerios until she was 10 months.
  • betsnupbetsnup member
    You are not giving me any hope.  :)  DS will not eat any solids yet - so far we've tried cereal, oatmeal, applesauce, squash, green beans, peaches, bananas, and carrots...and he has hated all of them!  At this point I don't think we'll ever move past Stage 1.
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  • lol at your poo poo knives. That must be what i'm feeding DD, too.

     

    It really goes in stages with her. Her new hate is touching anything wet. What's left is like bread, goldfish, cheerios... And clearly that's not a good diet.

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  • You are describing my DS.  He gags anytime I give him anything besides pureed squash and oatmeal.  Definitely prefers milk. 
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  • JARbabyJARbaby member
    Why not look into Baby Led Weaning. The theories are good and my first wanted control, she ate once we gave her the spoon and foods she could pick up and feed herself. We also gave her LOTS of time to play and explore her food.
  • I slightly sort of envy you.  I say this because after meal time, it is quite a disgusting mess that I have to clean up.  MM won't eat anything from a spoon now (like baby food) and wants to do everything him self.  We went to Sweet Tomatoes this weekend and he smeared all of the food in his hair.  The last couple of days he's been on a chicken ravioli kick (the bite sized ones from Gerber that I cut up) and those get stuck to EVERYTHING! 
  • Just curious if any of you are SAHMs who EBF?  I feel like DS just knows that I'm around, so solids are of no interest to him yet.  Of course we know he'll eat at some point in his life, but he's definitely a milk man too!  JARbaby, I am very tempted to look at the baby led weaning, it makes logical sense to me and kind of follows our parenting style.  We'll see!
  • DD just started taking solid food reliably.  Like 2 weeks ago.  It'll happen, I promise!
  • My DS has been the same way. He LOVES nursing, but has barely touched any solids. It is getting better, though. We found that he liked strong flavors, like salty pretzels. Once he could break off chunks of pretzel, we stopped feeding him that. Now he eats a little bit of whole wheat Ritz crackers. He also likes Trader Joe's turkey meatballs. He eats very, very little solids each day. Puffs and cheerios were interesting to him for a bit, but I think they are too bland for him now. He never ate pureed foods, and that was hard. We ended up talking to an OT and got some great ideas. She told us to be completely neutral when he would gag or vomit...show no signs that there is anything wrong. I would just clean him up very casually and that was that. We've had some recent success with DS that he will not try some banana. He has 4 teeth and he will kind of scrape some a bit off of a whole banana when I hold it for him. GL!

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