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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
faBriezy
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My almost 1 year old STILL doesn't like solids :(
faBriezy
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I am starting to feel like I'm doing a really crappy job at this mom thing because I don't know what to do to get my kid to eat. He'll eat 1/2 a jar of baby food mixed with yogurt (he does like yogurt) and tablefoods are hit or miss. Even when something is a "hit" he still doesnt eat much, like 1/3 of a toaster waffle or 3-4 tiny pieces of fruit. He likes something one day, hates it the next and there are only a handful of things I've ever been able to get him to try. He also does this weird thing where he puts bites of food in his mouth and then pushes it right out with his tongue, and keeps doing that with all the food I give him. And then the next meal he'll chew/swallow ok so i know he can. He loves his bottles, and I actually have to hide the bottle drying rack during meal times or he'll reach for them the whole time instead of eating.
I know he's behind most kids his age and we're probably going to be late transitioning off bottles and formula. I kept thinking he would be better by the time he turned 1, but guess not. There MUST be something I can do to help him with this, right? Any suggestions? I'm frustrated and worried.
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Re: My almost 1 year old STILL doesn't like solids :(
Emerson was the exact same way. She NEVER took baby food of any kind, cereal, or oatmeal. Just keep trying and don't get discouraged.
He'll pick it up sooner or later.
It's really ok if he's a year old and not eating solids. Ben had a horrible gag reflex and only in the last month or so has he physically been able to eat table foods. So, up until then it was formula (he refused milk), baby cereals and purees. And he's healthy as can be. It might be that your DS is just not ready. Babies do things in their own time. I would try not to worry about it. Give it a couple weeks and then try again. This is what we did introducing food to Ben and one day, he was just able to eat. I know it's not exactly the same scenario, but my point is that it will happen and sometimes you just need to be patient.
And as far as the bottles thing, Ben still takes 3 of them a day (down from 6). We're slowly introducing more food and therefore cutting back bottles. My goal is to have him weaned off bottles by 18 months. If we can do it sooner, great. If it takes a little longer, whatever. It's not like I'm going to be sending him off to kindergarten with a bottle packed in his lunch kit. This is just not high on my list of things to freak out about.
DD still doesn't like table foods and is stuck on stage 3 foods...and NOT chunky ones!!! ugh...
It is OK, you are not a bad mama...it will work out, just keep trying!
Seans-thanks for making me feel better that Emerson is still on her nap and bed time bottles. We're working on it. lol-
every baby is different but for my dd she really didn't get into solids (3 full meals) until 14 months!! i know how you feel and i stressed out every single day because she would barely take a couple of bites of food and things were really hit or miss. i would dread meal times and make 3 different things to have her reject them all. the only thing she would eat were strawberries, yogurt, puffs and cheerios. i never thought it would happen but eventually she started eating more and more and now she eats a full 3 meals a day plus snacks.
for some reason i had this deadline in my head that dd was supposed to be on all table foods and eating 3 full meals by one year but i think that was being really unrealistic (for my dd). she was a milk monster and would drink 32 ounces of milk a day and gradually we cut out bottles and now she only drinks about 16 ounces of milk per day (and yes she still gets her nighttime bottle!). your ds sounds exactly like my dd. so really i wouldn't try to stress too much about it (even though i know it's really hard not to). anyways i hth!!
I could've written this post...in fact, I think I probably have posted the same thing quite a few times. My DD is still hardly eating any solids. I don't mean that she'll only eat purees, I mean that she WON'T even eat purees! We've been struggling since we started solids 6 months ago. I used to make my own baby food and finally stopped because I got tired of doing it, only to throw almost the entire thing out at every single meal. I continue to feed her three times a day, and at least 2 of the 3 meals, she will only eat 2-3 spoonfuls (sometimes she won't even eat any), and then the drama starts - closing her mouth, shaking her head, turning her head away, pushing my hand away, crying, yelling, etc.
It seems that she mostly does this with me - every time she's with my mother or MIL, she will finish a whole stage 2 size container of food, and she gives DH a hard time but not nearly as much - he can usually get her to eat 1/2 a stage 3 jar. That makes me feel like an even crappier mom, and I'm worried as well, because I'm the one that is home with her the majority of the time. I worry that she still won't be eating by the time that she needs to get her nutrition from food. And I'm even more nervous because she has a milk protein allergy, and we have yet to introduce milk to see if she has outgrown it. I have visions of my 5 year old still on Alimentum!
I do everything they say you should do - keep calm, don't make a big deal out of it, if she doesn't want to eat, don't make her eat. It hasn't helped, though. I've tried finger foods, but she still isn't eating much quantity-wise or variety-wise. I'll give her 1/3 of a toaster waffle & she'll eat half of that, maybe. Then she'll take a few bites of peach (it has to be from the whole peach - she refuses to eat anything cut-up) and she's done. For lunch - 1/2 of a cherry, a few spoonfuls of jarred baby food, and a few pieces of grilled chicken that she pushes around her mouth for a minute, then takes out & hands back to me. Snack on maybe 10 Cheerios. Dinner is 1/2 jar of stage 3 foods. That was what she ate today, and I consider that a good day.
At her GI appointment last week (for her milk intolerance), I brought up my concerns, and the GI doctor said that it's completely behavioral, because she obviously has the ability to eat. He said she probably gets over more on me because I'm Mom, but that if she doesn't want to eat, don't make her eat. He said if she gets to be 18 months old & still isn't eating, he would send me to a behavioralist. Great, my 18-month old is going to need therapy??
So, basically, I don't have a solution but I'm commiserating. I also feel like a bad mommy, like an incompetent mommy (it doesn't help that we had BFing problems too!). I feel like I'm doing everything possible not to give in to her tantrums, not to make it a big deal, etc., but she still refuses to eat when I feed her. I do have to say that it *sometimes* helps if I put food on her tray & then walk around the kitchen doing other things, pretending not to pay attention to her. She'll often start to eat once she thinks I'm not paying attention. She still won't eat a lot, but at least she'll eat. And since I started giving her more "real" food & less purees, she's eating less but there's less tears & tantrums and she'll usually eat something at every meal. The main things I've noticed are that she wants to eat from the whole piece of whatever she's eating, she doesn't want it cut up into pieces. She'll push away a piece of chicken & point to the whole breast & say "that!". She likes to bite from the whole apple, pear, cherry, peach or banana, so I just take the skin off my my own teeth & let her take little bites.
You're not alone - my DD also only consumes an ounce or two of solids a day, and I am also concerned. But the dr. did say it wasn't something to be worried about yet. Let me know if you find any solutions!! :-)