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getting LO to eat

3003girl3003girl member
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LO is BF, and is a crappy eater. Today, so far, she has had 3 grapes. I've offered her banana, cheerios, black beans, rice, tomato, grape nuts cookies, corn, juice, avocado and crackers. All of these things she has eaten and liked before. She just likes the BM.

Any tips to get her to eat more? I offer her food before BFing, while she is playing, while she is in her high chair, while we are eating our meals... 

She is fine as far as percentiles go - should I just stop worrying?

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Re: getting LO to eat

  • juliane2004juliane2004 member

    What does she do when you try to get her to eat? Like, is she in her high chair and you're feeding her? Or does she feed herself? Do you give her a spoon? Does she cry? Does she make faces? Does she eat for 1 minute and then not eat after that?

    DD has had trouble feeding now (22.5 months)  - she would scream and scream instead of eat - and we figured out it's cause she doesn't want us to feed her at all, and if we put her in her highchair with her food and a spoon or fork, in about 30 minutes she'd eat it all.

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  • 3003girl3003girl member

    she really likes to feed herself when she actually eats. Sometimes we have to start her off - like, get her to taste it so she will actually start eating, but then she does it herself.

    She generally takes the food, looks at it, and then tosses it to the floor. If we actually try to feed her when she doesn't want to eat she will turn her head. We never force it to the point of her crying or screaming. 

    She also likes to sit on our laps and eat off of our plates, but it's generally one bite then she starts tossing things to the floor. :

    She also likes it if we set a bowl out for her while she is playing. That's how she at the grapes this morning. 

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  • mrs.g_6708mrs.g_6708
    I'm in the same boat. James is breastfed and he HATES his high chair. It's so hard to get him to eat. He does like the Gerber meats though, thank God.
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  • JKB1986JKB1986 member
    Sounds exactly like my DS. If he doesn't recognize the food or if it isn't a certain texture (usually hard) he won't eat it. It falls straight to the floor. His diet pretty much consists of milk, juice, string cheese, bananas, apples (or most kinds of fruit), pizza, chicken nuggets, hamburger patty or brat and crackers. I will jump for joy when I actually get a vegetable or pasta in him. As you can tell, I have no advice, just sympathy!
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