January 2011 Moms
SweetHurricane
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SweetHurricane
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Where is everyone on the transition to solids?
Since we moved I've been greatly slacking. DD gets finger food when we eat dinner, and usually a snack at some point during the day, but other than that she's still mostly on formula. She'll eat anything I give her. It's me that's the problem. I don't know what to make/buy for her. I can't feed her what I eat, because I hardly eat and when I do it's crappy pregnancy craving foods.
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Re: Solids
I know my LO will be having turkey, stuffing and sweat potatoes tmrw. She had shredded turkey last week and went nuts for it.
Ive only been exploring new foods for a little over a week now. H made her pancakes, and she has had some pasta too. Im like you though, its like sometimes I dont eat food that is appropriate for her, so she gets rice cereal or puree's and still 4 8 oz bottles a day. I know she is doing fine on the formula, but Id like to step it up with her exploring new foods too.
Im curious to see what everyone else says.
My DD took such a long time to actually eat any solids without gagging herself. up until about 2 months ago I couldn't get her to eat any solids.
Now she has a yogurt and half a waffle or a fruit puree for breakfast, she usually has a snack of Cheerios and some pieces of banana or other fruit. Lunch is the hardest for me so I usually make her some lentils or some lukewarm soup. Dinner she has what we have in addition to a veggie puree most nights. She still drinks 4 bottles a day (sometimes more).
Coop will be eating purees for the rest of his life. I give him things i'm eating and he does fine (sometimes). We always give him new foods and either it's a hit or a miss. I keep trying pasta, but he freaks out. I'm trying...he is just making it difficult lol. Any advice?
I would like to add that Cooper literally chokes 1-2 times a day on his saliva. It's very scary and this also has a lot to do with me being nervous.
Joaquin all of a sudden started eating really well. She & I pretty much share meals at this point, and she gets milk every 4 hours or so. She really likes it if I give her the food right off my plate which I'm sure will get really irritating when she eats more. I do have to be careful though, not to make myself, say, a pb&j when she's acting like a starving baby bird. We have dry cereal for breakfast with fruit, and a veggie with lunch.
She definitely has marked preferences in terms of presentation... she's been super into grilled green pepper strips, asparagus and cumin & garlic sweet potato fries this week, but if I cut them into smaller pieces she's like, what is this f*ckery momma. She's icked out by melted cheese right now of all things, but really likes pieces of super sharp cheddar. I've given her rotini and farfalle and she's not a fan, but she'll shove angel hair into her mouth by the tiny fistful. Her favorite new thing right now is 3 bean chili, with scallions but omg the diapers. We had pizza last night, and she really liked the pepperoni off H's and the mushrooms off mine.
She gags a lot though, because she's all, oh, this chewing business is fun! and then forgets to swallow until she gets a huge wad of food in her mouth. From what I understand though, that's pretty normal.
And of course, by writing this I've completely jinxed myself. lol. Tonight we're having kraft dinner and steamed broccoli spears. It's been kind of a rough week.
Breakfast: One or more of the following:
Cheerios, pancakes, french toast, eggs, puree & toast, fruit(no bananas), oatmeal
Lunch:
Grilled cheese, mac-n-cheese, baked chicken, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, turkey, ham, chicken breat, cheese, cottage cheese, gerber prepared lunch tray thing, pickle, soup....
Dinner: Could be similar to lunch. Usually he will each what H and I eat.
pizza, spegetti, garlic bread, fish, chicken, turkey, potato's, carrots, peas, mix of veggies
Honestly, he could eat just about anything.
Even though Jay eats all day. He is still drinking a lot of formula. He usually drinks the same amount regardless of the amount of solids he has had ini a day. We still go through close to two cans of formula a month from Sam's. Sometimes closer to 3 cans.
p does the same thing, he either gets 24oz or 28oz of formula each day & it doesnt seem to change based on how much food he's eaten. seems like we go through a 2lb container of formula in just a little over a week. we probably easily spend $80 a month on formula
I have cut down on nursing tremendously. Only about 4 times per day now so I have no idea how much he's getting.
For breakfast it's almost always the same - 5 Tablespoons baby oatmeal, 1/2 banana, 1 - 2 oz of BM mixed in - and sometimes I'll feed him bits of the rest of the banana until he's no longer interested
Lunch - 4 oz of yogurt and a few pieces of pancake, sometimes I can sneak a bit of another fruit in there
Dinner - this is hit or miss. Sometimes he chows down, other times not so much. He's not really feeling purees lately, he loves broccoli and I try to give carrots and a little fruit with chicken.
Snacks - puffs, yogurt melts but not everyday
However, for about 2 weeks now I almost let him sample anything I have - he ate mac and cheese from the food court at the mall today and loved it, we've given bread dipped in pasta sauce, soup, pasta (not a fan at all), disco fries, cheese, really anything I think he can easily much with his almost 4 whole teeth and that's not gross fast food. Oh, and last night he ate like 5 black beans!
Tomorrow, he can have anything he wants!! I can't wait to see him enjoy his first turkey day!
I'm glad to see this post because we're not really on a schedule and I sometimes worry she's not having enough solid meals.
DD basically eats what we eat plus a few purees to make sure she's eating enough. The only things I don't feed her are french fries, ice cream, and other junk food. We try for 3 solid meals a day. At least once a week we have a day of 2 times that she sits for a meal. Often she'll be in the high chair 3 times in a day but not really want much to eat.
Breakfast: cheerios, puffs, jarred fruit with rice and/or oatmeal mixed in. (On weekends pancakes or eggs or whatever.)
Lunch: pureed food or leftovers from breakfast. Or part of what I'm eating if we go out. Or she nurses instead of sitting down 'cause we're on our way somewhere. This meal is kind of a mess (for both of us) and I'm working on making it better. Yesterday we had tuna and cheese.
Dinner: Whatever we're having + something pureed (usually a soup that I've made and frozen) to make sure she's really eaten enough.
She nurses at least in the morning, before bed, at some point during the day, and twice during the night.