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newbee36
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Any tips on feeding?
newbee36
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DS doesn't want to eat solids. I know they say that the first year solid food is just for fun. And I am not trying to stuff him at all. He is skinny for his length, but he is following his growth curves in both weight and length and the Pedi is very happy with his development (so am I). He eats the "recommended" amount of formula per day, so I am not worried about his nutritions intake, but I am worried that I will have one picky eater. We started solids about a month ago and he still wouldn't eat even 2oz/day of anything, except for sweet potatoes. I really wish he was more excited about eating veggies. Oh, and cereals, forget it. Spits it up as soon as you put it in his mouth. Anybody else's child started out like this? What happened latter? Any suggestions are appreciated.
I should also mention that because of all the allergies issue that we had, we have been advised to give him one food item over a 5 day period. After that, introduce a new one. Also they recommended we don't give him mixed food, even if the mix consists of items he has had already and have not shown an allergic reaction to any.
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Re: Any tips on feeding?
What have you tried with him? Are you trying to be the good parent and only give veggies first and then fruit? Go for the sweet things first like sweet potatos, carrots, fruits. Have you tasted the baby cereal? It tastes nasty. I do not blame him for not liking it. Do you heat the baby food? Perhaps he would like it hotter or colder than you are giving it to him. If you have plain veggies for dinner, give him a taste of what you have. I found that if you cook green beans, freeze them and then reheat them, they are mushy enough to be eaten with no teeth but still easy to pick up with fingers. (Michael did not get his first tooth until he was 11 months old.) I froze them in individual containers and microwaved the container to thaw and then allowed to cool a few minutes.
He will catch on and eat you out of house and home. I know that you are leary due to allergy issues but one thing I did was if Michael wanted to try it, he got it, no matter what it was. He eats most things now (brussell sprouts and spinach are on the yucky list but he still tries them every time we have them).
Hey Newbee,
We also waited a few days in between starting new things. We started our LO out with sweet potato's. I have a ninja so the puree part was a breeze. We moved to peas and he spit them at me. Then avocado's, he didn't seem to love them like sweet potato's. He LOVES banana's. I puree and I use the Gerber 1st and 2nd stages in the container not the jar (just looks better to me).
LO didn't care for cereal either so I would feed it to him with prunes which he seems to love as well. Now I find that he'll eat the cereal as long as there's some fruit associated with it. He's eating three meals a day and still takes in quite a few bottles. Maybe you can try banana's. It's okay if he's a picky eater. I'll three of my kids were picky eaters, I just gave them what they wanted and incorporated things in between. Hope this helps!
The one week per food thing is recommended by lots of pedis even for non-allergy kids. It's what we did with DS.
Anyhoo, my opinion on the cereals is that they're gross. We did rice then oat then wheat with DS and they were all disgusting and DS never seemed to take a shine to them.
As long as he's getting a feel for eating solids I wouldn't worry. Pretty soon you can introduce soft non-purees and your whole world will open up.
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I started both my first 2 kids on baby rice, no problems, then one new fruit or veggie puree every few days. Pear puree is nicer than apple.
It is more about accepting the solid food and getting the hang of swallowing, and discovering a taste explosion after months of milk
My 2 and a half year old has weeks of being picky and fussy and then a few weeks where he will eat everything. Just go with the flow. It can be very frustrating at times. I was watching a tv show about toddlers and eating. This one toddler wouldnt eat anything new. So They blidnfolded the parents and gave them a few different things to taste (could have been anything) and the parents had to decide what it was and if it was nice. Its the same thing a toddler feels when he tries a new food. Its all new to them. I try to remember this and it helps me relax when hes being fussy.
We are doing just regular foods with him - today he had avocado straight out of the skin on a spoon. He eats it eagerly, usually sucking on it for awhile before 'asking' for another bite. We've done whole green beans - just let him play with it which means sucking on it. Same with celery and a few other things I can't remember right now. He's been reaching into our plate for a little while now (and mostly we hold him off but some veggies and soft meat we indulge in). We also have a mesh feeder - I put pineapple it in for him so far, he loved it. He's not neccassarily "eating" it so much as just mushing it with his mouth and getting the flavor.
Do you think it's flavor? It's just not milk for him? Or do you think more texture would help? We skipped the oatmeal/cereal stage because that stuff grosses ME out!
I have no advice since I must have done everything wrong. My kid WILL.NOT.EAT. He's 2 1/4 and just is not interested in meals. He'll snack somewhat, but survives on sippy yogurts and milk. It still drives me nuts.
I will say, he was fussy from the very beginning, too, so I don't know if that bodes well for you or not... not trying to scare you!
First, I wanted to be a good parent and tried veggies. Carrots. He didn't like it. I tried again the next day. He didn't like it again. And tried it again.....No luck. Then I decided to try fruits. Apples. That worked better. He kind a liked it, but he never "asked" for more. Then we had 5 days of sweet peas. He would eat couple of spoons and then start turning his head. The only thing he really liked was sweet potato. I will definitely try giving him veggies from the table.
Yes, I have tried baby cereal and it does taste awful. That is why I am not forcing him to eat that. As far as I know, nothing especially nutritious in the rice cereal anyways. My main concern is that he only takes the sweet stuff, and I may face a problem that he won't eat veggies. Hopefully offering veggies from our plate will work.