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One eater, one not interested

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I was slow to start solids with my DSs, as I waited until 7 months (so their adjusted age was 6 months). I started out with BLW, then really dialed it back after the frustration of them having a reaction a couple times and not knowing what had caused it. I started doing 1 food at a time with a combo of purees and finger foods.

So, K will eat almost anything I give him. While I don't think he's ingesting much yet from the finger foods, he loves his purees. G, on the other hand, seems to want no part of the purees. He has a little more interest in the finger foods but, like his brother, isn't ingesting much. Honestly, most days he east less than an ounce TOTAL over 3 meals. His formula drinking is still going strong, although it's about 10-20% less than at its peak (at about 7 months). He is a HUGE kid, so I'm not worried about weight gain or growth or anything.

It's just not my style to "force" him to eat a certain amount, and I try to be of the mindset that "food before 1 is just for fun". But...his interest in solids will get better, right? I'm just picturing having one great eater and one that will still only take a bottle at 3!

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Re: One eater, one not interested

  • fancefppfancefpp member
    I don't think you should worry about it. I would just keep introducing food, even food they refused before, and eventually they will start eating more. It took about two months for my DS to eat certain foods and even now he still refuses certain textures.
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  • aeklotzaeklotz member
    It took my daughter a couple months of offering to really get her to take in a lot of solids. Now she eats everything, eapecially if she can feed herself. Just keep offering and enjoy watching them learn and grow :)
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  • nbbride06nbbride06 member
    My 10 month old still eats probably less than an ounce a day total.  But she is just picky, only eats when she wants to eat and what she wants to eat.  She also won't let anyone spoon feed her.  Today she ate 3 bites of a peanut butter sandwich and I was thrilled.
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  • HisGirlCrideyHisGirlCridey
    I hear ya. One of our twins has always ate like a truck. The other one is the one that my husband says that when she's four, she'll be the girl who only eats chicken fingers and milk. For some reason at around 8 months, they both got crazy picky and stopped eating all of their food and stopped finishing bottles, which had me worried, but it was a phase and now both are eating everything in sight.
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