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Feeding is such a struggle...

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  • bigbearbigbear

    What a little silly goose Stick out tongue

    My DD is also inconsistant with what she likes or even the stuff she loves if it's puree fed with the spoon. But any time I tried giving some of "our" food and just little chunks she loved it. I just give her little bits with my hand and she's all over it. It can be frustrating at the beginning that's for sure. If the spoon seems to be the biggest issue, maybe try alternating, one bite with spoon one by hand or something? I guess sometimes you just need to try different things, this is all so new for our LOs and it's not easy to adjust to all these things in such short period of time.

    I have the mesh feeder as well but haven't tried it yet, I think I will now :)

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  • namara5532namara5532 member

    I'm sorry you're having such a hard time.  I suggest squash.  My DS can't get enough of the stuff.  I know he gets more excited when I feed him something he sees me eating.  He also likes to be in control of the feeding and would steal the spoon, so we transitioned to BLW.

    I wish I had some real advice for you except what DS gets excited about.  Some babies don't really get into solids until like 8 months, so the best I can suggest is to just continue offering the solids and letting LO eat if they want to.  Even if they aren't eating, keep eating time fun by including them at the table while you're eating.

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  • fyrefairiefyrefairie member
    I concur, we were doing a casual BLW anyways but pedi insisted on ceral for iron or meat puree.  If I spoon  feed DD is only cooperative on occasion but if I let her put her face/hands in the dish and feed herslef and fingerpaint herself with the food she is happy.  Its a mess but this is how they learn.

     

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  • Annya26Annya26 member

    Is she reaching for foods, chewing along with you or any of those things? It sounds to me like she just isn't ready.

    Remember that babies iron supplies START to depleat at 6 months, that doesn't mean they are all gone. I started offering LO solids (purees, BLW, a combo of both) and he was the same. There was no food going in because he wasn't having it. 

    Gave it a few weeks, waited for him to start reaching and trying to steal things off my plate and then tried again with much better results. He still doesn't get super excited over most things and prefers to put the spoon in his own mouth or eat small chunks but at least he's eating! :)

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  • sanbrysanbry member
    I could have written this. My DD has given me eating issues from the day she was born though and she's tiny. I think she just has a small appetite. It's a fight to get food into her, formula or otherwise. I've noticed if I wait a couple hrs to where she's almost about to have her next bottle, feed her some solids and then her bottle within 30 min. She seems to be more cooperative then. She seems to enjoy squash and bananas. 
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  • meg_2006meg_2006 member
    Uggggh it was torture trying to feed DS too.  I noticed slight improvements when we tried a different spoon, and used the Beech-Nut "textures" line, but eventually we just transitioned fully to BLW (we were doing it partly before).  Now baby and mama are both happy!

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  • CalMum_MommaCalMum_Momma
    Be patient. Sounds like maybe just not ready yet! Don't push it.
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  • bigbearbigbear

    imageMrsMooney:
    Thanks for the feedback ladies. She is exhibiting the signs of being ready and has been for a while. She tries to eat our food, sits up on her own, is twice her birth weight, all that jazz. She is BF and is eating 60 oz. a day so I was hoping that introducing some solids would help take that number down a bit. I used the mesh feeder again today and she loved some bananas. I'm going to read up on BLW and not push solids too much. I want her to be ready and have positive associations with food and eating.

    Every day this week, I've given DD some of our food and dropped the purees just to see. uhm yeah, she LOVES "regular" food. So I guess we are switching things around a bit from our original plan. You just have to go with the flow and see what the babes are up to. I think you have the right approach :)

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  • blondiemama09blondiemama09
    DD is like this too. She just does not like the spoon, but would love to eat regular food. I do a semi-BLW, but might start doing more. I need to read up on it better.
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