I could really use a break

Re: I could really use a break

• XCrissCrossX member

  August 2012

  Have you tried gradually thickening them or leaving some chunks?

  Does he like apple sauce? Maybe try steamed apples that haven't been pureed?
  

  
  
  

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• MrsWindyCity member

  August 2012

  Do you eat at the same time as him? If not, I would try eating at the same time and offering what you're eating.

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• AshleyMF1983 member

  August 2012

  My 12 month old DD will only eat fruits or veggies if they're pureed, and her pedi isn't worried either.  However, it's driving me crazy town banana pants.  I feel your pain.

  

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• dakiesgirl

  August 2012

  We had to go cold turkey and let him be a little hungrier before our DS got the clue that the family meal doesn't revolve around him all the time.  We give him fruit and veg puree pouches for all his snacks, but at meal times, he has to have toddler foods and we offer bites of our food.   No more puree meals- only puree snacks allowed in our house now.  Of course, we are still working on getting him to eat non-puree veggies, which is why I don't sweat the snacks, but I think I was rushing the change too much.  I have found I have high expectations for quick evolution with DS.

   A couple of other things we found were DS seems to prefer to eat non-baby foods from our plates rather than his own serving.  Also, we have found that he is now wanting to assert more independance and doesn't want to be fed- he wants foods he can feed himself.

  HTH!  Good luck.

  

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• lorist202 member

  August 2012

  MrsWindyCity:

  Do you eat at the same time as him? If not, I would try eating at the same time and offering what you're eating.

   

  We all eat together.  He's even interested in our food, so before he even sees his separate meal, I try to feed him from my plate.  He won't hear of it.  I've tried bigger portions, smaller portions, multiple choices on his tray, new choices at snacktime only, putting chunks in the puree, encouraging him just for touching/ picking up the new food, putting butter (which he loves) on new foods, giving him baby utensils, spicy food, etc, etc, etc. 

  He's just picky, and it scares me.  It runs in my family.  I was picky as a kid but grew out of it- now I eat everything.  My brother just barely grew out of it, but there isn't much he eats to this day.  Trying to stay optimistic.  
  

  

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• greyt00 member

  August 2012

  I feel your pain.  My son is EXTREMELY PICKY and we are still buying baby food.  He's 18 months old.  We are on occupational therapist #2 for this (the first one wasn't working out) and thought he had a sensory processing disorder, but now we think he is just a total stubborn picky pants.  The only fruit he will eat is bananas and he won't eat any veggies, hence the need for baby food (thick puree).  He will sometimes eat a sandwich, fish sticks, veggie tots, and he will eat almost any carb product that is crunchy, but he won't eat cheese, beans, meat (probably not that unusual), and many other things.  It makes me crazy.  I'm a little less crazy now that I have a newborn keeping me very, very busy, and his care has been mostly relinquished to DH, especially meals.  I think we are going to keep up with the OT for a few more weeks and then quit.  We will be discussing this with the pedi at his 18M appt this month -- like how hungry can he go at this age not eating what we want him to eat before we break down and give him something else.
  

  
   

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• lb+mn

  January 2013

  I am resurrecting this post because I am having the same problem with my son. Did the pickiness get better? Did the OT help? If it got better, what did you do?

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