how do I get LO to try solids

ajs3302 · February 2013

My LO is going to be 10 months next week. Right now, she eats oatmeal with puree for breakfast, turkey or chicken (jarred) with puree (fruit and veggie) for lunch and yogurt as an afternoon snack/dinner. I tried to get her to eat mashed banana, and she was not pleased. She does not like puffs, and will pick them up and not put them in her mouth. when I put them in her mouth, she makes sour faces. She has recently begun eating textured purees, but I want her to being the eating process. How do I introduce this to her, without fear of her choking.

Side note: she can only try 1 new food a week, due to a development of hives a few months ago that we were unable to find the cause of.

kalette · February 2013

Try cutting the banana into thin slices instead!

meglette417 · February 2013

Banana might be tough b/c of the texture, my son rather play than eat it but if I put it in his mouth he loves it. Try blueberries they are soft or even Cherrios, pieces of toast.

vrj0522 · February 2013

We are doing a lot of soups with my LO and he loves them. Plus because they are "soft foods" I don't have to worry much about him choking on them.

I also will look for any opportunity to feed mashed table food to him. For example, we had a potato chicken stew last week and I just mashed the potatoes and fed them to him with the finely shredded chicken and stew juice. What you could do for example with something like that is introduce the potatoes by themselves at first, then mix with chicken since she's already had chicken before... maybe before all of this try doing the broth first by itself for a week and see how that goes. And then she can eat a full meal.

They also say to try a food at least 10 times before giving up on it. My LO hated both peaches and yogurt and I bought him some peach yogurt melt things and started giving him one every day. He would make a sour face every time but after about a week, he started having more than one at a time and now he finally likes them and is eating fruit yogurt now. Just keep trying and eventually she will embrace the things you feed her (most likely).

beth2882 · February 2013

We did banana first. I found that breaking little bits off with my finger, rather than slicing it up, made it a little easier for DD to grab hold of it. It wasn't as slimy.

HollyBee013 · February 2013

I was PETRIFIED of LO choking when we first started more solids. But, anything that is soft should be fine. I dont know what you want to feed her, our LO eats a lot of what we eat, modified a little. For example, quinoa stuffed peppers. She LOVES bell peppers but has a hard time with the skin, so before giving her some pepper pieces, we make sure the skin is removed. That way, they are soft and slippery and she gets them down ok. Avocado is another good first. Bite size pieces are slippery, but its so soft, there isnt a huge chance of her choking. Gerber also makes other snacks that LO likes, some veggie puffed up thing, I forget what they are called, but they melt the moment it hits her tongue, so you could try those too. Good luck!

DawnLilly · February 2013

LO eats mostly finger foods. I agree with PP about avocado which also was DS's first pureed food mixes with BM. Over cooked carrots might be another option to cut up small enough for your LO. Sweet potatoes can be done the same way. I was told that their gag reflexes are further up than ours at this age too. Whether there's any truth to that I don't know but at first it did seem like DS scoffed and gagged on everything, but he never choked.

acaudill75 · February 2013

DD1 took to solids at four months. DD2 I had to wait until seven months. She has only her two bottom teeth right now. But she eats Cheerios, bread, small pieces of deli turkey, cheese, fries (I slice the potato and bake them in the oven), banana ... The banana we just broke in half and gave to her and she managed it pretty well. Also, pancakes, puffs, pouches with all kinds of fruits a veggies mixed together. Just keep trying. Eventually they get the hang of it.

Irishsapphire · February 2013

We did really small pieces of scrambled eggs, pancakes, homemade bread, cooked carrotts this past weekend. We just put it on her tray, and she would pick up the small pieces in her mouth eat it. My daughter has six teeth so I know that she can chew it and eat the small pieces of food.

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