Menu options

christinaa722 · February 2013

I know that others post on here alot so I apologize if this is redundant, but I'm just really curious what every one else is doing in terms of menus and food for LO. He is 10.5 months and we've been doing all purees for breakfast, lunch, and even dinner. We do Stage 2's for the first two meals and we've been dabbling with meats and Stage 3's for dinner which turns out he hates. I've been randomly trying things like banana, toast, and baby yogurt which seem fine, but I'm kind of getting to the place of running out of my stash of baby food and I'm trying to figure what to do. I realize that he won't just pick up a slice of toast for breakfast, but how are you ladies handling this? I'm trying to not hurt my head over this, but the feeding thing has really been the most difficult thing to figure out this past year, especially since as soon as we find a rhythm and comfort, it all seems to change!

Wipz · February 2013

my lil guy just discovered the joys or chicken and veggies with dumplings and steak and veggies with dumplings.. He loves chicken tikka too

...as well as all the usual oatmeal, bananas, apple, pear, yogurt, grapes, cheese, cottage cheese, scrambled egg, bagel, pancakes, toast, cookies, cheerios, chex, green beans, sweet potato, squash, carrots, peas, cucumber and potatoes,..all kids are different .. just experiment and see what they like.

so far I haven't had any issues with anything.. he will pretty much eat whatever you put in front of him and if he can pick food up and feed himself while you spoon feed him he is happy, so we usually give him some finger foods on his tray at the same time.

When he is teething he can be a bit fussy about eating but that's usually the only time. We make our own food.. no store bought baby food except a few snacks. I just throw veggies in the 3 tier electric steamer or cook up big pots of meat n veggies and puree or mash now that he is tolerating lumps..

cltk12 · February 2013

Ds eats whatever we are eating. Tonight we had breakfast for dinner brinner and he had 1/2 a pancake, a fried egg yolk, a sausage link cut into pieces and a piece of toast that I cut into 4's.

cltk12 · February 2013

cltk12:
Ds eats whatever we are eating. Tonight we had breakfast for dinner brinner and he had 1/2 a pancake, a fried egg yolk, a sausage link cut into pieces and a piece of toast that I cut into 4's.

Oops, I also meant to say that we started around 8 months giving ds pieces of food each night along with his purees. Then, gradually gave him more pieces and less pure.

tjkdlhb · February 2013

We did BLW from 5.5 months when she started grabbing food from our plates.

We did soft foods like avocado and sweet potato/squash at first,(mostly for my comfort level) but for a long time she's been eating pretty much what we eat, minus any junky or salty stuff. I still cut things like grapes that are choking hazards.

She started eating toast at about 6.5 months or so. Toast is in quarters or finger shapes.

blushingbride_08 · February 2013

I give LO a fruit for breakfast, veggie for lunch, grain for dinner. I'm now adding protein and dairy soon. I just try to offer a variety of foods and textures. He is slowly building up quite an appetite.

christinaa722 · February 2013

blushingbride_08:
I give LO a fruit for breakfast, veggie for lunch, grain for dinner. I'm now adding protein and dairy soon. I just try to offer a variety of foods and textures. He is slowly building up quite an appetite.

This is what we do except with pur?es....and now that I see it in black and white, it would probably be the easiest way for start incorporating our food into the mix. I think part of the stress is that we pretty much never grocery shop, never menu plan, and we always eat out. I definitely don't want our kid growing up n fast food and junk food so it's a change for all of us, for the good no less, but still change. Thanks for all your input.

acaudill75 · February 2013

I would just caution that before giving LO any peanut butter or eggs to check with your pedi. I'm not saying that these women are doing anything wrong. Obviously their babies have been fine with those foods. My pedi. said no eggs until after they get their year vaccinations, and really wants me to hold off on peanuts until two, which we probably won't do. Under a year, infants lack the ability to properly break down peanut butter with their saliva, and it can cause a choking hazard. That was how it was explained to me. Again, I am not saying that these moms are wrong, justo presenting what i was told.

christinaa722 · February 2013

acaudill75:
I would just caution that before giving LO any peanut butter or eggs to check with your pedi. I'm not saying that these women are doing anything wrong. Obviously their babies have been fine with those foods. My pedi. said no eggs until after they get their year vaccinations, and really wants me to hold off on peanuts until two, which we probably won't do. Under a year, infants lack the ability to properly break down peanut butter with their saliva, and it can cause a choking hazard. That was how it was explained to me. Again, I am not saying that these moms are wrong, justo presenting what i was told.

Thanks for the insight. I was definitely aware of of the precautions with both of those foods and since LO has asthma and swallowing issues, we won't be trying them until after he gets allergy tested. To each family their own, but with LO we are being really careful nd cautious about everything.

tjkdlhb · February 2013

christinaa722:
acaudill75:
I would just caution that before giving LO any peanut butter or eggs to check with your pedi. I'm not saying that these women are doing anything wrong. Obviously their babies have been fine with those foods. My pedi. said no eggs until after they get their year vaccinations, and really wants me to hold off on peanuts until two, which we probably won't do. Under a year, infants lack the ability to properly break down peanut butter with their saliva, and it can cause a choking hazard. That was how it was explained to me. Again, I am not saying that these moms are wrong, justo presenting what i was told.
Thanks for the insight. I was definitely aware of of the precautions with both of those foods and since LO has asthma and swallowing issues, we won't be trying them until after he gets allergy tested. To each family their own, but with LO we are being really careful nd cautious about everything.

The recomendations have changed on it. Obviously you have to do what's in your comfort zone and every baby is different. It fascinates me how much variance there is in what is recommended by different drs and different regions.

I am completely anal about researching things like this and spoke to 2 doctors (one a family friend) and one that we saw when DD broke out into hives after eating once. I think the hives were because of the acidity of yogurt touching her skin, and they never happened again... But the dr we saw when that happened said that he had just gotten back from a workshop on introducing foods to infants in relation to allergies and that at the workshop they said that if you hold off on certain foods too long then it can actually cause allergies. He recommended that we still give the foods we were questioning, in tiny amounts and gradually increase the amount. He said otherwise she would always be allergic to it. Though, if it were an anaphilactic (sp) type of reaction, I would have been too nervous to do this.

Since DD is little, we had to see a dietician (prior to starting solids) for her to assess how much BM she was taking in (diaper count, etc). Since I was considering BLW I asked her about it. She said that nutritionally, it is great. And that many times when parents go the puree route (not saying that purees are bad) that they take too long to add textures and that they see a lot of problems then with children rejecting meats etc. She loved many points of BLW, especially the part of babies feeding themselves ...since they get the bulk of their nutrition from BM or formula... it's not a problem if it takes them a little while to get the hang of it.

She also loved that they are introduced to flavors and textures early. Her recommendation (which I followed) was to start with really soft foods (we did egg yolk french toast...I did wait a little while - though not a full year for whites, sweet potato fries, squash etc) and to go from there by judging how well LO was handling it. She said that if it were her child she would follow many of the points, but tweak it to her baby. (hence BABY -LED) Things that I wasn't comfortable with I mashed, cut super finely or grated.

I also took a first aid course.

Peanut butter is DEFINITELY a choking hazard, when spread thick. We do give it to DD. It is spread super thinly and she handles it fine.

In terms of deciding HOW to feed DD, it was definitely the most stressful decision I've made in parenting so far. I am really glad that we went the route that we did because it worked really well for her. I'm not saying that if I had another child I would do the same,(as every child is different) but it was great for her. It makes it so hard to figure out what to do when there is so much conflicting information out there.

Definitely talk to your pedi if there is asthma involved. We haven't given any shellfish yet because there are shellfish allergies in my family (and because honestly, we just haven't eaten it ourselves since starting solids...it's more of a summer food around here) We will probably do the same thing that we did with peanut butter and dab a little bit on her cheek, then give a teeny bit to her before letting her go to town on it.

ETA: Have you tried getting LO to feed himself anything yet, or is it all spoon-fed?

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