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Advice for feeding LO

stemms8810stemms8810 member
in May 2012 Moms
My LO has been consistently swatting at the spoon when I have tried to spoon feed him the past couple weeks.  I have been slowly introducing more table food as a result.  Well, unless it's Puffs or the Gerber veggie sticks he is not interested in eating pretty much anything else.  He may take a couple bites here and there of something else but he always wants the Gerber snacks.  I wish I had never let him have them in the first place now.  I have tried fruit, veggies, meat and cheese.  Nothing seems to be of his liking.  How do I handle this?  He needs to eat more than Puffs!  Help!
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Re: Advice for feeding LO

  • MommaJBMommaJB

     Sorry, in advance.  My response is long but we have been suffering with this same issue and I started feeling desperate so I want to help if I can!

    We introduced the gerber snacks first as finger foods just as an extra while he was e

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  • ELF4321ELF4321 member
    I stopped giving LO puffs/cheerios/rice crackers during her 3 meals, and only give them to her for snack time.  For snacks, I have her sit on my lap for a few minutes to eat them or in her activity center, never in her high chair anymo


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  • stemms8810stemms8810 member

    Thank you so much!!  I am going to stop offering them in his high chair and keep offering the other food.  I figured he would give in at some point but I didn't know if he would starve himself and I would be a horrible parent for making him e

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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    FOOD BEFORE ONE IS FOR FUN! Your child should still be gettingost of the nutrients he needs from bm or formula so they will not starve. That being said it takes 10 times of offering something new for some children to even accept it as food so by giving in
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  • stemms8810stemms8810 member
    imagetheresat858:

    I agree with the advice to just keep offering other food and stop offering puffs at meal times.

    He

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    imagebellelamb:
    FOOD BEFORE ONE IS FOR FUN! Your child should still be gettingost of the nutrients he needs from bm or formula so t
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  • najzomaxnajzomax member

    Some of the really big hits here were

    banana (give it to LO whole, they can get bites off without teeth), peas, black beans, chick peas, turnip sticks ( long and skinny, cooked soft like Bellelamb said), pears, blueberries, mozzarella

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