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Meal help and sippy cup

muffin0526muffin0526 member
in Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

Any LOs out there that just have a hand full of foods they will eat?

 

my LO will be 14 months next week. She loves pancakes, waffles, French toast and yogurt. Sometimes she will eat scrambled eggs. She loves fruit as well. Other than that I can't get her to eat much else. I keep on offering her many other healthy options as well but she just spits them out. Anyone else out there in this situation? 

Also, have been trying to transition to sippy cup. She has NEVER liked the sippy cup. S it has been difficult to get her to use for milk. I have bought so many different ones without any success. Ay suggestions? Should I go cold turkey with switching to sippy cups knowing that she will drink eventually. Help please!!

TIA 

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Re: Meal help and sippy cup

  • tifdaski84tifdaski84 member

    I've been really lucky in that my LO will eat pretty much anything I put in front of him.  He does have his favourites though, so I try to incorporate one of them when we're trying something new.  That way, he gets eating and is more likely to keep feeding himself even when he runs out of the good stuff. 

    As for the sippy cup, LO still doesn't do them well so we just stick with a straw cup (using the Playtex ones right now).  He just doesn't get the whole tipping it back thing.  We haven't transitioned his milk/formula to the straw cup yet and I do worry he won't get enough when we do, but I guess he'll figure it out.

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  • FutureMrsFezzFutureMrsFezz member

    I'm going through the same food thing with K right now.  He went from eating whatever I put down to only wanting carbs, fruit and cheese.  I just keep offering everything and hope he'll decide to stop being a butthead.

     As for the sippy cup transition, I'm also going through that and I decided that cold turkey was the easiest.  We're on day 3 of no bottle and yesterday he probably drank an ounce of milk all day.  He does, however, eat a lot of yogurt and cheese and he's been eating a lot more since he's not filling up on milk.  I'm hoping eventually he'll just start drinking it because he realizes he doesn't have a choice.

     So I really didn't give you any advice, just letting you know you're not alone.

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  • blu-eyedwifeblu-eyedwife member

    Meal - I have yet to meet or hear of a toddler that didn't go through this in some shape or form.  Totally normal.  They're learning about likes and dislikes as well as learning that they can have control over certain situation.  It's exciting and empowering for them, and a total PITA for us as parents.It sounds like you're doing exactly what you should be doing.  Just keep offering.  You can't "make" her eat, but eventually she'll probably expand what she eats on her own, and if you continue to offer, it gives her the chance to do so.

    Sippy cups - have you tried straw cups instead?  We started with those (just by chance) and he took to it right away, so we never used a sippy cup.  He loves the straw cup because he sees "big people" drinking out of straws at restaurants (and at home - DH and I both use reusable straw cups)

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  • gonnabeamom0811gonnabeamom0811
    Nuby 3 stage non drip bottles helped us with the transition.....you change out the nipples...out starts with a boyle nipple then move to sippy. They sell them at walmart..

    As for food I'm stuck as well...my lo will eat thingd with a fried texture only
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