January 2016 Moms
BarrettJ89
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Impossible Eater
BarrettJ89
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Brynlee was finally cleared for us to start introducing dairy and soy again, which is great. We've pretty much gone all in, and offer her anything and everything. Digestion-wise, she seems to be handling it well, but no matter what we give her, she will take maybe 2 bites total, then she will completely refuse. That item may be the only thing we give her, or she could have a buffet... we could give it to her at random, multiple days in a row, she absolutely will not touch it again. She shakes her head "no," will say no, and/or throws it. I'm absolutely losing my mind. Any ideas?
Re: Impossible Eater
Apple sauce recipe- peel, core 2 large organic sweet apples, boil for 5 mins, drain water, 2-3 dates seeds removed, blend together until smooth. Apple sauce always works as a last resort.
Bake Japanese sweet potato with peel on, let it cool, remove peel, cut in small pieces, offer to feed herself. Give a spoonful of cold milk with every bite.
Cut small pieces of very ripe Bosc pear, add Greek gods yoghurt.
You can try goat milk. I use mayenberg whole milk goat. It's easily digestible than cows milk. My baby eats buffet too. She is very picky.
Also often before distractions I offer a sip of water. She often continues to eat after drinking a bit...
One last suggestion: offering something different after the 2 bites and then going back to the first thing if she eats more... Eg alternating fruit and cereal or whatever the items in your meal are.
Good luck and patience !!
Jokes aside, have you tried those baby food pouches? I hate to buy them but my LO goes crazy for them so we use them in a pinch.
Putting a mirror in front of her so she can watch herself eat
After her first couple bites, offer a food pouch
Give her sips of water between bites
Some different things that have helped us are I offer her small chunks of cheese, Little bites of scrambled eggs, whole wheat bread, blueberry pieces, and she really seems to love some organic Cheerios from natural groceries. Another favorite is freeze dried strawberries and blueberries that I found at Walmart over by the fruit/deli section.
The other thing that seemed to help, strange as it seems, was I just let it go when she doesn't want the solids...let her lead more instead of me. She seem to do worse when I was more frustrated by it or pushing it at her too much...which I know I was doing for a while. Some days I just nurse her a lot still :-) Mary still doesn't eat a ton of solids but it's slowly increasing in amount. But she's doing great with her health and growth and seems very happy so I figure it's okay.
Hopeflly your little will start munching on some more solids soon!!!
I like the thinking some of you guys have mentioned - a good way to look at it is that she's starting from scratch... My LO only just started eating other stuff a couple months ago, so I figure she's at the beginning stages as well.
Also, maybe she's just picky and hasn't found anything she likes yet. Right now we only have 1 food packet that I KNOW she will eat (sweets and beats), other stuff she only takes a couple bites out of. Cheese, yogurt, and peanut butter are the only other go-to's. And of course cheerios. So we constantly try to introduce her to new foods and hope that one day she is less picky, but we end up feeding her a lot of the same.
For Brynlee, she's had these god-awful screaming fits since she was an infant, pretty much from day 1. She would writhe in pain, screaming, clenching her fingers and toes, rolling, arching, scratching/clawing at anything within reach. We took her to a specialist at 3 months old who looked at us like we were crazy, said it was colic and reflux and sent us on our way. At about 10 months, we took her to a different specialist where she was diagnosed with a cow's milk protein allergy and a soy allergy, but they did no testing because it presents as nothing more than an upset stomach (in doctor eyes), rather than hives or bloody stools. We went back to the specialist a week ago and have given her small amounts of dairy, which had awful reactions. After talking to her regular pediatrician today, we are going to follow up with a blood test to check for allergies and an upper GI scope to look into the reasoning for the severe reflux and just to be sure that there's nothing more serious going on. She's been maxed out on 3 different medications for reflux and nothing seems to help, so it's time to quit putting band aids on and find what's causing it...
So far, Brynlee hates the idea. Lol. We'll try again after a nap...