hi all
my DS2 wont have a bar of solid food - he clamps his mouth shut and has 1-2tsp a day max... somtimes he gets upset when we try (so i stop immediately) but sometimes he is happy just not interested in eating
i offer at bfast and dinner when we are eating and he has just started at daycare and they also offer in the day time
he will munch on a cruskit when we give it to him...
i know it isnt important from a nutritional basis - food for fun til they are 1 and all that - but i am thinking he doesnt even try it - will this resolve before he is 12 months? I'd like him to have some as he is also not taking bottles AT ALL at this stage so i have to go to child care and feed in the day and he is hungry all night long...
he hasnt got any teeth yet (i am comparing to DS1 who always LOVED food and got teeth at 6.5 months) if that has anything to do with it?
nope, I don't think teeth have anything to do with it.
Are you doing BLS or babyfood?
The reason I ask is because with DD I started with traditional baby food - no solids would she take until about 9months. Then I went onto BLS and she was off like a rocket.
DS I started with BLS and while he'll have a go at anything and everything he still only eats 2tbs max at any meal. He was also a slow starter and wasn't real keen on anything until after 8months either...maybe 1-2tspns at a go (not of actual baby food but just to give an idea of quantity).
All kids are different, and I just about did my own head in watching my GFs shovelling food into their kids mouths (all the same age as DS). But once I and realised that my little guy is just different....he' still ok.
I was going to suggest BLW too but I see everyone else has beaten me to it!
If you are new to it a great way to start is sit him in his highchair when you are eating, and just transfer some food from your plate to his so he knows he is having exactly the same as you. Broccoli is a great starter food as it has a built in handle, ditto carrot sticks. Chicken is also very good as it falls apart when gummed in the mouth.
H is more interested in finger foods...we do the cruskits too with cream cheese, hommous, grated cheese, grated apple, grated pear, chicken dipped in tahini, wholemeal bread with vegemite, little pasta shells.....i basically use what we are eating, but obv make it safer for him.
One thing ive found fantastic is those net feeder things - you know those things where you may put chopped up oranges, watermelon, etc, and they can suck on the net so no choking occurs ?? DS loves this.....
Oh...and we have no teeth her either, so i doubt that would have anything to do with your DS....
Sounds like your taking the right approach though - relaxed, chilled, he will launch into this new world when he feels ready, in the meantime, keep offering, holding back when he puts up a fight...
Can't offer any advice, just sympathy because we are in the same boat and I imagine we still will be at 8 months. I've tried a range of pureed and finger foods and she rejects it all. She doesn't get upset just won't eat, so we keep trying but there is no indication of a turn around yet.
That's great that he's taking some EBM Pan. Tricky little beggars aren't they?
Finger food...Nate just gets what we have...he's thinks it's his right anyway to have it lol.
Another thing I found with him is the highchair. He will happily sit in his chair and start to eat, but three or four mouthfuls in, he's done and gets antsy. However if I put the rest on the kids table, he'll finish it. Not ideal i know and messy, but he'd eat three times more like this.
MamaPan, my DS is just about to hit 9 months and still isn't really all that interested in food. He's getting better though. We're doing BLS and started offering food to him at 6 months. Its taken until now for him to much more readily pick food up and take it to his mouth, move it around and actually ingest much at all really. I've just been following his lead.
As for finger foods - anything goes really. For dinner he usually gets bits & pieces of whatever we have. If we eat pasta, we make it with penne or rigatoni tubes so its easier for him to pick up. If we have a stirfry, I just keep some of the veg & strips of meat (if the sauce is not ok for him). If we have a roast, we just give him the meat & veg as we would eat it. For brekky I sort of help him with some yoghurt and fruit. And for lunches I usually give him an array of fruit & veg that I happen to have in the house on any given day. He loves cucumber,tomatos, apples, pear, kiwi fruit, plums, prunes, pototo, pumpkin, avocado etc. I've just started offering kruskits too with avo or vegemite spread.
In the early days I did test him to see if the puree & spoon feeding would make any difference - none whatsoever. He is a really suspicious little character and would just try and take the spoon away from me or refuse altogether. He needs to pick up his food, feel it, look at it, taste it etc before he decides whether he goes back for a second go IYKWIM? Yesterday the faces when he tried kiwi fruit were hilarious - then he realised, yep - that's good I'm having some more!
8 month old - ZERO interest in solids
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and realised that my little guy is just different....he' still ok.
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