please help.... late weaning
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8/10/08 21:09
8/10/08 20:53
I have had a breathrough as well!!! I cant tell you how pleased I am. I just got a hipp organic jar of apple and pear and he opened his mouth and ate the lot. He has never done this and he enjoyed it. I was in tears as he would eat a thing that I made or any jar before, then he just did. I am so so pleased and then he ate a piece of melon, how cool is that!!! xxx
8/10/08 20:45
Well done Lo 
Its a good start, keep trying she will eat your cooking eventually.Ive never heard of a school age child eating jars for their pack lunch
8/10/08 20:13
hi everyone just an update. well we seem to have had a breakthrough!
shes not keen at all on the stuff that ive made myself for her but has tried a few of the hipp organic jars of savoury and has eaten a fair amount of them! duno how to get her to eat my stuff lol but im just so proud of her for getting this far thanks for all your advice! x5/10/08 20:48
Hi thanks for that. its very interesting. I wont worry at all now. though Im thinking 48oz milk a day is alot so it will not harm him to have slightly less. thanks all xxx
5/10/08 19:43
This link is related to breastfeeding, but i assume its the same for bottle feeding, print it out and take it to your hv-lol!!
http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solids/solids-how.html
xx
5/10/08 19:08
Hi Yes he is nearly 7 months old now. Its funny so many pepole say to me milk is his main diet and food is about textures and tastes etc. I said this to the hv and she said rubbish its not. I dont know!!! He was having 6 eight oz bottles a day so 48oz in total. So I thought I would cut the milk back to 5oz bottles and two 8oz bottles one for bedtime and one dreamfeed. He seems ok with this and has started eating a bit more now. I hope this is not cruel. hv said to cut it to 3oz. I hate to keep saying about the hv as there are great ones for sure but my one scares me xxx
4/10/08 21:25
snoopy - yes I would just leave him to it. I am doing Baby Led weaning and just give DD bits of food to play with or eat if she chooses to. I have only once had to help her out when she put a whole rice cake in her mouth, and that was just grabbing the bits as she managed to cough/push with her tongue so they came out.
I also wouldn't cut his milk down. he will cut down when he is ready (I'm assuming he's closer to the 7mth mark than the 12mth one). Milk is still the most important source of nutrition, weaning is about learning tastes & textures & learning to enjoy food. I know it's tough when everyone else's baby is eating lol but they all get there in the end!
4/10/08 19:52
I feel for you I really do my baby is a nightmare it feels like with food. He had some mango today and he takes abiggish bit of then I see it on his tongue and I really worry he may choke. would you just leave him to it to try and chew???
my friends say my lo will eat eventually but sometimes I prepare all these things and he doesnt want to know. he knows what milk is and thats what he wants!!
I cut his milk back to 5oz bottles instead of 8oz to try and make him more hungry. this hasnt worked either as he crys for more milk. its really worrying me he is not eating. I have tried all foods and ideas I think. I even tried to spoon fee him his formula on a spoon and he he turns his nose up
help!!!!!
4/10/08 19:45
surprise surprise she didnt eat it! lol n i even made sure it was proper milky! x
4/10/08 14:28
jen- i just boil up some potatoes and mash them, then add the cheese sauce. You can either make your own or use the heinz cook at home ones. Ive made my own before, use 25g of butter,melt in the pan, add 25g of flour to make a roux, keep stiring so doesnt stick, add milk, probably about 300 mls or thereabouts (can use formula or full fat) until desired consistency then add chesse. Then mix in with the potato.
I suppose you could just mash the potato right down with milk and then just stir in some grated cheese. That sounds easier doesnt it-lol!!
Was going to ask you if you tried warming up the milk with weetabix yesterday? My boy likes his milk warm, just a thought. Post how you get on.
x
4/10/08 14:23
i would start from the bbeginning just move along quickely try things like sweet potatoe mixed with lots of milk use the milk from the bottle you are going to give her you might have to be a bit forse full till she realises that food is nice try fruit purees and try one thing at a time there might be things she dosnt like how much milk is she drinking during the day keep with the finger food toast you will be surprised how quick they get the idea once they start i know its hard work but just give the food first if you can or give a couple of ounces then the food then remainder of milk when shes had enough solids you might find that she is so hungry that she refuses the food as she knows the milk willl be next and solve her hunger problem i used gina ford contented baby weaning book i started off with solids at 6pm the dinner at 11 then break fast at 7 gradually moving dinner to 12 and tea to 5 pm it really helped me reading her books as she tells you what is the best way to wean i didnt have a clue with my daughter and dint have the books but did with my son and it made things much easier
4/10/08 14:15
ladyzampa - this potato and cheese sauce your on about. what and how do u make it lol what kind of potato and how do u do the potato? can i use the heinz 3 cheese sauce thts in the packet? do u have to add anything else. and do i put some of her milk in as well. mashed or blended. sorry for all the questions! x
3/10/08 20:57
they say it can take up to 20 tries before babies decide if they like something or not, and I don't think it hurts to allow them to realise that they are allowed to choose to dislike something. You can make savoury milky things too if you think that's what LO is tending towards liking, as PP suggested there's cheese sauce with various things (you can mix cheese sauce in with any veg etc if it helps to get LO to try new things). If you make it yourself you can also make savoruy versions of things like egg custard (bread & butter pudding is essentially egg custard with bread soaked in it & I've got recipes for cheese &ham version of that & also one with sausages in somewhere), or add some cinnamon & apple or whatever. Another option for offering a "second choice" as LO eats more finger foods is to make sure that either one (meal you're trying to feed her) or other (finger foods) is something she does like & offer both alongside so that she can help herself to fingerfoods in between spoonfuls, that way you know she'll be eating something without it being a case of "you didn't eat this so now you're having this" iysiwm.
I've just remembered now that my mum had trouble with my youngest brother - for ages he would only eat food if it had apple sauce in it so EVERYTHING was mixed with apple sauce. My other younger brother she had some problems with too, he went through a stage where he would only eat custard &biscuits & he had to feed himself the custard. There was concern about his weight but they are both now happy healthy young men!Even if she ends up a "fussy eater" so long as she eats a wide enough range of foods to meet nutritional needs (protein, vits etc) it doesn't matter if they're all the same things over & over.
3/10/08 19:31
jen- i think thats fine, try her with new things, but dont force, if you need to give her what youknow she likes. Why dont you try some mashed potato with a cheesey milky sauce tomorrow for her tea? Make it quite loose in texture, then atleast you know she is trying some savory. I gave my DS a lump of daitlea today to eat as finger food, a bit messy but he loved it. you are doing really well
3/10/08 19:22
hi everyone. just an update. was running a bit behind today so for her tea i gave her some egg custard and she ended up eating the whole lot lol. again though its milky based or a pudding rather than a savoury. gona try her with the butternut squash again tomorrow and see how she goes but ive got a feeling shes gonna be one of these that will eat puddings and not first courses! also tried her with weetabix this morning but she didnt really take to it. when i do offer her something new i make sure she has a good try with it before i take it away until the next day and then i always offer her something else tht i think she is more likely to eat. like this morning when she had tried and didnt want the weetabix i gave her some porridge. do u think this is the right thing to do as then at least she has had something or do u think that shes more likely to refuse the new food coz she will learn tht mummy wil get something tht i like if i dont eat this? x
3/10/08 08:38
jen- i think i would go with how pp suggested. Try the same food for a few days, then a new one. It sounds like you girl just wants to take her time and go slowly. You can keep offering her little bits of finger food too. I always give my son his milk first, usually an hour before solids, and it doesnt seem to affect his appetite. He is still on 4 milk feeds a day and doesnt show any signs of dropping one.
Keep us posted.
x
2/10/08 22:12
I would do the same thing for 3 or so days at a time then try another food. mixing in some of her milk with foods is fine, she still gets the different taste just not as strong. Then once you've got 3 or 4 foods that she seems ok with try offering one at dinner time.
Personally I'm not sure on the food before milk route of trying to starve them into eating, I was told to try that with DS from 7 months by a paed & if anything he actually ate even less. I'd suggest something like milk 11am then food at 1pm (so not starving but maybe getting a bit hungry) then milk 3pm, tea 5pm. But it's of course entirely up to you!
2/10/08 22:03
she did quite well with her tea tonight. probably had a baby spoon and a half of the butternut squash so she had half a baby spoon more than she did yesterday and then i gave her the rest of the fromage frais that she had left from yesterday and she finished that. do u think i should just introduce things one at a time until she will take them no problem like she does with porridge or do the same thing for a couple of days, then a new one and then go bk to the first one, or is tht a bit 2 complicated for her x x x
2/10/08 20:26
jen- sounds like you have a good plan. Keep pluggin away with bfast, try a few different thigs. I give my DS porridge with milk, weetabix, shreddies (they mush down) and i always give him a finger of toast, sometimes he eats sometimes he just plays with it. The butternut squash is progress, you can mix it in with milk, its all about learning textures as well as taste.
I shouldnt worry if you try milky things at other meals, my DS had fish, otato and a chessey sauce for dinner, so very milk based. Once you get her used to eating, you can start reducing the milk in things so she gets the taste. You are doing the right, thing, dont panic or rush, just relax and make it fun. i saw a programme on fussy toddlers once, and the one thing they all had n common was they had tried and tried to force things on their kiddies, and they rebelled against it. My mum wont eat carrots because she was forced as a child at school. You are dong well, and dont get worried about her age etc, milk is the most important thing up until a year old.
Well done xx
Ooooohhhh well done too
I wonder what is in hipp jars- a magic ingrediant!!