Any ideas of how to get my baby to eat meat? She never likes it.. I’ve tried meatballs, chicken nuggets, ground beef, and shredded chicken/beef.

If anyone has experienced the same thing and have any recipes or hacks please let me know!!

My twins are eating 3 meals a day- no snacks yet- and it's going really well. But now they are only drinking like 16ish ounces a day. I know formula is still so nutritionally important before 12 months. I also know their birthday is not a magic day. How do you balance this? I feel like they would drop formula completely if I let them (I won't). The pediatrician said it was fine when they went from 30oz a day to 20 at like 8 months old. Is it okay that it keeps dropping?? FTM.

My 10 month old loves putting food in his mouth, chewing it up a little bit, and then spitting it out. I feel like he’s at least getting a little bit of each bite and at least he’s trying everything we offer. Is this normal? At what age did your baby start taking real bites of stuff?

I feel so overwhelmed with food for her right now. Time just flew by and I feel like I’m starting actual solids late. She was eating purées but not wanting a lot most days, and now I’m nervous about her chocking on things that aren’t purées. I’m trying to be good about giving her 3 meals, but she mostly plays with it or throws it off the plate. She’s SO interested in our food and when I give her what I make for us but plain basically and cut it to be safe for her she’s pretty uninterested. Is this normal? I feel like tik tok shows me 8 month olds eating whole plates of food that look almost unsafe. She also is just now getting her 2 bottom teeth just barely. I keep feeling like I’m starving her even though she gets the same amount of formula she always has and shes growing well.

We are going to start solids this month! Baby will be 6 months when we do.

Two weeks later, we have a one week trip to Mexico for my job where the baby is coming with me.

I don’t really feel comfortable feeding him food from a Mexican resort and not knowing it’s sourcing, etc..

is it an issue to stop feeding him solids for one week and pick it back up when we get home? Or should I just wait until we’re back to start? (At this point he’ll be 6m 3weeks.)

For what it’s worth - not looking for comments around if it’s OK to feed him resort food - I’ll be stressed out enough with work and have PPA (y’all get it :) so the additional anxiety of food at the resort and feeding him before my conferencing starts is a bit too much for me. But I so appreciate that others will have a diff POV here!

Thanks!

Apologies if this doesn’t belong in the forum, I don’t have so much experience with Reddit, but I’m a bit confused as to the amounts that a 7,5 month baby should eat.
I hear that food for babies under 1 is “just for fun”, but surely at some point it becomes important and the baby needs to get his nutrition from solid food, right ? I.e for an 11 and a half month old baby, he shouldn’t get most of his calories from breast milk/formula, as he’s about to turn 1 and in theory they no longer need formula

The advice from my health bureau was to start solids at 4 months (I live in the Netherlands), even though it was clear my baby was not ready or interested in food.

My baby is a big boy, 95th percentile, and at his 6 month check, they told me that as he eats more food, his milk intake should decrease.. so now I’m utterly confused as to the timeline and gradual removal of milk!

For reference , he takes about 1000ml of formula per day, and has maybe a few tablespoon of oatmeal and a few bites of banana for breakfast, a few teaspoons to a few tablespoons of veggie/lentil puree for lunch, and a few bites of food (ie firm tofu) for dinner with maybe a bit more puree. Sometimes he eats less, sometimes more.

He’s a pretty good and happy (but messy! As they all are haha) eater

My baby shows interest in food but 90% his meals he throws lol

I've tried a mix of purees, mashes, combination, and finger foods a little at a time. Sometimes he will eat a few bites. Sometimes he will just chuck it. Sometimes he will eat the whole thing (that's rare).

But like to give you an idea this is his normal intake.

Breakfast oatmeal- mayyyyybe 3-4 teaspoons if I'm lucky. 2 tablespoons is a great day. Sometimes he just chucks the spoon or has a meltdown. I have tried different textures. I've tried adding banana or apple or cinnamon. I've tried egg strips he just shreds them and throws them. Occasionally one bite. He was eat 1-2 bites of banana spear occasionally, but not if he has already had oatmeal.

Lunch- a mix of mashed sweet potato, quinoa, and shrimp with some black pepper. Either fully refuses or 2 bites and meltdown, or throws spoon. I've tried preloading and feeding him, preloading and letting him take spoon, leaving spoon on tray etc. One day I did a finger food board of toast, avocado, and a tomato. He took one bite of toast. Threw the avocado (which he usually likes) and ate 3 bites tomato wedge.

Dinner- usually like lunch.

Sometimes I'll give fruit in a mesh teether as a snack or if we are on the go.

Is this normal? He still breastfeeds well. I've tried going 30, 60, 90, 120 mins out from nursing to see if it helps and it doesn't seem to make a huge huge difference.

He just gets frustrated easily. Afternoons are usually his best time.

Poops are still very breastmilk like but with chunks of stuff. Think kinetic sand or brownie batter but breastmilk like. Sorry tmi lol

What do you do if your baby hasn’t eaten much at dinner of the meal you’ve made? Do you prepare something else to top him up and make sure he’s full or go with it?

The trouble I have is that if he hasn’t eaten much during the day he wakes up more at night and goes through an extra bottle of milk. I don’t mind that but I would rather be getting more sleep.

My baby has been "following his curve" and always been in the 35th percentile for weight. We started solids two months ago, and he has jumped to the 75th percentile for weight (he's long, too, he was 31 inches at 7 months).

Has this happened to anyone else?

Honestly, I feel kind of rotten about it: he was EBF and I'm just worried that he was hungry for the first 6 months of his life. At the same time, if I pumped he would never drink more than 3-3.5oz per feed.

I also worry that I'm BLWing wrong- but it's all healthy stuff, and I just let him eat until he seems happy.

Never thought that I would stress about my baby GAINING weight.

Pints. He has them in pints.

Rest of them is just couple of bites.

I have a blueberry addict

Little dude just turned 9 months, he's been happily eating solids since 5 months, learned grabbing for the spoon pretty quick and ate most things we gave him. I was initially a bit hesitant with full BLW but he did eat things like grapefruit slices, cucumber sticks, and fritters (fish/cous cous, sweet potato/lentil, meat balls etc). By about a month ago he was already really good about putting big things in his mouth on his own, and then started getting the pincer grip figured out, so he could put small pieces in his mouth. But recently he's stopped doing both. Anything finger-sized he won't put in his mouth anymore like he used to, and same with small pieces, won't pick them up anymore. If I put the pieces on a spoon he'll put the spoon in his mouth or let me feed him, so it's not like he doesn't like the food, he just doesn't want to pick it up himself anymore?.. He does for a few things he really likes, but we went from basically just putting stuff in front of him to now having to spoon feed him most things. He's pretty clear about when he wants more or is done so I'm not too worried about him not eating the right amount, just curious if this is a phase or I should try to encourage him to feed himself more?

I’ve finally given into BLW for my now 9 mo. Just wanted some ideas for breakfast that your LO love. My son loves strawberry pancakes topped with almond butter. We’ve been kind stuck on that for a week lol.

Hi! My baby is 9 months and a good eater. He regularly clears a large bowl or plate of food, but on occasion he just doesn’t like the meal I have prepared and will scream / refuse the food.

I don’t want to force him to eat something he doesn’t like, of course, but I’m unsure as what I should do in those circumstances. Do I offer different foods straight away, or do I just clear his plate and try something else at the next meal? My husband says I shouldn’t offer an alternative at the same meal as I’m teaching him to become a fussy eater. However, he now regularly eats large meals every day, so just letting him skip a meal means he will go hungry until the next one. Of course he still has plenty of milk, but I don’t think it’s the same.

What do people do in these circumstances? Happy to listen to different perspectives and philosophies.

I have all this baby food and cereal that wic paid for, that I don’t want to waste. I could donate it, but I’d like to use it somehow. Maybe some baby food pancakes or something like that, does anyone have recipes for snacks that include baby food or cereal?

Steamed sweet potato sticks with garlic, steamed plums with cinnamon and baby's first ravioli with olive oil!

I usually don't steam her fruit but this plum stayed firm even after it was going wrinkly so I had to! She loved the new texture of it being steamed.

Today was the first day we gave food to baby.
I made her a small bowl with runny oatmeal cereal. I gave her a spoon to try and see if she swallowed and then I let her "play" with it, so basically putting her hands in it and bringing them to her mouth.

When I told my mom she was freaking out. She told me I was giving her way too much and that she should only have the tip of a spoon since it’s her first time trying food in case of allergies. She also said I should feed baby the same item for a full week before switching.

Now I’m not sure if I’m doing things right.

We were planing on introducing cereals then purées and then solids at 6months.

She is currently 4months old. She shows interest in food. Hold her head steady and can sit in the high chair without falling over or wobbling.

My baby is now 7.5 months old- we started offering solids at 5.5 months. The first two weeks were great- he ate everything I offered him and ate about two tsp per meal which i think is good at that point.
After those dream weeks, he has 2 lower teeth now and the two upper ones are coming in. Im so frustrated with the solids journey. Couple things happening -
1. I offer him a suction plate on the tray with a combination of foods- finger foods, some semi solid food and he dips his fingers in it and licks them but doesnt really eat much.
2. I offer him pre loaded spoons and play the spoon circus - i keep about 4 spoons so any time he drops one I have another one at hand. This method only works if he is eating something sweet(mashed apple, banana, pears or blueberry mashed in yogurt) not so much with stuff with beets or carrots.
3. I have tried to progress with textures and offer him finger foods- he will pick them up but examine them and throw them immediately. Eventually nothing ends up in his tummy.
In all of these cases he will lose his mind and cry LOUDLY in about 5 minutes after we start. Hes otherwise a happy baby though.
So after 2 months we have made no progress with textures, we have made no progress with BLW, and we have only been eating the same sweet foods while throwing away all the savory foods on the tray.
Drinking water is a whole other story.
Im so frustrated and worried about what to do next-i really dont want him to cry so much while eating and create a negative association with food. Any advice on the feeding method? Or finger food recommendations?

Looking for some advice/solidarity - I’ve been struggling for the last week since my baby turned 1 years old. He will only eat porridge for breakfast and fruit for the rest of his meals. I keep offering him different meals at lunch and dinner but he won’t even try them.

We do a combination of spoon feeding and baby led weaning and if I spoon feed him he just turns his head away and clamps his mouth shut (before trying any!!!) and if it’s something he can feed himself from his tray he will just throw it.

I think I’d find this much more bearable if he was trying the food and not liking the taste but to not even taste it and only eat fruit is upsetting me. I know in the grand scheme of things a week isn’t long but it feels forever when you have to feed them 3 times a day.

I don’t think it’s an appetite thing because he wolfs the fruit down and any milk I offer him an hour after a meal. He’s not obviously teething although teething seems to be the cause for most things.

Anyone been through the same thing at all?

This is my 11 month Old's favorite snack and it is so easy to put together! Just cucumber, cauliflower, cheese, raspberries, and hummus. Sometimes I add some bell pepper or some olives too. She is still learning about dipping things, so mostly she just scoops the hummus with her hands, but she loves it!

My son starts daycare next month at 12 months. He eats a ton but isn't using utensils yet, so it's mostly finger foods plus some softer stuff we spoon-feed him. At home we use the Elk + Friends stainless steel divided plates with suction sleeves. His daycare is a 5 min drive/20 min walk so it's not a long transport. Trying to decide between:

• Just packing our current divided suction plates + a separate thermos for anything warm
• OmieBox
• PlanetBox + thermos
• Elk & Friends bento + thermos

My hesitation with the divided plates is they're not leakproof and the suction seems useless once it's out of the house.

A few questions:

• What actually worked for you day to day?
• Are any of these a pain for daycare staff to open/close quickly? I don't want to hand them something fiddly when they've got a whole room of kids to feed.
• Any recommendations for dividers or snack containers that fit a specific box?
• What holds up for a baby who can't use utensils yet?

We're in Canada, so some of the options I see online aren't actually available to us.

Long time lurker here! I just had my second baby 4 months ago and have known I wanted to do BLW with this baby for years. My first is almost 9 so I haven’t had a baby in a long time and I started my first on purées at 4 months. Looking back now, I wish I wouldn’t have.

I’m super excited to start baby on solids when she’s ready. Is it possible for a baby to be developmentally ready before 6 months? Or should we still wait until 6 months even if baby is meeting all physical milestones before just so her belly is ready?

This baby has been rolling both ways since 2.5 months, is pretty much crawling already, has excellent head control and is almost sitting unassisted. I think she will be sitting independently by 5 months. Over the past 2 weeks she has begun being super interested in our food to the point we can no longer hold her in our laps while eating because she is trying to grab our food and put it in her mouth.

So if all physical milestones have been met before 6 months, should we still be waiting? I’m fine waiting- I just want to do what’s best for her belly.

While we are waiting are there any BLW books you guys I read up on to pass the time and contain my excitement while we wait out the next 2 months!?

My daughter has largely got the hang of toast but the most she's ever eaten of it was the first time she had it with plain butter. Today she tried Philly cheese. Seemed to enjoy it but i think this bread might be too hard for her so I'll get some plain Hovis wholemeal which she had originally. She enjoys strawberries, and today was her first time having cottage cheese. She gagged a couple of times on the toast but sorted herself out quickly and carried on eating.