Hi Skadiver I stopped by
to give you support. My DD is over 9.5 months old and I offered her food last 4 months. It took us 2 months to accept breakfast and last two months we are "working" on lunch
. She is BF and has 4 BF during the day and 2 in the night. For breakfast she would eat around 80 grams (in Europe we measure and they say that meal should be 120-200 gr), and for the lunch two teaspoons and yesterday - finally she ate 50 gr. After 1.5 months of offering fruits she accepted banana and now she really loves it so you guess how our breakfast looks like - banana in all combinations
. When I realized she likes oatmeals then I would put oatmeals in all combinations - I am pretty sure you are doing the same I just wanted to describe it and show you you are not alone
. I offered her finger food she would smash it make the mess and that was her meal
. It was frustrated but last maybe five days she started to chew so I need to give her one piece of banana (of course) in hand and then I feed breakfast (when I give her a piece of apple she throws it immediately on the floor
) . I am still cheating
, when she opens mouth for banana I put one small spoon in her mouth (at the end of the feeding) but she likes it she does not protest it
. For the lunch she did not want to open mouth for a month, then I started to eat with her, or I would put her food with my finger in her mouth, I would take a little from her plate and eat it so things started to progress. She started to chew too. I found she likes crispy cakes made of different cereals (like rice cakes)- for lunch she gets that in hand. She likes that very much and she started to chew that (of course I am watching her like an eagle
since she is learning to chew) but it is fun for her and she started to open mouth more frequently for lunch
. Of course we are talking about "sweet" food like sweet potato, butternut squash, red lentil, the rest of things she does not like it (broccoli, cauliflower etc.) but I am trying to find something she will like. I will become nutricionist
. I smash fruits with fork since beginning I did not blend it. For the lunch at the beginning I blended (I see she does not like some textures) but now if I blend I would blend just little bit.
My ped would say these are not a meals but I do not care. DD is healthy and happy - I think that is the most important. The thing that worries me that she will go to the day care and I want her to eat decent meals. However I realized I need to have patience and find the way she would have fun during meals.
O my ped was telling me that DD is not hungry enough and all that kind of things
. Since this is my first baby I was confused but after trying feeding at different timings after BF I realized that it did not matter. When she accepted breakfast she would eat no matter was it 1.5, 2 or 3 hr after milk and before she did not want it at all IYKWIM?
P.S. sorry for my English and loooong sentences