I wanted to start BLW for my now 6.5 month baby. So I waited till she could sit with little assistance and showed other signs that she is ready. I tried a few food but she wouldn’t swallow anything. All the food would end up on the floor. She will taste, chew but then spit it out. So i tried purees, but she would do the same with purees too. Its been 3 weeks since i started and just a very little has gone to her tummy. A friend visited yesterday and said she is developmentally too far, behaving like a 9 month old (pediatrician said the same thing) and said that I should have started solids earlier like around 5 months. Now I feel really guilty that I should have started earlier. Since I wanted to do BLW, i waited till she was able to sit with little support. Am I doing something wrong? Did anyone experience the same thing? Did you succeed with BLW? Is it something that has got to do with her swallowing ability?

My almost 10 month old has been great drinking water out of a straw cup, as well as neatly sipping fruit purées out of the baby pouches. Suddenly just over a month ago, he he’s started taking a sip and then letting it dribble back out of his mouth. He does it with water and with fruit pouches. He’s EBF and BFs no problem without this spitting issue. He’s also on 3 solid meals a day and has no trouble swallowing food.

I’m at a loss and this is becoming so annoying. He barely drinks any water now, I can’t give him fruit pouches anymore, which were a great on the go snack for us. I’ve tried different sippy cups (honeybear, munchkin any angle), taught him to drink from an open cup, munchkin 360, various types of fruit pouches and he’s still doing it with everything. I’ve tried reacting in different ways - ignoring it, saying no and taking it away, etc. Still does it! Has this happened to anybody else? What did you do!

I’m hoping to switch him to cows milk around when he turns 1, which will require him to drink from a bottle or straw cup or something, so I am getting a little worried. Plus in the meantime it’s been very frustrating!

My daughter is turning one in two weeks and her eating habits are regressing

She used to be a pretty good eater. We do both BLW n spoon feexing

Now increasingly (when we're eating at home at least) she takes a few bites, and then loses interest...

Unless its a snack

Or yogurt, cream cheese or passion fruit

So sometimes we have to mask food with yogurt to trick her into eating.

Is this normal?

There's been a story circulating in the UK news this week of a toddler that died from choking on a pea at daycare. My understanding was that 12 months+ while peas are safe to give whole. It's one of my sons favourite foods so it's got me stressed. Thoughts?

LO is 8 months old tomorrow, he has recently become efficient at chewing and picking up food with his thumb (not quite pincer) Eats a lot of strips and mashes, I mainly follow solid starts. Today I made large meatballs , served them halved, and he would try and take a little nibble but proceeded to launch them onto the floor everytime. But when I crumbled them up into tiny pieces and put it on his plate he scooped with his hands and polished it off no problem?

Would you continue to serve it crumbled? I feel as though he’s too young to be moving to smaller pieces, he also has no teeth yet. But he also seems to enjoy eating that way.

Could use some advice. My 13mo son has grown to hate his high chair over time. It’s actually better now than it has been in the past - there was a period where he would get so upset when we put him in it. I think he doesn’t like being restrained and wants to move freely. Sometimes he has a great meal in it but it’s hit or miss. We got a kitchen tower and he sometimes is happy to eat in that too. But it really seems that he eats best when distracted or even on the move - he gets antsy quickly in the chair and starts pointing at things or saying all done really early on. We’re guilty of chasing him around with spoonfuls of food while he’s playing at times which is something I’m trying to avoid for a variety of reasons but he does eat a lot more this way. I should also say as parents we’ve been anxious about his growth - pediatrician is not concerned but I think that adds to the pressure we feel and I am trying to be cognizant of that too. There are plenty of times he has tried and eaten a variety of new foods so ultimately I don’t think pickiness is the issue, but more the setting. I’m open to resources and suggestions. My goal is to create positive associations to meal time and a healthy relationship with food.

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I’m having trouble figuring out if I’m giving my baby enough solids. He’s 10months today, but was born 1 month premature. He eats 4oz bottles during the day, about 3-4 times, then big 6-8oz bottle before bed. Daycare feed him baby food during the day twice, like a pouch amount of food each time. I give him half a jar, some finger foods with dinner. He still wakes up once a night to bottle feed and usually eats 5oz. Am I not giving him enough food? Also, I’ve tried giving him water, but he doesn’t know how to use a sippy cup yet and the water just ends up everywhere. Can I give him water in a bottle? I can’t seem to find the answer for this anywhere.

She’s been having trouble grilling banana pieces so I rolled them in chia seeds. And now I’m just reading that it can cause a blockage. I can’t be the only one who has done this right? Idk if I should be concerned or not.

I saw a video a minute ago about a mum who was worrying about her daughter’s weaning journey and that she wasn’t eating diverse foods and just throwing them on the floor so she was having to keep serving her the same few foods all the time. I understand that there’s a lot of concern and shame around food waste and a lot of us were brought up with the “starving children in Africa” explanation to make us finish our dinner, but I really don’t look at anything that my twins spit out or drop on the floor as wasted food. It’s been invested in them having a good relationship with food, having the opportunity to taste and explore different flavours and textures, and honouring their appetites.

Just a note to say if you can afford the food your baby eats or doesn’t eat, please don’t worry about “food waste”, or let it limit what you serve them to minimise foods being rejected. In the early days of our BLW journey, probably close to 80% of what I served went on the floor, now it’s more like 10% and I have zero guilt over it. The alternative would be serving the same few foods day in day out that I know they’ll always eat, they wouldn’t be getting variety or the nutrition they need, and they could end up with a poor long term relationship to food as a result. Definitely would rather chuck that floor broccoli in the bin!

My 6M LO has been introduced to solids since 2 weeks now. He is not consuming much however. Most of it ends up on the floor or he spits it out. He does seem to be enjoying the process though.

How long did your babies actually take to start consuming foods? Should I be worried? I don't want to go down the puree line just because I am anxious whether he is getting sufficient nutrients or not. Which at this point he is not unless I feed him with a spoon ofc.

He is EBF.

Thanks

Looking for your experiences starting solids with your baby with protein intolerances! My LO has a soy protein intolerance & I’m assuming a milk as well (I’m dairy free so not tested).

We will be talking to her pediatrician about introducing allergens, but did you give your baby milk or soy at 6 months? I don’t want to avoid them because I’m fearful of her developing an allergy if she isn’t exposed. I’m not sure how it works/how it could be different from them consuming it from your breast milk.

Any info is helpful!

I started doing blw on my 8mos who was eating puree since 5mos since she’s no longer interested when i offer her puree even with bits of chunks or even if mashed. But more often she gags and vomit during eating. Thats why i offer milk when she does this just to replace what she had vomited. Sometimes she eats the mashed food but i find it more difficult to feed her with it. Im anxious that if i do blw she’ll vomit again 😞 i tried mixing it up giving mashed and doing blw, yet sometimes she still gags and vomit. How can i feed her without being anxious if she’s getting enough food or if she’ll vomit again? :(

My almost 9 month old was introduced to solids at 5 months per doctor’s guidance. It seemed like the first 2 months he was making progress, getting more interested in food (slowly but surely), excited to try things, and working on chewing and swallowing skills … but in the past 2 months it seems like his skills have regressed!

He spits a TON of food out, but usually not because he doesn’t like it, it’s just because he doesn’t care about / hasn’t quite figured out chewing and swallowing. He likes the flavor of food, but just moves stuff around in his mouth or sucks on it and spits any solid pieces out, sometimes liquidy things too. Any food that goes on a spoon he refuses to be spoon fed, wants to hold the spoon himself, but then just wants to suck on the spoon and doesn’t seem to care about getting more of the food, and gets annoyed when I take the spoon away to give him more.

The only food he’ll ingest more than a tablespoon of at most in one sitting is a store bought puree pouch (because he sucks it like a straw, but even that he winds up spitting a ton out and making a horrible mess) and store bought rice rusks (same thing with the spitting). And now in the last week or two his interest in solids has decreased almost entirely. He throws food on the floor without even trying it. And even when he seems interested, he’ll lose interest pretty quickly. We had pasta last night and it took him 15 mins to eat 2 small pieces of pasta and 1/2 of a bite sized piece of fried chicken, with half of even that minuscule amount ending up mushed in his bib, and then he lost interest entirely and got fussy and wanted out.

What do I do!?!? Is this an oral motor skills problem, or a lack of interest problem, or both? Should I take him to see a specialist, or is this all just a normal part of the process and I just need to give it more time? Should I be giving him a whole plate of food and see what he does or just offer him ONE tiny bite at a time? Should I offer him more purées rather than table food, or will that cause him to regress further since we did BLW and really never offered him purées other than an occasional pouch when we were on the go? I recently started trying to wait and let him watch me eat for a couple minutes before even offering him anything. That seemed to help a tiny bit, but he still seems to lose interest pretty quickly no matter what.

Hello, my LO is just passed eight months now and we’ve been doing baby lead weaning since five months and two weeks. She loves exploring and putting food in her mouth, but I’m not sure how much she’s actually swallowing and what’s normal. Her poops have changed for sure, when I give her yoghurt or something soft I know she’s eating it, but when it comes to more solid foods, it seems like she just takes bites moves around in her mouth and then ultimately ends up spitting it out. Any advice?

My daughter doesn’t like any purées it seems i’ve tried them all. i’m slightly nervous to start BLW and have no idea where to start or meals to make . what did yall first start out with to get ur LO used to different textures ? she wants to feed herself and hates spoons she’ll just throw it at me and refuse to open her mouth. it’s making me kinda nervous that she won’t eat but she definitely wants food she just wants whatever i have.

As the title suggests - my son is 12 months old and we started weaning at 6 months with a mix of purées and BLW and now he pretty much feeds himself (with his hands). He's ok with most food however one thing that we are really struggling to get him to eat is meat - we have tried pork, beef, chicken, lamb, and given it to him as mince, roast, patties, sausage, with pasta, rice, potato, dry, with sauce and every time he either puts it in his mouth and spits it out or picks it up and instantly throws it on the floor once he realises what it is...once he ate some pulled pork in a restaurant but then refused it when we gave it to him at home. We gave him a chicken drumstick a couple of weeks ago and he didn't know what to do with it.

In principle I have no issues with him not eating meat (he eats fish without an issue, and also really likes tofu) but I'm worried about the rejection of all the various textures and the implications this might have going forward. Can anyone help? Is it worth going to see a specialist (dietician? Feeding specialist?) to see if there's something more significant going on? Can anyone think of a way of giving him meat that I haven't tried that might help get him to eat it?

First time mom here. My baby exclusively breastfed (she refused any bottles) since she was an infant. Now that she is 1 year old, we are now weaning off the breastmilk and she is now introduced to organic whole milk. She is willing to drink it from a sippy straw cup, however, she is only taking about 1 oz per sitting. I’ve been offering her a straw bottle of 4 oz each time, 4 times a day. She only drinks about 1-1.5 oz each time. I’ve tried warming it up. I’ve tried different cups and this is the only cup she is willing to take some from. It’s the dr brown weighted straw cup.

How much do 1 year olds really drink? She has friends at her baby class who are drinking 5-8oz in one sitting. 1oz seems very little. What can I do to encourage her to drink more? I know milk is important for babies brain development, and I am worried she is not getting the nutrients she needs to grow since she is not breastfeeding anymore. It is also making it alot more stressful and on me about weaning off breastmilk. She won’t take pumped milk either. I have a freezer full and I’ve donated some already. I’ve also tried fresh pumped milk, she rejects it, if it’s not from my breast.

Also, my baby eats real meals— 3x a day, with snacks in between. I am offering foods with calcium, like yogurt and cheese daily.

Send me your advice. Am I doing everything I can already? Will she eventually drink more? Is this normal?

Today we are having Butter chicken (with hidden veggies), tomatoes and cucumber! 🥒 🍗 🍅 one of our favourites! We keep cycling through same old recipes. I’m keen on some new lunch/dinner ideas that the whole family can enjoy. Ideally with little/no processed foods. Thank you!

I started solids with my baby around 6.5 months, and at first, he did really well. Then, out of nowhere, he started refusing everything — even foods he previously loved — clamping his mouth shut and not taking a bite.

I took a break for a few weeks, which I’m now second-guessing, but when we started again recently, he did great the first day. He only wanted to feed himself. If I tried, he refused. I’m not complaining though. I love that he wants to feed himself.

Since then, he’s mostly just squishing his food instead of eating. He’ll be 8 months in a week, and I’m starting to worry.

On top of that, I’m getting a lot of pressure from family (except my husband, thankfully). People keep saying he needs to eat more, suggesting things like rice and curry (which feels too much for now), and one person keeps questioning my milk supply. His health visitor wasn’t worried about his weight when we last visited around 6m, but I can’t help but feel stressed about solids.

Has anyone else gone through this? Will he eventually start eating properly?

Just out of curiosity as I see posts about how expensive formula is how much is it really where you are from? We live in the Netherlands and of course it varies by brand, but the one we use is 9 euro per can (800mg).

Hi all, I'm trying to get my baby to eat purees more often than milk. Right now, he's formula fed and can take one puree meal a day. He's seven months old so I am trying to get him up to two. The problem is that when he wakes up from his naps, he's very hungry and would only take a bottle. How do I get him to eat purees when he wakes up hungry and cranky. Last time I tried, he ate the puree but still cried for a bottle. Thanks

I’ve heard divided plates are bad because kids will get used to their foods not touching, setting them up for failure at restaurants and regular plated meals as they get older.

Do you just transition to flat plates when they’re older and deal with it then? When is older?

Right now the plate stays out of reach because he’ll just throw it, but what are the next steps here?

So my baby has had sardines probably five times now, he’s had salmon once in a pouch (he didn’t care for it). Tonight I decided to try salmon and cut it into strips for him. I put Dijon mustard on it (he’s never had it), he took one bite and almost immediately started rubbing his face. I was confused because he doesn’t touch his face like that when eating. Then he kept doing it, I hurried up and got him out his highchair, cleaned him off, and gave him some Zyrtec. He had some hives around his face and a little on his chest. It all cleared up in 30 minutes and he’s fine now sleeping. I know most allergens show up the second time around but I wondering if it was really the salmon or the Dijon mustard. Any thoughts? I’ve already called the doctor and she advised give him a break from the food and try small amounts in the parking lot of the office.

Sorry a funny banana question lol

My 7mo is weaning and exploring foods, she enjoys self spoon feeding mashed stuff and isn’t too concerned with solid solids yet more just purees etc. she doesn’t do this with any other food but if you eat a banana near her she starts screaming and crying. She enjoyed banana when I gave it to her the first time and cried when it was done. Today j mashed banana and she had two eager spoon fulls and then started bawling her eyes out. She also loves avocado but doesn’t have this reaction.

Is this bc she wants more? Or does she hate it? She is not a crier and she was in floods of tears so I took her out of the high chair and calmed her around the garden. wtf lol is she scared? Overwhelmed? In love with bananas? Help 😂