Weaning

Yes I can relate. My LO eats only yoghurt, banana, egg, purées and not proper food 😔😔. These 3 days is even worse she will refuse every food and I have to giver her juices with a syringe. It is so difficult 😓😓🫣

@Imelda it’s so difficult especially when you hear of these babies that are eating spag Bol and cottage pie, literally meals we eat ….

@sophie yess, I feel even worse when I see those posts

😂mine is the same she wasn’t eating anything at all we travelled to my country recently(Nigeria) and then she was introduced to food and started taking it. Even when feeding I have to hold her hand cos she will gladly pour it away and beat my hand not to feed her and she won’t eat it either

Mine was exactly the same but gagging on Ella’s kitchen pouches, then one day decided to take a bite of my toast and scrambled eggs and then all of a sudden she was away! I think as long as she’s trying flavours she’ll start getting interested in what you’re eating and it’ll just happen xx

@Ebunoluwa good that she’s taking it now

@Angharad mine loves Ella’s kitchen fruit pouches, I give her some of mine if she wants it but she takes it, plays with it on her hands then drops it. She doesn’t actually want it…. Just to play with it

Mine is the same she is 10.5 months but just recently we have tried giving her things 1 / little bits at a time and when shes finished that give her more rather than filling up a plate/bowl and giving it to her because shell just throw it on the floor x And also we got a tommee tippee food blender ( can use any old blender) and thats helped massively, instead of giving her the meals as we have them( not interested) we put the meals we have that are suitable for her into the blender for 5 -10 seconds. She prefers it so much more this way, but we have been trying to keep them nice and chunky not blended well at all to get her more used to the lumps and bumps then hopefully slowly transition into eating bigger blw type foods. Hope this makes sense 🤣xx

@sophie that’s what she was doing initially just squashing it in her hands then one day she just started bringing it to her mouth and feeding herself x

@sophie hard to do but try not to worry too much. I was the same and started BLW at 6 months as baby refused purees. And even then she'd hardly eat anything, fruit yes but everything else ended up squished cos she'd play with it or on the floor. Over the last 4 months I offer food & she just played with it & then one day she was more intrigued & started trying foods. Only in the last 3-4 weeks has she started eating properly & even now it's just few bites but most ends up on the floor. keep offering a variety of foods, eat infront & with her. Ie take a bite of her food & then offer it (babies like reverse psychology apparently😆 not every time but it does work!) My LG gagged a lot which is normal. They're so used to Milk &Then all of a sudden they have these foreign flavours & textures it can be a lot. One day she'll just pick up something randomly and try it and eat it & then she'll be off. But in the meantime just go with the flow. Every baby is different and some just take longer to adjust to food 💜

@Rae Yeha I really hope she takes to stuff soon

@Tyler Yeha I’ve tried our meals blended and mashed and she isn’t interested

Am sure she will. Have you noticed if she likes certain coloured foods or tastes more? My LO likes tart/citrus flavours so in the beginning she'd only eat tomatoes, oranges, kiwis, plums basically anything tart. If it was a veg shed refuse, she still doesn't like potato 😲😆 You could try giving her the BLW form of the jars/pouches she likes and she If she responds to that

She likes the banana, prune and strawberry Ella’s kitchen pouches And beef and sweet potato jar And tender chicken jar from Heinz