Weaning

Hey mammas, I hope I’m not alone here when I say this but is anyone else struggling to wean their almost 10 month old breastfed baby ??
She has porridge, weetabix, weaning wands, Heinz jarred food but not food food if you know what I mean, she’s tried a lot of beg and chicken and rice etc but she just turns her nose up and gags…. She’s tried it multiple times. She is eating and has a routine as Listed above but she’s not eating proper meals !! Can anyone relate

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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 😓😓🫣

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

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yess, I feel even worse when I see those posts

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😂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

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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

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good that she’s taking it now

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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

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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

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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

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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 💜

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Yeha I really hope she takes to stuff soon

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

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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

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

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Resentment and placing blame on partner

Firstly, please don’t judge me - I’m aware all my thoughts aren’t rational and I do already feel badly about them

I’m finding myself becoming easily frustrated, annoyed, and placing a lot of blame on my partner for many things. Now I’d get it if he was rubbish but he’s not - he has the baby straight away when he gets home from work, he lets me get ready and shower before he goes to work, he pitches in with the chores and gives me any time I ask for off. He doesn’t go out loads either.

I do a lot of the mental labour - realising we need more of and purchasing clothes, milk, groceries, deciding dinner, cooking, cleaning, thinking about what baby needs, etc.

However I just find myself annoyed and blaming him for so many things I find difficult. I know this isn’t fair, but it’s almost like I’m angry that he’s finding it easy and I’m not. Angry if I’ve just got the baby to sleep and he doesn’t think and closes doors to loudly. Angry when he doesn’t dress baby warm enough, or when he puts him in a car seat with a coat on. When he forgets a blanket or doesn’t wash his hands and plays with him. When hes snoring and I’ve just got the baby to drift off.

We have had many conversations and he has tried to take loads off me but it never feels like enough for me to stop being annoyed with him.

Am I experiencing some sort of post partum mental health issues? I find myself upset and crying a lot. any advice would help.

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THIS DUMB 🍑 MF

LET ME BREAK IT DOWN 🤣🤣

THIS MAN DRIVES AN ELECTRIC CAR WHERE HE CAN PLUG HIMSELF IN (NORMALLY DOES TO DO DOORDASH ETC)
AND IT HAD A SPOT TO WIRELESSLY CHARGE
SOME HOW WITH 4 HOURS OF WORKING HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE 20 BUCKS TO WASH CLOTHS ANOTHER RED FLAG

TWO NIGHTS AGO
HE CLAIMS TO GO OUT TO WORK. HANGS UP ON ME MID CONVERSATION 👀👀

4 HOURS PAST I'M GETTING SLEEPY STILL HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HIM
IT'S LIKE 1:30AM I TEXT HIM NIGHT I'M MAD CONFUSED ALMOST AN HOUR LATER I ANT HEARD FROM HIM SO I CHECK MY TEXT.
THE SHIT SAYS "PHONE OFFLINE" AND SHOWS THE TIME FRAME MY TEXT DIDN'T SEND
SO I START CALLING TO CONFIRM CAUSE I THOUGHT SOMETHING HAPPENED TO HIM. HE'S BEEN IN 2 CAR ACCIDENTS 👀 NEITHER HIS FAULT

SO I GET FRANTIC MY GUY

3:14 ROLLS AROUND I CALL AGAIN SURPRISE HE PICKS UP.
CLAIMS HIS PHONE DIED WHILE HE'S HANGING OUT AND HAVING A VERY "GOOD" CONVERSATION. HE WON'T TELL ME WHERE HE'S AT OR WHO WITH. MIND YOU THIS MAN CHEATED ON ME WHILE I WAS 33 WEEKS PREGNANT.

SO AT THIS POINT I'M PISSED OFF AND I TELL HIM I'M HANGING UP CAUSE I LOOK STUPID BEING WORRIED.

HE TURNS AROUND WHILE NOT BEING AROUND THIS CHICK AND FINALLY TELLS ME ALL THE DETAILS.

BTW YES WE MIGHT BE POLY BUT HE'S POSTED HIMSELF AS SOLO POLY WHILE LIVING WITH ME!! HE THINKS I'M. STUPID WITH ALSO THIS SNEAKY SHIT.

IF I WAS TO DO WHAT HE'S DOING HE'D LOOSE IT.
BUT I'M ABOUT TO GO OUTSIDE!! CAUSE YOU PLAYING IN MY FACE

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Parenting 24/7 is harder than going to work full time?

I’m having a debate with my partner as he’s done nothing to help since. Our 14 month old was born, I’ve done it all alone all day and all night. He gets a break when he comes in from work all night I never get a break
He try’s to tell me it’s harder going to work full time 5 days a week than parenting ALONE 24/7?
What do you think

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What would u do? What should i do

So to try to explain this in the best way possible I have a very small apartment.
I opened my back door which leads directly to the laundry room of the building. Lately, I started bringing my son in the laundry room with me because he bangs on the door and tries to get out.

Today I opened the door to get my stuff out of the dryer. I saw I guess my neighbor putting stuff in the washer. It’s a very tight space so I closed the door and was planning on going back after he leave instead of crowding up the space with the baby. Plus I was in shorts and had no bra on, it was an older man.

I latched my door with the dead lock as I usually do so that I do not get locked out and I just left it that way without thinking about it.

I turned my back walk maybe about 5-7steps. My apartment is barely 15 steps front to back.
Turn around. Realize my baby is GONE he’s only 16 months!

I start yelling for him. I approach the door and I hear my son laughing…
The man had opened my door to lure my son in the laundry room with him without me knowing!!!!!!!

They were playing 🤯

He was there for no more then 20-30 seconds if that. It happened so fast, he doesn’t speak good English he’s polish
My door usually slams loud when closed, so this was done quietly…..


When I discovered that the man was with my son, I was trying to simply take my kid back in the house, but he continued on playing and I was yelling at my son that he shouldn’t be wondering without me.

No, first off I know for a fact, my son did not open the door number one. It’s very heavy and number two. He doesn’t know how to open doors yet.

And I asked the man straight out did my son open the door and he said no I did.

My son could get the door to open maybe an inch, I know that. So he must have done that and the man just decided to open it and bring my son with him.

I’m so outraged. Annoyed, uncomfortable. I live alone just me and my son.

What do I do?

I don’t know if he is maybe a visitor, I see his car sometimes but usually it’s another person who looks like him with a different car. Maybe my neighbors dad is my best bet.


Anyway. What should I do? Should I bring this to management. Should I approach my neighbor and figure out exactly who that was?

Thanks ladies wish me luck

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