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Post by ladybug on Aug 17, 2015 17:56:07 GMT
From mashed food to lumps.
Babybug is now almost 16 months old and is still having fairly liquid food but as soon as there is a lump in it he spits it out! However he will quite happily eat toast, bread & butter, biscuits, crisps and chocolate but when it comes to lumps in meals he won't eat them! Any ideas on how I can get him to eat them or is it just persistence?
Any advice greatly received.
x x x Ladubug x x x
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Post by moo on Aug 18, 2015 6:12:10 GMT
Oohhh I remember this so clearly  ....
Things seemed dire spit out all the time....
I persevered & suddenly more & more got 'sucked,chewed ' & then finally swallowed!!
Good Luck xx ( it was such a messy time ) :- WoW 16 months already 
Xx moo xx
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Post by pluto on Aug 18, 2015 6:59:13 GMT
As someone with zippo experience in babies I would say give her only normal food not mashed up. If she can eat crisps and toast she can eat anything if cut up small. It sounds to me she eats all unheathy options (exept toast) without a problem but messes with a solid piece of potato. Maybe cut out the chocolate, crisps and other snacks.
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Post by flossie on Aug 18, 2015 7:11:57 GMT
Just keep offering the lumpy things, this too shall pass....!!!
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Post by ladybug on Aug 18, 2015 7:37:08 GMT
As someone with zippo experience in babies I would say give her only normal food not mashed up. If she can eat crisps and toast she can eat anything if cut up small. It sounds to me she eats all unheathy options (exept toast) without a problem but messes with a solid piece of potato. Maybe cut out the chocolate, crisps and other snacks. He only has the very occasional piece of chocolate or crisp as really don't want him picking up unhealthy eating habits. It seems anything he can suck until it is of a swallowing consistency or just swallow is fine but the chewing is an issue whether it's because he is being lazy or just a matter of practice I don't know. Hoping it is the latter. |
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Post by ladybug on Aug 18, 2015 7:48:03 GMT
Oohhh I remember this so clearly ....
Things seemed dire spit out all the time....
I persevered & suddenly more & more got 'sucked,chewed ' & then finally swallowed!!
Good Luck xx ( it was such a messy time ) :- WoW 16 months already
Xx moo xx Sometimes he will chew it but other times he can't be bothered. It just worries me that he isn't getting enough food when he spits it out or hooks it out with his finger! And he has gone back to blowing raspberries whilst eating which he had stopped a couple of months ago! I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and deal with the mess! I can't stand mess and the clearing up of it. he'll be 16 months in a couple of weeks Moo and will have been home 4 months in 10 days time. It is going very quickly. He is now crawling, pulling himself up and walking with help which considering when he came home he could just roll around the floor to get wherever he wanted amazes me! Oh and he has started saying the odd word too! X x x Ladybug x x X |
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Post by ladybug on Aug 18, 2015 7:49:47 GMT
Just keep offering the lumpy things, this too shall pass....!!! Oh I do hope so Flossie! He wouldn't drink water either but we have now managed to get him to drink a few mouthfuls! |
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Post by chotimonkey on Aug 19, 2015 8:04:58 GMT
Little baby bug eating big food!! With my two littles they ate anything but I temember really worrying with squirrel at this age... Prob cos she had just arrived and I worried about everything!! One thing that def helped with her was eating with us, quite often she didn't want things from Her own plate but would be quite adventurous and determined to eat from ours. We also used the familiar mixed with new tastes and textures squirrel ate lots of soft stuff that you could increase the 'bits factor' Lasagne, fish pie, mushroom and bean burgers, shepherds pie, scrambled eggs with veg, chopped up frittata Etcand built her up from those... We also altered her milk slowly so she was having milk water mix morning and night and cut out her afternoon snack, so she was hungry for food We also have her the opportunity to play with edible play dough and bits and bobs of food... This helped quite a bit because I was calmer and not worrying about what she ate so she could experiment in peace! Also sometimes new bowls and eating implements amused her so much she didn't noticecwgat she was eating! And there will be mess  george used to look with great unction at any piece of food he didn't like, hold out his hand and ceremoniously dump the offending item on the floor... A no thank you bowl in the middle of the table helped a bit, but I'm v greatful for wooden floors in the dining room! The second he was full he'd also try and dump the bowl on the floor too... I'm quite good at diving and catching now:) |
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Post by loadsofbubs on Aug 20, 2015 8:08:01 GMT
I'm assuming you are spoon feeding babybug if lumps bother him? I had this with one of my foster bubs, cant remember how I dealt with it then but since then I have weaned babies differently. have you looked into 'baby led weaning'? this is a whole different concept to spoon feeding and essentially means that bubs eats family food, by themselves, with or without cutlery. so you, as parent, don't feed the child with a spoon yourself. you leave the child to feed themselves and to choose which foods the eat from the plate and how much to eat. you are still in control of what is offered but the child is in control of how they eat it and how much. it doesn't lead to children still using fingers at 5 or to fussy children, but to children who learn to enjoy eating all kinds of foods and who know their own limits. only suggesting this as a path, even though you'd be coming to it late, becoz you say that babybug will eat solid food himself, just doesn't want lumps in mush. with the baby led approach (which is generally the way promoted by health visitors now anyway, here at least) there is no need for the mush.
anyway, might be worth looking at for babybug. type babyled weaning into google and see what comes up. ignore the hype about it being the only way to wean, it is one way to wean, and ignore the hype about mush being an instrument of the devil! just look at the positives and ignore the guilt trips that some websites (and books) are keen to impart! it really is a good way to wean and by 16 months even with mush feeding the expectation is that most babies would be eating family food anyway (though understand that wih children that re adopted this isn't always easy to acheive). one caution though. you'll need to buy a splash mat, BLW is VERY messy. great fun. but messy messy messy! and you may also be horrified by a LO not eating enough, you can always top up with milk or spoon feed extra calories (if needed). but most babies will eat what they need even if that means they lose a little weight in the beginning while they get used to the different way of eating. |
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Post by ladybug on Aug 20, 2015 14:27:22 GMT
I'm assuming you are spoon feeding babybug if lumps bother him? I had this with one of my foster bubs, cant remember how I dealt with it then but since then I have weaned babies differently. have you looked into 'baby led weaning'? this is a whole different concept to spoon feeding and essentially means that bubs eats family food, by themselves, with or without cutlery. so you, as parent, don't feed the child with a spoon yourself. you leave the child to feed themselves and to choose which foods the eat from the plate and how much to eat. you are still in control of what is offered but the child is in control of how they eat it and how much. it doesn't lead to children still using fingers at 5 or to fussy children, but to children who learn to enjoy eating all kinds of foods and who know their own limits. only suggesting this as a path, even though you'd be coming to it late, becoz you say that babybug will eat solid food himself, just doesn't want lumps in mush. with the baby led approach (which is generally the way promoted by health visitors now anyway, here at least) there is no need for the mush.
anyway, might be worth looking at for babybug. type babyled weaning into google and see what comes up. ignore the hype about it being the only way to wean, it is one way to wean, and ignore the hype about mush being an instrument of the devil! just look at the positives and ignore the guilt trips that some websites (and books) are keen to impart! it really is a good way to wean and by 16 months even with mush feeding the expectation is that most babies would be eating family food anyway (though understand that wih children that re adopted this isn't always easy to acheive). one caution though. you'll need to buy a splash mat, BLW is VERY messy. great fun. but messy messy messy! and you may also be horrified by a LO not eating enough, you can always top up with milk or spoon feed extra calories (if needed). but most babies will eat what they need even if that means they lose a little weight in the beginning while they get used to the different way of eating. My SiL will be using BLW for son who will be 6 months in around 3 weeks! I thought about it but as he had already started weaning and eating "solid" food with FC thought it would be too late for that. Also the thought of the mess fills me with horror, I hate it when he has food around his mouth let alone everywhere else! I have tried him with cucumber, apple, grapes and a few other bits in a bowl and he just wants to pick it up and mainly squish and squash it, some goes in his mouth gets chewed a few times then spat out again! It does worry me that he won't be eating enough. We had a LAC health assessment last week and were told he was drinking too much milk and we should be looking to cut it down to just two beakers a day but milk is really all he will drink other than a few mouthfuls of water every so often! Also got told he shouldn't be drinking from a bottle, by now he should be drinking from a beaker. He had never had a beaker with FC so in my opinion the nurse is asking too much of him. We have introduced a beaker which he will out to his mouth and try and drink but mostly he just plays with it and throws it! |
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Post by loadsofbubs on Aug 20, 2015 17:19:37 GMT
don't worry too much about the 'too much milk' comment and not using bottles. babybug needs the comfort right now more than he needs to worry about being pc about how he gets his milk. I have friends who hate to see babies messy or have problems around mess so understand the problem you have with that, but babies equal mess how ever you feed them! it is of course entirely up to you how you feed babybug, but delaying him being able to hold food himself isn't going to reduce the mess, just delay it! he will still need to learnt teh skill of feeding himself at some point and that will be messy. I didn't realise it at the time but I did bLW with my youngest, placed at 16 months with a severe learning disability (has downs). it was initially very messy but by two years old, even with a severe learning disability, he could sit in a resteraunt high chair and eat a meal with cutlery with minimal mess, my older two children, not learning disabled, made more mess!. people used to stop in their tracks and watch him eat becoz he was so skilled (plus was the size of a small 6 month old so they thought him a very clever infant instead of toddler!  ). |
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george used to look with great unction at any piece of food he didn't like, hold out his hand and ceremoniously dump the offending item on the floor... A no thank you bowl in the middle of the table helped a bit, but I'm v greatful for wooden floors in the dining room! The second he was full he'd also try and dump the bowl on the floor too... I'm quite good at diving and catching now:) 
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