bsouls I looked at puffs at the store but they have lots of sugar and I was avoiding foods with added sugar and salt. I'm going to continue trying with Cheerios and steamed veggies.
She actually just put a Cheerio in her mouth and ate it. Her first one! When I gave it to her this time I gave her the sign for eat and she stuck it in her mouth.
Edit: my stupid phone always autocorrects she to he.
Post by younglove316 on Feb 19, 2015 14:55:19 GMT -5
She still gets purees when she is at my in laws but when she is home she is only interested in what we are eating. She will point at our plates and make noise until we share. It just kind of happened for us, one day she was shoveling down the purees and the next wanted to try our food.
Owen suddenly jumped from eating ~24 oz formula/day to over 30 oz/day and he's staying on that amount with three meals and the occasional snack. He put on over a pound in the last month but he's still only 2nd percentile for weight. We joke that all his food goes to teeth and hair because he has so much/many more than his sister.
Keira is now a vulture. You can't eat in front of her or she's trying to climb your leg demanding a share. She still nurses 5-6x/day plus a few times at night if nothing else comforts her, then the same meals as Owen.
RE: Finger foods and purées, it took one of the babies a long time to want to pick things up and eat them. Once they got started they really took off. Some of our firsts were puffs (check out the organic ones, they may have less sugar) and avocado.
Edit to add that we still do purées sometimes if we don't have a good option to round out their meal. With DS1 we still gave him some of the stage 3 pouches until he was almost 2 to make sure he was getting fruits and veggies if we went out to eat or something.
We still do mostly purees because LO hates touching anything other than puffs, cheerios, and bread. She hates touches wet or slimy foods. I just keep offering and hope one day she will be good with them.
@babylentilbean, we give Happy Organic puffs & they are lower in sugar compared to some. Here's the green ones we give happyfamilybrands.com/products/greens/ we got them at whole foods, but I've seen them at Target too.
Let's talk about baby gas. Keira has always been a gassy baby but lately it's been so much worse. I think it's one of the things disrupting her sleep now. I give her gas drops before her last nursing session at night and sometimes after as well. Is there anything else I can do for her?
We have Cheerios, but I don't do a lot now that she can manage a lot of foods. I am not a fan of cereals and I'm hoping we do more protein for breakfast than cereal.
I smush the beans with my finger so they're in half. I don't do chcikpeas as much because of the choking thing and they don't break in half when I smush them
For protein finger foods we mostly do cheese and bits of whatever meat we're eating as long as it's not spicy. He loves quesadillas. Sometimes I'll spread hummus on whole wheat bread and cut it into cubes.
Post by younglove316 on Feb 20, 2015 9:49:28 GMT -5
We also do cheese. I buy the Sargento cheese sticks and then just rip it up for her. She also loves meat, she will devour taco meat. If we do chicken I just shred some up for her.
LO LOVES steak! but she will eat anything I put in front of her. We did try the Gerber ravioli pick ups and she was not a fan, she ate some but you could tell she did not really like it.
Total random question. What age would you take LO to the movies? is 11 months too young?
For their benefit? 2 or 3 years old depending on their attention span. We started taking DS1 at 2 1/2. At this age, especially if your LO is mobile, I highly doubt they would sit still long enough.
Total random question. What age would you take LO to the movies? is 11 months too young?
I have no experience but I don't plan on taking her to a theater until she's probably 2-3. I will reassess when the time comes but our local theater does a kids program where they do all younger movies during the summer in late morning.
Total random question. What age would you take LO to the movies? is 11 months too young?
J is too squirmy to sit still for long now that he's mobile. We took him to a baseball game last weekend and made it two hours, but that was spent passing him back and forth, letting him explore the ground, sitting in the stroller and destroying some crackers, and trying to eat grass.
Post by bandteacher on Feb 20, 2015 23:39:39 GMT -5
Within a matter of a week, we've gone from 24oz of formula and 3 meals to only wcm in sippy cups, 3 meals, and a bottle of wcm before bed. Goodbye formula and bottles!! The boys eat literally anything, and tons of it. They chew their food well and even take bites from grilled cheese sandwiches, so I don't have to cut things up as much. Keep trying and they'll eventually get it!
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