Q- BF moms gone to solids

[Mom2Ms]

So, DS is exclusively BF. He's had 3 or 4 bottles in 5 months (of BM). He struggled with them but eventually took them. We moved to rice cereal at 4 months. He was eager & excited. Wolfed down the rice cereal. (It's organic & mixed with fresh BM). We've also moved to a BLW approach & for the last week have allowed him to suck in carrots, French fries, and Guac. He now refuses to eat rice cereal & will only eat with nursing.....Am I doing too much? Wrong approach? For a month, the rice cereal was amazing.... (Cross post)

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 9, 2015 21:37:09 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Aug 9, 2015 21:27:02 GMT -5 Mom2Ms said:

So, DS is exclusively BF. He's had 3 or 4 bottles in 5 months (of BM). He struggled with them but eventually took them. We moved to rice cereal at 4 months. He was eager & excited. Wolfed down the rice cereal. (It's organic & mixed with fresh BM). We've also moved to a BLW approach & for the last week have allowed him to suck in carrots, French fries, and Guac. He now refuses to eat rice cereal & will only eat with nursing.....Am I doing too much? Wrong approach? For a month, the rice cereal was amazing.... (Cross post)

I don't know if I understand what you mean by "will only eat with nursing." Do you mean he will only breastfeed?

Yup. He is only interested in the boob....... The one he bites.

[ace226]

Compared to the other foods he's now been offered, the rice cereal is probably really bland. DS has no interest in it whatsoever but devours fruit and veggie purees. Honestly when I made it the first time I thought it looked pretty unappetizing and didn't think I'd enjoy it much either!

I don't think I'd be worried. My only note is I might limit salty foods like French fries, just while his palette is getting used to other flavors. Not that I think you're giving him a full on plate or anything, nor that I'm trying to be critical, that's just the only thing I'd change if you asked me!

You sound like you're doing a great job though! Breast milk is the most important food right now anyway

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 9, 2015 22:09:31 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Also, adding more because I think I might have misread your original post. Is he refusing the rice only, but is still BFing and taking in bits of solids BLW-style? You're definitely okay if this is the situation. I thought you meant he was refusing rice AND all solids.

Yes. Still predominately BF. His taste of solids BLW style is very very limited. He sucked on a raw carrot & had sucked on some FF (which I wiped down the best I could to eliminate any additional salt & whatnot)...

[Mom2Ms]

I think my issue is the instructions of our pedi who says that he should be having the cereal twice a day now. Yeah right, I can't get him to eat it once a day at this point. Someone suggested putting fruit into the cereal to change up the taste. I certainly think I'm going to try that & maybe switch to oatmeal or something too. Like someone said, the rice cereal looks pretty nasty and it seems almost useless. I just figured that someone else may have been through this already since I know I've got one of the younger babies on the board!

[emilyz320]

There is so much mixed advice out there - our pedi said not to even start with rice cereal! I think as long as what you are doing works for you and lo you are doing a great job. If he hates it, he hates it. Nbd.

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 10, 2015 5:35:06 GMT -5 emilyz320 said:

There is so much mixed advice out there - our pedi said not to even start with rice cereal! I think as long as what you are doing works for you and lo you are doing a great job. If he hates it, he hates it. Nbd.

Agreed! The thing I find most funny is the notion that you're more relaxed with your second.... Not for me. I'm way more paranoid & less likely to go off the beaten path with him. I know with DD, 7 years ago, and a different pedi, we were into baby food at 4 months. Not rice cereal, but stage one baby foods.

[flyster]

we started trying purees last week and so far LO is not a fan. He's been exclusively BF so far (6 months, 1 week) and goes between bottle (day care) and boob (almost every other time). We've tried sweet potato, avocado and banana. The sweet potato he tolerated the first few times, but he's been less and less happy with food every time I've tried. I tried mixing the sweet potato with BM yesterday, but that didn't help. For right now, I guess I'll just keep trying different things and hope we find something he likes! He did like sucking on a piece of clementine yesterday, so maybe I'll go with another fruit next.

Any advice from those who have been there is very welcome!

[michelle142]

I think this really varies from child to child.

My DS didn't much care for purees, so we went to BLW. He still nursed and took bottles just fine.

DD loves food in any form. Hates bottles and demands to be nursed after solids every time.

[aggiebug]

I practically refuse to give DD the cereal because that stuff grosses me out for some reason.

At this point they should eat 1 meal a day to every other day and no cereal is definitely not necessary.

Healthy children.org is a great resource as is Kelly mom

[MapleMomma]

We started solids at 4 months. Developmentally, J was ready and she wasn't gaining enough through milk (due to a dairy allergy). She took to it right away, but now we only use cereal to thicken purées. We do a mix of BLW and purées. I think if I tried to give her cereal now, she'd spit it out.

[AppropriateChocolate]

Your doing an awesome job. DD hated the cereal and the oatmeal but is fine with purees. I agree with the rest of the ladies as long as you LO is still taking BM your a ok.

[seamonster]

Mom2Ms How old is he? I was determined to wait 6 months and started a week early. We were told to not do even the rice until 6 months unless reflux became an issue. I jumped straight into regular foods and it's going well and so far DS is nursing the same. You've already dipped your toes in, so I'd jump in now.

[flyster]

We tried carrots tonight, which were a huge hit! Maybe because I ate them constantly while pregnant?

[flyster]

Aug 11, 2015 20:51:52 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Aug 11, 2015 19:14:52 GMT -5 flyster said:

We tried carrots tonight, which were a huge hit! Maybe because I ate them constantly while pregnant?

If we are using that logic, DS should be like....

My sister said the same thing about her LO.  True story for mine also, but I haven't tried him on chocolate. or donuts. or cake. or.....