I’m going to chipotle today would I be able to feed my daughter anything from here? I’m worried about sodium content ..

My son is not a fan of purees but loves food food. He is a really good eater but my problem is I am 8 weeks pregnant so the whole "feed them what you eat" is not really an option when I am surviving on toast and zofran. My husband is very much fend for yourself which means he's eating mostly things he can throw in the air fryer.

What can I give my son that I can make in really really really small batches and meal prep. I'm trying to do more than just giving him a banana.

He eats more at my mom's on Tuesday nights where she recently made homemade pasta that he was obsessed with and during the day with my MIL on Wednesdays he eats with her. Shes on a soup kick lately so its been lots of chicken and veggies. (All with very little to no salt!)

So what do you guys feed them? What can you make in super small quantities so it doesn't go to waste?

My little one has always been a “medium” eater. He never really cleared huge plates of massive variety like the babies that mostly get posted here, but I wouldn’t say he was hugely fussy either. He has his favourites (he will usually wolf down strawberries, toast, yoghurt, pasta), and he mostly will pick up and taste anything on his plate, even if he spits it straight out, and I class that as a win because at least he’s tried it.

But the last few weeks he has been on strike. Even strawberries, toast, pasta he won’t touch. I thought at first it was illness (he had a cold), then I wondered if he’s teething.

I always said I won’t have a fussy kid. I know, people without kids are always the best parents 🤣 but every evening after he’s refused everything and is signing all done before he’s even touched a bite, I cave and give him a pouch to make sure he has at least some calories in him. And 90% of the time he will eat a whole pouch, so it’s not that he isn’t hungry.

I suppose I’m seeking the wisdom of the group. As far as I see it my options are;

A) don’t offer him anything else, if he’s hungry he’ll eat (but my counter is, no he won’t 🤣 he wakes up in the night and I breastfeed him!)
B) keep offering a variety, let him play with it, taste it, spit it out, chuck it on the floor, and maybe a pouch afterwards if he’s truly not eaten enough
C) blend the food we’re having, it’s the pouch texture but the flavour and nutrition of what I have been trying to offer. Maybe his mouth is sore with teething which is why yoghurt and pouches is the only thing he’ll eat?

I will say the pouches we offer are Ella’s pouches which are 100% organic and 100% just pureed fruit/veg, so they’re not horrendous but not what I had envisaged I would raise him on 😫

What do you think?

Baby is 5 months and it’s setting in that I’m going to need to start preparing meals for him! I’m excited but also super nervous because it’s gonna be so much more work than just nursing.

I’ve had friends say their baby “just eats what we eat” but I know babies aren’t supposed to have added salt so I’m not sure how that would even work. We eat very flavorful food so I don’t imagine that working for us, but maybe it could if I modified things. I’m just getting overwhelmed imagining all the extra work and dirty dishes 😵‍💫

For those of you who do this, walk me through how you prepare baby’s part of your meal.

Both my partner and I work full time with long drives so it’s been near impossible to get our little one to have three full meals a day … the only really big meal she has is with us at dinner time and it is a mix of what we are eating or easy things such as eggs and avocados, etc. She is still getting her bottles but I have noticed a decrease of intrest with them and she defiantly wants more solids.
How did you guys approach this? Tips, tricks? Sanity to spare? lol - just want to be doing the right thing!
TIA! 💜
Love a FTM

Edit: thank you to the people who responded. This really had me down in the dumps but I’m going to try compromising now and do purées and solids for mealtime, if anything to mostly make peace with my family. I still believe BLW is the best option and so much more enticing for my baby, so thank you for the encouragement <3

Hi guys. My baby is 8 months old. About 3 weeks ago I took him off of purées, he finally started teething and was so fussy in the high chair and didn’t want to participate in eating. He had done pretty well on purées up until that point since he was 5 months old.

Well, I didn’t just want to starve him, so I figured maybe that was a good time to start giving him some autonomy and pique his interest when it came to eating time. We started BLW.. started with bananas, orange slices, etc. First day it was throwing, couples days later he put it to his mouth, few days after that he started taking bites. That’s about as far as we’ve gotten, in all of 3 weeks. He gags (normal, right), spits it out, I consider what we did successful progress.

But his grandma, who baby sits him a total of 12 hours a week and gives him breakfast, insists that I need to give him purées. ”He hates that food you give him, he’s so hungry“ etc. I hear this every day from her. I don’t want to give up, even though progress is so slow, but now I’m starting to hear it from his dad too, who works all day and really isn’t around to feed him. And neither of them have done the BLW research or read what I send them. So they keep shutting me down and I’m seriously about to quit. I don’t want to, but they are making me feel like a bad mother.

Is my baby hungry? He drinks 30 oz of formula every day, but hasn’t technically eaten solid foods in over 3 weeks now. I feel so defeated. I’m starting to stress over it. I love my child to death and I hate that people who barely take care of him are so insistent that what I’m doing is wrong. Please help. Thanks in advance :/

STM to a baby who is 5 months and 1 week old. We started him on solids (purées) last week after he turned 5 months old. In comparison to my older child (at the time), I noticed he wasn’t sitting up as firmly, but still able to sit up assisted, and he was also thrusting a lot of the food out of his mouth. He has done well with sweet potato (actually eating it), but for other foods - oatmeal and mashed avocado - he just dribbles it out of his mouth. Wondering if I should pause and re-start in a week or two, or continue offering him solids each day? It currently feels like a lot of effort for most or all of the food to end up on his bib, and I don’t want to feed him just sweet potato every day. Any advice would be welcomed!

Mine is obsessed with plain black beans. I think he wouldn't mind if they were the only thing he ate

Hey all! I wasn’t thinking when I made a bulk batch of pancake strips for my baby this morning and put blueberries in them without remembering to crush them. Solid Starts said that should be okay because they’re cooked so the heat will soften them up and cause some to burst but I guess I’m just looking for input from others. Would you feel safe serving these to your almost 9 month old? I feel like I’m probably overthinking it but she’s my first.

Hello,

I am incredibly busy and really don't have much time at all for meal preparation. The ideal meal is something I can just prepare in a baking dish or pan and bake, with minimal chopping of the food beforehand.

My baby loves to eat beans, hummus, oatmeal, berries, yogurt, pita bread, eggs, bananas, nut butters, bread, peas, tuna.

She currently isn't a big fan of sweet potato, chicken, fish, mango, vegetables, or pasta, cheese.

Something that works great for us is baked oatmeal. It's so easy and I can easily make enough for her to eat throughout the week at daycare. I am looking for recipes that are similarly easy but suit her tastes, as currently there isn't much variety in her diet.

Also looking for meals that we can eat together with us hard because I myself am pretty picky but I like to eat Greek food, jerk chicken, falafel wraps, rice and beans, carribbean food, fruit smoothies, yogurt, avocado toast. Into pesto sometimes. Honestly the biggest hurdle is that I just hate cooking. I don't like making rice or pasta on the stove. Really need easy easy easy meals! I am in grad school and it's soooo busy 🤸

Thanks so much for any ideas!!

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some perspective or encouragement from anyone who has navigated something similar! My LO just turned 9 months last week and is taking her sweet time warming up to solids and has only just started to mouth and bite food this past 2 weeks. She has a very specific style right now where she strictly prefers firm, dry crunchy textures she can grip in her full palm (like toast strips, cucumber batons, or fruit spears) and bite off pieces, but she really isn't a fan of soft, squishy, or wet textures on her hands, she will however, tolerate yogurt when she can self feed. When she does eat, she’s very much a micro-taster—a bite or two of toast or a spoon or two of yogurt and she’s completely done. Her pincer grasp isn't her primary way to eat yet, so if a meal feels overwhelming, she’ll smush it, launch it off the tray, or check out in under a minute. She does occasionally get brave with textures or new foods by stealing bites directly off my plate such as banana, so I know her oral skills are fine, but giving her foods on her tray often leads to quick rejection. I have tried eating on the floor, highchair, my lap and neither makes much of a difference. I try so hard to adapt by deconstructing meals into dry strips, hiding iron-rich foods in wraps, and sitting right with her, but when she turns down even her daily staples after a single touch, it leaves me feeling really crushed and worried about how we'll ever bridge the gap to family meals. I try to do the method of one safe food, one will occasionally accept food and then one new food each meal time, but it seems to not really be paying off. Has anyone else had a baby who only ate tiny 1-2 bite amounts and isn’t open at this age? Did they naturally expand their appetite and texture comfort over time? Would love to hear your experiences! Picture of recent meals for reference (which end up mostly thrown straight on the floor). Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Pieces* I am stressed out because my baby has pieces of vegetables and fruit in his poop after he eats. It seems like he digests protein, bread, noodles, and fat just fine but I am starting to worry something is wrong because his stomach hasn't learned how to break down vegetables. I am mostly giving them in purees now because the pieces also cause him a lot of discomfort it seems. He has no teeth and based on his diapers, he is swallowing some pretty big pieces.

My son loves to eat. We do three meals a day, and he pretty much likes anything you put in front of him. However, the last two weeks, he has been throwing his food and water cup on the ground constantly. He’ll take a few bites of food, and then start picking it up to throw it on the ground. Same with his water cup. Then, he will cry until you pick it up. I thought he was just taking a liking to fruit and bread only, and started serving his veggies/meats before giving him his “dessert”, which has helped a little.

Someone please tell me if this is just a phase or if there’s any other way I can encourage him to not throw his food!

Vs Floor...

Chicken and chickpea curry (slightly spicy) and some avocado and blueberries on the side. She decided to make a soup by dumping her water in her food, letting her have free access to an open cup is always dangerous...

She's 16months old but 14 adjusted age.

I want to cry. She’s always had good and bad days with solids and it’s only gotten worse over the past few days. She barely eats anything but will scream inconsolably until she gets a bottle of milk when we end the meal. So obviously she is hungry but only wants milk.

What do I do? There’s no way I can cut down milk at all if this keeps going on.

First time eating like a big boy without help (minus showing him how to use the spoon) rice beans then pumpkin bread for dessert and no gagging 🥲👏

So as the title says, she doesn’t eat anything, gets irritated if I try to feed her. She just plays with the food and eventually gets bored and screams. Idk what to do to encourage her to eat.
But she loves beechnut purées. Doesn’t eat anything homemade.
I’ve tried everything, eating along, showing her how to eat, exaggerating expressions. Pls help me out.

Edit: she eats only bananas (whole) and beechnut purées

My baby just turned 11 months old, and I’m feeling behind with solids.

He has a sensitive gag reflex and would often gag or throw up when trying textured foods. Every time that happened, I felt like he wasn’t ready, so I kept offering mostly purees and porridge. He’s also had back-to-back colds and coughs, and the mucus in his throat seems to make the gagging worse.

He’s mostly spoon-fed, and I feel like he just swallows his food rather than actually chewing.

I started offering zucchini strips..
Day 1: Smeared them all over the tray
Day 2: Licked one and dropped it
Day 3: Held one for a little longer, then dropped it on the floor. (He drops, says “uh oh” and looks at me.. this happens often).

Avocados he eats mashed when offered via spoon but he just squishes, smears across plate when I offer him to hold.

Does it get better? I’m really stressed…

Should I just keep offering the same foods until he eventually starts exploring and eating them? Were most days just exploration and not really consuming anything/food wasted?

Any tips for helping him learn to chew and get comfortable with finger foods?

I can't help but feel like I let him get "behind” esp when I
see babies his age online picking up, eating solids so well.

Did anyone else have a baby who was still mostly on purees at 11 months? Did you do a combination of purees and BLW? How are they eating now?

My baby is almost 9M and she LOVES to eat. The problem is I feel like I’m kind of failing at feeding her solids. I’m EBF and she nurses quite a few times a day. We’ve done a lot of the allergens, but she usually only eats solids once a day and sometimes we just do puffs and a pouch. I feel like she’s getting hungrier throughout the day but I’m just at such a loss of what to feed her. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be so hard but I see people posting their 8mo eating full meals and I feel like I’m behind. Should I really be worried about how much solid food she’s getting a day at this point? If so, what are your guys recommendations for some sort of meal planning? We really only eat one meal together as a family a day, so the “feed her what you’re eating” is already what we’re doing.

Looking for pre made things to make things easier. For example, Trader Joe’s premade lentils, tin fish, etc…
Single mom here and can use all the short cuts I can get!

Hello, my LO is 10 months old and up until this past week, she's been a great eater. When we first started solids, we started with purees, but we transitioned to finger foods pretty quickly. She would pretty much eat everything we gave her. But, since last week, she has only been wanting to eat yogurt, fruit, fruit pouches, pasta or these little pancakes I make. I'm trying different recipes, textures, flavors, but she's refusing to now eat foods she once loved. Is it just phase? Is it because I've been avoiding salt? Maybe the food is too bland for her now? Can I start adding salt now? I would appreciate any advice or recipes! Thank you!!