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Post by lexybug on Dec 19, 2004 13:18:23 GMT -5
My daughter Alexys is 20 months old and has primarly been eating baby food up until now. She is refusing to eat jar food so I've tried moving up to people food. Any suggestions?? She like mashed potatoes, toasted cheese, and that's about it. She will have nothing to do with pasta. It's getting frustrating because I cook a million things but she will just spit all of them back out. One day she'll eat something and then the next she gags on it. Anybody else dealing with this issue or have dealt with it could you please help.
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Post by MB on Dec 19, 2004 20:01:15 GMT -5
When it was time for our son to start eating solid food, I put him in his high chair when he was hungry, which was 3 meals and two snacks, and put five cheerios on his tongue one at a time at each sitting. For over a week, five times a day, he spit them out. I showed no emotion whatsoever.
About day ten, he kept one in his mouth and swallowed it. He progressed to eating all of them. We then worked on picking them up himself. He was probably 10-13 months old at this time. I always fed him the cheerios before the baby food at meal time. I wanted him to try when he was hungry.
He then progressed to crackers, small pieces of toast, peeled chopped apples, french fries and tiny bites of pizza. We carried kitchen shears with us to restaurants to cut up everything. We showed no emotion when he ate. We weren't happy or unhappy.
Remember, no emotion.
Hope this helps.
MB
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Post by MaggiesMom on Dec 19, 2004 23:03:09 GMT -5
Hello!
Boy are we still dealing with that! Maggie is almost 4 and still wants baby food. She will eat almost anything that's been cooked, if it's chopped up. But nothing that has to be chewed or bitten into. We've been to numerous therapists and just now found a new one that seems to be working out great!
I like MB's suggestions. Here is a very, very brief blip on my suggestions...find a really good feeding therapist. One that respects the child and the parents and won't force feed the child. Yes, you have to to stern and show no emtion a lot of the time. But I still believe that the reason Maggie won't bite or chew is due to the OT we had when she was 1 that tried to froce feed her cheerios. That child doesn't forget anything!!!!
Laura Snowbird that been through the same thing with her son. You may pop her a note and see if she can help. There is a helpful website, talktools.com I belive that has some tapes and good therapists. Maybe they come to your area. They don't come here.
Be patient and be consistant. It will work out. Just takes time.
Robin M - Maggie's mom
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Post by jeannette on Dec 20, 2004 11:03:50 GMT -5
MeKyah is 13 months now. She was never really keen on baby food. She ate them on occationally but was never that fond of them.
We started a little table food at about 9/10 months and boy she has been loving it every since. She eats pretty good most of the time. She eats most all the veggies, chicken, fish sticks, ravioli, oatmeal, meatballs. She is a tiny girl but can put down some food.
If the food is soft she will suck it to break it down instead of chewing. If it starts off hard, she will bite down on it and chew. For instance, she loves the wagon wheels as a snack. Its a good size to grip and gets soft as salava covers it. She will chew on it till its soft enough.
The talk tools are great. We purchased a couple things one being the chewy tools. I must say she is doing a lot better since we've gotten them and we've only had them for about 2 weeks. We can even see a change in the size of her cheeks.
She won't however, use a sippy cup. Anyone have any ideals? I've purchased about 5 of them from the most expensive to the cheapest ones on the market. She just don't suck, she'll chew on the tip and when she does get a suck in, most of it runs out of her month.
We're working with a speech therapist to help with this.
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Post by MaggiesMom on Dec 20, 2004 11:17:51 GMT -5
Jeannette - WE had to start Maggie out with Sippie cups that we could take the stoppers out. That way she didn't have to suck hardly at all. It kind of dribbles in her mouth, then she got the idea. It's not the cleanest way to have a sippie cup in the house, but it worked. She never did figure out how to suck on them hard enough to use the stoppers. But it didn't take long before she got the hang of a straw and we swiched to cups with straws.
Hang in there. It gets easier!
Robin M - Maggie's mom
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Post by chrfath on Dec 20, 2004 12:51:29 GMT -5
Veronica is the same age as your Alexys. But, Veronica never liked jared baby food. I would say she still gets the bulk of her nutrition from nursing. She likes spicy foods. Spicy enough to make my nose run. Sometimes she likes to feed herself with her fingers sometimes she wants to be fed. I will occasionally just put a glop of something on her tray for her to dig in with her fingers or a spoon to play around with. With pasta and rice dishes they need to have lots of sauce when I mash them into small bits. She will eat small bites of pizza but has to have her pasta mashed. Just with a fork but strange none the less.
I was just talking to her ST about veggies and she said just keep putting them on her tray season them up a bit. 10 is the magic number of repeated offerings. I usually just mush them up into something else she is eating for now. But she really is a pretty good eater most of the time.
Veronica also does the likeing it one day then gagging the next. I guess kids have tastes for stuff just like we do.
I would say just keep trying and offer her some spicey stuff. See if that helps wake up her mouth. We are also trying to remember to do face massage and nuk before each meal it has made a big difference. We do make a big deal of her eating well. I ignore the food throwing or not eating. But if she does a good job we all get really excited for her.
I don't know if my rambleing on has helped much. Nice for me to know there is another mama with a babe the same age as Miss V.
Good luck.
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