weaning

[irene]

Has anyone any help I can pass on to my 40 year old daughter who is a first time mum to a bouncing 7 month old boy to help her get him on to solids.
She was told to keep him on a bottle until 5 months and now he will only take
strained food or yogurt. She has tried him on next stage food but he gags on it and throws her into a panic that he is going to choke. This is all so different from our day when we weaned our babies at 3 months and I am at a loss to know what to tell her.

[twinnana]

hi Irene,
My daughter's twins were the same and she just waited and kept on trying.They were awful and we thought that they would never accept solids...but it gradually happened.I would just tell her not to get stressed and as I used to tell my daughter....everyone eats normal food so eventually it will happen.

I remember at the start they used to actually be sick when the solids were in their mouths.
They are 22 months now and eat everything.For lunch today they had a ham omelette.yesterday they had chicken and some microwave chips!One texture they do not like is cake!! They do not know what they are missing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[delphina]

Irene

My niece is a child psychologist who deals with feeding problems. I have just spoken to her. First has your grand-child been checked that it has no problems with swallowing? If it has and that is not the problem, then slowly thicken the food your grand-child will eat and let it dip it fingers in the food, then slowly when really thick introduce minute bits of food.

Hope this helps.
Nina

[irene]

Thanks for your advise everyone. I will certainly pass on your advice to her.
He is very interested in what she eats so maybe giving him something soft to eat with his fingers might help.

[nantotwins]

The twins were late going onto solids compared to my daughters friends babies, they hated " lumps" in their food and used to take them out of their mouths with their fingers!! Bless them it took them a LONG time and a lot of patience to get them to eat proper meals. Now they love their roasts and SPROUTS but still not good at eating meat. G x

[Aggie]

I was asking my daughters about this and they said some babies have difficulty coping with lumps and bits , but like finger food that they can suck or bite , one coped at 7 months , the other was over a year before she was good with lumpy solids

[Beth]

Hopefully by now the baby will be well established with his solid foods, Irene! Since I was last here Matilda, 8 months, has started solids. It has been two months now, and she seems to like everything. My daughter prepares and purees all her own food. It seems quite a bit more lumpy than commercial baby foods, but Matilda seems to cope well!

[oldfashionedgranny]

My daughter's just been to a weaning workshop, run by Cow & Gate, and said it was really helpful and they didn't plug their products, which she'd been expecting. Wish they'd been around when my daughter was a baby - I resorted to Boots packets and although they were wonderfully convenient, she was a bit of a pain about eating until she started school.

[Enid]

My DiL did baby led weaning, which is a fancy name for what we did without thinking about it. That is, give them what we have, let them feed themselves, and stop worrying. R (13 months) had a shepherds pie, homemade of course, fruit salad, and two cheese straws for lunch and rice pudding and fruit and a banana biscuit for tea. I think he's got hollow legs! He let's you know when he's had enough - and when he's still hungry. Stress free feeding.

[Granny Goggins]

I think this is quite common Irene,at least baby is taking solids even if it is pureed. Youngest GD totally rejected anything that involved lumps.Think its really difficult when they wont take solids-full stop.Think you have to accept their just all different. I personally think its better to let them go at their own pace.