Baby's First Year

hi ladies,

i'm reaching out for help on a couple of boards. i generally frequent the preg and parenting after IVF board, but i'm starting to get desparate for ideas!!

my son will be one next week!! i really want to get him weaned from the bottle and eating table foods, but it's been a battle. i've been trying to give him straw and sippy cups, and we have good days and bad days. generally, he won't drink very much from either, and will only take his milk (formula until we run out) from a bottle. he's a very lazy drinker, and never has really been one to hold his own bottle. he doesn't seem to get the whole lifting the bottle/cup and tipping his head concept... motor issue? i don't know.

in terms of food, he loves anything pureed, be it stage 2 foods, yogurt, or applesauce. he eats his baby cereal with flavor mixed in - generally the gerber banana oatmeal or earth's best mixed grains with some stage 2 fruit or applesauce mixed in. he is starting to do some of the stage 3s. he usually spits out the first few bites, and then gets on a role, chewing the chunks for the most part. finger or table foods are the biggest issue. he's finally starting to imitate putting a cheerio, puff, or yogurt melt in his mouth, but usually as soon as it hits his mouth, he makes a face, flinches, and spits it out. same thing with basically ANY table food...

i'm an early intervention service coordinator, so unfortunately/fortunately i know too much about a lot of things, but also have access to a lot of great resources. i'm debated a speech and/or OT eval for noah. i can't decide if a) he's just a picky kid, b) he has oral motor issues, or c) it's a sensory thing.

any feedback or suggestions would be great!! TIA!

Well I wish you would have had some feed back on here my son is 10 months and 3 weeks old and is the same exact way. He is on Similac Alimentum for Milk-Allergy and protien sensitivity, I dont know what I am going to do when he turns 1! He loves the yobaby's 3 in 1 meals! it's all he will eat sometimes I go days wothout giving him yogurt to see what else i can get him to eat but if it's not pureed he wont have it! :( Let me know what you find out!

Ashlee

Mother of 2....Natalee Brielle-3yrs Garrett Wayne-10 months

Hi, your son can eat yogurt? It doesnt bother him with his dairy allergy? When he turns one if he cant have cows milk, soy is the next best alternative.

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Hi, I'm sorry I didnt respond sooner.

I would just keep offering him the table foods. as well as the cup/sippy and encourage him to try them every day. Does he eat what you eat? If he sees you eating it at the same time he might be more willing to copy you and eat his too.  Eventually he will get the hang of it and accept the foods, it could very well be a texture thing, lots of babies have issues going from pureed foods to solids.

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