Starting Solids

I am aware there are a billion topics like this, but just wanted a bit of reassurance really!

I am under a lot of pressure to get some solids into Jackson, due to his weight situation. I have been trying for a few weeks, but we're making zero progress whatsoever. He is just NOT interested. Mouth closed, spitting, rubbing eyes.... every trick in the book.

I have tried all times of the day, straight after a feed, ages after a feed, lots of different types. No go.

Given how hard I have to work to get Jackson to eat normally, I just want to know if other babies resist for so long and then all of a sudden go for it. I couldn't bear to think that this is the way it will always be. I am already exhausted!

PS - I know he's not yet 6 months. I am not that concerned if he eats them now... just want to know that this reaction isn't a sign of what lies ahead. Not that people will know, but... you know.... !!!

Yeah id try the fresh food feeder aswell.

Plunket told me that you just have to keep trying and keep trying, they say that you need to try a food 20 times before you can say they dont like it or wont eat it. Some babies take longer to get used to the texture of solids.

Caden took to the fruits right away but i had a lot of trouble getting him to eat veges! The tinned stuff he HATES and will only eat what I make.
It took him until nearly 7 months old to eat veges. He would pull faces and spit it out and rub his eyes, all that.

Have you tried just plain baby rice? or putting baby rice in his bottles as a starter? Thats what we did, he had baby rice in his bottles for a while, and then we moved onto very runny babyrice given on a spoon, then made it thicker gradually, then we added runny pears etc.

Caden had always loved pumpkin, most babies will eat that, so id make your own and make it nice and runny for him and just keep trying all the time, just a spoonful here and there, and dont worry if he doesnt eat it, he is getting the taste for it and stuff and he will get used to it

Edited by Sheza

You could try little wafer biscuits too, but it sounds like he's really not interested and more frequent feeding might be better?

Alex did the same thing as J Laurie so maybe just hold off a bit and then try again (plus then you don't have that added worry each day about adding yet more pressure to you and J re feeding).   I think we ended up trying every second or third day until one day he just opened up when some pears came along. I think he was a week over 6 months.

Basically nothing to add to what the others have said, other than it sounds like he's not quite ready yet.

On the weight front, some babies just don't put on alot of weight, no matter what you do (I should know, I've had 2 of them) and to top it off milk has more fat and calories ounce per ounce than any solid food you can be offering anyway; except avocado which has lots. LOL I found that when DS2 had less bf and more solids he actually didn't gain nearly as much weight; this kid eats more than his 5.5 year old brother sometimes and his weight has always been hit and miss. I was so stressed out with DS1 because they insisted he needed to weigh more, so much so that I spent all my time worrying about how much he might or might not weigh instead of enjoying him.

With DS2 I watched him not the damn scales, in contradiction with Plunket who harped on at me for 8 months about it. If they are having the requisite number of wet nappies, meeting developmental milestones and well in themselves, whether they weigh 9kg or 14kg it shouldn't matter. Adults come in all shapes and sizes, why can't babies? The thing I always asked myself was "If I didn't know how much he weighed, would I be worried about him?" If the answer is no, ignore what other people have to say; if yes, well by all means do what you feel you have to do to get to the bottom of it.

Sorry for the rant....weight is a pet peeve of mine in cased you missed it. LOL