what do i do

Don't stress about it too much, she will get into it when she's ready. The gremlins showed signs of being ready from about 4 mths but they never really took to solids that well at all. At 9 mths they were still only having 1/2 a jar each per feed. I've found as they've gotten older tho they much prefer finger foods so we work around that.

Daniel went through stages of this. We would try, if he clamped his mouth shut we would give him a piece of food to chew on if he wanted and try again in a few minutes. If he still clamped his mouth shut we would leave him to it with finger foods. Eventually he would get over it. We found if we tried to force him the stage would last longer and it never got us anywhere anyway.

If you can, after she has taken all she will from you, give her the bowl and spoon to play with. it makes a hell fo a mess, lol, and goes everywhere so there are days you won't want to do this, but if you can handle the mess it actually helps a lot. Lily still sometimes has to be given the bowl when she has had enough, she manages to pick up a fair bit now and shove it in. Also, are you going lumpy rather than puree? If not, go for that, it makes it easier fro them to hand eat the stuff - being over 6 months from the start means you don't need to have it pureed, mashing would be fine (if you are making it yourself).

Here is Lily yesterday finishing off her lunch after only eating half.


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I trick Cohen by giving him smoothing to play with - just as he opens his mouth to mouth it I shove s small spoonful of food in - usually he is pleasantly surprised and lets me do it a few more times.

Its not a great fix, but does help to get them to at least taste it. We are struggling with Cohen too, he takes only two to three tablespoons twice a day so the milk bar is working extended hours at the moment.

Otherwise Cohen does love that tommee tippee holder than you can put fruit into so they can suck it and get the flavour but can't bit any off - I think he will be a finger feeder. He loves all kinds of fruit in that thing.

Good luck

The milk bar is actually open 24/7 which is why I had to edit this post as I can't spell my own baby's name

OMG is gets worse - smoothing

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