Food before one?
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Sounds completely normal! Keep trying xx
That's totally normal. Babies have a reflex that helps them suckle that causes the food to come back out. They have to learn to suppress it in the beginning. As long as she's interested and seems to like it, keep going. Just make sure you have plenty of bibs and towels! 😉 Also, she's super adorable! 😍
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I agree with this!
Totally normal and food before one is for fun it will just take time she will get used to it!
Keep trying!! Baby will get the hang of it!
If you’re still feeding her her breastmilk or formula, foods are just for fun, tasting, learning, and exercising those muscles. What you guys are doing is exactly right: letting her pick up foods, taste them, smell them, rub them all over the place. It’s messy but great for them!
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Agree with this! Sensory is a very important in the early stages of development. Babies learn with their mouth, that's why everything goes into it. Letting them get messy is part of the fun and plus it makes for some great pictures.
Keep trying! That reflex will go away.
I started giving purées to Parker when he was 4 months. He mostly tasted things - swallowing some things, spitting some things. Our paediatrician approved. He bounced between eagerness for he new foods and a desire to stick to his comfort food (breastmilk). By 5 months he was eating a lot, but by 6 months he started spitting out more than he took in - even his favourites. Just keep trying. He needs to practice swallowing and his needs for additional nutrition, particularly iron, begins around 6 months. It’s not a big deal if he doesn’t eat much. The routine of sitting down in his high chair and eating with the family or during his meal times makes a difference. By 7 months, Parker was eating really well, most of the time. But he wants what WE have. So I make sure to have something on my plate that I can give him too.
Baby led weaning!!!! 😍😍😍
Keep tryin momma! She will get it on no time
Food before 1 is just for fun. Breast milk is more than enough for baby
They don't physically need "food" until around a year. I would say keep trying, but I wouldn't worry. Milk is what she needs most
Go with your gut! Your baby, your decision. We recently had a baby go through several months of feeding clinic appointments. They always said, “food before 1 is just for fun.” We strip her down, plop her in the high chair, and just let her go for it! Sometimes it makes it to her mouth, sometimes it doesnt! Making meal time a positive experience is important. We also use a spoon and spoon it into her mouth. At first it was so messy. Which is part of the fun, right? But now she is a total pro! Hope this helps! But most importantly, despite what everyone else thinks, be sure to make your own decisions with your child. You’re the mama! You know what is best!
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Just remembered another tip from the food clinic: when you spoon it into their mouth, apply just a little downward pressure on the baby’s tongue. This will help them start to learn how it feels to keep their tongue in.
Are you mashing these items or giving it to her in pieces that she has to chew? Maybe get her used to thicker consistency and then move her to solids. I haven't experienced this yet, so just a guess. I personally would stay away from oatmeal until she gets the hang of swallowing. Oatmeal is harder to digest and the small pieces might get stuck in her tonsils or what not. Idk. Hope this helps. Let me know if it works. I'll eventually have to know these things too. :)
The docs told me to do what u r doing right at 4 months old gets their tummies ready she will get it dont worry u r doing great(bonus my youngest had major issues pooping and cleared up once we started so it can make a big dif in their digestion)
Agree with what’s already been said here! Food before one is all about practice, motor development, and getting them exposed to flavors. It’s okay if not much actually makes it into their stomach - just keep at it, and they’ll improve over time!
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If baby stick their tongue out when something goes into their mouth then they're not ready for solids. It's a developmental thing, when they lose the toungu thrust reflux your baby is ready to start solids. I personally love Baby Led Weaning, it's worth a shot to look into 😊
I would say keep trying ! My daughter did the same. She didn’t know what to do yet but after trying and trying she learned she is supposed munch and swallow it. Takes time but don’t give up.
I would say try again later if she is happy with a liquid diet still. My boys ate early, but my daughter didn’t really start eating solids till she was closer to 9 months. Each kid is different.
I have a soon-to-be 4 month old and we've started mixing the cereal in his formula, even tho it isn't recommend until he is between 4 and 6 months. He was at 6 ounces every 4 hours and we would give him more if he acted hungry, but it wasn't doing good enough in terms of getting him full enough to sleep enough and he would always be attentively watching me or my family when we would eat something. Now, he eats 6 ounces of formula mixed with a single scoop of rice cereal before bed and he sleeps between 6 and 8 hours. A lot of people say that you shouldn't start solids until about a year, but if she's showing interest in your food when you eat, it's a sign to start trying. If she's spitting it out, don't give up, but try in another couple days.
Just keep trying. Your little one is learning. Mine started at 6.5 months and now she is 7 months old and is finally getting the hang of it. Its not easy to learn how to eat. For the last 6 months all your baby had to do is suck to drink milk. In a couple weeks your baby will be eating like a pro. It did help to make it more runny and I tilted our high chair back so it was easier to “pour” the food into the mouth. Good luck!
Wait till after 6 months and introduce food for 7 days at a time to prevent and detect if there are any allergy especially with srawberrys and peanuts
We give our daughter anything that can be smashed on the roof of your mouth with your tongue. She's 6 1/2 months and she has just gotten the hang of chewing without spitting it out. We have been offering 1-2 meals a day.
My daughter starts eating at 4 months as what her pedia says. Now he’s 8 months and eats 3-4 solid meals a day including snacks which is Mum mum and baby yogurt. Keep trying until your baby learns how to chew and swallow. Blend your baby food or cereal with your breastmilk or formula. It will help.
Remember it’s fun before one. My little boy didn’t really eat until he was about 13 months but I enjoyed letting him experiment with textures etc int the meantime!
I personally would stop. 6 months is still pretty young. And the saying goes “food before one is just for fun”. I’m waiting till at least 8 or 9 months to introduce limited foods.
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Same here. There’s no rush in feeding baby table foods. There’s no magic number to when they’re ready just go w their flow. Giving her different foods will help her w different textures and should be fun for her. Just don’t stress about giving her a set amount to finish, make it fun.
They aren’t used to the texture yet, so they are just feeling it around in their mouths. My son did that for the first week or so and then he got used to it. His pediatrician said that it’s more about having fun and discovering something new at the beginning, not as much about nutrition.
Just keep trying she has to learn. I start my first at 4 months by the time she was 5 months she was a pro at keeping it in her mouth. But my first was eating regular food my 10 months.
I’ve never heard this term food before one is just for fun. It is recommended to start weaning at 6 months but I started at about 3/4 months because my little boy just sounded like a water bottle after each bottle. I also had other issues with bodily functions which disappeared once I introduced food. I started with mushy foods like rusks in milk then fruit etc. I got a dummy which had a net on the end rather than a teat and place mushy stuff like melon etc and he had to bite down to get the juice. He learnt that he had to bite and swallow to get anything. Plus it’s a great cooler for teething.
I started at 5 months, she was ready! We started with bananas, apples, avocado, pears......Introduced one or two new foods every week to make sure she wasn’t allergic first. They have to get used to being able to eat. They all will spit it out at first learning how to eat.
I needed to feed her by 5 months. She was growing and was hungry all the time, mixing purée food and breastfeeding helped. I have never heard not to feed them before one year old.
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My baby’s doctor had us start around 4 mo. He loves his food! At 7 mo he has rice cereal mixed with formulated fruit for Breakfast, a meat veggie and fruit for lunch and the same for dinner. He also has some snacks and bottles between big meals. I would say keep pushing through it’s not always easy starting something new!
I’d still do the baby food and try when you feel she might be ready again. My daughter started baby food at 5.5 months. Has been eating our food since she was about 7ish months. She’ll be 10 months at the end of the week and really doesn’t do baby food anymore. She also has 7 teeth already and I think that makes a difference.
I started feeding my son food the minute he seemed interested in what I was eating. Our doctor agreed it would be ok to introduce foods around that time as well. For us it happened around 6-7 months. We did the same thing you are started with sweet potatoes and avocado. They’re gonna spit it out for a little bit because it’s a new texture they aren’t used to. Honestly it all depends on what YOU’RE comfortable with. My son is 18 months old and I have never had problems with his eating habits. Just do what YOU think is best.
Let her self feed and she’ll do it at her own pace. Just offer age appropriate food when you eat and don’t worry if she doesn’t eat it. My daughter wanted to copy me, not be fed by me. Eggs were an easy one for her to grasp. I beat an egg and cooked it flat then cut into thin strips she couldn’t choke on. Baby Mum mums dissolve in the mouth and are usually a hit with babies too. Mine didn’t start eating enough to actually be full until she was probably closer to 8 months or so but she enjoyed being a part of meal times. Oh and a munchkin sippy cup with the silicone straw and handles. Good luck!
She's learning how to eat. Keep feeding her and don't worry is she's spitting up food or playing with it. That's how they learn to get interested in eating. It can take 6 weeks for her to do this until she enjoys eating. It's more about her trying different foods and touching them rather than getting a full meal in her. After 6 weeks of trying she will get the hang of it.
We started with rice cereal because it's easier to swallow and digest than oatmeal. Bananas and apples were good in the beginning as well and then we branched off into other fruits and veggies. Don't get discouraged! It took awhile getting used to eating but the more you work at it the better your baby will get at it. Practice makes perfect and everything is a new experience right now.
I started trying to feed baby food at 4 months, he had three teeth already. He was only interested for like the first two feedings and even then he’d eat like a bite or two then ask for the bottle. Around 6 months, we started feeding him baby food as actual meals with no bottle but he usually still asked for one. My family started giving him fresh fruit and little things off their plates. Now he’s 8 months and we give him whatever he wants aside from a few restrictions like no processed sugars so no cookies, cake, and those types of things, no soda, no pork, beef, nothing that comes out the ocean, etc. so I’m still high maintenance but less? Lol
just keep trying! they will get the hang of it! we started solids at 4 months and around 7-8 months he had the hang of finger foods! now he eats everything and he's learning to use a spoon! be patient and start with small spoonfuls and scoop it from her lip and help it back into her mouth, eventually she will use her tongue to pull it back in after she pushes it out. then she won't lose anything at all!
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have you tried finger foods with her?
My baby ate mashed potatoes at 4 months old didn't really start eating regular food until 5 or 6 months old mine just turned three
Food before one is just for fun! We lived by that and feeding has been zero stress, our daughter is healthy, happy and an adventurous eater. Just turned 3. Six month old recommendation by pediatricians is being found to cause early onset of food allergies Check out books on baby led weaning and see why it’s so beneficial!
Yuppers my son was the same way I compared him to my bffs baby who is 4 days older than him and he had the whole spoon n opening mouth thing down great my son on the other hand needed alil more time now hes all for it and will throw himself towards the spoon if I'm taking to long .
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Agreed, if it’s a tongue issue of sticking it out like we had she wasn’t ready. We waited a week tried again and she was good to go
She’s just learning how to eat
You're doing great, keep it up. 🤗
Eating at six month is more to help them learn how to handle solid foods. As they eat more solids then with bottle/breast feed less. Not until a year will they get all their nutrient from solid foods.
If you start introducing more food be careful with strawberries kiwi and pineapple. My son is allergic and the doctor said alot of kids are until the are older!
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You aren’t meant to give these until an older age anyway I think maybe one
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I did purees at 4 months old. Gave 1 small jar plus topped off with formula. Started with doing this 1x/day for 2 weeks. Then moved to doing it 2x/day
Just keep trying it’s new to them
We started 1 month ago. My daughter seems doing it as well a lot in the begging but now is better. When I give her parsnip or sweet potato she open widly her mouth 😆. To eat is a real job. I am ok if some day she does not want it. So much for reading and advices but I pick up what I feel 🙂 If not feeling I just try something and avoid overthinking. Sending good vibes Xx
If she doesn't feel ready to you, it's ok! You can keep trying. The whole food before one is just for fun thing is pretty outdated and peds and dietician's don't suggest it. They suggest introducing high allergen foods early and often so even just letting her lick them is good! My youngest is six months and eating literally everything up to meat but we absolutely waited until we felt like he had an idea what to do and it felt safe. Go with your gut momma!!
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The only things she shouldn't have are cows milk and honey. Anything else can and should be introduced early. In their whole and/or cooked form, not purées. Purées actually cause more choking as people feel "safe" with them and babies think they can just choke it down. I've found my baby prefers the real versions of the things he turned down in purée form. Introducing allergens early actually lessens the chance of allergy.
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