Food strike!!
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Topic: Food strike!!
Posted By: mum2paris
Subject: Food strike!!
Date Posted: 25 March 2006 at 8:58pm
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Ayja is now about 10 months old - she has always been a Breastfed girl - even though the bottle was introduced at 12 weeks old. You all know that she has never ever taken it well only drinking about 30 mls each time if we are lucky. have tried various teats, bottles formulas, expressed etc - no luck.
Anyway, because she was happy to be breastfed forever - she wasn't interested in solids until about 6 months, which was fine too. But heres the thing, she is now going on a food strike - if you try to feed her any thing she will spit it out, shake her head "no" and if you still persist in trying, she will hit the spoon out of your hands. It isn't a silly thing - she really genuinely DOES NOT LIKE being spoonfed. even her most favourite things like vanilla custard desert etc do not get more than 2 - 3 spoonfuls into her. She only has a breastfeed before sleep times really now, so it's not that she is full. Anyway, i have tried moving her up to mashed foods with lumps and those she flat out refuses and hates as well - so I have started giving her finger foods, and she is really good with them, as long as she can feed herself she will eat anything - with her hands.. spoon mastery is a bit beyond her just yet. I am not too happy about the eating with hands thing for things like rice etc. but right now that is the only way to get her to eat, and she likes it. Does anyone have any suggestions for foods that would be right for her that she could feed herself, which still mean she gets a good amount of nutrition. especially dinner time foods - i mean toast and fruit for brekkie is fine, sammies and fruit and cracker etc for lunch is fine - but dinner time foods i just cannot think of anything that isn't going to make a heck of alot of mess. even the cleanest foods she has always found a way to smear in her ears eyes, up her nose and through her hair and she will scream the house down every time you clean her up no matter how gentle you are. - see exhibit A below - the result of me spoonfeeding her 2 spoonfuls of yogurt, she spat out, smeared on her hands because she was blocking me giving her another spoonful and then smeared all over her face!! I am in no way complaining, i guess she's just really quite a head-strong fiery little girl. Paris always let me at least feed her some veges or something up until she was about 1 and a half so i always knew she was getting some food, even if she didn't eat the finger food. any help or suggestions would be great. I sometimes feel it's just too early for me to leave it up to her with the eating thing. End of novel (whew it's been a while since i wrote a decent one!) http://www.MyonlineImages.com">  http://www.MyonlineImages.com">
Yogurt anyone? ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 25 March 2006 at 9:07pm
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i dont know if these would be ok for her just yet but those aria farm meat chips are quite good sze.does she have any teeth yet??? I dont no wot else i could suggest.oh how bout some peas and carrots from the packs of mix veges???I do that with miss H sometimes good practice for her hand/eye co-ordination as well as mastering her pincer grip ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 25 March 2006 at 9:16pm
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lol - we give her those but she only really sucks on them - yes i forgot to mention, she has NO TEETH. just like Paris - who never got them till 2 weeks before her 1st birthday. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 7:40am
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I know youve prob tried this but ill suggest it just incase. Give her her own spoon and let her try to feed herself while you are feeding her as well.
Fish is great for kids feeding themselves. Mixed veges, pasta, boiled egg, nuggets, chicken, meat rissoles. Jayde wouldnt tolerate lumpy food that wasnt finger food till she was around the 12 month age. So it was pureed all the way for times that i had to feed her with a spoon. Sorry Janine none of this is probably any help to you. If this was a recent thing then i would suggest that she is teething and just off her food for a few days. But i guess its been going on for ages aye. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 9:09am
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Jake loves that battered and crumbed hoki from Pak N Save. He eats fish fingers sans batter.
When i was little i LOVED frozen peas...didn't like them cooked though. Jake is a mucky eater too. I run the bath as he's eating and he goes straight from his high chair to the bath. Have you tried both having a spoon? She feeds a little and you shovel it in while she's trying to master the spoon? |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 9:18am
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i have given toby sausage cut length ways when he had no teeth and he loved that... also i suppose veges steamed, like broccoli stalks and carrot sticks...
dunno really... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 10:17am
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I do the double spoon thing with Josiah at the moment... he's busy banging his spoon on the highchair tray, or something like that, and I pop a mouthful in while he's not looking. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 10:32am
james is loving his finger food he has meat patties cut relly small bananas wil only eat these if he can do it him self chips (not very healthy) potates with gravy umm anything on mums plate james would rather eat of my plate!!! good luck and she looks so cute ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 10:58am
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not the best solution, but I saw Dr Phil (tragic I know) ages ago. They had a child on there that refused to eat "good" food, only cheese, chips and lollies etc. As dr phil pointed out, he will not let himself starve. This may be harder to do with a younger one though. ------------- "> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 3:17pm
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thanks ladies - it's only just really started, she has just decided that she doesn't really like being spoon fed - have tried giving her a spoon for herself - and also giving her fingerfood to destract her too so i can sneak in spoonfuls - but none works. Sarah, it's not that she wont eat anything, she eats fine, anything you give her in fact - as long as she can feed herself.
i really have just stopped mashing things up for her - i just cut them up and stick em on a plate and she feeds herself with her hands. last night she ate a heap of rice and chicken mince - but wow, the mess. i guees i'll just perservere - if she wants to feed herself, and she's actually eating a really good amount then i spose i shouldn't really worry too much. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 3:19pm
would still welcome other finger food suggestions though. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 3:43pm
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ummmmmmmm grated cheese, meat patties,fish sticks ,chop bones james loves these ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 3:58pm
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I'm pretty sure I posted about the same age when Hannah decided completely out of the blue that there was no way that I was going to fee her any more. She just refused to eat if I put it in her mouth. (She's still like that now actually!)
I just had to let her go for it herself. She doesn't seem to be as 'creative' with food as Ayja is but mess can be cleaned! (Well... not on carpet I suppose) If you are worried about Ayja refusing to eat with a spoon, or knife and fork later on. Don't worry about it... there are ways to deal with that later. And uhmmm... as far as things to eat with her fingers... I used to sautee grated carrot and zucchini with a little bit of butter and chopped garlic (ah yeah, not so healthy. it was from a baby book but one about 20 years old! hehe). I think I eat more of that than Han does. But beware of the orange tinge that follows eating something like that. I swear Hannah is slightly pumpkinish for atleast 2 days after. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 3:59pm
And I loooove the pics of Ayja. (Just because she isn't my kid I fail to see the problem when she looks so damn cute  )
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 4:27pm
lolhahahaha thats what i was thing too   ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 26 March 2006 at 7:51pm
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Shes just giving u her facial beauty tips janine. Didnt you know yoghurt is good for the skin pmsl hahahahahahaha ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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