What do your non-eaters eat?

[Pollyanna]

Put this in the category of , "the more you know the more you realize that you know very little", lol.

Dd is 10 months and still nurses during the day every 2-3 hours. She usually nurses once during the night. She is on 15mg of Prevacid for reflux. The only thing she will eat is Yobaby yogurt (she'll have 3-6 oz/day). I'm not worried that she isn't getting what she needs (if you've seen her pics she is a happy, chunky, 22lb dolly), but I would like to expand her diet and selfishly I need a break from time to time. Note: she chokes on Cheerios and will only reluctantly eat them. We've tried nearly all flavors and varieties of baby food, oatmeal (even the brown sugar variety mixed with whole milk). She simply refuses to eat and will clamp down her jaws when offered food even though she seems interested at the table.
So what works for these little ones? And what won't she choke on (mom's #1 fear..I'm neurotic about it)? Her doc had us stop all solids (yogurt) for two weeks and then start reintroducing and it's almost like she said with her expression during the reintroductions, "don't you people remember I hate food?" LOL!

[TigerLily]

My little non eater (almost 2 and still barely eats!) was the same way. The only way I could get her to eat was by skipping nursing She would eat yogurt and yogurt puffs. Sometimes peaches and she would chew on pizza crust. It can be so stressful! Good luck!

[ides]

I'm not much help. Mine gagged regularly until over two. I pretty much nursed and gave him plain whole milk yogurt with mashed banana and a little cinnamon. Once and awhile he would eat a few small pieces of steamed carrot.

[mommax3]

Ugh....I feel (well, felt) your pain! My youngest was also this way. He didn't eat meat at all until after he turned 4. He eats pretty normally now, although he is still reluctant to try new things. Yogurt was one of our stand-bys. He would eat cheerios and cold cooked pasta. He would also eat peas (cooked) cold or hot. I also remember going through a lot of ritz bits and string cheese/Kraft singles, but he was older than your daughter by then. Maybe she would like the cheerios that are a little bit sweetened? I did switch to formula at about 9 months with my youngest b/c of recurrent mastitis. I hadn't ever used it before and didn't even have any bottles. We found an "older baby" formula that didn't smell as strongly as the regular stuff and he took to it fairly easily. Maybe you could supplement with something like that?

[ides]

Oh, he would also eat cottage cheese.

[OrionGrad]

My 9 month old guy really dislikes anything cold, but he's pretty open to trying new things if they've been warmed up. Peaches and butternut squash are two faves. I pretty much mix anything new with either one of those, and then keep increasing the amount of the "new" food until he'll eat it by itself.

[ladymoreta]

DS gagged on everything, too. We steamed fruits and veggies and puréed them with lots of water, even bananas, for most of his first year. I'm glad you have a good pediatrician... Mine went a little nutso on me when I was still mostly nursing at 10 months... Grumble grumble...

[ides]

DS gagged on everything, too. We steamed fruits and veggies and puréed them with lots of water, even bananas, for most of his first year. I'm glad you have a good pediatrician... Mine went a little nutso on me when I was still mostly nursing at 10 months... Grumble grumble...

Crazy. I nursed over 2yrs and got no slack at all.

[ladymoreta]

It wasn't nursing, but the almost exclusively nursing that he didn't like. He wanted me to be feeding her more solids and did an iron test and gave me an iron supplement prescription for her. It was a little low, but I thought it was fine if they were getting breast milk. I think he just cares more about things I don't - LOL! Anyway, didn't mean to hijack the thread! Baby eating is hard. To make up for bad sleeping, mine have been really good eaters, except for the gagging thing.

[Pollyanna]

Omgoodness, not a hijack at all. I love hearing everyone's different experiences.
Thanks for all the suggestions, dh and I talked about them and we are going to slowly start trying to give her the foods you all suggested.
We saw her pediatrician today for some follow-up blood work (everything is normal). He is so awesome and so supportive. He practices evidence based medicine but is also has the practicality of a doc much older. His advice was to start giving her a daily vitamin plus iron and then just offer her very small bits of food but really she gets everything she needs from my breast milk. He said in the end that mealtime should always be fun and never stressful. So yay! It's just so odd because by now the older 5 kiddos would be eating 6 jars of baby food a day plus other snacks. We've never had a non-eater so this is all new. I'm wondering if because she's difficult to feed shell be easy to potty train...one can hope right?
Thanks again!

[Urowife]

My DD was also a non-eater (still a picky eater unfortunately). She couldn't handle Cheerios at first, so I started her on puffed rice cereal - basically the only ingredient is rice. It literally melts in your mouth, so no chewing is necessary. After she could handle those, she could tolerate Cheerios. She curiously started eating much better after she turned one, and I started giving her more flavorful food. I would say, just keep offering lots of different kinds of foods. She'll figure it out eventually.

[ladymoreta]

I'm wondering if because she's difficult to feed shell be easy to potty train...one can hope right?

I hope so!!!

[SoonerTexan]

Berries?

[alison]

Mine was and is still a non-eater.

She liked Yobaby (and by liked, I mean she would eat 3-4 spoonfuls!). She also liked avocado, mango, meat purées, peas.

[Meenah]

I'm wondering if because she's difficult to feed shell be easy to potty train...one can hope right?

I belieeve that is in the rule book that comes with the newborns!!!!