9 month food question

My 9 month old DD has been eating purees for 2 months. Fruit in the morning, Veggie at night. The last 2 weeks or so she is refusing them. She will clamp her mouth shut so tight and refuse to eat. If we make a game out of it, or say ahh or anything she just refuses to eat. I try waiting until she is maybe hungrier, we tried with my husband feeding her, and grandma and nothing is working all of a sudden. Anyone else experience this? Should I try cutting back her formula even tho for the 2 months she was doing the same bottle with 2 purees. I am at a loss. Instead of eating more, she is eating less and I am wasting a ton of baby food!

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My daughter stopped eating purees around 10 months. I wouldn't cut her formula. The baby food is just for practice at this age. They need breast milk or formula for nutrition, nothing else.

9 month food question

Did you start with table food when she refused the purees? We tried banana and puffs and she wouldn't take those either lol

9 month food question

Don't cut her formula, that's more important.

Maybe stop food for a while and start again in a week or 2.

9 month food question

Thanks so much for the advice girls. I won't cut any of the formula and maybe we will take a break from the purees and try with the table food again soon.

9 month food question

Food before 1, just for fun. Try table food but don't cut formula.

9 month food question

My DD started refusing purees and by 10 months she was just on table food and formula. She wanted real food lol!

9 month food question

What real foods did you girls start with? I tried puffs with her and she wasn't interested. Should I start with carrots or pasta maybe?

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9 month food question

DS is almost 10 months. At 8 months, we introduced table foods since he was starting to refuse jarred foods. . DS loves cheese, yogurt, bananas, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, eggs, pancakes, French toast, Cheerios, grilled cheese, etc. I just give him whatever we are having at this point. DS still has a veggie purée (stage 2 or 3) with dinner.

ETA: DS loves yogurt melts but I only let him have them as an after dinner snack.

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9 month food question

Awesome. Thanks Girls! We are going to start tomorrow with some table foods.

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Is she teething? When my DD would go through a bad teething period she would go through a "hunger strike" bc her gums would hurt she didn't want to eat. IF that's not the issue, I would ask the ped what they recommend. Maybe mix the fruit puree with rice cereal, sometimes they don't like the taste by itself.

9 month food question

Dd is 7 months. We do purees, but small table foods also cut into tiny pieces-anything that she has had purees of..banana, carrot, sweet potato, squash, etc. she's also had puffs and is obsessed, but I feel like they're so processed. That being said, she is much better at feeding herself puffs than real food

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DD refused purees, pretty much from when we introduced them. By 9 mos., she was definitely taking some table foods - lightly mashed banana or avocado, Cheerios soaked in milk or water and cut in half, even cut up pieces of poached chicken or soft veggies from soups. She gave up her afternoon bottle around 9 months as well, and was down to 4 bottles/day (soon after, went down to 3). I'd say formula was still her main source of food though. Then again, dd was maybe 14 pounds at that age, so maybe she's not the best model! Mealtime always equalled battle time, until she was nearly two, but she never starved and now eats almost anything.

9 month food question

Around 9 months is when my son started refusing baby food. He wanted whatever we were eating.

9 month food question

I would start table food. If she is not wanting purees I would just move on tot he next step. Keep formula at a constant as much as possible.

9 month food question

She is teething so that may be it but either way I am going to use this as the perfect time to transition to table foods. We are trying some tonite. Wish me luck LOL

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My girls refused purees bc they preferred table food. We did pancakes, eggs, meatballs, peas, steamed carrots cut up, steamed sweet potato, yogurt melts.

9 month food question

At daycare today for the first time ever she also refused to eat the fruit puree which she never does and the teacher remarked that her upper gums are so swollen and it looks like 2 or 3 teeth are coming through so maybe she is just miserable.

We tried cucumber tonight b/c we got stuck in traffic and home really late and I didnt have time for much else. She wasn't interested at all but I will keep trying.We are going to try steamed carrots tomorrow and hope soon she will get the hang of it. Thanks again girls!!

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When DD was teething that bad and refused foods the doctor told us to give her whatever she would eat and for her it was rice cereal or oatmeal. Maybe hold off on table foods being that she is in this much pain it may not be the best time to start something that she will just reject. Give her what she will eat so she is getting something in her belly.