Trouble feeding toddler

[zoeg]

Hello,
Does anyone have any advice for switching a toddler to table food and a sippy cup? My daughter is almost 14 months and we are still struggling with it. I think the main problem is that so many people I know have said they just took the bottle and baby food away and their child learned table food and cups were it or they would starve. When you have a CFer though, that is not so easy. My daughter needs every calorie she can get, and so often I have to give her the bottle.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Zoe

 

[zoeg]

Hello,
Does anyone have any advice for switching a toddler to table food and a sippy cup? My daughter is almost 14 months and we are still struggling with it. I think the main problem is that so many people I know have said they just took the bottle and baby food away and their child learned table food and cups were it or they would starve. When you have a CFer though, that is not so easy. My daughter needs every calorie she can get, and so often I have to give her the bottle.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Zoe

 

[zoeg]

Hello,
Does anyone have any advice for switching a toddler to table food and a sippy cup? My daughter is almost 14 months and we are still struggling with it. I think the main problem is that so many people I know have said they just took the bottle and baby food away and their child learned table food and cups were it or they would starve. When you have a CFer though, that is not so easy. My daughter needs every calorie she can get, and so often I have to give her the bottle.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Zoe

 

[ashton2005]

i Just keep offering ashton his sippy and just the past 2 days he has started drinking from it!! now as for table food that is all he would ever eat he didnt like baby food so im not much help there!! sorry

 

[ashton2005]

i Just keep offering ashton his sippy and just the past 2 days he has started drinking from it!! now as for table food that is all he would ever eat he didnt like baby food so im not much help there!! sorry

 

[ashton2005]

i Just keep offering ashton his sippy and just the past 2 days he has started drinking from it!! now as for table food that is all he would ever eat he didnt like baby food so im not much help there!! sorry

 

[benji26]

Hi Zoe

My son Benjamin is now 14 months old and I found if you did it slowly it seemed to work ok. Ben is still on 3 bottles a day I have just dropped his breakfast bottle. He has just started on table food but I give him both. He also loved his bottle and I gave it to him for the sake of the calories. I first started on giving him soft baby food and gave him a straw cup from about 10 months old. He didn`t take to a sippy cup at all so I tried him on the straw and he picked it up straight away. I always offered food before the bottle and never had the bottle where he could see it. When I was feeding him food I would offer a drink from the cup in between feeds. Just start with one bottle at a time and work from there. He is now wanting to feed himself so that is grt fun. But I always fall back on what my mum used to say to me (He won`t be walking around with a bottle when he`s 21) So don`t stress too much I reckon the do it when they are ready. Hope this helps. Ben still has baby custards and yoghurts with meals as well.

Donna
Mum to Daniel 14 n/cf
Monique 13 n/cf
Benjamin 14 mths cf

 

[benji26]

Hi Zoe

My son Benjamin is now 14 months old and I found if you did it slowly it seemed to work ok. Ben is still on 3 bottles a day I have just dropped his breakfast bottle. He has just started on table food but I give him both. He also loved his bottle and I gave it to him for the sake of the calories. I first started on giving him soft baby food and gave him a straw cup from about 10 months old. He didn`t take to a sippy cup at all so I tried him on the straw and he picked it up straight away. I always offered food before the bottle and never had the bottle where he could see it. When I was feeding him food I would offer a drink from the cup in between feeds. Just start with one bottle at a time and work from there. He is now wanting to feed himself so that is grt fun. But I always fall back on what my mum used to say to me (He won`t be walking around with a bottle when he`s 21) So don`t stress too much I reckon the do it when they are ready. Hope this helps. Ben still has baby custards and yoghurts with meals as well.

Donna
Mum to Daniel 14 n/cf
Monique 13 n/cf
Benjamin 14 mths cf

 

[benji26]

Hi Zoe

My son Benjamin is now 14 months old and I found if you did it slowly it seemed to work ok. Ben is still on 3 bottles a day I have just dropped his breakfast bottle. He has just started on table food but I give him both. He also loved his bottle and I gave it to him for the sake of the calories. I first started on giving him soft baby food and gave him a straw cup from about 10 months old. He didn`t take to a sippy cup at all so I tried him on the straw and he picked it up straight away. I always offered food before the bottle and never had the bottle where he could see it. When I was feeding him food I would offer a drink from the cup in between feeds. Just start with one bottle at a time and work from there. He is now wanting to feed himself so that is grt fun. But I always fall back on what my mum used to say to me (He won`t be walking around with a bottle when he`s 21) So don`t stress too much I reckon the do it when they are ready. Hope this helps. Ben still has baby custards and yoghurts with meals as well.

Donna
Mum to Daniel 14 n/cf
Monique 13 n/cf
Benjamin 14 mths cf

 

[eli]

Hi,
my ddaughter is going to be 2 on the 7th Dec, and we still have trouble with her eating table food. She much prefers the heinz baby jars and she is a toddler.

Its very stressfull when they don't want to eat or even drink, she is not into her milk eaither.

Everyone say's it just takes time, patience etc. I think iv'e ran out of all that and i too don't know what else to do.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif" border="0">

As for the sippy cups, that took a long time to get used to as she would scream for her bottle. So what worked for me was, i would just leave it sitting on the coffee table hoping that it might sway her to want to drink from it.
Well, at first she used to roll it around and play with it until she herself discovered to drink from it.
It took a good painfull two months, and now when she has her milk i still more it in her bottle but give her a straw instead. She findsit more interseting, and she can sit up and watch the wiggles at the same time.

As for her eating, we have no luck and i too could di with some advice.

Take care.

 

[eli]

Hi,
my ddaughter is going to be 2 on the 7th Dec, and we still have trouble with her eating table food. She much prefers the heinz baby jars and she is a toddler.

Its very stressfull when they don't want to eat or even drink, she is not into her milk eaither.

Everyone say's it just takes time, patience etc. I think iv'e ran out of all that and i too don't know what else to do.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif" border="0">

As for the sippy cups, that took a long time to get used to as she would scream for her bottle. So what worked for me was, i would just leave it sitting on the coffee table hoping that it might sway her to want to drink from it.
Well, at first she used to roll it around and play with it until she herself discovered to drink from it.
It took a good painfull two months, and now when she has her milk i still more it in her bottle but give her a straw instead. She findsit more interseting, and she can sit up and watch the wiggles at the same time.

As for her eating, we have no luck and i too could di with some advice.

Take care.

 

[eli]

Hi,
my ddaughter is going to be 2 on the 7th Dec, and we still have trouble with her eating table food. She much prefers the heinz baby jars and she is a toddler.

Its very stressfull when they don't want to eat or even drink, she is not into her milk eaither.

Everyone say's it just takes time, patience etc. I think iv'e ran out of all that and i too don't know what else to do.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif" border="0">

As for the sippy cups, that took a long time to get used to as she would scream for her bottle. So what worked for me was, i would just leave it sitting on the coffee table hoping that it might sway her to want to drink from it.
Well, at first she used to roll it around and play with it until she herself discovered to drink from it.
It took a good painfull two months, and now when she has her milk i still more it in her bottle but give her a straw instead. She findsit more interseting, and she can sit up and watch the wiggles at the same time.

As for her eating, we have no luck and i too could di with some advice.

Take care.

 

[JRPandTJP]

We nursed but it is essentially the same thing since they love milkie no matter where it comes from. I made sure to offer sippy and finger foods at each sit down meal or snack whether he ate them or not didn't matter too much at first. Milkie (as we called it) was done elsewhere in a comfy spot or whereever convenient. He didn't drink much from sippy/cup at first (between 12-15 months) but he also never ate baby jar food. Once I knew he was beginning to wean more, I would not offer the breast before the meals, just the food and sippy. Then he could nurse any time in between if he wished. He weaned rather abruptly due to a mouth injury around 20 months. At this point I stopped offering milk/beverages in betweeen meals/snacks to encourage more food intake. I still like to try and give drinks only at the end of meals so he doesn't fill up. This seems to have been gentle and pretty much following his timeline more than me doing too much. I just know when they are busy and have access to sippy or bottle at all times it fills them up between meals (my experience at least).

Also, for snacks, we try to put out a variety of things to choose from so if they only pick one thing it was their choice and they seem to feel good about it. Meal time is whatever we are eating (with a little calorie boosting for Ben's). Also, involving them in picking out and preparing snacks can help get them interested in eating it. If they are still too little to actually help, you can wear them in a carrier while you prepare it and ask them what they'd like or just let them watch.

Jody

 

[JRPandTJP]

We nursed but it is essentially the same thing since they love milkie no matter where it comes from. I made sure to offer sippy and finger foods at each sit down meal or snack whether he ate them or not didn't matter too much at first. Milkie (as we called it) was done elsewhere in a comfy spot or whereever convenient. He didn't drink much from sippy/cup at first (between 12-15 months) but he also never ate baby jar food. Once I knew he was beginning to wean more, I would not offer the breast before the meals, just the food and sippy. Then he could nurse any time in between if he wished. He weaned rather abruptly due to a mouth injury around 20 months. At this point I stopped offering milk/beverages in betweeen meals/snacks to encourage more food intake. I still like to try and give drinks only at the end of meals so he doesn't fill up. This seems to have been gentle and pretty much following his timeline more than me doing too much. I just know when they are busy and have access to sippy or bottle at all times it fills them up between meals (my experience at least).

Also, for snacks, we try to put out a variety of things to choose from so if they only pick one thing it was their choice and they seem to feel good about it. Meal time is whatever we are eating (with a little calorie boosting for Ben's). Also, involving them in picking out and preparing snacks can help get them interested in eating it. If they are still too little to actually help, you can wear them in a carrier while you prepare it and ask them what they'd like or just let them watch.

Jody

 

[JRPandTJP]

We nursed but it is essentially the same thing since they love milkie no matter where it comes from. I made sure to offer sippy and finger foods at each sit down meal or snack whether he ate them or not didn't matter too much at first. Milkie (as we called it) was done elsewhere in a comfy spot or whereever convenient. He didn't drink much from sippy/cup at first (between 12-15 months) but he also never ate baby jar food. Once I knew he was beginning to wean more, I would not offer the breast before the meals, just the food and sippy. Then he could nurse any time in between if he wished. He weaned rather abruptly due to a mouth injury around 20 months. At this point I stopped offering milk/beverages in betweeen meals/snacks to encourage more food intake. I still like to try and give drinks only at the end of meals so he doesn't fill up. This seems to have been gentle and pretty much following his timeline more than me doing too much. I just know when they are busy and have access to sippy or bottle at all times it fills them up between meals (my experience at least).

Also, for snacks, we try to put out a variety of things to choose from so if they only pick one thing it was their choice and they seem to feel good about it. Meal time is whatever we are eating (with a little calorie boosting for Ben's). Also, involving them in picking out and preparing snacks can help get them interested in eating it. If they are still too little to actually help, you can wear them in a carrier while you prepare it and ask them what they'd like or just let them watch.

Jody

 

[JRPandTJP]

I forgot this one...we made a little drawer in the fridge filled with healthy choices for snacks. As they became toddlers they could choose from there at snack time. My daughter is 7 and still knows she can pull out stuff from it and it is okay with me.

 

[JRPandTJP]

I forgot this one...we made a little drawer in the fridge filled with healthy choices for snacks. As they became toddlers they could choose from there at snack time. My daughter is 7 and still knows she can pull out stuff from it and it is okay with me.

 

[JRPandTJP]

I forgot this one...we made a little drawer in the fridge filled with healthy choices for snacks. As they became toddlers they could choose from there at snack time. My daughter is 7 and still knows she can pull out stuff from it and it is okay with me.

 

[sdelorenzo]

I used the Nuby cups for my son. They seem to be a cross between a bottle and sippy cup. I bought mine at Right Start but I also saw them at Walmart.

A good book to read is Child of Mine by Ellyn Satter. You can get it on Amazon. It really helped me remain patient and calm with second with cf. I think it really helped him be a good eater. I was a mess getting enough food down for my first baby.
Sharon, mom of Sophia, 5 and Jack, 3 both with cf

 

[sdelorenzo]

I used the Nuby cups for my son. They seem to be a cross between a bottle and sippy cup. I bought mine at Right Start but I also saw them at Walmart.

A good book to read is Child of Mine by Ellyn Satter. You can get it on Amazon. It really helped me remain patient and calm with second with cf. I think it really helped him be a good eater. I was a mess getting enough food down for my first baby.
Sharon, mom of Sophia, 5 and Jack, 3 both with cf