jars of baby foods

[milkybarkid]

I feel like such a bad mother because I just give keep giving jars. Two weeks ago my cooker packed in and so I gave a few jars/tins etc of baby foods until it was fixed. Now my son wont eat "normal" food, other than mango and banana and the occasional breadstick and readybrek type stuff for breakfast.

I have since tried on a few occasions to get him to eat home cooked stuff but I keep giving in and giving him jars because if I don't I worry about him not eating enough. I thought if I didint give him what he wanted he would eat proper food when he was hungry enough but instead he just cries for loads of breastfeeds to fill him up instead and like I said even if he has jars or tins at least I know he is having something.

I am really worried that he will never eat proper food though and is he getting enouh nourishment. I haven't been able to get him weighed for ages cos you have to make an appointment for the health visitor and havent been able to. Hes getting on for a year now.

dd was fed mainly jars -and as she got older she gradually progressed onto eating the same as us - she also put weight on as she should.

If you keep offering regular food, he'll come around in time. Maybe stick to savoury food from jars, nothing sweet, not even fruit?

He's old enough to be partly on table scraps now, maybe he'll be more tempted by things knicked off your plate?

I wouldn't worry about weight gain, they slow down at this age anyway. If he's active, happy, and developping, he's fine.

try feeding him at the table when you're having your tea also - then he may want what you're having - you know what men are like! or around other babies. also - maybe he's teething - my ds has gone different stages of only liking certain things - only to go off them as soon as I've stocked up on them. So I've got loads of jars that he won't even look at now. I know just before a tooth appears - he goes off all food except milk/sweet stuff.

try to wizz it up a little bit. maybe he isn't used to the texture yet.

mbk - honestly - nothing wrong with jars - we've used a mixture of both jars and home-made food with all our 3. They're just easier a lot of the time. Ds2 is now 11 months - still bf once a day and now has a lot of finger food. More often now than before, he has what everyone else has, whizzed up a bit. All of them eat fairly normally (dd a bit fussier than the boys) (Ds1 is almost 7 and dd is 4.5). Please don't give yourself a hard time over this - jars are fine and I'm sure what you're giving him is perfectly healthy. Just introduce other things a little at a time and see how he gets on with it. This becomes so much easier once they start trying to feed themselves with breadsticks, buttered bread, banana etc. Ds2 has only recently started all this and it does get messy, but he's enjoying the experience and I'm finding it much easier and rely on jars less and less, so really, please, don't worry - he'll soon be fine with more normal food - trust me - you should see how my other pair react when I open a jar - they wouldn't dream of eating the contents now!

Think yourself lucky milkybarkid. I started dd on liquidized food, but when wanted a change she wouldn't touch the jars.