I hate weaning and solids

[Tiredandlosingit]

Hi all,

Has anyone else found weaning their baby into solids just a total nightmare. Dd is 9 months old and we started her on solids at 6 months. All started well with baby porridge and homemade vegetable purées. Then she got ill and that set us back and to be honest we've never fully got back on track.

She's been pretty much constantly ill since she started nursery 2 months ago. Coughs, snotty noses, tummy bugs...you name it she's caught it (totally normal I understand) she's also been teething a lot. She has 6 teeth with more on the way which has also stopped her wanting to eat solids.

Purées she just about tolerates at nursery and will happily eat their crackers, biscuits, yogurts etc. At home it's a different story. She does not like to eat purées at home. So we try her with finger foods so she can feed herself but all that happens is she gags and is then sick everywhere. She also whinges every time she's in her high chair and pretty much every dinner ends in a meltdown (unless a yogurt is on offer). I'm back at work with very early starts and I'm exhausted so trying to come up with dinners is a struggle. It's just so disheartening when I do cook her a meal and it all ends in tears and puke 😩

Any advice on getting the hang of solids while keeping my sanity?

Are you trying to feed her purees or let her do it herself? She might be more receptive if she can feed herself. If she eats yogurts, put one on her tray with the rest of the dinner.

She won't touch purées or yogurt with her hands. She will hold a spoon but will shake it or scrape it with her finger so all the food comes off 😅

I noticed that all the weaning experts seemto overlook that when kids teeth/are ill it affects their eating, which isn't helpful.

I don't really have much advice op - I just gave mine the baby yoghurts in pouches to suck when they were having trouble eating actual food. I also found some of the rusk style baby biscuits which dissolve when they get wet useful, either to give to the baby to try or to mash in milk. Soft fruit too, cut small so they didn't have to bite it. I laid off making the cordon bleu baby dinners, kept it very low effort as then I didn't get frustrated and just let them eat, sometimes they'd eat nothing, sometimes they'd guzzle the yoghurt and throw the fruit. Low stress all round though.

They'd come back to eating when they were ready. Sorry if that's not v helpful, it's all I've got.

it sounds like she eats at nursery. is she there full time? my DCs got 3 solid meals a day and snacks at their nursery (appreciate this may not be the case for your DD) so i just did a bottle of milk first thing (changed to a cup when a bit older) and a bowl of yogurt in the evening before bed. they weren't hungry for a lot of food after a nursery day. the solid starts website is really good and has lots of simple age appropriate meal ideas too, though if feeling under the weather and teething, milk and things she likes may be the way to go

Just wanted to let you know I’m in the same position and I am bloody hating it! Baby doesn’t want milk, doesn’t want food, just at a loss!

She's there 8am-1pm so she has a morning snack, lunch and a small pudding. At the moment she either wants her breakfast (normally porridge) or a bottle not both. All depends on if she's had an early morning feed or not. She's not interested in routine she likes to switch it up every day 😂

not sure this will help, but it may provide support, i found my DCs were getting tired and grumpy by late afternoon making feeding difficult generally. this improved a lot as they got a bit older. so for their last meal of the day i did keep it really simple when they were tiny and there was a lot ofthings on toast, omelettes and pasta eaten. plus batch cooking amd freezing at weekends so there was something to heat up easily on nursery days. and though i didn't really manage this myself, being relaxed and unfussed about whether or what they ate, and calling time on meals promptly when DC are showing little interest in eating