DS nearly 1 - weaning is not going well.

[AbiBub]

Hi all!

Our DS is going to be 1 on 7th April.

Weaning is being interesting to say the least.

We have tried him on most fruit (he hates banana's with a passion). I have spent ages blending vegs (as he wont eat them as chunks) and he still doesn't like them.

He occsionally likes bread / toast and the same with cheeses and yoghurts.

BLW and finger foods is not the way for this baby as he just literally either plays with it (it's not a bloomin' toy!) or chucks it over the edge - nothing goes down his gullet!

ATM he consists on half a jar a day of HIPP O creamy rice breakfast or creamy porridge (from the jars, as he doesn't like the stuff I make up) (oooh anyone know where I can get creamy rice pudding in powder form as having troubles locating and that is one thing I haven't tried??)

He also can only tolorate the cow and gate chicken squash and pasta bake and the orchard chicken (half a jar a day for dinner).

Bearing in mind this is all stage one jars and he wont take next stage up jars. Whatever I cook him or prepare for him freshly - he doesn't like.

He is FF. He is still gaining weight, and a fairly contented baby in that respect.

We have been trying things since 6m and still to no avail Also my other complaint is that he doesn't like drink any other type of fluids aside of his formula. I would love him to be able to drink water, as I love it, but he is just not having it. Should I try issuing water how I issue his formula, by using the same style bottle and teat, because we have tried numerous cups and spouts etc and he is just not having it!!

dont get me wrong I love him to pieces but this is getting tiresome as he is just not responding well to anything we try

what are we suppose to do after he has turned one, and nothing is changed, do we keep on with his first stage milk, do we change it to cows milk, if so how do we do this?? I am getting more and more anxcious the closer it gets to his first birthday (not that I show him that, its all sweetness and light when he doesn't except)

All advice and tips please do give - and if anyone else is going through this, please talk as it may make me feel like we are not the only ones!!

Thanks in advance.

She's just more efficient at taking it, ladylush. Mine is exactly the same, barely touches solids (having more now but most of it goes on the floor) has always refused a bottle even EBM when I'm not around and that's now extending to cups.

AbiBub, your HV isn't quite right on the iron score. Iron doesn't deplete, they're born with plenty of supplies and they get exactly what they need from breastmilk, there isn't a lot in it for two reasons, firstly they don't waste any and secondly because babies don't need as much iron as adults. Formula has a lot more iron because more of it is wasted, they still get what they need. So it doesn't matter how your baby is fed they will still get enough of everything from their milk for at least the first year. Like you said "food is for fun until they're one" and it doesn't sound like you're having much fun!

Someone else said you're past BLW and they're right, you've already started the weaning process and you're almost at a year old. However you're not too late to take a more relaxed stance with things - if you want to - stop trying to make him eat, don't feed him when he's hungry and don't worry about what (solids wise) goes in.

A quick-stop tour of the world and history for you...

Pre-WWII you would have been weaning baby over their first winter - around 9-12months.

Some countries don't start weaning till a year old and above. Some don't even start until they're two!

So although we've got this rush in this country to have a six month old on solids it is totally unnecessary.

Hi - my DD is almost 10 mnths and only last week started eating solids. I still BF and was using milk to get her back to sleep in the night.

Now I've done controlled crying and she sleeps through the night without feeding it has increased her appetite tremendously through the day.

Also she has alsways had a soft spot for shreddies cereal - she likes sucking the milk out/ Have you tried adding formula milk to Shreddies and seeing what he does?

Interesting history/geography lesson confuddled Not sure though if dd is actually getting enough milk. She dropped centiles since birth and a couple of times has lost weight or not gained. Not quite sure what the gain should be at 8 months but she is now averaging about 3oz a week (weigh her weekly as she was very premature).

I used to be able to quote dates and countries but it's been awhile! Was always helpful when my eldest was a baby to keep people off my back if I could dazzle them with facts.

Both of mine were premature (31 weeks and 35 weeks and IUGR) I was told both times to expect 1-2oz a week, so that sounds great! Breastfed babies will plateau and then catch up a bit. Have you checked out the charts on the WHO website? I found with my eldest that a personalised chart was a lot more accurate than standardised charts - it was the best thing about visiting the paediatrician!

Thanks confuddled - v reassuring Yes I had a look at the WHO charts - think I will print one and replot the graph. Atm am using the bf baby chart in red book. It's not actually much different to the standard ff one though

Yes Ladyintheradiator - but tis pfb Can understand how OP feels. She feels she has tried everything but to no avail. Some of the posts, to be fair, were a bit insensitive. Maybe there is a part of her that wants her efforts acknowledged, rather than her shortcomings highlighted

Oh and I'm not trying to patronise by the way - just looking at the issue from a different angle

I can understand how the OP feels, my DS was similar to this at 12 months and it is soul destroying. People offer advice and it is nice of them but a lot of the time it was from people who were lucky enough to have good eating children and they didn't know what it is like!!

OP I don't completely understand what you are saying that your son eats?? You say he will eat bread, cheese and yoghurt, is this only once in a blue moon and the rest of the time he only eats the jars?

For comparison at 12 months my DS would reliably eat:
Hipp Organic jars (stage 3 though)
Yoghurt
Ready Brek
Organix rice cakes
Fruit on a good day.

He also had the whole look at finger foods as if I was mad to think I should think he might eat THAT. Also not interested in anything on my plate, just because mum eats it didn't mean he was interested! Around the same time his sleep went to pot and DH and I were at our wits end!!

Anyway in the end we got the health visitor round (more because I wanted someone independent to tell my DH that we just needed to chill out and let him figure it out rather than that I needed the advice)

She was very good and I think gave good advice:

• Make sure you give them a variety of foods, lots of finger foods and don't worry if they don't eat them. Praise them if they just raise them to their lips and encourage them. Try and get them to feed you. I know it is annoying that they just trhow things on the floor and it is a waste, I would pick things up quickly from teh floor and just put them back . You don't need to have loads and loads, just give them variety and keep giving them things they show no interest in.
• Eat with them.
• Let them get messy, have the spoon if spoon feeding, etc.
• Offer a variety of food, but don't give up and give them what you know they like if you have already started trying something else. So I'm not saying don't feed him what he likes ever, but if you decide, ah at this meal I will feed him this home made puree, and he won't eat it, don't give in and then give him a jar.
• Don't let him spend too long eating. After half an hour clear away and maybe give a snack later if nothing has been eaten (we found this one difficult to follow, as even if he was eating finger foods he would be soooo slow)

So my DS is now 15 months and is much better but is still a bad eater. This is what we found happened: I put food in front of him every day, he would show no interest in. Then eventually one day I would turn round and he was eating toast!! And then he started eating cheese. It just happened, and now he will try quite a lot of stuff. If he is not massively keen on something he will eat it spoon fed but will still not feed himself. He also started eating mashed up homemade food, but only from a spoon.

Oh and I have to disagree with whoever said that 12 month olds in general aren't spoon fed - most people I know still spoon fed their year olds a lot of the time (not all), even if they have quite a lot of finger foods.

Just don't despair and keep at it and keep trying the new things as they will change their tastes around this age and start to eat new things, and also just get the hang of eating. For example my DS has just started going to the high chair and tugging on it when he wants feeding. A month ago we didn't think that he correlated hunger with food properly!!

Oh also I know you don't want to hear this but I think you DO need to cut down on the milk if you want him to eat more. I stopped breast feeding at 8 months and as lots of my friends said that since weaning they were having difficulties with getting their LOs to drink much milk, I decided that he could have as much as he wanted. I gave him 4 bottles a day of 200 ml and a dream feed, and he drank the lot!!! So nearly 1 litre of milk. At the same time he went from a bad eater to eating nothing. So I cut down the day feeds to 150ml, and soon dropped the morning one and the dream feed and he started eating (a little) again. Also I don't know why you are worried about the water thing? He is clearly getting enough fluid from the milk and is probably not thirsty. My DS has never had a problem drinking water, but he doesn't really drink that much of it if you see what I mean?? Just a glug here or there while eating.
What happens if you try and cut down on the milk feeding? (you implied you tried and it wasn't good but you didn't give specifics)

Anyway, long post there, I hope some of it helps.

My 2.9 yr old is still rubbish at eating, and weaning was a nightmare. He is pretty much stuck at the 12 month stage. He will eat some "adult" foods by himself - fish fingers or sausages and beans, tuna pasta, pizza (and chips!). Breakfast is still us spoon feeding, otherwise he eats nothing, and I mean nothing. It is a toss up as to whether to let him starve, or feed him ourselves. After he lost 1kg in a fortnight, we decided to supervise his feeding to at least make sure he had a decent breakfast.

It also took him ages to drink water out of one of those cheap Tommee Tippee cups, and we still haven't managed lidless without him throwing it everywhere.

I thought a lot of this was my fault, that I did weaning wrong somehow, and let him drink too much milk (our feeding schedule was similar, seemed to be little and often). However, his brother is 28 weeks and the difference is amazing. We started weaning at 20 weeks, and he takes everything I give him, is already drinking water out of a freeflow cup, and is much more relaxed about it.

So, I think at least some of this is down to nature. DS1 would rather "graze", eating little and often. Proper meals are a disaster with him, 9 times out of 10 (and we do eat together, and have tried all the things suggested here). DS2 looks as though he is more "traditional" with 3 meals a day.

Successful recipes with DS1: www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/babies-9-12-months/chicken-recipes and www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/babies-9-12-months/vegetable-sauce

But at the end of the day, DS1 may not be feeding "well" according to the books, but he does get enough to grow, put on weight, and be a typical little boy. I have learnt not to get too hung up about what and how he is eating, as long as he is healthy and happy.

I have to agree with amigagal there, don't think it's your fault. Some children just aren't good at eating!!
we always tried to feed DS leftovers from our food (pureed up, didn't do the BLWing thing) rather than Annabel Karmel recipes, etc, and I still remember one of my friends clearly thinking that the problem was my food rather than just him being a crap eater. So she tried to feed him some of her lovingly prepared Annabel Karmel recipe, he spat it all over her. HAHA!

agree with ladyintheradiator, it's hard to know what you want, you seem to know everything already. very familiar with food is fun until they're one, but you've said you don't like him playing with it.

OK , you want some recipe ideas and suggestions: here's a typical day's eating for my one year old dd:

Breakfast- handful of tesco value porridge oats, covered with full fat milk, to which I add about 5 frozen raspberries. Blitz whole lot in microwave for 1 min ( or saucepan on hob if you can be bothered). Then stir, add 1 tsp of suger and maybe some cream, if your baby needs fattening up It's nutritious and delicious-I've never fed dd anything I wouldn't eat myself. Sometimes I add blueberries to porridge, sometimes just a bit of brown sugar.

Lunch- One slice buttered toast with brussels pate. Few segments of orange

Dinner- home made shepherd's pie and broccoli-followed by value fromage frais.

(just as nice as branded one IMO)

Snacks throughout the day include raisins, breadsticks, cheddar lumps, pear, occasionally flapjack, the odd choccy digestive.

IMO this is a good day's eating for a 1 year old.

However, to get here, I've had to be patient, put up with a lot of mess and not be disheartened by the occasional fussy day. DD hardly ate anything when she was 10 months, after a good start, due to teething and bugs.

btw, you say 'food isn't a bloomin' toy'

The way I look at it-let them play with it, explore it, drop it etc. Embrace the madness!

Then you've got the day's messy play activity out of the way, and whilst you clean up the mess, you can console yourself with the thought that you are stimulating your son's creativity

i'm not sure what you're wanting here. i mean, it's all well and good asking for food ideas but that is just not going to help.

he's having a lot of milk still, sounds like his milk feeds are as frequent as my 4 month old's. it sounds like you're relying on the formula milk because you've been told it is a 'complete form of all the nutrients he needs.' i imagine you'll then want to move him onto growing up milk when he's one, or something which also sells itself as 'complete' so the food issue will still be pushed to one side.

food is fun until they're one, YES, but how is it fun for him if you aren't letting him play with it? give him food to make a proper mess with. think spag bol or shepherds pie. something sloppy with all different textures in and let him mess with it.

the wastage issue you mentioned is something that you can simplify by having him eat with you and giving him what you're having. there is no waste a such because you're just passing him bits off your plate. this is also obviously a lot cheaper than the jars you're using now.

Hi all

Sorry for replying so late in the day, the response has been overwhelming, and I have had such a busy day that I have only just had a chance to read through.

First off, WOW! there is so many suggestions of things that I had tried before, but I feel like I have being trying to do this for years, and have forgotten them along the way, so thank you for reminding me with regards to Idea's.

Thank you for the encouraging support, just for example ladylush you are right it is tough and I guess the only way to explain it is, I want to make sure our LO is doing ok, thank you for your supportive words. He has never been a big eater, he goes through growth spurts here and there when he will have tonnes, then cut right down.

With regards to him solely being on milk, he is not, which I hope I had explained. He has half a jar of porridge or rice breakfast in the morning and half a jar of chicken&squash pasta bake or orchard chicken for dinner. I try and experiment with different things at lunch time, as this is less structured at the moment, and once I know that he likes something, then I can establish that into an evening meal or a breakfast or even lunch!!!

I didn't mean it to come across as patronising when asking about illness, so sorry if it did, I was trying to look at it from a different angle, very true. Some of my friends (not all, so not making a generalisation) who weaned really quickly or early have babies that constantly have colds one after the other, or always seem to be poorly, now I am not assuming that any of your LO's are ill more than our LO, far from it, I am just comparing to some of my friends, but our LO has had only one cold since he was born (although, law of sod will now go ner ner ner ner ner ner, here have another,now I have said that!!) now for a nearly one year old I don't think that is too bad!!

I have noticed there is a rush in this country to make sure our kiddlywinks are completely on solids, but it lovely to hear some of your stories on how your LO's haven't quite followed what the guidelines suugest too, not because its good to hear other people have had a tough time, but because then we know we are not alone on this

Oh gosh - if I am missing out on anything here, like thank you?s or replies please bear with me, there were loads to come back to

I loved the story about one LO spitting the ever so precious meal at the friend who thought that she knew better!! with some of the stories here, it just goes to show that some kids are better at feeding then others.

Quick story here for you, my uncle who is 50 odd apparently used to be on really simple baby foods until he went to primary school, but now he eats pretty much everything including l'escargo (prob spelt wrong!).

I came off here last night (or should I say early hours of the morning!) thinking to myself, it was a while back that we tried reducing his bottles, so perhaps we should try again, so please don't think that I don't take these advices into consideration, I am a 'take it in and think on it sort of person'.

He has had less feeds today (ff). As usual, he had his breakfast quite well, and also his dinner (the dreaded jars, dum dum duuuuum!) I was round my friends, she had some stuff in the freezer that she had prepared, so she did a cube worth of roast chicken dinner fairly lumpy. As with most things, unless he thinks something smells hideous (keen sense of smell that boy!) he will give most things a try! He tried 3- 4 spoonfuls of this lunch and did the usual, screwed face and gagging, but he just got to a certain point after that and point blanked refused. It wasn't because he wasn't hungry, because afterwards he had a bit of mummy's bread and cheese, not masses but I was happy with that. This is what he usually does every lunch time! If I try something new and he doesn't get on with it or gives up to easily, I don't then feed him a bottle or one of his jars, I say well at least you tried, well done and then that is it - feeding time over.

One minute he will enjoy something and then try it again the next few days or so, and he hates it! I am planning to try him on yoghurt at lunch again tomorrow after trying savoury, as the other day he did manage to have a tesco value fromage frais, it was the raspberry one, but I was so happy that he had it all (this may all change by tom!).

I do have to be a bit more relaxed about mess being caused, for sure, but I also really don't like the thought that he then won't be able to establish the diff between toys and food (what did our parents used to say when we were older "stop playing with your food"!!)

I would suggest him having stuff from our plates, but tbh it probably contains too much salt for the LO half the time, so I am a little weary of this, but again, I will give that another bash, as I had tried that a while back when I was prob eating a lot more healthily (ooppppsss!)although could I just point out that we get no wastage with the jars that he likes, so in that respect it isn't more expensive

Also I have no intention on moving him onto follow on milk, if he is still having ff for a little while longer along with his food, it will still be the same one that he has always had

Oh, forgot to mention, DS has tried some orange juice with quite a bit of water, he didn?t like it, but I am not sure what ratio?s of water to orange juice I should have done, can anyone suggest please?

I am a bit cagey about too much sugar, I have an aunty in Oz who is a dentist and runs her own practice, she had said to me that although we grow 2 sets of teeth in our lifetime, the damage to our teeth in the first five years of our life set the pattern there after?? who knew! So there may be some things I haven?t necessarily wanted to try because of this, but perhaps I shouldn?t be too cagey about it!

Whilst I was in Tesco?s earlier, I thought about the raisin thing again, and so I have bought some small boxes of seedless raisins to give another go!

Thank you all for your help and advice, if any more suggestions off the back of this post, please do let me know. Lady lush, thank you for the back up J much appreciated. As to the same to the others, of which I keep meaning to put the names down, but there are soo many of you wonderful ladee?s, I can?t keep a track!

TIA

honestly? he sounds pretty normal to me. i'd jack in the jars and i'd ditch the salt in your cooking and just let him get on with it. all one year olds eat in spurts, they all give up if they don't like something (as to forty year olds with an ounce of sense), and there's no reason whatsoever to be offering orange juice, particularly if you're wary of sugar.

I give dd diluted orange juice (or apple) with her breakfast as she is prone to constipation. The rest of the time she has water. Initially though in order to get dd to have water I gave her very diluted juice. It seemed to work. Ali - I do one part juice to ten parts water so it is very diluted. Have you tried ds with an open cup so he can sip? There's no harm in revisiting things you have already tried. I'm not great about mess either but dd is the messiest eater in the world and wants to rub her food in her hair (luckily hasn't got much), scrunch it up in her hands, splatter it over me.........I've had to get over myself Shower curtain under the highchair, lots of wet wipes, a few toys, spoons for dd to hold and a good clean after(sometimes even have to change her clothes)- that's mealtimes in our house

Hi there

Thank you both for your posts.

Lorrainesattell, its nice to think that he is pretty normal!! sometimes it doesn't feel like that. I would like to jack in the jars, but I think it may have to be a gradual thing, just until he has more fresh stuff I produce (which hopefully he will like!).

I must have worded it wrong, I don't ever add salt to my cooking (bar toad in the hole batter, half a tsp), but alot of my cooking involves butter and also I tend to use bacon alot, and although I mix it with other stuff, I worry that the salt from the bacon takes over the dish that I have prepared. When can they start having bacon?

I wouldn't try him on full orange juice, imagine the acidity content!! But like Ladylush has suggested (thanks for the ratio ) I would dilute it, in the vain hope he might take more fluids.

Thank you Ladylush for all your suuport and advice it has been lovely. I will give that orange juice a go, and also revisit some of the stuff I have tried before. He has tried sipping from a cup, with my help, he doesn't mind it, still funny with it but I figure he just needs a little more reassurance from mummy!

I think little man is just slow with the whole eating drinking thing, he always has be behind on that sort of stuff, but amazingly it hasn't hindered what a lovely little spritely thing he is! He is crawling and pulling himself up, his speech is getting better, he responds well, pincer grip and hand eye co-ordination are good (even if his hand mouth co-ordination is not!) he is taking steps holding onto furniture and also when we hold him up he will walk along. I think its just the eating thing!!

You're right I will just have to give the messy stuff a go!! but I will gague it, and if its counterproductive then will just have to come back to that at a later date!

Just had a thought on his bottles and reducing. I am cutting out one bottle at the minute, but I thought to myself, to help him feel more hungry whats to say that I don't necessarily reduce his bottle intake (apart from the one I have already done) but perhaps reduce the amount he has in each bottle? So instead of 6oz in each, have a 6oz for his first one in the morning and last one at night, and reducing the others by a couple of oz. That would equate to him having just over 20oz, if I did that to start off with, and then slowly knocked of the bottles from there, then one it might not seem like such a wrench and drastic change for him, and then it is also creating a good 2 bottles drop (to start with) to see if he will take more solids.

What does eveyone think? LO has never been too good with lots of change all at once, so I don't want him to go backwards rather than forwards, but some of the idea's from you guys has given me the confidence to carry on.

Any further comments please do post! TIA

OOOhhhh did I mention that we think that DS has quite a quick metabolic rate, his daddy has it and so do I!!

I agree that he sounds quite normal! I would have been over the moon at that stage if DS had eaten a few mouthfuls of homemeade savoury food and some bread!! So i would keep going with it, I wouldn't worry about keeping the jars if it seems easier and keeps you and him happy personally, just try and phase them out as you suggest.

To me it doesnt' sound like you have too much to worry about health-wise with his eating, it's more just the frustration levels really.

I agree also that you need to embrace the mess more. I also don't really like the mess, particularly as we are trying to sell our house at the moment, so I'm trying to keep things spotlessly clean, often I stop him putting his hands in cereal for example rather than me feeding it, but I figure as long as I don't tell him off for mess (like Mother-in-law, sigh) and let him make as much mess as he likes when I ahve time to clear it up then that is fine.

Also re the bottles, sounds a good idea to me. Most people I know feed their babies at around 1 less milk for their day time feed(s) than their morning and evening one (as did we until I stopped the daytime one)

Oh and my DS LOVES non-diluted orange juice. I have no idea how he found out he loves it (actually i do, ahem, DH), but every time I have it he begs and begs til I give him a bit. He doesn't get it for himself as a drink though, just water.

Oh yes, re bacon, we also give DS bacon in small amounts in things we eat. E.g. we make carbonara but put extra veggies in it and give that to him, making sure it doesn't have too much bacon in it. We had a discussion on this on our post-natal thread and we concluded that it wasn't a problem as long as there's not loads of it and it's not every meal. No idea if others would agree though.

You're welcome Ali - babies don't come with an instruction manual (mores the pity) and it can be a bit frustrating/anxiety provoking - especially (but defo not exclusively!)with your first baby. Re. cutting out bottles/reducing amount - not an expert here I'm afraid as I bf dd and ds preferred solids to milk so just had normal amount of bottles. Hopefully someone else will have some advice for you. It's good that ds will sip from a cup - keep that going and he will get the hang of it soon enough and start to drink more from a cup.

i am the same poster as lesinge, btw. your first post made it sound like he wasn't eating anything, but he is. he just isn't that hungry cos he's on litres of milk, but he can and does eat on occasion.

i really do think that if you're not adding salt to cooking you should just relax about the salt thing. that's what i did, i love bacon and smoked stuff but really, how much can one kid eat? oh, and try edamame in their pods, my dd2 LOVES them.

Hi Ali, I just found this post at lunchtime and it's taken me till now to trawl through all the replies - I've read it all, as DD is also nearly one and doesn't eat very much, but loves hipp jars (but she is on stage 2). We've given her finger food all along as well, but she was obviously hungry, wouldn't eat my home mashed stuff but would wolf down a jar. I too have been frustrated by the mess and all the food that's ended up on the floor - when you're on a tight budget, it's not easy to throw good food away that they've played with.

what I started doing, was cooked up a batch of veg purees (like you'd do for a 6month old if you were weaning on purees rather than BLW) and add a cube to each jar - even starting off with half a cube to begin with - I would puree these to a smooth consistency as just wanted to get the goodness and flavour in her, as am happy she's learning texture with the proper food she does chew on, but gradually I've been able to increase how much of my own stuff goes in, and today e.g., she had half a jar of cottage pie, with a cube of my own bolognese mix, cube of mash and cube of parsnip/carrot. I tend to feed her a jar as I'm preparing lunch for me and DS, then give her bits of what we're having after she's eaten.

Also, I make up batches of soup, and have been giving her some on a spoon as well as letting her dunk her bread - now I use a couple of them with pasta as sauce and as she's familiar with the flavours she'll happily chomp on some fusilli.

With the milk feeds, DD still BFs during the night (lazy mummy - it gets me her back to sleep quicker), so she has a BF before getting up, then breakfast around 8.30 - 9am. I then try not to feed her until she has an early lunch, as she has a feed then nap straight after lunch. then because she eats with us at 5.30ish, I offer a snack and if she wants another BF around 3 - 3.30ish. So I dont' know what time your DS naps, but if he goes down after lunch, then could you drop the morning feed first, gradually reduce the amount you're giving and bring lunch forward, so he has lunch earlier?

I've waffled a bit, sorry and you've already had good advice on here (thanks lovely ladies, some really useful stuff) but just wanted to say yep, another slow eater over here (must be April babies ). I thought DD would be raring to go, she was 9lb 9oz at birth, I don't know why we assume heavy babies will want more food, but nope, quite happy with the BF. In fact I haven't had her weighed for a few months - she's obviously a healthy weight looking at her, so I decided to wait till I felt happier with her eating.

katechristie - that is inspired What a great idea about adding a cube of your prepared food to ready made food. I think I'll try that. dd loves the Ellas Kitchen chicken and sweetcorn pouch, cream cheese and yogurt but won't eat much of anything else. Like the OPs dc, dd will try most things but unless she loves the flavour she will only eat a bit of it.

ladylush, yes, she was slow going with it, but I gradually increased the amount and it's helped. am sure I've bumped into you on a similar thread before - I tend to lurk on these type of posts!!!