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post #1 of 7
11/24/06 at 9:04pm
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How did you do it and how long did it take? I've asked this before but I'm finding it very very very hard to do this. My son has a bond with his bottle. He'd be lost without it. He drinks juice from sippy cups and milk and water from the bottle.

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DS is a very picky eater. He refuses to try anything I give him no matter how many times I offer it to him. Anyone else deal with a picky eater? Any advice? he still isn't eating table food. He eats an occasional jar of baby and drinks Parent's Choice powdered formula for older infants.
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post #2 of 7
11/24/06 at 11:41pm
My son ate baby food until he was 3 years old! No lie. I eventually had to cut down on the amount of any fluids. The juice and milk will fill them up fast. Maybe showing him his bottle before offering the food and saying you can have it after you take a couple bites. Give him a suck and then offer another bite use it as bait, praise him well when he is eating. I had to do the samething.....
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post #3 of 7
11/25/06 at 1:58pm
My dd was a little older when I started weaning her completely from the , but I started with refusing to allow her to breastfeed in public and then cut down the number of times a day. My dd is still a picky eater. We just let her eat her favorite foods a lot and tired to get her to try new things. We've found she'll eat just about any vegetable with ranch dressing, but she is a little older so I don't know if that will work with Isiah.

Does he like mashed potatoes? My dd practically lived on mashed potatoes and gravy for awhile.
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post #4 of 7
11/25/06 at 9:46pm
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Isaiah does not like Mash Potatoes! And here I thought all babies did but not him. He throws them up everytime I gvie them to him. He seems to like Ketchup a whole lot with french fries but I don't wanna have a fry baby. Ha! It's gonna be awhile with the bottle. He's so attached to it and I always feel bad cuz it seems like the only thing that will soothe sometimes is the bottle.
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post #5 of 7
11/25/06 at 10:18pm
Zachary was a bottle baby too. He was forced to quit breastfeeding at 10 months when I went in the hospital and there was no way in he!! I could make myself take his bottle after he became attached to it. Around 18 months I started limiting the bottle to only at nap and before bed and over time we tapered off even more. It was hard and heartbreaking.

Have you tried pastas? Most of the toddlers I kept as a nanny loved the different Lipton bagged pastas/ They are soft and it was easy for them to eat them with their fingers.
I would also try some of the "table time" baby foods that have more textures and tastes. Eventually you gotta find something he likes right? If not, it isn't going to harm him to continue to eat baby food but he does need to be getting more callories from solids than liquids right now.
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post #6 of 7
11/26/06 at 12:03am
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I've been trying Gerber's Lil Entrees and so far he only likes the spaghetti ones BUT he mostly gets it on the floor and all over himself more than he does in his mouth. I would say that he is getting most of his calories from Whole Milk and Powdered Formula. I try to offer him baby food three times a day and he doesn't like it. He'll maybe eat one jar on a good day. I guess I'll just keep with the lil entree meals.
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post #7 of 7
11/26/06 at 1:46am
i remember reading somewhere not to worry so much what they eat in a day but what they have for the week.

Logan would eat pretty much anything i fed him back then, now he is almost the exact oposite!
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