It's sooo hard getting my son to eat. It's just always been a subject that drives me crazy! I can't figure out how to successfully get my son to eat three meals a day! Or forget that, even one meal! He's never been all that interested in his food. It's just got me at my wits end, because I've been trying and trying since he was 5 months old. I'm just not good at it. I'm doing something wrong, I have to be!
I've always tried feeding Eli jars of food, starting with one a day, and eventually two. He would NEVER eat three in a day, that's just beyond my imagination when it comes to him and food. It's ALWAYS been a struggle to get him to eat. There would be certain days where he would eat his food SOOO good, and then other days where he wouldn't eat it at all! He would just cry and get mad, and now that he's older he'll actually smack the spoon away or throw all of it off his tray or whatever you can think of an 11month old doing.
I've always thought, okay well I'll just try my best to get him to eat, and it will be okay because formula has all the nutrition he REALLY needs anyway, and a lot of babies don't eat anything but breastmilk and formula for the first year! But now he's turning one on Sunday, and as of right now, we're slowly switching him over to whole milk instead of formula, and I know regular milk doesn't have nearly the same stuff in it as formula, so I know that he HAS to start eating more!
I get food out for him three times a day, and I let him have a taste of anything I'm eating too. But even if it's time for him to eat, or AFTER time for him to be way hungry, he still will only take a couple tiny bites IF that! And then he'll just cry until I give him a bottle. He only gets three 8 ounce bottles a day, sometimes (but not usually) one 8oz bottle in the middle of the night if he wakes up and wants it, so maybe 4 if you count that, but not always.
I've tried so many things that I thought he might like to eat. I've given up on the jarred food and have been just giving him everything that we eat hoping he would like it better, and there's really no difference. Please help me, I have to be doing something wrong. How can I get him to eat his food? Is there any way to get him to eat three meals a day? I've got to figure this out so he gets the nutrition he needs.
I'm definitely thinking about flinstones vitimins too, or whatever. Can you give those to babies?
Help! Thank you!
I've always tried feeding Eli jars of food, starting with one a day, and eventually two. He would NEVER eat three in a day, that's just beyond my imagination when it comes to him and food. It's ALWAYS been a struggle to get him to eat. There would be certain days where he would eat his food SOOO good, and then other days where he wouldn't eat it at all! He would just cry and get mad, and now that he's older he'll actually smack the spoon away or throw all of it off his tray or whatever you can think of an 11month old doing.
I've always thought, okay well I'll just try my best to get him to eat, and it will be okay because formula has all the nutrition he REALLY needs anyway, and a lot of babies don't eat anything but breastmilk and formula for the first year! But now he's turning one on Sunday, and as of right now, we're slowly switching him over to whole milk instead of formula, and I know regular milk doesn't have nearly the same stuff in it as formula, so I know that he HAS to start eating more!
I get food out for him three times a day, and I let him have a taste of anything I'm eating too. But even if it's time for him to eat, or AFTER time for him to be way hungry, he still will only take a couple tiny bites IF that! And then he'll just cry until I give him a bottle. He only gets three 8 ounce bottles a day, sometimes (but not usually) one 8oz bottle in the middle of the night if he wakes up and wants it, so maybe 4 if you count that, but not always.
I've tried so many things that I thought he might like to eat. I've given up on the jarred food and have been just giving him everything that we eat hoping he would like it better, and there's really no difference. Please help me, I have to be doing something wrong. How can I get him to eat his food? Is there any way to get him to eat three meals a day? I've got to figure this out so he gets the nutrition he needs.
I'm definitely thinking about flinstones vitimins too, or whatever. Can you give those to babies?
Help! Thank you!