Help with stage 2 feeding!

Question

My seven month old son is good at taking liquidised (stage 1) food and has consumed a wide variety over the last 8 weeks but I have begun to give him stage 2 which has tiny lumps in it and he simply spits the lumps out. I have tried mashing up a banana but unless it is a very smooth semi liquid paste with no lumps what so ever he will not consume it and spit the bits out. I have read that you should not delay giving a baby stage 2 food as they may become lazy. Should I perservear or wait a while?

Answer 1

I don't think you should wait - I think you should just keep going. If your son is like my daughter he probably gave a little resistence when you introduced some things before - my daughter would cry because it look so long to spoon feed her compared to just drinking continuously from a bottle.  At 7 months your baby is ready, teeth or no teeth for some soft lumps.  It also helps with their speach development too.  So don't be afraid to keep going.

Answer 2

try give him 1 meal of stage 2 food every day or every second day & the rest pureed. after a couple of weeks move to 2 lumpy meals & so on so forth.it might work or maybe hes just not ready for stage 2 yet. my first child was 6 & a half months before she would even take stage 1 food for me &on my second child i had to give him solids at 10 weeks old. every childs differant.

good luck. he will take lumpy food when hes ready

Answer 3

I have four children, and I had two that were a little reluctant. I gave them the crusts cut off of toast and sandwiches, and normal mashed potatoes. My second child wouldn't eat these, and I gave in a fed him stodge, he is now a fussy little devil!!! Your son may enjoy feeding himself slices of banana, messy but fun. Good luck!

Answer 4

Give him time it takes time to learn the texture. Let him make the mess the more its felt in his mouth, the quicker her will come around. It usually takes 10-12 tries for each texture and taste before he will love it. I have a 15month old that still hate ground beef in her mouth.

Answer 5

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/676279...

Mrs Rapley has spent 25 years as a health visitor, and she said: "I found so many parents were coming to me with the same problems - 'my child is constipated, my child is really picky' - and they couldn't get them on to second stage baby food."

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Solids best

After six months, Mrs Rapley said babies were capable of taking food into their mouths and chewing it.

Therefore, feeding them pureed food at this time could delay the development of chewing skills.

Instead, she said, they should be given milk and solid pieces of food which they could chew.

Mrs Rapley argued that babies fed pureed food had little control over how much food they ate, thus rendering them vulnerable to constipation, and running a risk that they would react by becoming fussy eaters later in life.

She blamed the food industry for convincing parents that they should give children pureed food.

She said: "Sound scientific research and government advice now agree that there is no longer any window of a baby's development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids."  

Answer 6

My kids did the same thing. The texture change really throws them at first..they don't really like it. I would give it a another couple of weeks and then try again.  

Answer 7

spoon food, just keep giving puree for a while, but try introducing things like chips or baby rusks dry in his hand or biscuits. failing that start him on something like weetabix which is thicker just so that he gets used to more chunky things in his mouth, eventually he will get used to it, good luck

Answer 8

If it was my son id just keep tring it, i think at 7 months old he's probably ready for it. Maybe he just doesnt know what he's suposed to do with the lumpy bits as they are new to him, if you persevere i think he will soon catch on. Just make sure the lumps are soft and tiny. xx

Answer 9

WAIT! your baby is telling you he isnt ready. My sisters son wasnt ready for pureed foods until he was 8 months old. Why rush it? just take cues from your baby and wait a couple weeks before introducing the foods again.