Solid Foods

His face cracks me up. It's totally how he feels about it.


For some reason my last two boys have had their struggles with solid food. Tyson took right to it and give me little problems with the bottle or solid food. Blake was so bad he ended up needed to go to a feeding therapist (which didn't really help too much) and I had to nurse him until he was about 15 months old. Blake would see me coming with the spoon and keep his lips shut and not allow me to put the spoon in his mouth. He really didn't understand that it was food instead of me forcing something in his mouth. He ended up being anemic and I had to give him nasty iron drops. It was awful. So with Stockton I have been trying a lot harder to get him to eat solids. We have been trying for a few weeks now with little progress. I have been trying every day to give him baby food and he only sometimes let me feed it to him. The only thing I have found he kind of likes is baby food pears enough to take it sometimes. He will let me give him 5 or 6 good bites after about 5 minutes of trying to get him to take it. A couple of times he has opened his mouth for me instead of me forcing the spoon in so there is hope. If anyone has any tricks let me know. The only thing that worked for Blake was letting him feed himself and Stockton is too young to do that yet. Oh well- hopefully tomorrow will be better!