Awesomemama:
Please how do i transition to giving other foods?
It's been 2weeks now since we clocked 6ms and no progress has been recorded.
Ive tried plain pap, pap and formula, cerelac and even just formula. She doesn't want any of those, not even water.
Don't want to waste money trying different brands of milk and cereal.
I even tried the beans and mackerel porridge, same result.
I've tried feeding her when she's hungry but she still refuses to take it.
Dh has tried feeding her on several occasions, ive used feeding bottle, plate and spoon, still same reaction. Today for instance I waited for about 5hrs since she sucked BM last and gave her pap, since she was obviously hungry but she still refused to take it. I had to give in, she's sucking and smiling now
Mamas please come to my aid o
What am I not doing right?

Eezohbae:


Can you take your baby to an optician? When I was using antallerge,it has this stinging feeling, don't think a baby can bear that...
The eyes are delicate,I won't advice you taking mere suggestions

Limahgirl:
Thank you ma. I will take her tomorrow.

Awesomemama:
Please how do i transition to giving other foods?
It's been 2weeks now since we clocked 6ms and no progress has been recorded.
Ive tried plain pap, pap and formula, cerelac and even just formula. She doesn't want any of those, not even water.
Don't want to waste money trying different brands of milk and cereal.
I even tried the beans and mackerel porridge, same result.
I've tried feeding her when she's hungry but she still refuses to take it.
Dh has tried feeding her on several occasions, ive used feeding bottle, plate and spoon, still same reaction. Today for instance I waited for about 5hrs since she sucked BM last and gave her pap, since she was obviously hungry but she still refused to take it. I had to give in, she's sucking and smiling now
Mamas please come to my aid o
What am I not doing right?

Awesomemama:


Thanks ma'am
I'll keep trying. She manages to take very little plain pap occasionally and I feel it's not nutritious enough.
People that were against me doing ebf are giving me that I told you so look

mabebe1:

You need plenty of patience.....just continue introducing her to solids...you can try a specific food for 3 to 4days to see if she likes it. Den you can introduce another.
Most times she might take just some spoons but be patient with her....you can play/sing/dance/music (whatever she might be interested in) while trying to feed to feed her to see if she will be distracted and eat....i believe gradually she will start eating well

Ubiero:


EBF babies rarely get to like taking solids on time. Even getting them to take water after 6 months is war.

Formula should be given once a day while baby is still breastfed at other times(preferably in a bottle), then gradually increase the frequency of giving formula.

However, they often get to pick up once they start eating, just not variety. If they like plain pap, then plain pap it is. If it is rice, rice it is. If it is cereal, cereal it is. Swallow, same goes.

Just rest assured that they will be healthy.

19CannyMum:


My baby was ebf and started eating food at 6 months, adult food inclusive. My main issue was that he preferred regular adult food to all the nutritious puree I was making. Immediately I weaned him at 13 months, his appetite doubled and he started eating almost larger portions than his big brother. He never took any form of baby cereal or formula. He never used feeding bottle, went straight from breastmilk to adult milk from regular cup.

Babies are just different, it's not a matter of ebf or not.

19CannyMum:


My baby was ebf and started eating food at 6 months, adult food inclusive. My main issue was that he preferred regular adult food to all the nutritious puree I was making. Immediately I weaned him at 13 months, his appetite doubled and he started eating almost larger portions than his big brother. He never took any form of baby cereal or formula. He never used feeding bottle, went straight from breastmilk to adult milk from regular cup.



Babies are just different, it's not a matter of ebf or not.

Awesomemama:


This is reassuring cause people here are making me feel like it's cause of ebf.
Think she might like adult food more but I'm scared of trying cause she hasn't been taking enough water.
For now it's still plain pap she prefers. Tried nutribom cereal this morning she didn't like it.

Nyxx123:


Mama did you give him any tiny bit of adult food(just to play with his taste buds) before he turned six months?

Awesomemama:


This is reassuring cause people here are making me feel like it's cause of ebf.
Think she might like adult food more but I'm scared of trying cause she hasn't been taking enough water.
For now it's still plain pap she prefers. Tried nutribom cereal this morning she didn't like it.

Ligxy:

It has nothing to do with EBF, babies are just different. My EBF baby just started semi solids 2 weeks ago, yesterday, he finished a bowl of soft agidi with okro soup. This morning na noodles and eggs, he finished half a small pack.. He enjoys adult food more than puree or pap.
So I just want to buy his own set of cooking utensils, make I dey cook his own food from our own. 0
So it's amala, agidi, moimoi, tuwo etc we're voting for now.
She will eat, it's just a matter of time.

19CannyMum:


When he kept rejecting cereal they tried to give me that yinmu too. But he put everybody to shame the way he started eating like an adult lol. Major challenge for me was how to limit his salt etc intake because he only wanted adult food.

He also rejected water initially, but I guess because of breastmilk there was no constipation. Just be patient and take things one step at a time. Maybe give few spoons of that plain pap once a day. I remember how frustrated I was initially.

Also when at home try giving the water from open cup instead of bottle or sippy cup. It might be a bit messy initially, but she might drink more. She'll need to get used to sippy cup before she'll agree to drink enough from it.

Just remember that babies are different sha, and try not to get frustrated. Take it easy.

Awesomemama:


This is reassuring cause people here are making me feel like it's cause of ebf.
Think she might like adult food more but I'm scared of trying cause she hasn't been taking enough water.
For now it's still plain pap she prefers. Tried nutribom cereal this morning she didn't like it.

Don’t let anyone make you feel bad as babies differ and it’s not an EBF thing at all. I also exclusively breastfed my DS and Friday made him 6 months and two weeks. All you need is patience and more patience. A child who lived on breastmilk for six months of his/her life wouldn’t just open his/her mouth to accept something different immediately. The first three days was war for us as he wasn’t willing to take anything puréed, formula or water. I guess my neighbors would be wondering what I did to him those days that made him cry so loud and long.

I continued breastfeeding and by the fourth day, I tried again with water and he finished it (I used a spoon and cup). Presently, I am still shocked at how much he loves water in such a short time.

So far, we have tried little quantities of FrisoGold rice, Oats (old fashioned), puréed banana, puréed Avocado + formula, steamed sweet potatoes + egg yolk porridge and puréed pears and I noticed pears are his best; the only meal we don’t spend 2 hours or more eating, dancing, singing, making funny faces etc. As for Oats? Don’t even bring it close to him as he will hit your hand continually to mess the whole place up , and nothing still comes in between him and his breastmilk. I am still looking at other options for his Oats (say teething cookies) so that he can still benefit from it.

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- Try infusing puréed pear into her plain pap. I bet she may like it and it also helps with constipation. Sadly, my DS doesn’t like pap. Twice we tried it, he poured it all back at me .

- Try to sweeten her water with strained puréed pear or apple.

Be rest assured she will come along. Just take it easy with her.

nahzyla:
Hello all, I need advice please

My toddler of two years 8 months is stubbornly refusing to use potty. We started training him immediately after his second birthday when he could understand instructions to pee and poop.
He used it about four times and then started stubbornly refusing to use it, we tried coaxing him it didn't work, offering bribes didn't work, spanking didnt work, he just says no or runs away or fights you when you try to get him to sit on potty.

I have downloaded plenty cartoons teaching potty he will just settle down and watch the cartoons and discard whatever the lesson in it was.

I don't know how to get him to use potty, he understands how to use it he is just being stubborn. Me I am tired of buying diapers, economy is something else and price of molfix went up suddenly.
Please help me ooo


The first few times he used potty, nothing bad happened to him in fact we were happy and praising him because we thought he picked up easily only for him to start running from it afterwards.

Limahgirl:
Good day mamas and papas. Please has anyone ever used allergy eye drop for a three month old baby? Which one can I use? I saw a paediatric doctor that prescribed Antallerge but google is saying it's not suitable for infant. Please help! Thanks.

nahzyla:
Hello all, I need advice please

My toddler of two years 8 months is stubbornly refusing to use potty. We started training him immediately after his second birthday when he could understand instructions to pee and poop.
He used it about four times and then started stubbornly refusing to use it, we tried coaxing him it didn't work, offering bribes didn't work, spanking didnt work, he just says no or runs away or fights you when you try to get him to sit on potty.

I have downloaded plenty cartoons teaching potty he will just settle down and watch the cartoons and discard whatever the lesson in it was.

I don't know how to get him to use potty, he understands how to use it he is just being stubborn. Me I am tired of buying diapers, economy is something else and price of molfix went up suddenly.
Please help me ooo


The first few times he used potty, nothing bad happened to him in fact we were happy and praising him because we thought he picked up easily only for him to start running from it afterwards.

nahzyla:
Hello all, I need advice please

My toddler of two years 8 months is stubbornly refusing to use potty. We started training him immediately after his second birthday when he could understand instructions to pee and poop.
He used it about four times and then started stubbornly refusing to use it, we tried coaxing him it didn't work, offering bribes didn't work, spanking didnt work, he just says no or runs away or fights you when you try to get him to sit on potty.

I have downloaded plenty cartoons teaching potty he will just settle down and watch the cartoons and discard whatever the lesson in it was.

I don't know how to get him to use potty, he understands how to use it he is just being stubborn. Me I am tired of buying diapers, economy is something else and price of molfix went up suddenly.
Please help me ooo


The first few times he used potty, nothing bad happened to him in fact we were happy and praising him because we thought he picked up easily only for him to start running from it afterwards.

eazee:


You can try specsallergy. I had same issue when antallergy was prescribed for my baby, took it back to my paed and he recommended specsallergy.

Awesomemama:
Thanks to everyone that responded to my rant
I added little carrot puree in her pap yesterday and little formula today and she took it.
Also noticed she prefers eating when she's on her rocker and that's what I've been doing. Singing and big bro dancing also helps too
Altho she still doesn't want to take cereal But we're making progress

Thanks Sleekyshuga for your detailed explanation
I'll try them out

19CannyMum:


Yes..as from 4 months whenever he was interested in my food I'll allow him taste.

Nyxx123:



Thats the secret. Most babies who ply this route have no challenge, eating adult food but the ones who never explored with their LO's tastebud e.g ME, always have this challenge of babies rejecting milk and cereals. I learnt the hard way but thank God mine isnt as bad as my friends own.

What i will advice the OP is to find an afforable formular milk.
I started with Big SMA, she rejected. I bought cow and gate but momsi adviced i start with less expensive milk like lactogen. It helped greatly financially and when shes rejecting it, your heart wont be so broken .
My friend made the mistake of starting with enfamil and co. That range of expensive milk, she saw another side of reckless spending.

Overall motherhood is a one job you learn while on it